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New comment by nullorempty in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

nullorempty — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:55:43 +0000

Nothing wrong with wishing your own kind to continue.

New comment by nullorempty in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

nullorempty — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:53:44 +0000

Your taxes are building police state for you.

What's the recourse here?

New comment by nullorempty in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

nullorempty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:49:11 +0000

True, but try being a dad to 14 kids in today's world.

New comment by nullorempty in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

nullorempty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:21:39 +0000

The trade offs are real, but a suppressed desire to have kids can lead to dissatisfaction and with time that will be hard to ignore or fix.

Also, let's just not ignore that Musk is wildly successful in having shown you an example that you don't have to choose one thing

New comment by nullorempty in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

nullorempty — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:35:03 +0000

Well, 'history is written by the victors' is not just a toss.

New comment by nullorempty in "AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI"

nullorempty — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:18:58 +0000

... because now it can be done at scale.

New comment by nullorempty in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

nullorempty — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:02:04 +0000

The content is preserved obviously, and I hope that sometime in the future it will be made available in its original form.

What worries me about the trends is inevitable sanitization of content or straight out falsification.

New comment by nullorempty in "Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data"

nullorempty — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:28:37 +0000

Hm, two questions:

- Who is paying for surveillance? - To whose benefit is it used?

New comment by nullorempty in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

nullorempty — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:46:04 +0000

ha, i immediately think alert from a three letter company's on-call app. Now that's unsettling and straight fucking offensive!

New comment by nullorempty in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

nullorempty — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:55:25 +0000

From the article.

>Thought-to-text, aka telepathy

No, that's not telepathy. I'd leave the term alone. Consider it to be reserved for... well... telepathy!

New comment by nullorempty in "The End of an Era"

nullorempty — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:21:19 +0000

Let's suppose an AI and a Human wrote a book each and it's the same word-for-word.

Will the effect of the book be the same on readers?

From a perspective of classic materialism the effect should be the same.

But what if the thought is material?

How does the world change then if AI takes over a significant portion of writing.

New comment by nullorempty in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

nullorempty — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:01:50 +0000

I think it's reasonable to expect amplification but I am not sure how reasonable it would be to expect sustainable amplification. I feel that AI removes the meaning from work and with that gone we eventually start loosing the talent.

And 0 talent by 10 ( or even 50 ) is a fucking 0!

New comment by nullorempty in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

nullorempty — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:45:27 +0000

Let's not assume that 6 figure salary is close to 999,999. In reality it's closer to 100,001.

And when you factor in inflation and increased housing cost the comparison starts to differ greatly.

Millennials have it pretty tough.

New comment by nullorempty in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

nullorempty — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:52:29 +0000

Post scarcity society needs different operating principle. It will be a bumpy road to that after capitalism collapses.

New comment by nullorempty in "Did They Ghost You?"

nullorempty — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:56:37 +0000

Is it already provided by the background check companies?

Pact solves a problem you don't have, expensively

nullorempty — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Development/comments/1v4s1kz/pact_solves_a_problem_you_dont_have_expensively/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037124

Points: 3

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New comment by nullorempty in "AI as Normal Technology- What Will Be Left for Us to Work On?"

nullorempty — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:57:52 +0000

Given that becoming an expert in a field takes 10000 hours and that no field can be assumed to be safe from AI who will want to invest that much time into anything?

Who will want to invest 10000 hours into anything that can be taken by AI?

No-one.

No-one in the current social-economic construct.

New comment by nullorempty in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

nullorempty — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:38:13 +0000

Tangled-ha... Now I know what the next one will be called.

New comment by nullorempty in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

nullorempty — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:43:03 +0000

They should really follow up with a similar policy on food.

At a nearby whole foods a large portion of produce goes to waste. It's heartbreaking to see.

New comment by nullorempty in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

nullorempty — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:05:40 +0000

Excellent point!

I remember seeing a story shared by AMS RDS on linked-in that basically said... "Now with predictable pricing"

Huh?