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luddit3··on A graph that should be front-page news
The argument is that when a data point comes from a source with such an obvious bias, the data point is called into question.
luddit3··on Codex for almost everything
So Anthropic degraded their product. OAI updated their product to meet for exceeded Anthropic old product.

This is normal behavior and not a cause for such a hyperbolic response.

luddit3··on Artemis II astronauts arrive at launch pad 39B in an astrovan
No picture of the van but plenty of ads.
luddit3··on Chuck Norris has died
My country is not a cult of personality.
luddit3··on US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
They have been, if you compare them to the performance of the non-US market, and most software companies are declining daily.
luddit3··on Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
Would imagine they are a lot happier than all the doom, filth, and brain rot that is spewn all over social media.

I miss the days when the lowest common denominator did not have the largest bullhorn.

luddit3··on Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Which media org was bought for this?

Are you being sarcastic due to Elon buying Twitter to own/control the conversation? He would be a poster child for the bad actions you are describing.

luddit3··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Very cool! An improvement for version 2.0 would be to add the ability to filter by ball type: two-piece, swing speed, and cover. This would provide users with better insight into pricing.
luddit3··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
You were robbed last night. No way Jelly Roll should have won.
luddit3··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
Appeasing a moron with a shiny, valuable object is low effort. Covering up and adding a backdoor to Apple's widely used iOS is not in the same ballpark.
luddit3··on Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job?
Is it really that surprising that a vast majority of people don't work a job that is not better than doing whatever they want whenever they want?
luddit3··on Eat Real Food
They have been scrutinized by many tests by multiple governments over decades. The do your own research crowd needs to take their own medicine on vaccines.
luddit3··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
Derivative markets are almost always there to provide leverage. Yeah, thinly traded options are a significant downside. If you can get in and out of the contracts, you can always combine options to remove some of those volatility costs by selling as well as buying, ie, spreads and ratios.
luddit3··on US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
He prosecuted his own son.
luddit3··on Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
What? Enough with the buzzy words. You are talking about ideas. And the more you stray from science and logic to justify your ideas, the more cognitive dissonance you will encounter.
luddit3··on After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
This is not cancel culture. It is a violation of the First Amendment.
luddit3··on After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
Maybe before social media. I have a hard time seeing how this country will self-correct.
luddit3··on Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field
Sir, this is a Wendys.
luddit3··on Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms
No one said it wasn't. It was not legal the way it was done.
luddit3··on USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
The USA is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. Why would ceding this soft power to other countries benefit the USA? These cuts will be meaningless in cutting the deficit while harming the USA's global influence.
luddit3··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
In preventing a country from being invaded, yes, we are.
luddit3··on United Health CEO Decries "Aggressive" Media Coverage in Leaked Recording
Politics aside, the system is fundamentally broken when you have for-profit companies whose priority is maximizing shareholder value. Patients will always be second.
luddit3··on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
Musk has one of the highest community note rates on his tweets. Has not stopped him one bit.
luddit3··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
Biden admin did add upfront fee declarations to show the consumer the actual price.
luddit3··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
Starting out a relationship by lying seems like a horrible idea.
luddit3··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
This is taking power away from regulator bodies like EPA that enforce the laws and giving it to the courts... taking the enforcement out of the hands of the experts.
luddit3··on OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs
Except if you want to vote without an id.
luddit3··on Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’
Seems like all those corporations should be paying for cleaning up their mess. Why would we pull funding from other programs. That would be socializing the the cost while the few reap the reward.
luddit3··on Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)
Combining your house with your car is the pinnacle of need.
luddit3··on Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave
This is like blaming the abused wife for not helping her husband to stop abusing her.

Party of voting against the majority self interests will continue to vote against the majority's self interests.

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