john-h-k

None of it is against your will. You have no obligation to own a car or drive. If you want to use the _shared_ resource that is public roads, funded by everyone, you have to agree to certain terms (eg a license, insurance).

> For example, Irvine, CA has been one of the safest large cites in the US for decades. Why did they need flock?

Uhh, because getting safer is still better? Why the hell does the relative ranking matter?

> The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973.

This is just blatantly untrue according to your source.

Hourly wages have been consistently growing since the 90s, after the big retraction in the 70s/80s. They exceeded 1973 in 2019 and are higher now.

I personally think it’s bad when countries commit genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

No way, I don’t buy it. If this is actually true I’ll eat my hat

This is meant to be biased???

> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security)

It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current social security payouts. It’s not saved away for you

So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?

> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility

In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility

> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible.

If they are such stable long term SaaS businesses who aren’t losing customers, why are they selling to bending spoons?

I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording.

There’s no common theme, very little justification of any of the claims, and frankly very little to do with palantir

It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine

The hard part of GitHub is scalability

Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!

This is an odd criticism. I am (A) a zoomer and (B) I wasn’t criticising the use of the word spicy? I am saying the comparison itself is bad

> allowing spicy autocomplete

Yknow, if the spicy autocomplete can solve difficult open math problems and build medium sized complex programming projects, it’s probably not useful to analyse it as an autocomplete anymore, even if that’s what you believe it is

Branch predictor can predict these pretty damn well

Europe is not particularly anti surveillance

I can see some risks with creating a hyper intelligent mecha-Epstein

Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way

This is the exception to the rule

> People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it

Yes because stealing illegal items (if you believe AI generated imagery should be illegal) is still illegal

> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home.

Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the street is one of the strongest measures for reducing crime!

The increasing fraction of “zingy catchphrase” HN comments compared to actually nuanced takes is depressing. Feels like a horrible mix of Reddit and tumblr

> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it

Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many exciting libraries, lots of pottery, and many books.

But I’ve never met anyone passionate about collecting bins, development of accounting tooling, or pricing of phone insurance. You need rewards to allocate people effectively, because “passion” is random and not related to what people actually need

Out of the 26 polls since the GE, 13 are pro indy 13 aren’t. But it’s worth noting that 9 of the 13 pro-indy polls were commissioned by strongly pro-Indy groups (The National, The Herald, STV News), which seems like it could have some selection bias.

I don’t think Amazon have a vast conspiracy (that no one has whistleblown on!) of secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising. It would be difficult, require huge amounts of processing, probably not help very much, and be incredibly illegal. It wouldn’t give them much value and would be incredibly risky

It just seems really far fetched that thousands of Amazon employees are conspiring to commit an insanely obvious and illegal breach of privacy for data that isn’t even all that useful (hard to analyse, computationally expensive, low signal to noise ratio). And that no one has ever noticed this even when security researchers test these devices

If a hearing aid was genuinely sending everything it recorded back then it would run out of battery insanely fast. It would also have insanely high network usage

Yeah of course they do the looped listening to pick up their wake sound. But extrapolating that to “constantly recording and sending that data to Amazon” without evidence is silly. Again, you’d be very easily able to see this just from network usage