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What counter example did you provide? You said you had tried a few projects. You can just claim that without any evidence. I have no reason to believe you're not lying. You could s…

The sooner cities and states start negotiating adversarially with companies that want to set up infrastructure in their state, the sooner we'll all be happier with the way things w…

I'm seeing more examples of you saying you're providing evidence than of you actually providing evidence. So far I've heard a single anecdote about what you did. That's a pretty fa…

Came here looking for this response. My follow-up question is "What percentage of the 'totally independent' group, are parents with adult children?" i.e. there's almost an interest…

I feel like market cap valuations should have some way to factor in the supply/demand constraints. I know that float exists as a concept, but I think it's insane to call SpaceX a T…

yeah, I mean, if you don't engage with the comment, then you're not going to understand. So maybe you should take your own advice and actually read what I wrote.

> It is not a naked image of yourself. If I show you a picture of yourself that is a perfect likeness of yourself, And do not tell you how it was collected/created. Is that an imag…

What do you think my comment was responding to? Literally those are the words that I was responding to. Saying that the provenance of a naked image of myself is relevant to the fac…

> If someone generates a naked photo of you, even if it looks identical to a real photo, it's not your private data. "You see, your honor, it's not a picture of them, it's a pictur…

I've been having this thought for the last month. The giveaway was my Medical Professional father thinking that AI was really good at things outside of his area of expertise, and r…

also assuming there's signal in that noise...

I think it's reasonable for governments to signal a decision like this that parents can ultimately choose to bypass. So it's both to explain the harms and posture to reduce those h…

No, this will force the first person to be creative. Not even necessarily kids.

That's justifying this because we've had rampant runaway inflation... There's nothing special about the number $1T.

I think I'm looking at general "retirement funds" which are a little more opaque. e.g. Vanguard/TD retirement funds, when I looked into them, didn't have any information on "what i…

> Is it? Given that they've had to change the rules of index funds to allow for this, yes, this is not what people expect.

Curious how someone with a 401k, who didn't want their retirement to be used by these companies to buy at an inflated price, would go about opting out of this. Typically I just hav…

Who invests in an index fund for "moonshots"? Everyone I know who invests in an index fund is doing so to mitigate the risks of things like "moonshots" which are typically much ris…

This feels like the kind of thing where, "you must be at least this human to pass" and that it just otherwise mostly wastes your time if you're a robot would cover most of what Cap…

Huh, for someone whose "about" page says: “Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.” You seem to be pushing an ideological agenda ar…

Seems like a pretty political take on a wikipedia article, and none of it seems to take issue with the facts presented in the wikipedia article either. Just general mistrust of wik…

Gotta love "I don't need to show my work! It's self-evident!" It's not self-evident, or the person wouldn't have asked for a source. And you have numbers that you're pulling from "…

This is not my reaction to just you. This is my reading of "any time a wealth tax is brought up." My recommendation to you, given you seem to be acting in good-faith: Make it clear…

I feel like every opposition I read to wealth taxes is someone saying that we shouldn't do it, because it won't be perfect. Without offering an alternative to the status quo, which…

There's an old Chemistry joke, that I've reapplied to Software Engineering, and it goes something like: A New Engineer (NE) shows up on their first day on the job, notebook in hand…