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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I didn’t realize PBF was posting again. I remember it from an older age of the internet where catching the newest xkcd, SMBC, or PBF was something I looked forward to. Now I suppose going to individual sites for content has been supplanted by the Reddit feed.
Thanks for the the dose of nostalgia :)
Comment · 10 months ago
Ehhh, I think he’s earned it given one of the “founders” has had basically zero input on anything modern Wikipedia has become.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m not the only one who gets a chill down their spine when they hear this, right?
I hate to invoke Godwin's law on the very first comment on a post, but the industrialization of deportations seems to have alarming parallels to the mass murder Jews and other minority groups in 1930’s and 40’s Europe. I read “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning a couple months ago and the thing that stuck out to me is that when the Nazi’s started killing people, they didn’t immediately jump to death camps. The initial steps of the holocaust began as a “deportation” scheme and it was a continual ramping up of the scale of murder.
They initially claimed they were going to deport these people to Madagascar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
I’m not American so I may be missing some nuance here, but this seems a little terrifying to me.
Comment · 1 year ago
There has to be extra context here. There is no way we’re getting the full picture. If it really is just as simple as including “question” in the title of a paper then there is some serious mismanagement occurring.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think in most of my use cases the limitation in waiting for is speed and cost. 4o is good enough for most tasks it’s just slow and expensive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey! First I loved PA. It was such a great game. Second, I’m curious how you simulated combat. Was it simply every every server tick you updated all units or was it something smarter?
Comment · 2 years ago
If this really is the start of a run-away greenhouse effect, realistically how does someone ride out the worst of the coming horrors without being a billionaire with a bunker.
Comment · 2 years ago
How does this new theory explain the evidence for dark matter from galaxy collisions?
Comment · 2 years ago
Stealing from a self checkout is a cheap and easy thrill if you’re rich enough to pay for legal representation. For a poor person it represents a much larger threat and most lower paying jobs are much less tolerant of needing to take time off for things like a court date.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s dangerous because it can enter the body through your skin
Comment · 3 years ago
The downsides of not doing anything are far, far larger. We risk the total collapse of our biosphere if we don’t stop.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Most programmers aren't HN level
Oh boy, the self importance here is hilarious
Comment · 3 years ago
Rule 113 has some interest implications. The Fernegi are a true patriarchy, women aren’t allowed to wear clothes, let alone own businesses. So, in Ferengi society the boss is always a man. That would mean 113 is tacit implication that homosexuality is part of Ferengi society.
Comment · 3 years ago
Except in the case of a squirrel or cockroach, what you are seeing is the result of millions of years of “pre-training” by the evolutionary process.
Yeah, but the physical assets they own can’t move freely. The EU can still tax or seize assets within the EU.