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And yet you trust this abomination to write working code?

I have had more money stolen from me by PayPal than any scammer.

Someone bought a very expensive golf club membership?!

Open source contributions as a signal of developer quality is a thing of the past. Open source contribution on github specifically is no longer about building and maintaining something, its a parasocial signal that has more in common with linkedin hustle bloggers.

There is really a more fundamental problem related to housing/real estate. You can't arbitrage the real estate market to add to your UBI savings by living on the street. Maybe a tougher problem is any solution here would have to collapse real estate prices nationally. You would have to undo the massive inequality that the real estate market would represent at the start of UBI. You would have to ban the owning of more than one home and have a force liquidation for the people owning second homes. Whatever is attempted would create all kinds of loopholes that would just be gamed unless now we are talking about all apartment buildings being government ran. Any time UBI comes up the economic discussion is just so hopelessly naive. It isn't even at the level of homo economicus stupidity. It is the level of a teenager who has read that back of Capital at Barnes and Noble then thought about solutions after stopping at the dispensary.

Then that AI is fixing hundreds of typos a day, seems like win.

In my experience no, it's usually just something you mention during the tech rounds in passing.

That’s quite possibly the worst thing I’ve ever heard.

Do it enough and you become the problem. I ran into this at my previous company and ended up getting scolded for being a bottleneck when I was just sending back AI slop code.

Having worked in a few vibe coded codebases over the last few years I can safely say that AI is not raising the quality of anything.

Its crazy, every time I am in the US and a group needs to split a bill its a absurd debate over which third party payments provider to use. I've even had people refuse cash because they want me to "venmo" them or whatever stupid app they prefer.

Who considers PayPal a sweetheart?! PayPal is by far one of the most heinous companies I have interacted with on a regular basis. Outside the US many banks offer simple QR payment options, the direct transfer difficulties US citizens encounter that make services like PayPal and Zelle necessary are entirely self imposed.

Our society lost the ability to think that far ahead, we will sacrifice ourselves and our children at the altar of quarterly returns and not even blink.

As opposed to the American surveillance state which is focused on enflaming emotions.

They should try "downgrading" to people who don't need a random number generator to do their job for them.

Am I the only one that finds the ”30 kilo pounds” quite entertaining?

_We_ are the wildlife

The article was alluding strictly towards external catastrophes

> That's not the same as simply expanding rights, unless you count other people being 'offended' in the same category as someone being physically assaulted or killed. Yes, they are the same category. In US$10,000 property damage, nobody is physically harmed. Here’s another example, expanded rights: Anyone holding a 401k, IRA, or pension can purchase single family homes and apartments inside the account, and pay zero capital gains tax and zero rental income tax. We expanded rights! Take a guess what this does to the homeless population.

A similar tool that is all local because Excel fails the test: https://comparedatasets.com/ More flexible because columns can be mapped between the csvs.

"People who experience something will be louder when that condition is brought up or relevant. That's a known phenomenon, it's why conservatives think trans people are everywhere."

The person you’re responding to would be pretty upset with you if they could read

Neoteny makes people immature. Self centered, childish, irresponsible, agressive. It's well known which dog breeds cause the majority of injuries - pittbulls, which are little more than overgrown puppies.

sees cloudflare leaves

I am an AI-holic. You know that guy who once in a while has a lot of fun drinking, has a huge hangover the next day, and swears "never again"? I am sort of that guy, but with AI. Going all-in on AI, burning out on it, and promising "never again." Last week, I started ramping up my AI usage, thinking, It’s not bad, it’s quite useful. It’s not annoying anymore—maybe it improved. I played around with local LLMs, and they can do stuff; it's not bad. Some rough edges, but it’s salvagable. I thought maybe I was getting better intuition, or maybe AI was just getting better. Yesterday, I decided to give AI a task: rewrite my build scripts. Over ten years, I’ve been maintaining my own set of build scripts just to make my life less miserable in the big AAA machine with its AAA setup. I never intended to share those scripts, so they were sloppy, ugly, and required nonstop maintenance and tweaking. So, I composed the prompt and let an agentic AI—let's give some specificity: Sonnet 5 under a Copilot harness—refactor my scripts and make them ergonomic and beautiful. It did the job very well. It actually did it too well, except for one small footgun. That was two days ago. I was enjoying the scripts for one day, and today everything fell apart. You know, a day passes, and I thought I had introduced some regression or oversaw something in the past. I bisected the game code with git, went back two months, and everything was broken. I am in AI euphoria. I asked the AI to figure out what was going on, and for the whole day, we were chasing ghosts. You know what happened? I have `rsync`. There is a switch: `--cvs-exclude`. I’ve had those scripts for ten years; that switch is old, and I barely remember what it does, but it excludes a lot of heavy binaries. However, in our codebase, some binaries are included in the repository and are important, so I had to explicitly include one folder called `core` in the `rsync` arguments. Without that explicit inclusion, a handful of files weren't syncing with the build machine, failing the build. But our build scripts aren't perfect either, so things only fell apart on a completely clean build. You wouldn't hit it just cleaning in Visual Studio—you had to manually delete files first, and only then would the build break. Which is exactly why everything was working fine yesterday. AI isn't there yet. The idea of rewriting software from scratch might sound great, but prepare to painfully rediscover a lot of tribal knowledge—like that little switch that just wasted a whole day of useful development. Never again, AI. Until tomorrow... AI?

you both derve a special place in HELL

you both deserve a hot place in the HELL

I'm gonna tell you what I told machi who wants to repo friendtech, enlighten us with your bright ideas about how to actually improve the product experience. Slogans are neat and all, its not concrete

YC is openly discriminatory towards whites and men in particular. It’s honestly an open secret