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New comment by MisterDizzy in "Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:50:28 +0000

By that logic, removing LGBTQ literature from school libraries is just "consequences" then. They don't have to listen.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Argentina Scrapped Its Rent Controls. Now the Market Is Thriving"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:33:41 +0000

This should be a bigger story, but rent control is one of the higher classes' compassionate-chic opinions that are all the rage right now.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Fed's high-rates era handed $1T windfall to US banks"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:31:32 +0000

Forget student debt forgiveness, what about all debt forgiveness, and illegalize charging interest?

New comment by MisterDizzy in "OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:16:56 +0000

What baffles me is how OpenAI keeps its doors open. They're paying Microsoft to be able to exist, plus their product requires huge amounts of electricity and infrastructure. OpenAI is unsustainable.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:15:41 +0000

Hate speech is free speech. "Not being able to use other people's computers" is nice, but when private discussion forums make functionality changes that help to alter the outcome of elections, things start getting deadly serious, and we need to stop dressing up what we're doing in nice language like "not being able to use other people's computers/bandwidth". Just say it: we need to reserve the right to censor some individuals at will.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "'Order Your 4 Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests'"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:10:04 +0000

What I saw was a death of despair in my family during lockdowns, and my own very bad adverse reaction to a shot I was strongarmed into taking (transient global amnesia).

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:03:37 +0000

Free speech is person-to-person in the sense that it only works if a person has it in practice, regardless of where the suppression is coming from.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Elon Musk hits back at UK government over lack of invite to tech summit"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:53:36 +0000

Not defending Musk, but the UK government does not believe in the equal application of law or basic human rights. They have positively no moral high ground to stand on.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:47:08 +0000

Another "IF" product like Stadia. It would be really great for the company IF there was a market for this, but nobody wants it.

Big Tech seems determined to strap a live network-connected HD video feed with sound to everyone's head.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:40:45 +0000

This is the main difference in politics, as far as I can tell: Some people push for things that seem really compassionate and intuitively good and right, but actually make the problem a lot worse. But to argue this is almost always futile because all most people seem able to absorb is that you're disagreeing with their intuitively compassionate position, not that you're trying to posit a solution that actually functions, so in their eyes you're an existential threat to them.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "The End of the Cheap Burger"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:27:58 +0000

We subsidize unhealthy food and wonder why most of our food supply is full of gluten and sugar and other slow-acting poisons, then we take meat and other essential animal proteins that people survived on for millenia and either process them until they're basically nutrition-free or make them so expensive that it's no longer viable. If people in charge thought solving problems was good for them, they'd do that instead of creating them. It's far more profitable to create a problem so that you can sell an expensive treatment for it.

Generative AI is polluting language

MisterDizzy — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:08:32 +0000

Article URL: https://mrdizzyblog.neocities.org/blog/gpt-words/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627579

Points: 1

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New comment by MisterDizzy in "Looking for B2B Beta Testers"

MisterDizzy — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:31:51 +0000

There's a username and password prompt.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:24:21 +0000

This is why it's getting annoying to see this sort of headline. "Nobody should own the public square... Unless it's a cadre of young San Francisco leftists who represent one of the most extreme left factions in the country. They should own the public square."

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:16:03 +0000

This repeated pearl-clutching from the media is getting tiresome. They're acting like X itself is a problem now, as a whole, in theory. But they loved Twitter...?

No one seemed to think twice when Twitter was using its social media platform to amplify left wing views. Not just left, but one of the furthest and most fringe left parts of the country, San Francisco.

America has a natural memetic immune system that precludes things like being a Nazi from public life, but it has no such immune system for the extremist left, some versions of which did many times the damage of the holocaust in the second half of the 20th century, the half we don't really learn about. Don't believe me? Walk down the street wearing a swastika and a hammer & sickle and see which one gets you attacked faster.

We need to develop some memetic antibodies quickly.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Google advertisement for "Wordle" returns a spam fishing result"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:19:34 +0000

We're exploring some options for implementing something like adblocking on all traffic. I don't think people would care if we did that. Some may not even notice. Maybe they'd be happy that some sites were cleaner and faster.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Google advertisement for "Wordle" returns a spam fishing result"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:01:36 +0000

Google's ads have been a headache in the office for a while. Older users don't know to ignore the first screen or so of fake promoted "results" in favor of the actual search results. This has led to multiple phishing attempts.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "FTC Slams Middlemen for High Drug Prices"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:57:53 +0000

They ought to be going after drug manufacturers directly and forcing them to publish 100% of their research on every new drug they create. They should also incentivize finding off-label uses for existing cheap generic drugs, and disincentivize repackaging technically-distinct versions of old drugs as soon as the generics pop up. There is a lot of room for improvement in this whole sector, and this isn't where it is.

New comment by MisterDizzy in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

MisterDizzy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:54:00 +0000

Hardly surprising. This is very Google-like behavior. The question is do other Chromium browsers have this? Edge? Brave? Chromium? Ungoogled Chromium?

New comment by MisterDizzy in "For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free"

MisterDizzy — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:00:21 +0000

Let's see how long it takes them to realize they should have gone with the latest nuclear power tech and will eventually be unable to meet demand with anything but coal or nuclear (unless something changes).