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Obviously I don't get to tell your wife, or anyone else, how to feel about this. And there is a very real and very impactful thing in that, if you enjoy and make a living out of ha…

Yes, if you release something for free, you're not entitled to being paid for it. That's tautological. It's what something being free means, that people don't have to pay for it. T…

Yeah, this seems kind of unfair to the model. It gave correct citations for the right people that it was talking about, but summarised them incorrectly because it couldn't tell tha…

Going by the screenshots in the linked tweets, it seems like it performs searches on Bing in order to obtain up-to-date information to answer its questions with, so there's probabl…

Speaking of the actual story, how come they put all of this effort into unmasking this guy, discussing the consequences of his actions to the integrity of democracies... but then h…

Oh, thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't thought of it explicitly in that way, so I didn't write it down. But all the concrete examples I was running in my mind were indeed examp…

The media news cycle in the US was literally staring at a balloon in the sky for days. It's as unsubtle of a distraction from real issues as it can get.

By saying "serendipity" here, we abstract it into its own unique cutesy concept, preventing proper analysis of its actual tangible benefits. This leads people to talk about it as i…

And they still believe it! He's an unparalleled genius and every single breath he takes directly contributes to saving the world. Unfortunately there's a queer globalist Hollywood …

I'm glad it helped! Now that I'm actually looking at the different ways to manipulate strings in JavaScript and not going from memory, the traditional JavaScript "except when it do…

Kind of, sort of, not really. What they imply (by using the term "ASCII" here) is not correct, and I'm not sure how the assurance that the string does not contain astral characters…

Not disputing that there's a lack of leadership on the matter, but there's also conflicting use-cases: for example, the requirements for the "Python is just a tool that comes with …

The once CEO of Sears tried splitting the corporation into thirty to forty companies: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ay... (I recall reading a more enter…

Sneaky indeed. So sneaky, in fact, that it would be completely ineffective.

> There were no studies involving all the shots that kids in the US are getting together these days. It's been decades; the kids are the study. Also, they're no longer kids. Do peo…

I'm pretty sure that "getting the same four Hacker News users, who feel personally wronged every time a website becomes more readable, to sign up" is nowhere near the top of their …

I find the idea that we no longer live in "an era where many of our ideas about the world [are] fundamentally wrong" quite amusing. It's not even been twenty years since the UK's l…

See, I read the sarcastic position and the genuine position in reverse to the way you did. Goddammit.

I am once again unable to tell whether this is genuine or sarcastic capitalist bootlicking. This website has destroyed my brain.

Why shouldn't tier-1 support be able to forward this to someone who is the slightest bit technical, who can then make the call to report this to the relevant security team? There's…

... do they think that climate change changed the sun's elevation?

The "chaff" and the bad actors are in it for the money. Without them, "decentralized tech" indeed wouldn't be where it is today -- meaning, it wouldn't be overwhelmingly associated…

> That's exactly what it is not. The sedatives relieve pain, they shorten the patient's life as a side effect. An easy way to see is, imagine if the painkillers killed the pain, bu…

I think you severely underestimate the horror of knowing that your loved ones wanted to kill themselves, and didn't. Suffering is a state of being; death is an instant. Of course t…

Thank you for sharing this. I do not know the specifics of the Canadian law on this matter, so I will not comment on those. I understand the concerns raised about it -- the topic r…