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carlob··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are saying, but if I do: there is a fundamental difference between Gypsies and homeless people, you are born a gypsy by no fault of your own, but most people are not born homeless. As such racism towards Gypsies is far more heinous because you could have any education, profession, income, housing situation you'll always stay a Gypsy and face the same prejudice, whereas you can (somewhat) more easily stop being homeless.

Now we could have a discussion on whether being poor is a choice or a consequence of societal inequality, but I think more people agree on racism here...

carlob··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
still less tedious than ads or no background play
carlob··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
can someone figure out the right invocation of defaults write to script it? I think it would be pretty ironic if that same person used an LLM to achieve it :)
carlob··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
so Australia is in Europe, but Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland are not?
carlob··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
how to disable gen ai features

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366

it used to be one toggle

carlob··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
> Although, no joke, a lot of peoples first reaction is: "They need to compete in Eurovision first. Otherwise they should wait for Australia to join first."

What? First time I hear of this. Honestly, Eurovision doesn't really have anything to do with the EU. We all know the main sponsor is from a non-EU country whose participation is much more controversial than Canada anyway.

carlob··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
I don't think killing people solves world hunger, we already produce enough food to feed everyone, it's just not evenly distributed.
carlob··on Will there be a 7G?
and that has definitely improved everybody's experience at concerts /s
carlob··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
The fact that corporations have more privacy rights than people is dystopian.
carlob··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
A great example of this triad is driving a car: many people choose to do so every day and a small but not insignificant fraction of them will die because of it.
carlob··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
> Nobody is forcing people to risk their lives to infringe on other people's rights.

Except poverty, ignorance, hunger, addiction, untreated mental illness...

carlob··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
Or you could have a society with a welfare safety net or even viable forms of transportation other than a private car. It appears that places where that happen also tend to have much lower crime rates as an added benefit.
carlob··on The turbulent AI era is here
let's set aside for a second the fact that this is not how things work, but you are off by an order of magnitude

EDIT: parent comment was edited: it used to say $15

carlob··on The End of Mathematics
...on openai request to spin up some critihype
carlob··on Grok 4.5
a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?
carlob··on The Private Capture of Public Genius
at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us
carlob··on Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says
And who is the kingmaker behind those three?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo

Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.

carlob··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
> trying to stay cool

FTFY

carlob··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxists on the other hand advocate for the violent overthrowing of capitalism and collective ownership of the means of production. Can you spot the difference?
carlob··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
500 TB/25 GB = 20.000

if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude

carlob··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest salary inequality in the world. In Eastern Europe 100k a year puts you at what 10x minimum wage? I think that would be considered a pretty high salary in France or Spain as well. I think your friend reaction is warranted, but I don't think it would happen often in Sweden...
carlob··on How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
I'm curious: I do cycle in jeans and a t-shirt while in the city. Up to 45 minutes I'm perfectly fine, but if I'm on the saddle for over one hour I really start to miss the chamois. What's your experience with that?
carlob··on Where things stand with the Department of War
> 'war'

> anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident

I don't really see much of a difference nowadays

carlob··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
Right, it says exclusive rights, which does not translate to "we siphon everything and you get a tiny percentage of our profits", it means I can choose to say no to all of this. To me the matter of compensation and that of authorship rights are mostly orthogonal.
carlob··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
> What have Governments ever created except for laws that stifle innovation/progress every single time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

In all seriousness without the government you would have no innovation and progress, because it's the public school system, functioning roads, research grants a stable and lawful society that allow you to do any kind of innovation.

Apart from that, you have answered to a strawman. I said redistribute, not give to the government. I explicitly worded things that way because I don't think we should not be having a discussion on policy.

I think we are moving to an economy where the share of profits taken by capital becomes much larger than the one take from labor. If that happens then laborers will have very little discretionary income to fuel consumption and even capitalists will end up suffering. We can choose to redistribute now or wait for it to happen naturally, however that usually happens in a much more violent way, be it hyperinflation, famine, war or revolution.

carlob··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
Why settle on some private agreement between creators and ai companies where a tiny percentage is shared, let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.
carlob··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
The 'long' code for checking apples is shorter, but it's missing the external for loop. So I guess you could say it's not (ahem) an apples to apples comparison.
carlob··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
I do wonder if throwing a similar amount of computational power behind old school rule based algorithms like the ones in Mathematica's FullSimplify would have yielded similar results.
carlob··on Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
add some error correcting codes and you have invented some sort of qr code
carlob··on Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
To be fair it is January, so your crispy water has to be grown in a heated greenhouse.
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