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wilg
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About wilg
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Comment #49219498
It's truly a terrible UX decision that Apple's left in place because of apathy. (And presumably thinking someone wants to install software through the Mac App Store!?) They should …
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Comment #49188838
Hardly a novel concept in technology: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/iphone-ap...
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Comment #49174376
I'm sure you can imagine why it might be unnecessarily complicated for a Waymo to take cash.
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Comment #49165330
Glad to see everyone dispassionately awaiting the adjudication of this dispute in the official venue!
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Comment #49163842
The terminal? No way, the normal Claude or ChatGPT desktop app.
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Comment #49151670
Well, I don't think any of these things are legally required, so call it whatever you want.
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Comment #49126794
This seems an awful lot like confirmation bias. Web browsers are themselves extremely complicated. Also, this doesn't address why the rate increased, which is the interesting part!…
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Comment #49113275
What would they say about Grok?
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Comment #49090824
It's wild ChatGPT doesn't let you use MCP properly (only really works without a useless developer mode thing in Codex, and Claude it works fine).
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Comment #49071484
I max out Claude Code and Codex subs both every week without fail and I’m doing a lot of work but it’s not insane.
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Comment #48995833
> It boggles the mind. One would think this is some highly secretive technology only a dozen people in the world have access to, the way one has to argue tooth and nail about trivi…
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Comment #48983226
It's an esoteric philosophical question that has no truth value either way.
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Comment #48983115
Slavery was about racism and power and control, not economics. Slavery is bad for the economy! https://www.nber.org/papers/w31758 https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont-get-ric…
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Comment #48983022
Fully 50% of HN front page posts and comments are this now.
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Comment #48983011
Could the article "The Stack" the user was looking for have been 'What is "the stack"?' by Julia Evans? https://web.archive.org/web/20160305142512/https://jvns.ca/b...
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Comment #48982923
Making things up is only really a common issue on the non-thinking models which nobody should be using. The regular chatbots are Autogooglers and are very useful for research. This…
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Comment #48954247
Can you just say the point you're trying to make about nonprofits directly?
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Comment #48953397
There's no law saying you can't start a non-profit healthcare provider or insurance company. Why not do it?
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Comment #48953389
Do you suppose thats why they wrote "principally"?
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Comment #48942439
Isn't that typically because they have lower labor costs? Not sure that applies as much to AI.
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Comment #48925728
Well one way you can understand why the poster finds it controversial would be to read it before commenting.
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Comment #48899153
It does exactly that.
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Comment #48899144
This is a common coping mechanism, but the US is quite democratic and almost any objection you have about corporate control or whatnot can be easily overridden by getting like 100,…
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Comment #48899133
True sometimes, but not always. It's unlikely dumb people are equally split between political parties.