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Most of their wealth is committed in stocks or real estate. Any "unused" wealth is just cash-in-hand, ready to be spent on themselves, or to be used in new investment opportunities.
Re:What should we tell our students? on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:26PM (#50024732)
You got this right, these are incredibly exciting times. Take your friend of a friend's as an example. AI's are trained with existing information, so obviously whatever he expected to discover was already out there. It took the machine 3.5 hours to find and sort out something that would take a human 10 years. Now your F of a F can dedicate the next 10 years to do what the machine cannot do: find meaning and insight.
Re:What should we tell our students? on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#50024380)
That generation will say "How on earth people could do this without AI", just like we have said "How on earth people could do this without the internet".
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:01PM (#50010405)
The millenial day-care raised generation behaved like they were owed everything. Three months in the job and they wanted a raise. Wanted to work a few hours a week, but get paid full time. Moved from job to job as soon as they were trained and someone offered a couple thousand more. Wanted to work from home in their pajamas all day, refusing to come back to the office. And if the company signed a contract with a politically wrong customer, they refused to work. Do all of you understand now why they were replaced with H1-B visas?
Re:Trump says US is officially renaming AI 'super intelligence' on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:43AM (#49816960)
And since it comes from Trump, we're all supposed to hate it.
Artificial superintelligence scare is the new global warming scare.
- "Sir, we're under attack!"

- "Launch the F-18s, now!!"

- "Sorry Sir. The electronic catapults stopped working this morning and we need to wait for the supplier's technician to come with his proprietary software to evaluate the problem and order the parts."

They interpreted that Fauci waived his Fifth Amendment right by delivering an opening statement. Also, a witness fully immune from federal prosecution (in this case by having a presidential pardon) cannot claim a risk of self-incrimination to avoid testifying.
Previous administrations were the ones who opened the borders to allow millions of people to come in illegally. They are the ones who created the problem that this administration is working to solve.
Re:Ask HN: Why does a messaging app need so many updates? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:57AM (#45979048)
Maybe because of this human tendency to mess with and f*k up anything that works well and should be left alone.
looks like lapcat is a bot.
Another piece that tries to promote the idea that "following your dreams is dangerous" and that success has to do with privilege and not really with hard work. Beware of all these political ideologues trying to convince you that you are a born loser and there's nothing you can do about it.
Re:Grok believes Trump won the 2020 US Election on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:09AM (#45915047)
Everything I mentioned is 100% fact, they're just not the facts you're interested in.
Re:Grok believes Trump won the 2020 US Election on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:37PM (#45904004)
In the 2024 elections, I don't remember 5 or 6 swing states suspending the counting at 10:00 PM all at the same time and for no reason, expelling election observers from the building, patching glass windows of the counting areas with cardboard, countinuing counting behind closed doors all through the early morning, and suddenly finding hundreds of thousands of votes 99% all for Trump.
Re:Why do people, like, say, 'like' so much? (2022) on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:51PM (#45698442)
Now do 'actually'.
Re:USDA website blames "Radical Left Democrats" for shutdown on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:48PM (#45455374)
Only when they incite to commit a crime.
Re:Virgin Births, Vegas Odds and Voter Fraud on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:40AM (#45387048)
It is a mistake to think of different religions as if they were different teams of the same sport.
Over 1 million babies killed by abortion every year. Thousands of sexual mutilations on teens every year in "sex reassignment" surgeries. But the MAGAs are the death cult. Sure.
Re:A Complete Guide to Effective Incident Management on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:52AM (#45199526)
Incident Response is like Project Management: you have a long list of processes with acronyms and definitions that you are supposed to follow step by step if something happens. Oh, and the process can only be directed by someone certified to do it. You spend a lot of time and energy just to make sure you fill up all the blanks in the process —playing with the tool when you should be fixing the thing.
Re:A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] on Thursday August 28, 2025 @09:23AM (#45051862)
I once helped my math-hating niece with math. I was eager to go through her homework and show her how wonderful math is. Her homework: How do you call the curve that intersects this figure in this way? How do you call the angle that is shown in the other figure? ...etc. I said, "Is this a math class or an English class? Who gives a s*t about how a curve is named?" It turned out her math class was all like this. This is what she is being taught that mathematics is. I would hate it with a passion too if I had been taught that way.
Suppose you get a degree, say, in mechanical engineering. You later get paid for a job where you needed to apply lots of knowledge that you got from copyrighted textbooks. Is that copyright infringement?
"They would have had to have navigated at least through part of the night, which would have required knowledge of the stars..." No sh*t. These people slept every night of their lives on the open dirt with nothing else to do but to look up at the light-uncontaminated sky.
Reading all the comments, all I can say is: I don't get you people. Apple sells super-overpriced phones that they build very cheaply in a brutal communist dictatorship because over there Apple doesn't have to worry about any environmental laws or any worker's rights or protection laws. Any problem messing with production? All Apple has to do is call the CCP thug in charge and in 15 minutes the problem is removed. In the meantime, the American workforce —people in their prime ages— is living in tents in the sidewalks with their lives numbed with drugs. One day one man does something to change this, and now he is the stupid who knows nothing and the "fuhrer" that has to be stopped.
That's right. Infringement of freedom and speech should be left in the hands of government funded institutions like Harvard.
Message ChatGPT

"Write a source code for the following binary file. Divide the code in the simplest possible modules and add comments to make the code easy to understand..."

Re:A guide to using Signal for government workers on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:58AM (#42919474)
Why is the guide for "government workers" as in "federal government workers"? Why not just "a guide to use Signal"? Is this article intended to encourage federal government workers to use Signal to share official information related to their federal duties - where it would be untraceable and deletable? Because that would be...illegal.
"As a matter of fact, I'm preparing for a tough war. It will bring us neither money nor fame. Want to join?"
Re:Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 1) on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:44AM (#41742589)
If the speed of causality were to suddenly change by whatever factor, would we notice it?
Re:Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 1) on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:39AM (#41742554)
Einstein was not talking about light in his SR and GR theories. He was talking about the "speed" of light. As simple as that is, took me a long time to get it.

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