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>That's ridiculous. Phones are being made more and more of a requirement to participate in society, including by governments.

The latter is what's ridiculous, not what the parent suggests.


>Then you can still pretty much "stick to cash" by withdrawing the whole thing on your payday.

Not if you want to make a purchase beyond a small amount, like $500 or $1000. Then it has to be through some fucking bank or CC.


>The only reason the deep state or anyone has any power is because most people don't care. If people cared, we could change.

Yes, but that's just restating the problem.


>People find their ring cameras too useful, businesses love cloud based security camera systems, facial recognition and cloud backup are expected features of every phone's photo app, courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression.

As long as the recordings aren't centrally stored and sold in bulk, and sold to brokers and governments, that would still be ok.


>Why would you invest in nuclear power, which is several times more expensive per kwh

Because the related lobby pays well and a huge power station project (which runs well into the tens of billions) has much larger space for bribes


Alternatively, because nuclear power still works at night.

If only we had some way to store energy

At scale.

You mean like 27 Gwh of yearly installed capacity kind of scale? https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...

>energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence

That would be the stupidest takeaway


How so?

if my country has 0 dependence on fossils, how many fucks would I have given for whatever is happening or will be happening in the future in shithole places like the middle east?

Won't someone think of the children, how are their schools going to get bombed if we dont do it?

Children in Sudan? Myanmar? Sahel/Nigeria? Ethiopia? Or we care about just specific children and others not so much?

Sounds exactly like what a bot would say, especially an account created "14 hours ago" to just post 3 similarly empty comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nytrox


Another 30-40% just didn't get caught because the reviewers also used LLM in their "reviews"

I think you've misunderstood something. This is not about rejecting LLM-written articles. It is about rejecting the articles of people who used LLMs for their reviews.

So your quip is just nonsensical.


Those second-level reviewers, checking whether the first-level authors used LLMs in their reviews, also used LLMs to do their screening, and the latter missed it in many cases.

My original point (loosely based on the subject, not TFA) is that it's LLMs all the way down, way more than it's "measured" to be.


Hacker News was born out of the VC ecosystem, but was never about startups, they were like 10% of the content, or less

>There are plenty of Linux operating systems that prize stability over feature richness.

It's a choice between arbitrary changes and constant redesigns every 4-5 years, versus bare-bones distros and DEs.

The parent asks for a third option: well featured, mature, distros that don't change for the sake of it, but still have the features.


> well featured, mature, distros that don't change for the sake of it, but still have the features

I’m arguing this niche barely exists. Folks who want to run modern software tend to want something that “looks” modern.


>Folks who want to run modern software tend to want something that “looks” modern.

Looks that way because nobody asked them, and marketing types and designers decide for them...


fedora. stable, not bleeding edge but frequently updated (twice a year).

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