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purplemoonx

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    I think we’re leaving not them haha We’re out! Grads from big schools and frats are in - regardless of ability. It’s like when you build a Wordpress site for your client in 2009, a…

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    Comment #49224227

    Nah this whole thing felt artificial and forced. With Trump and everything else. There is a ton of work to do. We don’t even know how to stop aging and haven’t sent people to Mars,…

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    Comment #49224081

    164 million people employed in 2025 divided by 320 million people means 49% were not employed. Raw figures. The actual “unemployment” figure you hear is not raw figures, since you …

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    Comment #49223808

    I agree on ~2010 at least in San Francisco, that's when it all started to turn toward social media and VC hype. a16z, Sequoia, Accel - people like that started showing up. (a16z in…

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    Can't say the inward here (it's racist)

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    Comment #49223695

    Not at the rate it is currently gatekept - it will be prohibitively expensive for most people to use AI and AI-based robotics. It's already out of reach for most small businesses t…

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    Comment #49222071

    Predicting big weather events is not that hard even with 50 year old technology. What's hard is predicting details, like exactly where it will rain, what the slope of the beach is …

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    Comment #49219195

    The fact you say "on mastodon" proves it's effectively centralized, just pointing that out

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    Comment #49218823

    Already happened, next

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    Comment #49218611

    OpenAI's annual profit is $0,000,000,000,000

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    Comment #49204589

    const thingsYouOwn = [“the music”, “the moment”]; if (!thingsYouOwn.includes(“yourself”)) { neverLetItGo(thingsYouOwn); }

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    Comment #49204512

    If you had 1 chance 1 oppatunady Would you ship it? Or would you just post a Ask HN and walk away? You betta lose yoself in the script type Use strict types And never use Go (go) (…

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    Comment #49203278

    I never quite fell for the scam of “designer who can’t photoshop”. You can’t do product design without visual design - and many designers don’t. They’re picking from UI libraries l…

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    Comment #49201447

    Taste was all that was left when product design peaked in like 2010-12 too and it was a great time. But the advent of design systems and software like Sketch and Figma pretty much …

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    Comment #49201357

    Until someone makes a better PR experience you guys are stuck with GitHub. Nobody cares about ATProto or whether your commits are a damn NFT or some bs just literally improve upon …

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    Comment #49201278

    Waste of a good domain