Shorter HN: wasting gigawatts of power to increase VC valuations - fine. Discarding 80k pounds of butter because of missing allergen information is the worst thing to happen since the burning of the library of Alexandria
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I was watching an old Day9 stream today and this story is bouncing off of some comments he made about the importance of degenerate players to competitive design. Like, this is a pretty dumb outcome of regulation, but at the same time if you try to define regulations to create an exception for what "everybody knows" is in something suddenly that process gets taken advantage of by self-interested manufacturers who will figure out how to convincingly argue that "everybody knows" their generic shampoo contains peanuts and shellfish or whatever. And in the context of this kind of regulation that degenerate play will get people killed.
looks like the autoplag bullshit is causing a "fun" new frontier in the hellscape of youtube copyright fuckery
Wired tried to put out a defence of tech and the result is incoherent drivel. See for yourself.
I know we're trying to cut back on the US politics for the sake of everyone's sanity, but Musk getting sneered by his own confabulator is still pretty good.
Got recommended a video from a friend, and its a damn good sneer at the state of YouTube sponsorships:
It amazes me how well SponsorBlock works and how bad YouTube feels without it. I guess the main downside is that it's a little harder to tell the good 'toobers with strong moral backbone who don't shill awful shit in the first place from those whose sponsor segments merely get automatically skipped.
Some techbro proposes "HumaneRank" as a distribution system in the post-AI era and while HN finds it disturbingly like a global popularity system at least "it's better than Communism":
Whuffie, but worse
also, I thought these guys loved The Culture...
same type of people who call everything a communist social credit score btw
Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division
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big walmart is watching you.
https://old.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/1gqphel/body_cameras_for_front_end/