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bluecheese452 commented on Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?    · Posted by u/scapbi
tracker1 · a day ago
Sometimes, I think some aspects of "the old west" in the US might be worth considering a return to... such as "outlaw" and "dead or alive"

I realize that in society we don't typically care for these kinds of approaches, but how else do you actually deal with literal evil that sits safely on the other side of the globe, when their own governments won't do anything to stop it?

The problem is, in reality any such activity would largely be indistinguishable from terrorism.

bluecheese452 · 9 hours ago
Ah yes the old west. A time of peace and low crime.
bluecheese452 commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
JoeAltmaier · 8 days ago
Folks like to hate on capital gains tax. I think it's perceived as a rich-person deal. But homeowners, do they get taxed each year on the increase in value of their house? Almost the same thing, but not hated on the same way.
bluecheese452 · 8 days ago
Yes? Their property tax goes up.
bluecheese452 commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
jimbokun · 8 days ago
It's unfortunate, but corporations moving to nations with lower corporate rates could reduce overall revenue if the domestic rates are too aggressive. In many ways it's easier to corporations to change nations than citizens.
bluecheese452 · 8 days ago
Ban corporations that do this from selling in your domestic market.
bluecheese452 commented on Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?    · Posted by u/drdec
tptacek · 12 days ago
Agree to disagree.
bluecheese452 · 12 days ago
Rude
bluecheese452 commented on Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?    · Posted by u/drdec
tptacek · 13 days ago
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
bluecheese452 · 12 days ago
His comment was way less rude and way more productive than your comment.
bluecheese452 commented on It's Always the Process, Stupid   its.promp.td/its-always-t... · Posted by u/DocIsInDaHouse
chrisweekly · 24 days ago
> Let’s rip the Band-Aid off immediately: If your underlying business process is a mess, sprinkling "AI dust" on it won’t turn it into gold. It will just speed up the rate at which you generate garbage.

In the world of Business IT, we get seduced by the shiny new toy. Right now, that toy is Artificial Intelligence. Boardrooms are buzzing with buzzwords like LLMs, agentic workflows, and generative reasoning. Executives are frantically asking, "What is our AI strategy?"

But here is the hard truth:

There is no such thing as an AI strategy. There is only Business Process Optimization (BPO).

This is well-expressed, and almost certainly true for an overwhelming majority of companies.

bluecheese452 · 24 days ago
There is an ai strategy if you are selling hype instead of products.
bluecheese452 commented on Ask HN: Is America in Recession?    · Posted by u/register
paulcole · a month ago
Because there is no single answer here.
bluecheese452 · a month ago
Huh? The context is pretty clear.
bluecheese452 commented on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research   dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk... · Posted by u/piotrgrabowski
wahnfrieden · a month ago
Patel takes anticommunism to such an extreme that he repeatedly brings up and speculates (despite being met with repudiation by even the staunchest anticommunist of guests) whether naziism is preferable, that Hitler should have the war against Soviets, that the US should have collaborated with Hitler to defeat communism, and that the enduring spread of naziism would have been a good tradeoff to make.
bluecheese452 · a month ago
He also has the classic government is bad and inefficient take with zero to back it up. Just lazy pandering.
bluecheese452 commented on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research   dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk... · Posted by u/piotrgrabowski
bugglebeetle · a month ago
His recent conversation with Sutton suggests otherwise. Friedman is a vapid charlatan par excellence. Dwarkesh suffers from a different problem, where, by rubbing shoulders with experts, he has come to the mistaken belief that he possesses expertise, absent the humility and actual work that would entail.
bluecheese452 · a month ago
Spot on.
bluecheese452 commented on Ask HN: Is America in Recession?    · Posted by u/register
paulcole · a month ago
> Maximum earning power for anyone (minimum wage) was the answer.

I think you meant to say “my answer” not “the answer.”

bluecheese452 · a month ago
Why would you think that?

u/bluecheese452

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