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b3ing··on It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism
It’s fear of the US not controlling everything, if we don’t have the leading spot it must be evil or someone must have cheated, everyone knows it’s impossible for the US not to be #1. /sarcasm
b3ing··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Doesn’t matter as long as the Epstein files fell out of the news, it’s considered a success despite $40 billion spent
b3ing··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
The strategy was to get Epstein off of everyone’s mind. And if it cost over $40billion and counting then it was deemed worth it, because the president comes first, that how’s our president thinks, me first, and our politicians, party first, our lobby second and the oligarchs third.
b3ing··on ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
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b3ing··on Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
Of course the founding fathers didn’t have time to do that or address slavery either
b3ing··on Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
The ones that can change it won’t because they benefit from the system being how it is. Being a politician is a gateway to money and power.

The fundamental flaw of the constitution is that it had no ethics built in, it’s up to the voters to pick better, our press to report truthfully without bias and those have failed as well.

b3ing··on Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
Things have to get very bad before people start to act, it’s not there yet
b3ing··on Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy
Hope you don’t have diabetes
b3ing··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
If you stop paying do you just send the device back or drop it off at the Apple Store
b3ing··on The Iran War threatened a food crisis with soaring fertilizer costs
Gotta prevent people from remembering all the little kids that were raped/taken-advantage-of you know. Epstein should be bigger than JFK, but yet will be forgotten with no consequences for anyone but Epstein because there is too musty rich and powerful people that are guilty
b3ing··on New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease
If the FTC had enough time, people and competence, they could get rid off all the apartment junk fees like: valet trash, forcing you to have a cable subscription plan, package locker fee, etc
b3ing··on AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
You could always just buy a used book or get it from the library, the publisher and writer don’t get paid but once and it switched hand multiple times.

When is this not plagiarism? As AI will just briefly paraphrase so it’s not exact word for word. They rarely give credit and only late add some sources but only the top sites despite gobbling down the entire web.

Wikipedia editors do the same, good luck on getting your site credited and a link on there for more than a day/week unless you have connections.

b3ing··on AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
You mean they are openly going to steal more copyrighted material that they weren’t able to find on Pirate Bay. Shouldn’t this mean copyright is no longer valid anymore?
b3ing··on Five tech giants are hiding $1.6T in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
1929 flashback? We already had a pandemic but no booming times
b3ing··on Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
You need more RAM, plus the models take up a lot of space. 32gb min but I’d recommend 48/64gb, you won’t get close to frontier but it’s still fun to play with, images are very good
b3ing··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
If you are a regular user they could care less,if you are enterprise they might be more careful. They have credit card info, and all your chats so I’m sure they can figure things out
b3ing··on ChatGPT Has Merch
Anything to raise money
b3ing··on Largest housing affordability bill in decades becomes law
The limit is 350 houses for investors which is too much. Couldn’t someone just create another llc and get another 350?

The biggest lobbying group in the US for years has been the real estate industry, I’m sure this met their requirements to not step on their toes.

A few fixes are better than nothing

b3ing··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
With all the layoffs I wonder how that will turn out
b3ing··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
We are dependent on H1b workers
b3ing··on Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T
They could pay this off in like 1-6 months I imagine
b3ing··on Bring back crappy forums
Spam prevention, moderation and security updates make running a forum require a lot of work
b3ing··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
But you can deny life saving treatments if you are a health insurance company
b3ing··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
You can use a fan app to ramp up how fast the fans spin instead of the default so you can prevent any throttling
b3ing··on Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
I knew this would happen, the future of AI, is ads, lots of them. This isn’t the end, there will be more added on soon
b3ing··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
I wonder if it’s because hardware costs are going up
b3ing··on U.S. health spending on pace to hit $6T
The insurance companies should allow for dental or medical tourism. Let’s put the people who haven’t had to compete globally get a chance to. If you have enough money you can do it yourself but that doesn’t help poor folks
b3ing··on The Coming Enshittification of AI
Local llm is so important to avoid ads, because the future of AI is tons of ads
b3ing··on Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
Does it have a solo mode?
b3ing··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
At this rate, local llm will be banned. Hope we have the torrents and archives ready
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