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The modern equivalent of working a lathe is running a CNC machine tool, and I would bet that if we suddenly killed off the tech industry and ramped up CNC machining in the US, the CNC machine industry would have far more former SWEs than former "lathe workers".

Requiring people to be able to interact with other people is not "bigotry".

Aren't these kinds of services already largely banned in China?

I have family members that when they say "ChatGPT" they actually mean google's AI overview in the search results. The term ChatGPT might just be the Kleenex or Xerox of this market.

You don't need to know the license terms to know what is happening. Just observe that you get ads based on browsing and searching behavior. Most people can see that it's happening and don't care. Or at least not enough to give up the value they get in exchange.

Isn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.

There's a whole world outside the US and China that companies are competing in.

hotmail, yahoo mail, etc. were also free when google started gmail. gmail won because it was just way better, and it has changed very little in terms of its value proposition in all that time.

A level playing field is good. The playing field includes other countries.

uBO Lite exists and I can't see any visible difference in how well it works. So, it's not a price you need to pay at all.

And also requires far less intrusive permissions.

It's also great to not give basically unlimited permissions to an extension.

The simple explanation is they want the tariffs, but get scared by the blowback, but can't just give up, because that would look even more dumb than it already does.

At 7 transactions/second? Good luck.

They also do really shady things with affiliate links and their scheme to hijack ad revenue from websites.

You're making a great case for why most people should prefer chrome to remain a google product.

I was just forced to switch from uBO to uBO lite because of this. I can't see any difference in behavior, and now the extension doesn't need unlimited permissions.

Good luck paying engineers to work on chrome on the GS pay scale, subject to the whims of Elon Musk's DOGE.

And I get nagged by the operating system in multiple different ways (system dialogs, notifications, opening a new file type, ...) to switch back from Chrome.

Trump is going to demand a lot more than the few million Google donated for that. I doubt Trump would settle for anything less than a public grovelling to every Google/YouTube user (like TikTok), serious and significant pro-Trump tinkering with the ranking algorithms, or maybe a few billion purchase of $TRUMP.

It's really tiring seeing the HN enlightened conservatives talking as if there is a coherent policy here. Withdrawing military support for Ukraine alone might be reasonable, I disagree with it but I can see the sense in it.

But Trump is absolutely wrecking every relationship we have in the world, trading or otherwise, except with Russia, where he wants to remove sanctions and increase trade.

Even if you disregard all "moral" foreign policy objectives, like deterring wars of territorial expansion, it makes zero sense in economic terms. We're abandoning >>50% of world markets in exchange for access to... Russia's market? What do they even have to offer that we want? Oil or gas? We already produce more than we consume! Trading more with Russia will only kill domestic oil and gas producers and accomplish almost nothing else.

It makes zero sense, it will never make sense, stop trying to make it make sense.

I don't know if it's correct or not, but it doesn't fail my sniff test. It's an average of ~1 piece of mail per person per day. Most people probably don't get more than one piece of useful mail per week, but there are also people conducting business through the mail that might send or receive far more than that.

It would be understandable to step back from Ukraine. There's a reasonable argument to be made there. I disagree, but I can understand the position.

It's not understandable to support Russia and say things like Ukraine started the war. That's just pure ignorant bullshit.

Using undocumented features is not rare. People reverse engineered Apple's undocumented AMX instructions on their CPU, and I know people use undocumented/private extensions for several different kinds of GPUs.

How do you see what is going on now as a class issue? There is no clear class division between Trump's supporters and opposition. If anything it's the opposite of what you seem to be thinking. Trying to frame it in those terms is failing right out of the gate.

(Not OP) I liked his willingness to invest so much in exciting, lofty goals (Tesla, SpaceX).

Twitter wrecked his mind. I'm not talking about buying it, I'm talking about being such a heavy user of it.

The shilling is especially cringe considering how wealthy the hosts supposedly are already.

I think the "normal person of 20 years ago" opinion on this is that he was rightfully acquitted, but it's weird for him to be getting hired by Andreesen Horowitz.

A court saying something doesn't obligate everyone to agree that is the way it should be. That basic concept, applied to several other issues, explains most of what is happening now.

- Martin v. Boise. This was overturned, but for 6 years, insanity ruled.

- The general situation with asylum at the border. It's insane that millions of people can just walk across the border, turn themselves in to an immigration officer, tell a sad story (this included domestic violence according to the Biden administration...), get a court date ~10 years in the future, and just live your life in the US until then.

- Seeing clearly dangerous/crazy people with rap sheets a mile long, including violent offenses, released with slaps on the wrist for the 30th time, only to kill someone.

- Less insane but still questionable and a potent issue: various affirmative action laws/rulings, very "Harrison Bergeron"-esque diversity motivated laws/rulings.

If you force people to choose between the rule of law, and... that, then the rule of law might lose. That's what is happening now.

> I really want this in my currency.

A deflationary currency that you own a disproportionate amount of is great. For you.