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> I find there seems to be a wall at 2 years after an acquisition. It's called a vesting schedule. ;) What I've seen is that usually the founders and heavy hitters from the original com…

> I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). > I'm sure folks will make fun of…

> insider perspective on this I do not work at MSFT but I don't feel that I need insider perspective to understand what's going on. GitHub is being managed the way other services get ma…

I guess but that's really not what I'm asking here - the parent commenter is making a fantastical claim and I'm asking for stronger proof than "trust me bro."

> some things (but not many) are straightforward enough that you can derive conclusions purely from first principles reasoning. Examples?

Do you have examples of this? I feel I'm able to get decent answers around politics from all the main chatbot providers, the key is in the prompting and then applying critical thinking while read…

There's a lot of this in the industry world-wide. The bigger the company, the more likely this is to occur. I think this kind of phenomenon is why I feel that some people rightly should be wo…

Good observation, now connect it to the next piece I said.

Can nothing seriously be done about this kind of obvious bot account? There's so many of them on HN these days.

Generally speaking I am a classical liberal in that I believe "vices" like drugs, pornography, prostitution should be legal in order to be regulated and in the open. It cannot eliminate abus…

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html My intellectual curiosity was gratified, hence I think it's good.…

Put up in a place where it is easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T ¨ When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb it's well to …

I used to love Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.

Oh man, thank you for saying this. The difference between logical and physical goes over so many people's heads. It's a little unnerving at times how much people resist it. Definitely agree …

> Then we make this impossible. It doesn't have to be. Building a thing is a red herring, if building things solved problems, all problems out to be solved by now. The natural inclination of…

That model is very much what I have in mind.

True, I was really thinking of Denmark where my understanding is they mandate 2 years of service.

I may be misunderstanding but I don't think so. War forces people's hand in terms having to make progress. This is because during progress can be measured in number of body bags returning fr…

> Do you believe that in American civil society there are only privileges and not responsibilities? Funny enough, the only true responsibility I'm aware of is jury duty. And that's only…

> When's the last time Finland or Switzerland attacked or invaded another country? Not recently to my knowledge, but Finland has extensive experience being invaded given they are neighbors w…

> basically using an LLM is like skipping the whole learning process - not learning how to read, not learning how to write and not learning how to think, then what? I take this same argument and …

> The American way of life It's your argument that our current and recent engagements in Venezuela, Iran, and soon Cuba, are to defend the American way of life?

Now you're talking crazy talk. Congress stepping up and fulfilling its constitutional role?

> It seems like we need a horrible mess to learn all the hard lessons all over again. Indeed. This is all of human history. No matter what the problem is we are infatuated with the idea of the ul…

> there could be a bias for a certain type of people to join branches of the military and therefore our capabilities are held back by that bias. Not only is there a bias, there is one on purpose …

> The same goes for replacing the first two years of professional school with standing around in a big shed. This may be true in an American context (though I don't actually know) in the sen…