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yunwal

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    Comment #49216085

    ok i'm gonna be honest I still don't really understand what you're saying so I'm gonna bow out of this conversation

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    Comment #49213317

    Ok, did DOGE decrease those?

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    Comment #49213186

    I sort of look at it as putting a flag on the moon. Billboards are how tech companies claim ownership of SF and the tech sphere, any consumer influence is incidental.

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    Comment #49213162

    Budget cuts that don't touch military spending aren't real budget cuts.

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    Comment #49211701

    I hate billionaires! Ok, maybe a few of them are fine people who have too much money, but the vast majority of them are in their position because they were willing to siphon money …

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    Comment #49211296

    I just asked Siri "Hey Siri, what's the weather in tomorrow" and it gave me a town with the same name ~800 miles from me.

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    Comment #49210763

    > Nine of ten are either unimportant or not valid. Yet, I have to read them and rule them out You don't have to do this? Maybe someone is making you, but it's literally possible to…

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    Comment #49210213

    At what point is the correct response to just stop paying federal taxes?

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    Comment #49199749

    Are you saying something being reliable is not a big deal? I'm sort of confused

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    Comment #49197735

    It's literally a point about revenue. The point is, it's very easy to record a lot of revenue when you (and your investors) don't care about your margins

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    Comment #49197090

    I enjoy the process of solving problems with LLMs. I understand it's chaotic (what many people call non-deterministic), and that doesn't appeal to some people, but solving problems…

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    Comment #49075568

    Claude doctor doesn't seem to do what they say it does. It just shows me a status check. I'm on the latest version of claude code

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    Comment #49041461

    The flip side is that those upgrades were a cheap way for delta to buy loyalty. I know a lot of people who flew many times a year on delta only and now look for other airlines.

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    Comment #49038186

    > "Hey, I know you're leaning on the AI a bit, but here's what's wrong with the code: ...." I'm generally in agreement, but I think current corporate/productivity culture and AI is…

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    Comment #49022245

    The guy who sells $20 bills for $10 also generates a lot of revenue

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    Comment #48991315

    > American left, as AI is going to hugely undermine their power Can you explain this line of reasoning to me. My own intuition tells me that as AI automates away jobs, the center w…

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    Comment #48988374

    It seems like maybe this person missed why slavery is bad. Which is that it takes away the freedom of a human being. The fact that it takes away work from you is not the problem

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    Comment #48886787

    Yes, but it's important that people who care about not being tracked have options, even if it's not most people.

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    Comment #48881346

    This doesn’t really make a difference in the argument. You can sub 80 with 90 and the point remains the same. There is some age where you stop caring about trying to be cured, and …

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    Comment #48866091

    Do you have friends or people in your life that are also not geniuses? Do you think about them this way? Why or why not?

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    Comment #48860455

    > Those ancient wonders were enabled by slave labor This is not true of the Pyramids https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...

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    Comment #48860408

    > pyramids The pyramids were not built by slaves, and while we can waffle around about "all labor is exploitative to some extent", it doesn't take exploitation-maxxing to drive gre…

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    Comment #48854117

    I don’t think there was anything negative about their comment

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    Comment #48840859

    It’s not there yet but we’re clearly heading towards a world where the answer is “no, you have no choice”. AI is weaved into business processes. If Ai leaves a comment on your pr, …

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    Comment #48697918

    Other comments have already mentioned that true labor force participation is higher in all of those countries than the US. But also, they all have better lives than the US. They li…