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Your obvious use of an LLM to write this comment isn’t exactly confidence-inspiring that it’s helpful for learning to do things on your own. Seems like it’s evidence that LLM’s qui…

Which is why these rich people also spend so extravagantly on advertisements to encourage us to buy shit, too, right? Not like the rich get richer by convincing us we too could be …

I'm an admitted Elon hater, so maybe that clouds my judgement. But I rented a Tesla 3 a few years back to try an EV before deciding to buy one. I ultimately went with a Chevy Bolt,…

I’ve been feeling gaslit about this too. Getting major “we’re still early!” crypto bro vibes from this constant goalpost moving.

It does. Swiftfin: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

There was that famous 2009 case of Amazon remote deleting George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles.

Don't confuse Julia's humility / accessible writing style for "less informed". She's a deeply knowledgeable programmer who's been doing this for a long time. She works hard to make…

You use GPS?

1. “Reunification” is straight Chinese propaganda. Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Japan has a stronger claim for “reunification” than the PRC does (and that’d also be very …

You’re doing the “we should improve society somewhat” meme guy thing. People are allowed to do better without being perfect.

Of course not! But both-sides guys need to make outrageous reaches like this to prove that both sides are equally bad, and that they are enlightened beyond such petty partisanship.…

The “greedheads” are the ones wanting people to pay their fair share of taxes, and not the people who’ve hoarded billions in wealth, and are using some of that wealth to fight to c…

Mind sharing these good economic reasons?

lol. Yes. You couldn’t possibly be blind! You’re a both-sides guy. And, as everyone knows, both-sides guys are rational and grounded in reality.

Ah, so those weren’t mostly 6-3 decisions along partisan lines?

+1 this request! I'd been dreaming about trying to make something almost exactly like this app, but have absolutely no clue how to even begin going about it. You've nailed it! I've…

Yeeep. It feels like one of those “holding a wolf by the ears” situations. I don’t know how we get out of this mess. One especially frustrating part of it is that it really benefit…

This “Apple customers are brainwashed cultists incapable of examining reality” schtick was tired a decade ago. No option’s perfect. But Apple’s current tradeoffs vs other options’ …

If it were a reliable predictor, it’d be trivial to become a billionaire by levering up, and riding the next “cycle” up, no? You doing it? I suspect not, because you know it’s not …

Technical analysis is just astrology for finance bros.

The ELIZA effect has been around since 1966. I think lots of folks feel “AI” has advanced much more quickly that it really has because of the nature of its many past boom / bust cy…

> …says a lot about what it is Doesn’t it say that it’s a retirement fund, intended to be saved until retirement age? The 10% penalty is little more than a wrist slap level deterre…

Lol. I don't know why I'm responding to an account with "I like Elon and Trump, and don't feel ashamed for it." in it, but what the hell.. Let's do it: 1. That Xi quote is, as best…

You'll find that Americans tend to vastly overestimate how much people in Taiwan actually think about the threat of China. Is there a threat? Yea. But its likelihood is very much s…