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Farmers aren't really paid, they sell goods at market prices. Modern farms are more similar to operating a manufacturing business than they are to a salaried position or profession…

I don't disagree. You can add medical doctors to the list as well, lots of nerds but also a lot of clout chasers and money-grubbers who couldn't care less about the profession. I d…

An incredibly boring and unimaginative rehash of naysaying draped over a thinly disguised ideological agenda. Why is this on the front page? Edit: it's from a student newspaper fro…

Maybe I'm just old but people talking about being in programming for "status" or to be "highly regarded" really irks me. I'd rather see the entire field burnt to the ground and rep…

Incandescents are mostly in the red/warm end of the spectrum anyways so you don't need to change the color temperature at night.

It's called a dimmer switch.

The best option at this point is to just sign up for a paid plan with either ChatGPT or Claude and then ask the model the same thing. My preference would be for ChatGPT and if you'…

Software brained developers can't comprehend the idea of capital expenditures required to operate a business. Too spoiled by cheap laptops, free software and coffee shop wifi.

I'm not making a generalized argument about human (or AI in this case) caused extinction, I'm making a specific argument against the claim made by the OP. Is that clear?

I think it's a bit less about being extremely skillful and more about the number of people who go into hardware combined with the cost of living and renting office space. There are…

We didn't just get rid of passenger pigeons, they were hunted for meat and as game and driven away or killed to prevent them from damaging crops. Chickens are another example of hi…

I guess those robot tanks are just accidentally murdering everyone then.

>what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? We do a lot of different things but we typically don't make an organized effort to eradicate them unless they ar…

This is a groaner, especially since we've been writing detailed specifications and whitepapers for decades. The only difference is that we used to write them assuming other humans …

In some cases but coming from someone who played MUDs back in the day on a monochrome display and dial-up I know I would have been very interested in playing one with NPCs powered …

It doesn't really matter what the system of government is, power-hungry psychopaths will always attempt to game the system in their favour. The history of governance is just a long…

That's not a unique attribute of democracy nor is it guaranteed. Any system of government that hasn't succumbed to corruption and factionalism will have clear rules of succession. …

Your explanation should be common sense for anyone who has been around long enough and I agree that it seems to be fashionable to claim that ads have a nefarious, hypnotic effect o…

"I have a vague recollection, which may not be accurate, that we talked about flying saucers and the obvious statement that the flying saucers are not real. I also remember that Fe…

Brother, it takes several hundred years to recover from a political collapse of a civilization. A few thousand is in the ballpark for a 90% reduction in population coincident with …

Tell that to the Romans or the Chinese or the Ottomans or the Egyptians or the Greeks or the...

No cohesive civilization on earth has been able to continue uninterrupted for 1000 years, our chances aren't as good as you think they are especially since our current civilization…

I don't think they were wrong about that. I think what they were wrong about is that we could maintain our civilization at the same level they experienced long enough to make signi…

The corruption of the Fermi Paradox is a personal bugaboo of mine. Somewhere along the way everyone started getting it completely wrong, interpreting it as being about galactic col…

This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Every business could be using subscription free spreadsheet software and storing all of their data on prem…