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I don't get the fetish of making people (or things) pay taxes more and more.

The government wants us to focus on who should pay more taxes, but I think we owe it to ourselves to spend 600 comments on HOW OUR FUCKING TAXES SHOULD BE SPENT!

Great so now AI will give the government 800 million dollars per year to do what, build non-existent homeless shelters in LA?

Well, I'm done with that meat now.

It is weird to me that we got to a point where we are being literal about the law again, instead of the spirit.

I guess laws should no longer say:

A license plate should be attached to a car.

Instead it should say:

All vehicles that don't display their license plate for cameras of any kind are illegal, the spirit of this law is to make it so we can identify through the number assigned to the vehicle from the state that identifies it is obvious if a picture is taken of the vehicle from the front or the back.

Better yet, judges and legal experts should just stop playing these games with words and figure out a new way to make things that are supposed to be legal, legal.

If you were to convert an llm model into code, it would have like 500 billion if statements like that

If you don't like losing half your IQ points, then I guess this is a narrow minded take.

The fact is so plain, there does not need to be an article about it.

Because they are the original hippies? Does this really have to be a question/article.

I seriously thought this was about Suchir Balaji...

> Again, if change is a sin, so is evolution

No. That's putting words in my mouth, I was agreeing to Paul in him saying that Capitalism's weakest point is that it can't account for the future. You're probably trying to be a wordsmith to win an argument, but your post is entirely meaningless.

No, no, you can't get away with saying "calling what we have now "capitalism" is quite a stretch, the meaning of that word is now so vague as to render it meaningless"

This is just simply not true. There are too many young people that want to be lawyers or ivory tower word architects, but the time for "winning arguments" because you're narrative is to make people believe untrue things, just does not work anymore.

I really think this is disingenuous thinking. change over time is the original sin. The "market" is very much a real thing. It's the global fabric of everything in the entire world. It is definitely not a model.

Also let's not forget the original sin of communism - which is that everyone is a slave.

Everyone is a slave because you don't own your own labor. It is owned by the government. By definition the people are slaves in communism.

I feel like people believe in either the capitalism or communism. The draw from both are interesting. On the one hand you have the ability to reach any peak you want - by creating something that people want. On the other, the focus is more on the laborer, a promise to make sure everyone has the basic needs.

I'm a free market person, but with guardrails. I think just because guardrails exist does not mean Capitalism is broken or does not work. I also believe that from a political perspective, one party (republicans) are afraid of adding guardrails because it might mean capitalism is weak compared to the alternative.

And on the other hand, the democrats are fully willing to bend the knee to the DSA and let the system collapse.

So what will actually happen? I don't think America will ever be a communistic society, but there may be severe pain in the coming years until everyone in congress is replaced with something else (maybe Forward Party comes back?)

How is following the law and deporting people political?

I read it. it reads politically motivated. man this country is cooked beyond cooking.

op - a few days after they start looking it will be found.

  Nvidia sells to Bob
  Bob sells to China
  Bob is a citizen of Ω

Ω = location where no laws broken

LLMs, long term, have killed most SaaS.

Most SaaS used to be killed by bespoke software engineers that would build some custom thing, and it was integrated perfectly into the legacy system.

Then all those people decided to be managers and go on "i dont care" autopilot mode and hired a bunch of teens that still do care, to some extent. But those teens suck at it, and the old guys just don't really care anymore.

Now with agentic code, instead of "buy splunk" or "buy jira" or whatever thing they are trying to do, they have one of those "teens now in their mid twenties" that are SUPER excited about Agentic flows, either write an agentic tool or simply use an agentic tool to code up the 300 lines of code that would replace their need for a Jira or a Splunk or whatever. Since most people only use 5% of the total features of any product, there's no reason to buy tools anymore, just build it for a fraction of the cost.

I don't know if the above is where we're at right now, but it's coming.

llms do all that too

Most code is simple, the fact that large complex systems are layers of simple code on top of itself, like garbage heaps at the dump, makes it complex. Sticking with the garbage analogy, the LLM is like upgrading from one shovel to an crew of 10 people with excavators to look for a lost Bitcoin hard drive.

Your project is still going to fail, but it will fail faster with the 10 excavators.

It's probably related to a phenomenon we're not yet aware of.

I had the same issue. It does not immediately suggest it is an agentic based framework, which is odd to me considering all the recent breakthroughs in security are coming from llms.

Trump in title articles should just be banned at this point.

thats not how most people do streaming, they consume everything on netflix - when the content gets stale, they cancel, move to P+, consume for a few months, stale, d+, stale, A+, etc.... 1 at a time

That makes sense, just treat it as a retirement account. And hope that it doesn't get cracked in our lifetime through quantum computing or alien technology.

Once Netflix buys all of these companies, you won't ever be able to watch a WB movie without a $25 netflix sub per month. (and yeah, when they are done buying all the competition that's what the monthly will be.

They definitely should be. Some people might be in situations where asking your boss for a 10k pay cut gives them an extra $1k per year. Just dumb.

I just copy-paste an article into chatgpt and tell it to give me 3 bullet points for the article. We should have had this forever.

People should try to remember that people post this on their blogs, the way it gets in HN is not always their own doing.

This should be an illegal aquisition

I think I paid like $500 ($1300 today) in 1989ish to upgrade from 2MB to 5MB of ram (had to remove 1MB to add 4MB)