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Seems like it’s easier to lose our rights than defend them. It shouldn’t be.

The way Trump has exercised power and ignored the law should be a real wake up for everyone. Imagine if we had a competent dictator? We’d be in real trouble.

Strongly agree. Perhaps an economy shouldn’t be organized around money.

If everyone votes, this will be overturned in a couple years.

What good is agency without power?

Time on page is an SEO thing.

This is all just more IPO hype. The suits eat this shit up because they don’t use the tech heavily themselves and thus don’t realize the limitations. Reminds me a lot of the Dotcom boom.

Is this sarcasm? Serious question. At least half of HN is autistic. Anywhere there’s friction there’s a market opportunity. Everyone knows that. So this must be sarcasm.

That’s more about power than shame. When people feel powerless imposing on others is one of the only ways they can take a semblance of power back.

This is really nice for people who read books and want to ditch carrying around a mini tablet or e-reader, I just wish it had the camera array of the iPhone Pros.

> Why are we doing this again?

Because Donald Trump is mentally ill, and it’s time we start talking about it as a Nation.

Any fix needs to start with impeachment and removal by Congress. I’d love to see bribes treated as treason.

You know the answer. There’s a reason the state considers antifa a threat.

They don’t hate their parents. Their parents defeated fascism but brought some of the war home with them.

Emotional suffering is a memetic disease, an information disease spread by behavior; it makes people sick. The output of one integrated system becomes the input of another, like LLM distillation. Think of a war, or any emotional state, as a packet of information, that spreads like a virus, and infects and modifies the structure of the limbic system, thus transferring the emotional state, the structure of the limbic system, or LLM, from one system to another.

War made the Greatest Generation sick, and because they didn’t get treatment after fighting the sickness of fascism, they brought it home and it made their kids sick. When people are emotionally sick they don’t feel good, and that makes them emotionally inward focused, to the point they don’t have the capacity for much empathy towards others. This makes people appear selfish. It made a whole generation selfish. Because the virus affects the mind, it affects perception of reality and self; people don’t realize they’re sick.

Same thing is happening in Palestine; a group of people who were treated inhumanely are treating another group of people inhumanely. It’s a sickness. An actual sickness.

As they say, “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Perhaps humanity shouldn’t have absolute power over the planet. Perhaps we should check our own power to save ourselves. We’ve done it with government, to insure stability and longevity, why not the planet?

I think the “end of history” idea was sold to the public in the same way and for the same reasons they were sold trickle down economics.

Totally agree on the racism. I do hope the West doesn’t learn that lesson the hard way.

If police can lie to the public because free speech then the reverse should also hold true.

“Rules for thee but not for me” is the narcissist’s core value.

Privatizing the USPS would disproportionately harm those who vote for the politicians who are advocating for privatization, which would track.

Props to their marketing team. Here we are talking about it just like they wanted.

She should sue and get a ruling on this kind of intimidation in order to protect the free speech of others in the future.

What you are describing is Narcissistic Personality Disorder behavior. It is psychological abuse.

This stuff is probably inevitable since economics will drive data collection. What we really need is a digital bill of rights to protect everyone. Recording in public without consent also needs to end.

It’s some Sun Tzu shit. Create a sense of inevitability such that they win the war for financial capital without any fighting, then hope the tech catches up before Capitalists realize they’ve been fleeced. The Dotcom bubble was the same scam.

You are correct ESOP was what I was thinking of. Thank you for the correction. Worked great for Bob’s Red Mill I believe. Glad to hear it’s been a success for you and your company.

We should be encouraging employee stock purchase plans with tax incentives. [0] It’s better for the businesses and better for our communities than PE.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_purchase_plan

A lot of this AI stuff seems to be about creating a feeling of inevitability along with FOMO among investors who don’t know any better, while hoping the tech catches up to the expectations before everyone realizes it’s not quite there yet. Reminds me a lot of the Dot-Com bubble where everyone could see the potential but the ideas were too early for both the culture and the tech. Unfortunately dark gpus have a much shorter shelf life than dark fiber.

This is a systems problem, not a human problem. It was inevitable that any weaknesses in the system would eventually be exploited. We should focus on fixing the system so this cannot happen again.

The most likely outcome is that no one will be punished for anything in the Epstein files.

Probably this bit on page 4, which parent comment addresses: “More efficient cooling architecture taking advantage of higher ΔT in space.”

This should not be legal.