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I know you're vegan. You just told me you're vegan. You told everyone you're vegan. /s

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You are not allowed to say certain personalities who cover some of this stuff on Hacker News, albeit from a little bit of a theatrical position, but it still does get to the heart of some of this stuff. This sheer nonsense. What this person is talking about is not a community. They want a club.

More evidence of tribalism, combined with exceptionally precise confessions running as whataboutisms

Pelagicaustral is on the money.

It would just be nice if people understood the difference between wanting a club with a gate versus a community. I am impressed, though. I never thought I’d see a vomit diarrhea load of bumper stickers, but a digital form at the end of the article.

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It might as well have been vibe coded. Sloppy sloppy architecture.

This is Trump's last term. What phase of reality are you receiving over there? Also that is not a positive statement toward the greater understanding of this issue beyond the knee-jerk emotional. Ok, but how does this affect FP outside the western hemisphere?

You seem to overly generalize. Nothing I said was racist. But you sir need your eyes checked. And uncivil attitude.

LMAO of course the author would have a hyphen in his last name to write such loaded and editorialized garbage. Real horseshit from Steven Vaughan-Nichols. This fucking hack has no true real world tech experience.

"Even foreign workers already in the US are having second thoughts about living in a country that’s officially hostile to anyone who’s not of European descent. A recent report from Specialist Staffing Group found that 32% of US-based STEM pros said they were open to relocation. That’s bad news for US companies, which are already seeing projects delayed or disrupted.

Major tech firms, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, have reportedly urged overseas staff to return to the US quickly while simultaneously warning them to limit dependents’ travel. At the same time, all these top tech companies, and many more, have been laying people off. Even if you can trace your ancestry back to the Mayflower, we’re living in a time of tech job insecurity."

According to YOU. What a very poor all or nothing statement. And the reader should never listen to someone who claims all or nothing here or there. Nope. Perhaps throw a bridle on your unbridled "kindly fuck off nuance" view.

Couple questions .... what is the author's point of origin and experience with "democracy" and/or "democracies"? I mention this as the founding principals of this Lottery thing are more or less "complaints" and not values or principals really. It is very slasdash and hollow.

But this is a fun thought experiment so lets .... move on.

Why *exactly* is democracy the absolute best form of govt known to mankind? You just kinda slip that in there which is a massive assumption. And exactly which democracy is best aside from the one proposed?

For that matter exactly WHO? and I do mean WHO says that democracies aren't working? Who the fuck has the balls to say that horseshit premise?

No one is saying that. Not seriously, anywhere. No one. That ultimately is the fatal flaw for this thought experiment.

There are fundamentally different value judgments from "European" "Democracies" vs US vs Asian as examples.

Lottery based is an interesting system but not really doable the way this site lays out.

3 years is too short to do anything; unless there is a relief value where a certain percentage (by lottery) of that year's cohort can do something critical in any representative form of govt. Incumbency.

You do in fact need a slowly revolving core of representatives who can do proper work over 2-5 terms max. Otherwise its a constant nut house with nothing getting done and not near enough permanence for medium to long term solutions over time.

At the end of the day for me -- I do not think the people behind this thought this through and it shows. There isnt serious skull sweat in this thing and I think it undermines an interesting concept. I also think just because you are frustrated in democratic processes -- you are the problem.

Apathy is a choice. Ignorance is a choice. Frustration is a choice.

If you do not like your form of govt -- move, make peace with it or roll up them sleeves and get busy participating.

uh-huh. IF there is; Hamas carries the weight. Not Israel. Take a momma bear's cub away and see the momma bear's claws. Duh.

this is the same drack which appears endlessly on Linkedin and bluesky and lil blogs. Guess whatelse is pushed? the same drack in a Newsletter! Not interested and Hacker news is for so much better content than this horseshit.

Nope. South Korea can kick rocks.

Sounds like JD Vance was right. Huh. This with respect is the EU's monster to worry about.

ever try to dev with it on a Mac?

haha.

Nope. No thank you. Not sure if Windows has that issue.

A good thing. "woke" is a marketing term used by people who can make a buck from it. For it or against it.

James Conway.

Oh well. Maybe they can complain to their govt about how they need more stuff and money.

#history https://open.substack.com/pub/apeit/p/history-lo-manh-hung-1...

This serves as a PSA to pirate more. Up 12 percent YoY from 2019.

They do not need a law to take a website to court. They can already do that. I need to find the lobbyist website which tracks how much $$$ is coming from Hollywood to DC.

This is exactly like a plot from Silicon Valley. OA's "middle-out compression" will revolutionize the world! I agree with hackernews Habosa's starkly simple comment. These people are up their own ass.

Man that is thick.

- Elon Musk founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would benefit humanity, not for-profit interests? - OpenAI was established as a non-profit with the goal of open-sourcing its technology when possible? - In 2020, OpenAI licensed its GPT-3 language model exclusively to Microsoft, going against its mission? - By 2023, Microsoft researchers said GPT-4 demonstrated early signs of AGI capabilities. However, OpenAI did not make it openly available? - In 2023, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei took actions that led to a change in OpenAI's board and direction towards profiting Microsoft over public benefit? - The plaintiff alleges this violated the original agreement between Musk, Altman and Amodei to develop AGI for humanity's benefit as a non-profit? - The plaintiff is seeking damages and to compel OpenAI to return to its original non-profit mission of developing safe and openly available AGI? - Key concerns are that for-profit interests now influence whether OpenAI technology is deemed an AGI and how it is used? - The change in direction away from the non-profit public interest mission damaged public trust in OpenAI? - The suit alleges OpenAI's actions constitute unfair business practices under California law?

I guess we will see if these are answered. Personally, I do not trust Musk nor Altman. Approach them from a corner is what I am saying. OpenAI while their idiot savant in chatGPT is interesting. It is hardly worth paying for with such vast gulfs between good and useable answers and the usual terrible or lazy ones you get normally. While it is important to have a basic ruleset for AI, not when it comes to making it pre-k playground rules. No innovation can be truly had with such onerous and too polite rules today. Narrow AI indeed.

Well of course it is a power play or grab. But you what? It is the same thing when I look for a sidegig or new day job and tell recruiters representing companies -- Remote only. Thanks, but no thanks for hybrid.

Ok, and the lesson was you still trust this service?

That is insane. Why would you stick with an irresponsible company? Unless it is a cultural thing and they are the Walmart of that local area?

I do not get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjmjqlOPd6A

Unknown. But if it means higher costs for routine shit. GFY. However, you can in fact go live in the forest in your underwear if you really want.

No my dear Kara. Coins have three sides. Can't forget the edge.

"Before his sentencing in March 1996, Kara made an enigmatic statement in court, promising at some point to share his side of this fascinating tale “Remember, every coin has two sides”