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You could make a case for using Windows in the 90s (and yeah, I did; the last version of Windows I used was NT in the 90s). After that your time was much better spent on learning a…

You can't resign from a position you never held or a game you never entered into

Yes, I've always disliked this saying. People have agency . They can always refuse to play the game (and that is precisely what many great people chose to do).

1. There is no such thing as "Artificial Intelligence" (but yes, machine learning and LLMs are real and powerful things) 2. Calling LLMs 'AI' is part of the grifting hype that has …

> windows, office, Visual Basic This is all (Microsoft) junk and so I wonder if you actually benefitted from this 'piracy'. And of course, it's well known that MS turned a blind ey…

I prefix many of my LLM chat sessions with this line > Chat rules : no sycophancy or over-agreeableness (But even with that rule it's still necessary to be discerning about the res…

> Second, intelligence isn’t in fact a perfect commodity We have got very far from Cicero's coining of the word 'intelligentia' (from inter legere , a 'reading between' and hence d…

I completely agree with you, and it's strange to see you downvoted on a technical forum Technology is what has always precipitated political change

> yet he's worshipped in the tech community Maybe for those who are younger and who mostly know of Jobs posthumously but Jobs was a highly polarising figure through the 80s, 90s an…

Here was my parsing of the submission title : > With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX Yes, true, so why was it flagged ? > (paulkrugman.substack…

The Buddha famously thought out loud with a good buddy, while pursuing Enlightenment under the Bodhi tree

Gentle suggestion for you to read the guidelines again https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's my opinion that t-shirts with something printed on the front have never been and will never be cool, so I don't struggle with this choice at all

Yeah, it's sad to see classic Australian brands caught up in this debasement process

Pretty decent video released today by Wall Street Millennial that looks at the profitability of SpaceX (as part of looking at 'Terafab') : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJi1oQFQ…

I don't know if Southern Lebanon town names were removed or never there. In either case it seems quite odd that the southern part of Lebanon has been left so void of labelling. Per…

This is such an excellent comment (along with SoftTalker's reply) and made me think. I've long rejected the term "intellectual property", along with the delusional/fraudulent term …

> But then your comment history reveals enough about your intent. This is really poor form, and against the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Financial privacy is a complicated subject, could you perhaps agree that there is a use for transparancy? No, because I don't believe in income tax or capital gains tax. I do bel…

> The Government IS the public. How can you say this (and seem to believe it)? The Government is answerable to the public and should serve the public. But conflating the government…

> asshattery in your twenties is largely irrelevant to your trustworthiness in your sixties Do people believe this? I certainly don't. How you behaved in your twenties is a good me…

> because in 2024 their boss told them I am not commenting on your specific example of DEI but I want to make the general point that you are always responsible for what you do, irr…

Yes, Cisco & Sun Microsystems are the better comparisons

Every organism must have an immune system which is essential to (but does not guarantee) their survival. Just the same, a society has xenophonia as its immune system. That does not…

I am very aware of the history of the Japanese with the Ainu, the native Okinawans , and in Korea and Taiwan (and in other countries, as I have said). The broader point that I am m…