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New comment by onesociety2022 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

onesociety2022 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:30:12 +0000

Huh? The gym analogy doesn’t even make sense. People didn’t go to gyms when they were farming with oxen. Gyms are popular now precisely because tractors exist and you don’t need manual labor to farm anymore but people still need the physical exercise for their health. Society has adapted to the arrival of new life-changing technology. Our education system needs to adapt to new technology like AI too. You can probably uplevel a lot of courses and cover a lot more interesting topics than before and teach real application of things you learned aided by AI. Just like when I was doing a CS major 20 years ago, they didn’t spend too much time teaching me assembly programming beyond 1 or 2 lectures (they let me use a compiler for programming assignments!).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

onesociety2022 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:58:18 +0000

If AI can do the work, maybe the test should be more focused on what AI can’t do? This is like anyone still doing a traditional coding interview with leetcode problems just because they haven’t yet done the work to figure out what to test for in a world where Claude Code exists.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

onesociety2022 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:10:35 +0000

This article is written by a company building an AI cybersecurity solution. Not sure how much you can trust them on this topic - their business will get destroyed if Mythos is actually so superior to existing models that it doesn’t require a big investment into the scaffold/harness to find security vulnerabilities. If the model is too good, then what’s the value of their solution?

New comment by onesociety2022 in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff"

onesociety2022 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:22:31 +0000

If you want to blatantly lie and hide your true reason for rejecting them by making up other stuff in the debrief notes, that would be possible. But at that point, you are the unethical person. You can technically do the same thing just because you wanted to discriminate based on race, sex, etc (that would be both illegal as well as violation of corporate HR policies).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff"

onesociety2022 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:36:31 +0000

I assume you work at some small startup where you get to dictate who you will hire based on your interpretation of what a candidate’s past work history tells you about their morals/ethics. But that shit won’t fly if you are interviewing at other large companies. You can’t reject someone just because they have OpenAI on their resume. In fact I have never heard of any FAANG company ever blacklisting candidates from some other company. So you rejecting someone is not going to move the needle much. They can leave OpenAI whenever they want and Zuck will offer them 8-9 figure pay packages :)

New comment by onesociety2022 in "iPhone 17e"

onesociety2022 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:34:16 +0000

I’m pretty sure they determine the price upfront and then figure out what bells and whistles they can ship without eating into their margins. Their goal is to hit a certain average selling price across their massive user base when they upgrade their old phones. They are not going to jeopardize that by releasing an attractive cheap iPhone.

For the people who really don’t want to spend a lot, obviously the easiest option is to just buy an older iPhone or keep your phone for longer. My partner doesn’t care about having the latest tech. So first I use a phone for 3 years and then they use it for another 3 years. We essentially get 6 years of life out of it (Apple is good about releasing software updates for 6 years).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

onesociety2022 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:48 +0000

> Stripe hit a $159 billion valuation on Tuesday and said it was on track to reach an annual run rate of $1 billion this year.

Wow! This is the quality of reporting from CNBC? The $1B ARR number is just for Stripe's Revenue products (Billing, Invoicing, etc). That doesn't include their main business (payments-related products).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

onesociety2022 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:43:08 +0000

You are conflating iCloud Keychain with the rest of the iCloud data. iCloud keychain is always end-to-end encrypted. Apple cannot decrypt it even if they receive a subpoena. The other iCloud data like your photos are not end-to-end encrypted by default unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection (ADP).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651 There is a table showing exactly what is E2EE under Standard vs ADP mode.

In the news article you shared above, it's very likely this person did not have ADP turned on. So everything in their iCloud that is not E2EE by default could be decrypted by Apple.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

onesociety2022 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:22:08 +0000

This is such a weird take - why do you have to personally use something for that to be useful? I could be at AWS working on their metering/billing system. I’d never use a billing system of that scale in personal life but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful thing to build. And I think AWS as a whole is a very useful product for the world.

