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tonynatoron Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

The number one justification for cryptocurrency in my book, even if it's less safe or convenient or even has small fees. Your business being subject to the whims of payment processors is ludicrous.

Even with this being the justification, they could just say they won't be working with the customer in the future, not literally steal their customer's already earned money.

tonynatoron 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

People seem to like "mostly correct" summaries though, like most other things AI

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Facts > feelings

tonynatoron 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

Who would it be "curated" by if not AI?

Any form of auto-generated summary online is from AI

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

What? My issue is that Americans are getting screwed over to help illegals. No more illegals = higher wages for Americans.

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Yeah you go do that in the Congo. Get some up close and personal research done

tonynatoron 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

So we shouldn't use AI at all because it's often inaccurate? I think it's fine as long as it's made clear that it's not totally reliable, both in widespread public knowledge and in UI disclaimers.

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

I fully support increased wages for menial jobs, as long as they're not going to illegals

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Yes it does, that means "sounds correct."

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

Black kids adopted by well-off White families remain lower IQ than White kids adopted by well-off White families. In a world that actually gave a shit about the truth this wouldn't be news to you

tonynatoron 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

It's AI-generated, like anything AI-generated you should not assume it's totally accurate. I would support some kind of disclaimer if it's not already there.

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Yeah that is also pretty pathetic, agreed.

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-171-noncitizen...

> In fiscal year (FY) 2023 ERO arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories; this group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual. These included 33,209 assaults; 4,390 sex and sexual assaults; 7,520 weapons offenses; 1,713 charges or convictions for homicide; and 1,655 kidnapping offenses.

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

No idea, but housing and jobs in many sectors are getting extremely scarce in Canada's cities due to their insane immigration policies aiming to bring in """skilled workers"""

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-171-noncitizen...

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Imagine being a European and not being allowed to defend yourself lol

tonynatoron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

We don't want to become Canada.

tonynatoron 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

That's name collision. The photo is chosen based on the name.

tonynatoron Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

How long will the thrust gas last before needing a refill?

tonynatoron CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars

Simply search "crowdstrike" or "crwd" in the subreddit for evidence of regular posts about this stock, both positive and negative. Just a coincidence, and not really that special of one. HN should be smarter than this

tonynatoron CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars

There are WSB posts all the time both positive and negative about all large companies. Simply search "crowdstrike" or "crwd" in the subreddit for evidence of regular posts. Just a coincidence, and not really that special of one.

tonynatoron AI's $600B Question

Think you're off base here and the issue is comfortability. People spend all day on their computers and phones, VR just needs to make some breakthroughs in comfort (maybe built-in fans? Literally include ginger tablets with the headset?) to get people over the initial nausea hump. This plus higher resolution for AR purposes will do a ton.

Now, there may also be a physical laziness factor to overcome, but there are enough people that enjoy moving their bodies to really explode the industry even if all the lazy folks stay 2D.

tonynatoron Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

Yeah, that guy was a mistake

tonynatoron New ways to catch gravitational waves

> it's important to have multiple detectors around the world

Or realllly tall detectors.

tonynatoron Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

Most companies don't use proprietary tools for everything.

tonynatoron I switched to Vim – and it took me only 6 years to learn it

The payoffs don't really seem worth the effort here in my case. Most of my time at work is spent thinking or talking, not typing. And plenty of that typing isn't code: logsearching, Jiras, planning docs. I think this is true for at least a lot of SWEs not building things from scratch.

tonynatoron EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

It was all he did yes, that was the justification for the 1.5 billion dollar fine.

tonynatoron EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

Racism

tonynatoron EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

That is all he did.

tonynatoron EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

Poisoning people isn't speech. If I sell you a product that actually gives you cancer and say it doesn't, the crime shouldn't be that I lied, it should be that I gave you cancer.

tonynatoron Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

Can you do it with your eyes open?

Have you tried drawing a real object then the imagined one and seeing which ends up better? I've always thought that this would be a great skill for visual artists.