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- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 1 day ago:
That joke, about just uploading everything and letting others decide what’s worth saving, is one I first heard decades ago. Might still have been him who first made it.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 1 day ago:
Different generations. They didn’t get each other’s cultural references.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 days ago:
Pay workers the vare minimum they need to survive, and have them spend all their waking hours working for you. That’s how you get rich, apparently.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Warhammer? This sounds not far from the most horrific mission from a Shadowrun campaign I ran. They were making the new internet out of human brains.
“In science fiction, people have been living with these ideas for quite a long time,” he said.
That doesn’t mean you should do it for real.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 week ago:
Are your unaware that you are arguing towards a tautology? “It’s not overvalued because this is what it’s valued”. That’s meaningless.
If the assets, profits and projected growth do not justify the current valuation, it’s overvalued. That’s the case for Tesla.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 week ago:
That doesn’t mean that value is reasonable, though. The stockmarket has a rich history of hysteria and irrationality.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 week ago:
By that argument nothing is ever overvalued because apparently that’s what the stockmarket says it’s worth. But crashes still happen.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t think it’s any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it’s impossible to ignore, but generally I’m totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 2 weeks ago:
That’s just a “the stockmarket can’t possibly be wrong” argument, but the stockmarket has often been wrong.
Tesla is overvalued. That’s blatantly obvious if you look at the data. There’s no justification for Tesla’s insane market cap other than hype or corruption.
Did you not understand the Corolla/Lamborghini example?
I do, but I wonder if you do. Toyota is far, far more valuable than Lamborghini. Toyota is the largest car manufacturer in the world, and with a market cap of $269B, the second most valuable after Tesla.
Lamborghini is not independent, but owned by Volkswagen, as part of their Audi group, and all of those brands put together have a market cap of $58B.
Your argument is not a justification for Tesla’s high market value; quite the opposite.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 2 weeks ago:
There’s more to a car than speed, and Teslas aren’t Lamborghinis. They were exciting when they were new, but they’ve always had quality issues. Toyota produces more reliable cars. And more cars. There’s no perspective from which Tesla’s valuation makes sense.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 3 weeks ago:
Why would this be my first time reading about the stock market? Do you think this is the first bubble?
Yes, hype and bubbles are common on the stock market, that’s not all it is, and that doesn’t make them okay. The dot-com bubble led to a crash. Other bubbles led to crashes. This one will too. How long that will take? That depends on the number of greater fools, or on how long they can keep inflating this with financial trickery.
Teslas are still the gold standard of EVs. They’re not the cheapest, but they’re what everyone wants.
That was years ago. Tesla sales are dropping in many places, while other the other EV sales are growing. Tesla has peaked, there’s no sign of anything that will reverse it. And their sales have never justified their stock value.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
Have your wife buy it and gift it to you.
But yes, this sort of price discrimination is weird and deadly for any sort of free market.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
However you like. Download it straight from the publisher, buy it on cdrom, buy it on gog, epic or any other platform. There’s no enforced monopoly for PC games, and the only one who could enforce one is Microsoft.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 3 weeks ago:
But that’s all bubble. Tesla isn’t selling even enough cars to justify its current valuation, and sales are slowing down. The current valuation of Tesla is based entirely on hype, and has been for years. For ever, really, but in the early years it could be justified because it was the fastest growing car company ever, and EVs were new and hot. Now everybody is building EVs, and more than Tesla.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
They’re investing this much because they honestly seem to think they’re on the cusp of super intelligent AGI. They’re not, but they really seem to think they are, and that seems to justify these insane investments.
But all they’re really doing is the same thing as before but even bigger. It’s not going to work. It’s only going to make things even more expensive.
I use Copilot and Claude at work, and while it’s really impressive at what it can do, it’s also really stupid and requires a lot of hand holding. It’s not on the brink of AGI super intelligence. Not even close. Maybe we’ll get there some day, but not before all these companies are bankrupt.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
It’s magic that will magically transform the world and make everybody rich and magically do our work for us. Like in Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 5 weeks ago:
What a great idea to test this on paying customers’ live production websites.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 month ago:
Filming someone naked inside their own home? I don’t see how that’s within her rights. If she was outside, or she had an automatic body cam. Or if he was actually threatening or assaulting her and not asleep. Those are the only excuses I can think of.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 month ago:
Exactly. Look, if the guy is a creep and set this up intentionally, then shame on him and I hope at the very least he gets banned from door dash. I’m just saying we’re only hearing one side of the story, and there seems to be some questionable aspects to that side, so I’m a bit reluctant to judge the guy based on that.
I’m all for condemning creeps when it’s clear that they are creeps. I’m just a bit reluctant to judge someone on so little and somewhat vague evidence.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 month ago:
Naturists are often naked in their home. Lots of people are naked after a shower. He could have gotten home tired, order food, have a quick shower, and crash on the couch after that.
A deliverer should just ring the doorbell and wait at the door, not enter uninvited or try to peer inside.
I mean, it could have been an intentional exhibitionist setup, but it doesn’t have to be. And entering someone’s home and filming them sleeping naked, sounds a lot creepier to me.
I mean, the guy could be a creep, but he could be innocent too. She might be the innocent victim, but she might also be the creep here. We only hear her side of the story.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 month ago:
The fact that she filmed him inside his own home certainly sounds iffy to me. Do door dashers carry a body cam that films everything? That could explain how she accidentally filmed him. But if she filmed him intentionally, inside his own home, then doesn’t that technically make her the sex offender in this story?
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 month ago:
Is she the victim, though? From what I understand, the guy wasn’t at the door, but asleep (or pretending to be) in his own home, which should be entirely legal. The “more info” link says the door was ajar and she filmed him. If she pushed open the door, entered his home and filmed him there, she might be the sex offender here.
Of course if he set this up intentionally, that’s exhibitionism (not voyeurism, as the article incorrectly calls it), but still, inside his own home.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 month ago:
Don’t worry too much about the rat race. Take time to enjoy life and experience things with people you care about. The best moments in life can be really small things.
At the same time, don’t waste too much time doing nothing either; use your time well, but use it to develop and improve yourself, learn something useful. Get a job you enjoy or consider important, at least. Doing work that you enjoy or consider important is far more valuable than the money you make. But don’t ignore the money either. Just don’t sacrifice your soul for it. Don’t work yourself to death for a boss who doesn’t appreciate you. Don’t burn your relationships for money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait, is Jutta Leerdam dating Jake Paul?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
They lucked into it. They made their cards for gamers, and various groups, AI researchers, bitcoin miners and others, discovered that they those gamer GPUs were really good for other tasks too. I think it took a while before Nvidia started making specialised cards for those purposes.
I can’t really blame them for serving that market that they just lucked into. I can and will blame them for their terrible Linux support.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Well, they now control all the money, so they can decide all the value.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
We should make dazzle makeup standard when going outside. It’s the perfect fashion trend for today.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 1 month ago:
What it needs most of all, is a fairly complete intuitive model of how the world works. LLMs only have book knowledge. They have no body, perception or experience. I think that’s incredibly limiting.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 month ago:
We need to get the right to privacy and control over our own devices enshrined as fundamental rights, like so many other rights the EU protects.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 1 month ago:
The main thing that AI has shown, is how much bullshit we subconsciously filter through every day without much effort. (Although clearly some people struggle a lot more with distinguishing between bullshit and fact, considering how much politicized nonsense has taken hold.)