Working to make your home more efficient is not going to suddenly make anyone retire early. That’s the stupidest take I have heard. If you have some cool idea which makes home energy usage lower like a revolutionary heat pump, you should build your own company and sell that to everyone and scale up. You sound like a FatFIRE person that has quit professional life and is now trying to justify why sitting at home and helping your family members is a virtuous thing to do as opposed to working for some BigTech.

A lot of the danger with BigTech is just the fact they are very big and so have accrued a lot of power. A simple solution is to use the anti-trust laws to break them up into smaller entities. I don’t think the problem is the products/services they build.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

onesociety2022 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:03:39 +0000

Illegal just means there’s a black market. You pay some guy in cash and he gives you a smuggled Starlink terminal. Neither buyer or seller is likely to be anymore sophisticated here than someone trading in any other smuggled goods (cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, etc).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

onesociety2022 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:32:22 +0000

If what you say is true, why would Apple ever force a switch to eSIM? I’m now less likely to buy a new iPhone because I don’t want to deal with this eSIM fiasco. It’s to their detriment. If their goal is to sell more phones, they would want to eliminate all friction to switch to a new phone. So what you are saying doesn’t add up.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

onesociety2022 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:08:25 +0000

I have used the AirAlo app to buy data-only eSIMs for so many international trips. It works well but I have only tried it on iPhones.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

onesociety2022 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:00:28 +0000

First there’s absolutely no real reason for a spouse to change their name just because they got married.

You can do hyphenated last names for a kid and let the kids decide what names they want to carry forward for the next generation. Or they can make up their own. The point is it’s up to them and they can choose whatever they want and not be coerced to do something because of some tradition that is rooted in sexism.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

onesociety2022 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:28:15 +0000

Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

onesociety2022 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:06:00 +0000

Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

onesociety2022 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:38:21 +0000

Tax refund loans are offered in conjunction with the tax filing service like TurboTax or H&R Block because they already know what your refund amount is going to be and it’s relatively risk free (small refund amounts) and easy to automate. They are similar to pay day loans.

Crypto bro showing up with $1m gains and losses from crypto transactions and asking for a refund loan at their neighborhood bank is probably not going to go anywhere (it’s too large a risk because it’s not just a few thousand dollars but at the same time it’s too small an amount for them to do custom due diligence to underwrite a loan).

Anyway you can’t erase gains in year 1 with losses in year 2 at least in the USA (you can only offset $3k/yr max in year 2 if you don’t have any other gains).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

onesociety2022 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:29:11 +0000

Well in the USA, there is the 1031 exchange which lets you defer capital gains when you buy/sell primary home and finally at death you can use the step-up basis rule to avoid paying the deferred capital gains completely when your heirs inherit it as well.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

onesociety2022 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:20:24 +0000

Maybe if you are an ultra high net worth individual. I don’t see your avg Joe walking into their neighborhood Chase bank asking for a $500k loan using their potential tax refund as collateral is going to get it. That seems like an esoteric financial product.

New comment by onesociety2022 in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

onesociety2022 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:53:10 +0000

I have been ordering the same Crocs from Amazon for about 8 years now. I don’t think I have ever received counterfeit Crocs from Amazon. I basically go to “my orders” page in the app, search for the last order and then reorder. I do have to make sure they have not jacked up the price because the price fluctuates quite a bit for that shoe I buy. And I make sure the ratings for the third-party seller are very good before ordering. They can definitely have Alexa automate this entire workflow (“hey the shoes cost $20 more than last time. Do you still want them?” Or “the shoe is only available from a different third-party seller. Do you still want them? This third-party seller only has a 90% positive rating”).

New comment by onesociety2022 in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

onesociety2022 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:11:09 +0000

Favored placement is never going to work but I would use Alexa for repeat purchases: “hey Alexa I bought some Crocs shoes a year ago. Can you reorder it?”.

Or purchases where I know exactly what I want but don’t want to search and add to cart manually: “buy a new 3 foot USB-C braided cable from Anker”.