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esotericimpl··on How RSS beat Microsoft
This is definitely false, see Facebook's pivot to video.
esotericimpl··on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
Not really baseless when he was caught with classified documents after he was selling them to the highest bidder.

Yes americas right wing courts blocked justice from being applied in this case but this would hardly be baseless.

esotericimpl··on On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)
I love how this slop is something you think we should be looking forward to.
esotericimpl··on Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'
Why are you using full self driving as part of your driving?

Weird ask imo.

esotericimpl··on Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case
The cops lied about where the suspect was identified?

So the warrant was granted from false pretense.

esotericimpl··on Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published
This is always the answer for anyone who thinks LLMs are capable of "intelligence".

It's good at answering questions that its trained on, I would suggest general intelligence are things you didnt want/train the AI to be good at answering.

esotericimpl··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
Amazing that it all actually accelerates in the early 80s with Reagan who kicks it into overdrive with the collapse of unions.

But yeah, it was the "gold standard" and not the collapse of the labor movement, there's nothing stopping us from taking back the value of labor except it comes out of the pockets of our oligarchs.

esotericimpl··on The Airbus A340 was built to rule long-haul travel, but now it’s vanishing
777 as well, except for the fact that MH370 where the pilot deliberately brought down the plane and the other one was shot down by Russian Separatists in Ukraine.
esotericimpl··on Socioeconomic status and the relationship between the SAT and GPA (2009) [pdf]
Except the research doesn't show this at all.

However, having wealth provides tutors, better schooling and teachers which lead to better outcomes from having better mentors, opportunities and education which leads to...

and so on and so on.

esotericimpl··on U.S. Failed to Stop Drone Attack Because of Identification Mixup
So your solution is boots on the ground and regime change? it's gone so well in the past it definitely will in the future. /s

Maybe instead the US should honor their commitments which would include the Iran Nuclear deal that was scrapped for no reason 5 years ago.

esotericimpl··on 2013 Airbus A380 for sale in Rolling Hills Estates, California
Pretty sure the US requires planes to be maintained according to the manufacturers requirements in order to use US airports.

I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.

esotericimpl··on Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
Check the orderbook for the A320 Neo

If you need single aisle planes, your only option would be to book the Max, the A320 is decades out on order.

esotericimpl··on The Knight Capital Disaster
The best part of these stories is that nothing of value was ever created or lost.

Just a shell game in a casino, our previous generations built rockets with their best and brightest, now we build Ad Exchanges and High frequency trading bots.

esotericimpl··on Book Review: Going Infinite
My only issue with the reviewer is the reviewer complaining about SBF's parents saying things like: "why didnt you start him in highschool earlier" or his quote:

"Seriously, what the actual f** was SBF doing in a high school? (Also, why would he want to read the Harry Potter books a second time, one of the deeper unsolved mysteries remaining?) He was doing philosophy better than philosophers, off the cuff. He was bored out of his mind."

However in the previous paragraph when commenting on how great Sam was at philosophy and having intellectuakl stimulating conversatyions with his parents he said: "This must have been so amazing. I can’t wait for this to happen to me with my kids."

The author seems to be pretending they know exactly what a perfect upbringing for a gifted child like Sam would have needed.

When In fact I can imagine raising sam would have been extremely difficult even with the best parents.

esotericimpl··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
I think hes getting rewarded for growing the company by 95x over the past 20 years.

As a shareholder since 1999 my cost basis for my shares in ATVI is about $1.11 - Exiting at 95.00.

Pretty good return TBH.

esotericimpl··on U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T
Not even one mention of the 1 million Iraqis

My favorite memory was being on a college campus against the war and reading all the right wing shitheads talk about how great it was gonna be.

Meanwhile all the ghouls from the bush administration are walking free.

As an athiest i often think about if i'm wrong about there being a hell.

It's nice to think Bush and everyone involved will be there for eternity.

esotericimpl··on U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

esotericimpl··on TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
1. How do regulators expect Airlines to verify the real age of users (without further intrusions of privacy)?

2. How do the regulators expect Airline companies to verify the parents of child users?

3. Do regulators want airlines to collect every child's birth certificate?

See how silly this sounds when you compare to any other industry?

Oh but tech is different!

esotericimpl··on Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown
I've found the issue isnt high performing engineers, they're gonna get paid.

The issue is middling engineers and junior engineers where before they would expect a 130k-150k salary in a tier 1 city, those offers are gone.

esotericimpl··on 9/11 in Realtime
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/september-11th...

This is the greatest article written for an actual 9/11 hero.

esotericimpl··on A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration
I like this idea, i always thought a salary floor of 150k-200k was a good idea, but the auction seems even better.
esotericimpl··on The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California
California is in the top quartile of safest states in the US.

Your complaint is that rich people wont have their property taxes jacked up and they haven't "eradicated" crime.

As a response to the fact that California is as close to the French Riviera as we have in the US.

esotericimpl··on As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900k AI Job
There's zero people who can do netflix shows or movies for free because of the Screen Actors Guild.

These aren't independent college movies or something you're making for your youtube channel.

WTF is this comment.

esotericimpl··on In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
Counterpoint, there were no lockdowns.

There was like the initial 6 weeks to stop the spread.

I still went to the grocery store, not locked down, i still went to the park, not locked down.

What lockdowns? please be specific.

When people say lockdown, they mean:

"I was forced to wear a mask when i went to the grocery store and i felt like a loser"

Thats the whole issue.

esotericimpl··on Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?
That makes no sense, why wouldnt it just be @stubhub.com or @stubhubtickets.com
esotericimpl··on Tesla Doubles Down on Model 3 Price, Now Among Cheapest EVs
All my friends who own teslas all say they wouldn't buy another one.

Tesla's goose is cooked imo once other charging networks come online.

esotericimpl··on US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
Nike shoes and baseball cards are clearly commodities.

If you were to stake your Air Jordan's with coinbase and Coinbase told you in a years time you'd have 2 pairs, it would become a security.

esotericimpl··on Pixar reportedly conducts rare layoffs
Employee owned businesses combined with strong labor unions.
esotericimpl··on AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club
I'm still holding ~600 shares of NVDA from a $1,200 investment back when I thought it was amazing that this company made cards that made Quake 2 look incredible.

300k Investment on $900 dollars.

esotericimpl··on Why is Betelgeuse glowing so brightly and behaving so strangely?
No different than spending money on the military to accelerate heavy arms ordinance manufacturing instead of hospitals and schools.
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