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New comment by zarathustreal in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

zarathustreal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:22:01 +0000

You’re significantly worse off assuming your government is adversarial than cooperative, regardless of what reality may be, and the majority of us know that. It’s why the chaos psyops aren’t working. We’re not happy with our government but apes together strong

New comment by zarathustreal in "No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

zarathustreal — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:43:32 +0000

These dismissals based on the source rather than the material are getting really annoying. We’re supposed to be intellectuals here, we can do better than that.

New comment by zarathustreal in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

zarathustreal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:17:58 +0000

(Ad-hominem is not a counter-example btw)

New comment by zarathustreal in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

zarathustreal — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:42:10 +0000

You’ve never heard it before because explicitly signaling “I know basic set theory” is kind of cringy

New comment by zarathustreal in "US Tech Force"

zarathustreal — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:03:06 +0000

Is the implication that they are in fact the same thing or that you don’t like Elon?

New comment by zarathustreal in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

zarathustreal — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:59:32 +0000

Internet points demand obscure references these days. My system prompt has its own area code

New comment by zarathustreal in "Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence"

zarathustreal — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:55:48 +0000

Suppose you've managed to get a job as an editor at Communications of the ACM. As "Editor, Communications of the ACM" what do you think your job is?

New comment by zarathustreal in "US cities pay too much for buses"

zarathustreal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:34:24 +0000

This may explain the phenomenon but it certainly doesn’t excuse it - just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s smart or morally correct

New comment by zarathustreal in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

zarathustreal — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:04:34 +0000

They’re not being paid, at least not directly. They don’t need to be. “Educational” “content” is a play to increase the personal profile as a “thought leader.” This turns into invitations to conferences and ultimately funnels into sales of courses and other financial opportunities

New comment by zarathustreal in "Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia"

zarathustreal — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:12:25 +0000

Amen brother

New comment by zarathustreal in "Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs"

zarathustreal — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:10:59 +0000

I think you’re misunderstanding. This product doesn’t make sense because the problem itself is not solvable under your given constraints.

New comment by zarathustreal in "Claude 4"

zarathustreal — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:33:01 +0000

“Your model has memorized all knowledge, how do you know it’s smart?”

New comment by zarathustreal in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

zarathustreal — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:51:21 +0000

I like to call this “lazy altruism”

New comment by zarathustreal in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

zarathustreal — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:49:28 +0000

Criticism isn’t necessarily condescending. “You should be doing x because y” is just a plain assertion, it doesn’t imply any moral judgement or opinion of the author.

New comment by zarathustreal in "I'd rather read the prompt"

zarathustreal — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:37:24 +0000

Universities do not provide knowledge, this is a romanticization of an ideal. They are about getting a passing grade and a certificate so that you can enter the workforce. The idea that you go to college to get an education is just a polite fiction to appease students and their parents

New comment by zarathustreal in "Typed Lisp, a Primer"

zarathustreal — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:27:03 +0000

This is not necessarily true, you can pretty easily implement just about any syntax you want

New comment by zarathustreal in "N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams"

zarathustreal — Sat, 03 May 2025 18:23:20 +0000

Are you asking for an example of control flow?

New comment by zarathustreal in "Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float"

zarathustreal — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:57:00 +0000

Please do elaborate, I can’t see anything else that would be a competitive advantage in a market full of capable computer engineers?

New comment by zarathustreal in "Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free"

zarathustreal — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:55:14 +0000

Fascinating.. I wonder how much of the economy runs on social proof

New comment by zarathustreal in "Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes"

zarathustreal — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:09:55 +0000

I wonder what the effects of an echo chamber in a forum like this would be.. maybe something similar to what Reddit has become