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New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Rebuff5007 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:53:58 +0000

Bizarre oversimplification.

For both manipulation and autonomous driving, google has invested in approaches with custom hardware, and off-the-shelf hardware, and a blend (which is what waymo is).

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras"

Rebuff5007 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:49:54 +0000

It is at least somewhat relevant.

A persons political persuasion can tell you something about their values, and the policies they would prefer enacted for a given topic.

Republicans AFAIK have not been on the crusade to end mass surveillance or promote privacy laws to regulate big tech, so seeing a republican man stand up for this right might help you understand that the sentiment of the party is not unanimous.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Rebuff5007 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:09:54 +0000

The parent comment mentioned "blogs" and "everyday websites."

Do you want to make a case for why exactly a percentage increase calculator app needs ads?

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Rebuff5007 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:51:14 +0000

There is a third option, that the content does not need to be monetized.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "The Future Worth Building Is Human"

Rebuff5007 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:46:35 +0000

This is the 6th blog post, making the average cost per post only $333 million! What a steal for the VCs.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

Rebuff5007 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:39:53 +0000

I don't want to be a Zuckerberg hater, but is there any thing Zuckerberg has done or said in the last few years that wasn't mundane, reactionary or self-aggrandizing?

In other words, was there a single decision or take he made that turned out in his favor?

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

Rebuff5007 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:38:49 +0000

$80 billion written off for the metaverse.

Think about the number of kids that were harmed being fed ads and nonsense content to enable this... this a scandal IMO.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

Rebuff5007 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:43:55 +0000

The author of this article disagrees:

> “Don’t Be Evil” wasn’t just a slogan of often-referenced Googliness—it was a north star for teams making hard calls.

It definitely counts for something that at least one senior leader felt the slogan was relevant for decision making.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

Rebuff5007 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:35:22 +0000

Sure why not. How is that any different that what already happens at airports?

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

Rebuff5007 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:45:53 +0000

Why are those things naturally "whats next"?

We allow bars and car companies to verify age before conducting business. Does that in itself lead to racial discrimination? I think not.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "U.S. Science Is in Chaos"

Rebuff5007 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:20:54 +0000

I never said half the country is irrational. I specifically called out that people in power do not care to live in a shared reality with the rest of us. They lie directly [1][2], or dismantle the institutions that would be able to push back on their lies [2][3]. Countless examples of this in the last few years.

I do think a non-trivial portion of the population has opinions that have unfortunately diverged from what a board of climate scientists or epidemiologist would say is the appropriate state of affairs, and yes this is a problem we all need to figure out how to correct.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/california-s... [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo [3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3xrrzdr0o [4] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatori...

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Rebuff5007 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:08:26 +0000

Science being partisan right now has nothing to do with funding. It has to do with the disdain that the people currently in power have to live in a shared reality with the rest of the poulation.

Theres a monumental leap from saying "lets not invest in climate change because thats not a good use of tax dollars" to "lets not invest in climate change because its a hoax."

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Rebuff5007 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:49:28 +0000

> whether there are black holes at a redshift of 10 or not is not a partisan issue.

Anything that depends on a basic understanding of the scientific process, and resulting scientific facts is absolutely a partisan issue right now.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

Rebuff5007 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:57:25 +0000

I've been at a few VC / startup events recently and I was stunned to see the number execs frothing at the mouth about finding a 1-person-ai-driven-billion-dollar-startup. This "playbook" is probably not going to help.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Do We Need Billionaires?"

Rebuff5007 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:13:26 +0000

Every conversation about the existence of billionaires misses the point: Its not about whether or not billionaires should exist. Its about whether they should exist at the same moment in time when there are people cannot get healthcare or have a decent roof over their head, or a number of other basic things.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

Rebuff5007 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:43:05 +0000

> I wouldn't buy this huge set for my kids because that price tag is crazy, but I like buying some of the mid-size sets for them because it's a nice injection of specialty pieces that they like to incorporate into other builds.

Very well said, and this was exactly my experience (as a child).

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

Rebuff5007 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:29:42 +0000

Even if it is fixable, there are costs involved for the fixing. A broken hotel lamp will sit in a landfill for all eternity.

"Moving fast and breaking things" could be acceptable in cases where there is an ulterior objective whose potential value could be >> these costs, but in general it should be evaluated more carefully.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

Rebuff5007 — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:13:16 +0000

> Moving fast and breaking things is fine, as long as you fix the stuff you break...

What? No its not. Breaking things can cause harm that is not always "fixable", particularly if its not your thing to break.

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

Rebuff5007 — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:44:10 +0000

"All models are wrong, but some are useful"

What your describing is already how a lot of science, technology, and engineering works!

New comment by Rebuff5007 in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

Rebuff5007 — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:39:00 +0000

Between this comment, and the comment above, I dont know what feels like fair criticism here.

Having a single perfect product strategy with non-overlapping product categories and understandable names is hard for any organization, particularly in a rapidly evolving space.

Its obviously an issue to have multiple mature products be chaotically names.

At this moment antigravity and gemini cli and are hardly mature. Isn't now the perfect time to consolidate?