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> makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not doing something like that Big Tech is doing that to us. When we make the algo happy we get treats - likes, shares, follower…

Good thought. Can work for many pursuits. If you spend your life chasing happiness were you ever really happy ? If you spend your life chasing money were you ever really rich ?

Hoping RAM prices fall now.

> Escaping their programming ability, Window's major issue is everything has backwards compability, so they design everything with spaghetti because they have no choice. I do agree…

> what's the return on investment for making Windows 11 better? Windows OS is what keeps most users in Microsoft's ecosystem. I am still on Windows as some software I need to use a…

> If I'm being frivolous, does this mean Microsoft's model is best at fixing Microsoft products because they have trillions of data points on problems with Microsoft products Do th…

> If these companies fail, so does the US economy. I would be really worried about the US economy then.

I isolate containers by the type of account I am using on there. So FB gets a different container. Google accounts get a container each. When I need to log in with Google - use the…

Seems like you are not aware of the situation. To get a better idea on the topic that you commented on and views of members of HN You can read comments on this post - https://news.…

> People talk about a lack of moat with AI companies... that's their moat: Government intervention! This puts American Businesses and American Developers at a massive disadvantage.…

> China cloned Amazon and Meta fairly well (but only within their local/captured markets) Americans order Chinese products from SHEIN and Aliexpress type websites. So China did pen…

Looks like SO was already dying since 2017. I think other helpful places like reddit, discord, web forums etc might be what hit SO 2014-15 onwards. AI seems to have given it a blow…

How do you expect an agent to pay back the interest without defaulting ? Trying to understand, what type of agents do you see selling bonds and raising money on this platform, and …

> I don't get your vision statement about agents being financial actors not on behalf of humans. On behalf of what then? That's probably for when people 'raise money' and run away.…

> We can see similar patterns today. The European working class can no longer seek status in the colonies, so it is turning to the political right. Deprived of the security and opp…

> A shopkeeper checking the age to sell alcohol can look at your face, but an app cannot - so the solutions all seem to resort to quite invasive age checks. Don't give them ideas f…

With Reddit it's sort of a status signaling thing. Like saying - I am too good for this thing. Your disapproval of something is supposed to show your standards are high, and you go…

Thanks for the share ... never knew so many great games were built on idTech and engines derived from it. Source being based idTech is a pleasant surprise.

Funny you say that. Outsourcing to India never ended. The Indian Service companies kept growing over last two decades. Now many Western companies are setting up Global Capability C…

> 3. Nonethless there is and should be a limit to wealth acquisition, given moral hazard. How do we determine that limit ? Most Americans ( middle class and above ) are richer than…

https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN It's possible. Done in 4. Bounce it off the left wall in your first shot and you can land close to the end of the course.

Got it done in 4. https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN

I have a 6 letter handle that's my first name. One day I decided to start being more 'social online'. Head to X. I was unable to log in with my password. No error. Just redirected …

Are these Bing Ads or OpenAI has it's own Ad Platform now ?

This is working a lot like Meta/Facebook where they have got immense data about your interests. Google Search OTOH has been using broad matched queries and is deciding which keywor…