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110,948karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
(No AI is used to write any content within any of my comments)
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Capitalism and free markets failed to deliver, lots of cope around that mental model. If it was superior, it would’ve succeeded. China is 1/3rd of global manufacturing capacity, and it shows. Pla…
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That too, although some gift links expire after a period of time, so even if you pay (I pay) it’s better to use the paywall bypass link for sharing considering permanence once comments and threads bec…
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With all due respect, avoid helplessness whenever possible, it only takes a moment to obtain the link from archive.today and post it here as someone else has done. Default to action, superior return o…
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This.
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I ordered a steam deck, so I have. I trust Valve to maintain the ecosystem more than I do Microsoft and Xbox, and so that is where I invest my leisure gaming dollars. The cost per year is reasonable c…
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Valve’s gain.
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I cannot speak to China, but my recent personal experience is that Japan is high trust throughout Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Would love to hear about the trust situation in China from anywhere who has r…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzz
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That’s what I thought, Google can, but won’t until required to by law. And so, we need a law to require them to do so.
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If Youtube can use Content ID for copyright reasons, why can they not use it for creators to create fingerprints of their voice and appearance biometrics for tracking provenance across the platform fo…
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Let us assume a person cannot change society, they simply do not have the leverage, even if they are a billionaire or most politicians. This is a systems problem, requiring enormous investment of time…
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Models can be updated when foundations domain knowledge graphs are built on change. As of this comment, target date funds and pensions containing trillions of dollars adhere to the assumptions you men…
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https://github.com/karakeep-app/ (no affiliation, I just use and like the project)
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Also why generative AI scares people who want to build wealth with tech, as it removes a vehicle to create moats to build wealth and concentrates existing wealth that can avoid having to hire labor. A…
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Not a robot, but I feel my thoughts fall on deaf ears in your case. Godspeed (he wrote from Firefox, which is not perfect, but not a Big Tech product imho).
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Governance is hard, the final OSI layer is always people, and the struggle is never ending. The primitives exist for those with hope and will to build. Kinda hard to be cynical to the point of paralys…
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The solution is non profits or open protocols. Internet Archive. Let’s Encrypt. Signal. Peertube. Jitsi. AT Proto. (not an exhaustive list) Competition is not the way out, but building public goods th…
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What would you need built on top of Kagi to achieve similar results? I am attempting to solution this problem fwiw so that others have a non Google solution for this use case. (disclosure: paying Kagi…
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Thanks for sharing those requirements. What are the most comparable competitors to Google News today that you would use for this?
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Hopefully oil prices stay high or go higher, helps clean tech and electrification accelerate. We are too lazy otherwise to transition off of fossil fuels faster.
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Use Ground News instead. Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests. Enshittification of Google products continues. https://ground.news/ (no affiliation, just a custom…
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Whether it’s negligent isn’t terribly relevant. Is it illegal? It is not, they aren’t bypassing access controls. No different than using Shodan, scanning public IPs, crawling open directories, etc. It…
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Respecting robots.txt is not a legal obligation. If you don’t want the traffic, ban the offending IP block or ASN, or put the origin behind Cloudflare for their crawler blocker. You could go down the …
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Proof besides Reddit’s CEO considering biometrics to validate humans to combat bot spam? While our beliefs on this topic are irrelevant, it matters to those who might sign contracts with Reddit for th…
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Reddit considers Face ID to combat spam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 - March 2026 Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault - https:/…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmal_Purja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Broad_Peak_disaster …
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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8921502/v1 Related: Nearly Half of Young Chinese Women No Longer Want Children - https://www.mondevudailleurs.ae/en/n…