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New comment by gabruoy in "The Tranhumanist Cult Test"

gabruoy — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:12:32 +0000

Then we need a moral belief system to determine what improvement is and isn’t. This will eventually lead to a codified set of beliefs that look a lot like religion. And I don’t really like most of the moral statements I’ve heard from self proclaimed transhumanists. That’s why I’m not a one of them, even though I wear glasses.

New comment by gabruoy in "The Tranhumanist Cult Test"

gabruoy — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:57:00 +0000

Do you believe that humans improving themselves or their society through technological advancement is always a good thing? Or do you think that glasses are a good technological advancement, but maybe nuclear weapons or a theoretical totalitarian AI-ran government are not good advancements in technology?

New comment by gabruoy in "The Tranhumanist Cult Test"

gabruoy — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:37:44 +0000

I don’t think this is accurate at all. Transhumanism is a pretty clearly defined group with specific moral beliefs that not everyone agrees with. It’s like saying if you’ve ever forgiven someone when they did something bad to you, you’re a Christian.

New comment by gabruoy in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

gabruoy — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 17:28:50 +0000

Then unfortunately the internet will remain a luxury for people who aren’t able to afford the cost. The internet is a product, not a charity or human right.

New comment by gabruoy in "The Church FAQ"

gabruoy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:19:08 +0000

I’ll put it this way to contrast with the other post on Hackernews about Americans driving their kids to school:

There is a much higher likelihood of a child being within walking distance of a church than they are to be within walking distance of a school.

New comment by gabruoy in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"

gabruoy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:44:41 +0000

My parents used to live in a city where violence and crime was common, and I received all sorts of lessons from them about how I shouldn’t go outside, don’t talk to strangers, always be guarded, etc. But my family had moved to a quiet, crime-free suburb and everything they told me seemed like the complete opposite of what I was experiencing in reality when growing up.

New comment by gabruoy in "Apple Introduces News+ Food"

gabruoy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:50:40 +0000

I tried using Apple News+ for a month free trial and ended up cancelling it after trying my hardest to find a use for it for a few weeks. It really does seem like something designed by a bunch of out of touch media people and not anything like a service from Apple.

What I want from a good news service are Ad-free, bias-free articles on things that are current, things that are close to my local area, and things that are of interest to me.

What I found out was that because I don't live in a major city, there was exactly one local news outlet that was available, and no topic category for my area, which is not a small place at all. There were still advertisements for things like hair loss products and other 'yuck-bait' reminiscent of the early 2000s (I think these might come from the article publishers themselves?). Then there's stuff like puzzles, sports, and now food that all seem like complete distractions. Puzzles are not news, Apple already has Apple Arcade for this.

I would find it interesting if Apple created a Recipes app. It's a popular topic, many app developers have put their own spin on the idea, but no one has made the 'perfect app' for it yet. But that isn't what this is at all. It's yet another 'perk' that has nothing to do with the problems of Apple News.

Now I'm using a combination of RSS Feeds and asking ChatGPT the news on specific topics, both of which are superior products to Apple News. I do still like their daily podcast though.

New comment by gabruoy in "A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities"

gabruoy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:31 +0000

GDP is just more people spending more money for more expensive things. It's kind of a failed metric for economic productivity unless you think an $8 Big Mac is twice as productive to the economy than a $4 Big Mac.

New comment by gabruoy in "How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed"

gabruoy — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:09:34 +0000

I don't understand what point you're trying to make with your source. A relatively new company in the Japanese market (BYD) has increased sales in its specialized niche of EVs, beating out a minor competitor that sells only one model of EV as an option to it's brand loyal customers (Toyota, BZ4X). Meanwhile, the EV market as a whole has declined significantly in Japan over the last year.

New comment by gabruoy in "BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free"

gabruoy — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:22:53 +0000

If both China and the US were a free market that didn't subsidize electric car production and construction, neither country would have any electric car manufacturers.

New comment by gabruoy in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

gabruoy — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:04:16 +0000

You are pretty much correct. There is a ton of partisan vitriol that is currently obscuring the facts. My understanding is that Elon Musk is an advisor to the president, but not a government employee. Musk and his crew are given authority to do pretty much whatever they want in terms of cutting employees and programs, so long as Trump signs off on it. Is it legal? Probably, but nothing like this has ever been done before. You can very easily see it as private citizens with no official government power taking away power from more legitimate government employees.

New comment by gabruoy in "No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones"

gabruoy — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:34:48 +0000

It’s crazy to me that we’re still living on Earth, given the climate risks and the natural disasters destroying people’s lives.

New comment by gabruoy in "Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?"

gabruoy — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:35:03 +0000

He very literally did change the world. There wasn’t a forest there and now there is. In fact the conception of “the world” as an abstract global concept is much less impactful than what people see outside their window and in their city/community.

New comment by gabruoy in "Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco"

gabruoy — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:47:46 +0000

I understand what you’re getting at. Walgreens is a very old fashioned and frankly out of date brand in my view. This certainly changes something about that view. It’s just that on the list of things that the company could have done to modernize their store and image, this has to be near the very bottom of ideas that I would think to ever implement.

New comment by gabruoy in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

gabruoy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:00:03 +0000

“We” do not want surveillance propaganda targeted towards children. The US government does not want Chinese surveillance propaganda targeted toward children. They’re perfectly happy when it’s done on US soil under US jurisdiction.

New comment by gabruoy in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

gabruoy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:55:10 +0000

I never read pretty much any book written before 1970, never learned a foreign language beyond a single semester of Spanish, and certainly had no Theology in a US Public school. Now as an adult, I do want to learn all those things (to some degree) and feel like I missed out on it; “If only I had a better education.” But I probably would have been more like you, uninterested and equally as dismissive of my childhood education if I were forced to learn all of those things at that age. Is it a problem with educators, families, or just the children themselves that they will grow up and realize the opportunities they’ve lost?

New comment by gabruoy in "Climbers Using Xenon Gas, Which Is Banned in Sports, to Climb Everest"

gabruoy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:26:12 +0000

Industrialists gonna industrialize I guess. There’s an innate human demand to conquer nature, and an innate desire for others to make the things people want more achievable. We’d need a massive change in society to do anything else.

New comment by gabruoy in "The Origins of Wokeness"

gabruoy — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:38:36 +0000

How does anyone know when someone else is right on moral issues?

New comment by gabruoy in "Teens learn a new conspiracy theory every week on social media"

gabruoy — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:46:26 +0000

If there were any disagreement between the two articles at all then there could at least be some kind of conflict. The whole study rests on the idea that Reuters is a trusted investigative journalist, and if they said something like “coca-cola fails their pledge to do xyz” I would trust them over a company statement.

Instead the options given are a primary source of information and a news article that repeats that information while giving some context and opinions of environmentalists regarding the statement. I don’t see anything special about Reuters being the one to write this article that somehow makes it a more trustworthy news source.

New comment by gabruoy in "California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA"

gabruoy — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:05:40 +0000

Yes. In fact California defining how fast their high speed rail must go is part of what put them in their current situation because they aimed too high when no one in the USA has ever built anything like what they are trying to do. In their own legislation for the project the train must have a top speed of over 200 miles per hour and must go from LA to San Fransisco in 2 hours and 40 minutes, which necessitates an average speed of over 150 miles per hour.