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He was an addict and got sober, but otherwise yeah the image is fitting.

Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text.

If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.

I think most web developers have been very wary of Google and Chrome since 2010 or so.

Maybe you shouldn't frame your compensation in terms of a "COLA adjustment" although I'm quite sure your employer would prefer that meek mindset.

We already have troops stationed in 146 countries around the world, the thought of adding killer AI drone capabilities to the mix isn't exactly comforting.

Then of course, if gets sold to everyone labeled an "ally" by whatever administration in five years time.

I don't know why every massive corporation is trying to rebrand as "the friendly AI conglomerate!" but I'm not buying it for Microsoft or anyone else.

You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead.

I'm old enough to type in a URL, I rarely see anyone else who does that anymore.

Most of these articles have the same narrative, summarized as: We have seen how dangerous and important technology is with elections, now it's more important than ever we educate everyone about AI.

As if the two concepts follow or are related at all, it seems more like a extremely convenient way to pivot the conversation to this new area of hype in technology while not actually owning up to anything.

How about we talk about anti-trust law, privacy, and busting up Facebook and Google instead?

So ssh private keys are stored in plain base64 encoding in the windows registry? How is that even possible?

I love how the default way to get an actual human to respond to a real problem at google is now:

1. Be famous

2. Make a stink on social media

I feel like I'm back in high school.

So because there is no advertising revenue it makes sense to disable comments for advertising? huh?

Why can't users comment on ads? I can see obvious reasons why corporate partners buying the ads would want to disable comments, but is it actually good for the site?

HN is one of the few places where there is honest discourse calling out much of the bullshit in startup culture, seems odd to limit the most compelling aspect of this community.

The problem is not everyone on the world stage is a rational game theory nerd that links to papers like we want them to be. Also 60 years of treating every other country as a box in a threat model to be manipulated against other boxes has been a completely unmitigated disaster, so maybe we should stop that.