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vinyl7

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    Comment #49217397

    Emotionally charged headlines generate clicks, and in 2026 displaying ads is the primary source of income for all major companies

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    Comment #49048604

    > - Those of us who are terrified of where technology is going are actually terrified that humans are, on the net, bad, and technology will amplify that, bringing about dystopia. I…

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    Comment #49043455

    > This is very much a zero-sum game that defines who owns the future. Would you rather your country win or lose this? Lose this and you start losing talent, money, global standing,…

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    Comment #48993695

    Instead of praising a mediocre number, maybe we should strive to make that number 90%

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    Comment #48824983

    Baldness is caused by dht

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    Comment #48804263

    This is the result of all the "culture wars" we've had in recent years. At the beginning of it, companies hedged and pulled back if there were any sort of mass PR event due to them…

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    Comment #48754710

    Products most certainly have not gotten better because of it to make it worth it.

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    Comment #48750993

    Jokes on them if they think a significant portion of those sales will convert

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    Comment #48714514

    Everything in life is game theory

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    Comment #48688740

    For decades people have proclaimed that we can fix things in the next election...but that has never happened in all of my existence and do not expected to happen in my life time. I…

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    Comment #48629947

    It's the typical open source model. They are probably hoping someone else comes in to add the gameplay via modding.

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    Comment #48622666

    I read somewhere that this isn't exactly new/novel tech, that this has been around for forever its just that the medical industry never adopted it becuae of whatever bureaucratic r…

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    Comment #48604500

    Yeah well unfortunately the US is pretty shitty in this day and age

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    Comment #48604462

    The market hasn't lifted all boats in many decades

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    Comment #48558651

    I think another different perspective is that its not the fact that there are billionaires. The problem is that there are billionaires while the rest of world is decaying and getti…

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    Comment #48555046

    With the way things are now, the corporations own the government. The 'government' is not some sort of impartial mediator that people have been lead to believe it is

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    Comment #48481431

    I saw this coming from a mile away. Jobs just don't pay enough anymore, especially with inflation eating away at money faster than pay raises and housing becoming unaffordable for …

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    Comment #48445217

    > We’re in some weird stage of capitalism where everything is a grift and nobody really cares anymore. I've felt this way for a long time now. There's no substance to anything anym…

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    Comment #48387927

    I'm looking forward to the fraud lawsuites for ad companies

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    Comment #48375032

    The birthrate across all western nations has been below replacement levels for quite a while. All nations will see population shrink in the coming decades (aside from labor importa…

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    Comment #48346465

    What went wrong is using LLM generated code

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    Comment #48328655

    Most are...it's pretty much required to be a psychopath to climb the ladder to the top

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    Comment #48243406

    Probably a lie tbh