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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Yeah like I said, there are insane outliers. But you gotta give it to him, he did crazy and creative things nobody else did successfully, over and over, and there is a clear intentionality to his conduct. He does indeed network very efficiently. I can't imagine him being easily replaced either

  • I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

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  • You put em bags into a hard pitcher thing you have at home, and cut the corner. So I guess it's a bit less waste

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Paywalled but overall I've come to the conclusion that executive pay isn't as insane as it seems. Like yeah okay there are outliers that are insane, but it's actually a super difficult role to hire for, and certainly not a role AI can replace soon. It involves:

    • high levels of creativity
    • good taste and sound judgement
    • a ton of politics and emotional intelligence
    • mental stability and reliability
    • a lot of intangible skills that are hard to survey
    • connections & networking
    • often unique and original views of the world
    • organizational skills and high level problem solving

    These aren't skills to be taken lightly and they take years to develop, to be a good manager & bear responsibility for the lives of many employees. If AI made proposals, someone still has to actually judge which ideas to pursue, so you can't really get rid of the job. Maybe you could reduce the amount of executives. But when a company has leadership that's actually coherent and works, employees like them, it's a goldmine that needs to be protected by the owners

  • Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

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  • Huh I guess it's "normal" but I hadn't heard of Linux OSes tracking active user telemetry. Turns out this is a fedora / rpm mechanism that tracks the ip addresses of people updating their system. Something to think about. Archlinux for example does not do any form of this tracking as far as I can tell

  • Retro Messenger (Is there anything else a messenger could need?)

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  • I don't really see a market need for this, just use signal. C++ is also a weird language to use in the modern era, pretty much totally eclipsed by Go or Rust, not that you need performance anyway. Or just use webrtc for p2p connections with a standard TURN/STUN relay for network layouts that prevent direct p2p, this can be done pure web or via apps. Already has audio/video and encryption. XMPP and Matrix are also fine. But as a learning exercise, great project

  • The White House ballroom will never be built

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  • Uhh idk about this article, it meanders randomly around various failings of the president (sure) but building a big room in 3 years with a ton of money available seems totally doable

  • Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

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  • It's interesting that signal was partially funded by the American govt international propaganda wing (radio free Asia parent) early on. So I mean, not totally wrong. Though of course I'm a big fan of signal and it's developers

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    how did you choose your career?

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  • Do a philosophy minor if you have any affinity for it. Do a major in something that pays. Use that set of big picture critical thinking + a decent fallback plan to secure yourself. Then decide later in life what you love to do

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  • I think it's pretty worthwhile being paranoid about Tor. Not because of hackers, but because of the government, they are clearly watching all the forums and markets there very closely, setting up agents and honeypots. Tor itself may or may not be secure, you never really know for sure. For pretty much all legal privacy usecases, a VPN is enough, and much more performant

  • Good advice

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  • Install this sign into your home to automate gaslighting your partner

  • Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement

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  • Wow holy crap, great work - the world badly needs this. Im assuming the mechanism is the same, you inject a js script into your site. I'm also very interested in pure server side solutions for analytics, but they can't hit all the features you did in a generic way afaik

  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • Might as well just run Linux at that point and if you want android apps, waydroid. The value prop of Chromebooks was supposed to be that you can just factory reset it at any point and log back in

  • Why Trump's 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined

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  • And so the gap between the classes widens again. 1.2m in interest on a 420k asset, paid over your entire adult life. Imagine being stuck paying >2000$/month for life to a bank, BUT with the additional costs of maintenance & probably an HOA & rising property taxes. At that point, renting is the only option, but the prices of that will rise too. So GG capitalism, it's time to tape leaves to a tent and live in the middle of a roundabout with your 4 cats and a handgun

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah sure you can do that but people won't listen. What I mean by thought police is actually doing policing, like "no you can't say that or we will arrest you" which goes against the idea of freedom of speech. It's reminiscent of when ussr was jailing karate teachers

  • As OpenAI floats the US taxpayer guaranteeing over $1 trillion of its debt, a Chinese rival bests its leading model with an Open-Source AI trained for just $5 million.

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  • Well yes, and I think it's probably true, you can use one model to train another, effectively cloning it. It seems like it's much more expensive to make the first round of good models. Part of the argument could be that openai/anthropic are actually still driving the frontier, developing the researchers and expertise to do that, and continuing to innovate the tech

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah you can't do a thought police

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah, the situation got resolved when harm came in. You gotta commit an actual crime to be punished right? I'm familiar with the documentary and actually have friends who continue to be followers of Osho's teachings. It's not all bad, there was a lot of very good outcomes for some people's health and wellness there too, the documentary frames it as a situation where the second in command basically drugged him and became an egomaniac. Shit happens. When evaluating cults, which are basically just small religions, the best criteria is about how much they help their constituents and community vs how much do they demand from them. It's worth noting that many of the cults of America's past were more Christian branded and became gigantic, with some mix of outcomes. But the alternative of not allowing people to express the freedoms of religion and speech would be much worse in my opinion

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • We don't, that's what freedom of religion means. If it gets overly militant or political, then there are already mechanisms that come and raid and disband them, which we have seen many times in the history of America

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • The mind while lucid dreaming is creating a whole environment, which for some people has incredible level of detail. Your "consciousness" is experiencing a whole video game or whatever, which must be simulated to be percieved. Imagine you had some kind of really advanced VR setup and body suit that could touch your senses very richly - something must be feeding that perception, a simulation

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • People who are lucid dreaming simulate a full reality that's nearly indistinguishable from the one they find themselves in during waking time. If your brain can't tell the difference during this time, how can you be sure you're not dreaming right now reading this?

    The scope of what a simulation is has always been limited by the technology we know. It is only a failing of imagination and knowledge to assume that algorithmic computation is the only valid form of simulation in the future, these have existed for barely 100 years, but even Plato's cave was talking about the larger philosophical problem