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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:49AM (#50351936)
> What's stopping people from just moving into the empty rooms of some greedy bastard's Miami beach villa?

Guns?

I dunno. What's that then? The law of the jungle? People just grab what they can and prevent others from having it?

Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really) on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:15PM (#50347132)
Insane to invest in that company on IPO

Insane

Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:48AM (#50338476)
I get the 'everybody gets a Ferrari' argument because at the end of the day that's technically feasible. Just have robots built one after another. Can't get more egalitarian than everyone having the same car. Some people might have to wait but ok fine whatever.

The mansion overlooking the ocean is a real physical limit. There's only so much space, so many oceans or lakes or whatever someone wants available. Today certain billionaires by themselves (artifical) islands, their own beaches, etc etc.

In a world with utopian egalitarianism who gets the Miami beach villa and who gets the Flint, Michigan apartment?

Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:29PM (#50332414)
My issue with the Star Trek utopia dream was always the lack of realism which so many people now with AI/Robotics/Elon praise overlook.

There's limited resources no robot or AI can overcome. If we all have the same basic income (actually why even bother with money if everyone has the same? But whatever) - then who decides who gets the 8 bedroom villa overlooking the ocean in a nice warm sunny climate and who gets the shack behind the wodden old house in ice cold dark forrest?

Who gets the old rusty bicycle and who the new Ferrari?

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:07PM (#50332222)
Absolutely every single TV that you don't hook up to your wifi. Easy.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:25AM (#50315015)
Better than the absolute idiots who are running the US into the ground now
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:24AM (#50314673)
CEO still in jail or has Donny given him leniency?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:02AM (#50300032)
AI bras coming for the crypto bras

Tech in 2026

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:59AM (#50300010)
Everything in the US is a monopoly or oligopoly
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:39AM (#50286523)
It literally says Argon right where you select all models (3.5 Flash Lite, 3.8 Flash, 3.1 Pro, 4 Argon).

This isn't rocket science. You're just bitching because your account doesn't have the latest model rolled out yet

Satya Nadella should

a) be ashamed of himself b) be fired

c) end of story.

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:09AM (#50257944)
Do people STILL care about updated versions of LLMs? It's all a commodity now. This week this, that week that
Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:03AM (#50257874)
I love how you diss the person who has the Oppo (and iPhone) by using some googled results and not believing them

This is peak 2026

Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:29AM (#50241644)
You've never held an Oppo Find N6 which I have in my hands right now then.

Oppo Find N6 thickness folded 8.93mm. iPhone 18 Pro Max 8.75mm. Oppo Find N6 battery 6000mAh. iPhone 18 Pro Max 5567 (esim-only model) Oppo Find N6 dual nano + eSIM. iPhone 18 Pro Max eSim only (or smaller battery) Oppo Find N6 200+50+50 MP cameras. iPhone 18 Pro Max 48+48+48. iPhone PM has 1/1.3 vs 1/1.56" only on Oppo tho.

Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:33AM (#50241255)
LOL be happy you still have a job. Many of us don't. Brave new world
Re:US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:14AM (#50239436)
Don't say that or the American Israeli fanboys will come flag and downvote you too
Re:US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:12AM (#50220161)
LOL sure. Ridiculous.
Twice as many hallucinations too?
Re:Job Loss and Cortisone Mania on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:57PM (#50218243)
When has that ever been different?

This has been the miserable meaningless life for billions of people over the centuries

Few become an artist or painter or musician or whatever other thing they'd like to do but can't pay the bills

Re:German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:56PM (#50218234)
Germany has been a weird country for so long. Haven't lived there in decades and can't see myself fit in at all anymore
Thank god for the US government who had Huawei start HarmonyOS so that long term there will be competition in the world
Some people have a life outside of work and don't really need "the security of environments"
Why hell no lol?
This is getting ridiculous by Apple.

Just do it worldwide. I go regularly between AU and HK and sorry but it'd be ridiculous half of functionality works in one but not the other

Yea I think that's about as far as the usefulness goes for personal use
Oh I convinced now!

I'll use personal agents for my laundry now. Thanks mate for the samples given

Viener, really?
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:31AM (#50176837)
How to work with his hands and not his brain

Because as humanity a handful of billionaires have decided to outsource thinking to machines

For the life of me I will never understand why people are so eager to use these things
US Apps, websites, internet services should be outlawed worldwide too. Same shit, different stink. No difference.

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