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yks

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    Comment #49234390

    Russian state is a final form of the thug-centric governance. The economic oligarchs maintain their riches at the behest of thugs, but they don’t have the power nor freedom.

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    Comment #49232923

    In societies like that, Silicon Valley’s rich nerds might discover that they’re not the ones with the real might, see Putin’s Russia, which many of them adore. Money is but one of …

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    Comment #49092677

    > We request that the U.S. government ... Too bad these researcher's organizations spent their efforts supporting the dumbest, ficklest possible version of the U.S. government to g…

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    Comment #48557739

    With SPCX shares never going down in price, SpaceX can acquire all companies in the US in exchange for its stock, so SpaceX itself is worth at least as much as the US GDP! (/s)

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    Comment #48416998

    > the deliberately child free people I know all veer on the “soyboy” type of person If you were to actually know parents at your local area daycare centers/schools, it'd quickly be…

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    Comment #48403365

    > won't even be at Dell 18 months from now as they chase the next step in their career * as they get laid off

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    Comment #48270169

    would oboe be more effective then, albeit harder to will-power yourself into mastering?

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    Comment #48130228

    I recommend reading essays from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090321 . Tangentially related to your question. TLDR is that it’s a job that can pay enough to keep one hous…

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    Comment #48091865

    Got me thinking, if 99% of code pushed to GH is generated by Claude, GH just becomes a free Claude distillation service. Gotta ban it on natsec grounds obviously.

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    Comment #48016665

    The problem is it’s so rarely A/B tested, definitely not at scale. An engineer, who writes all these my-workflow-but-for-agents skills, proceeds to get the good outcome, while also…

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    Comment #47869833

    I know this narrative is very popular these days cause it allows to frame voting against one’s interests as some sort of justified rebellious act, but let’s not forget that the opp…

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    Comment #47816221

    You’d think so, but in fact it’s almost the opposite! You can own your land all you want but your neighbor has a final say on what’s allowed on your land.

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    Comment #47787567

    > managing a swarm of idiot savant chatbots with "OK, that looks good" or "no, do it better" commands. That’s what the management class thinks of software development process anywa…

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    Comment #47720643

    Tangentially related, but how does one protect themselves against the bank account/brokerage being hacked? Can you print out a proof of funds/securities owned to take to court to b…

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    Comment #47634824

    > the DOJ can't turn around and charge you with a crime, if they advised you beforehand it was not a crime this sounds like the kind of rules we, as a society, decided to dispense …

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    Comment #47559486

    But that documentation itself is likely AI-generated

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    Comment #47386919

    X is not Y — it’s Z. Because: - A: … - B: …

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    Comment #47370491

    With JD Vance things will go even worse

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    Comment #47101748

    > it's the first agent that many people who usually avoid AI simply LOVE. Not arguing with your other points, but I can't imagine "people who usually avoid AI" going through the mo…

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    Comment #47078240

    > My guess is you couldn't get a roomful of experts to agree on what "DEI" means let's not pretend that anyone involved cares one bit

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    Comment #47028993

    It's how Steve Yegge became a "father of agentic orchestration" or something - there is some Canonical Universe Building exercise somewhere on twitter that just looks, for the lack…

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    Comment #47005055

    What does "contraction of circulating currency" look like in the post-cash world?

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    Comment #46913213

    Agree, langchain was useless then and completely irrelevant now, but the idea that we need to orchestrate different LLM loops is extremely obvious.

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    Comment #46908780

    Seriously, I thought that was what langchain was for back in 2023.

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    Comment #46756787

    How about this: no masks, no weapons (if they feel they are in danger they can call the cops who already have more weapons than they possibly need). Every time a citizen is detaine…