mrcartmeneses (u/mrcartmeneses)

mrcartmeneses commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz

alphazard · 3 days ago

Taxation is the mechanism that moves power from the people to the government, and increasingly politicians and their specific interests. Do you actually believe that if your taxes went up, power would be less concentrated, or that you or your countrymen would have more power? Every government goon doing authoritarian dirty work collects a paycheck and wouldn't do their job without it.

mrcartmeneses · 3 days ago

Taxation is what moves power from the powerful to the people. All of the Epstein crap was proceeded by Reagan and Thatcher and their trickle down BS that made the rich and powerful even more rich and powerful while everyone else could languish

mrcartmeneses commented on Say No to Palantir in the NHS notopalantir.goodlawproje... · Posted by u/_____k

rvz · a month ago

You should also include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, IBM, Anthropic, and any tech company that has a defence contract with the US Department of Defence / War and ICE or any government.

Yet the big problem is of course for those being “principled” about this subject are not serious themselves as some either work there and profit from it, continue to use their products including LLMs or will concede to using them due to social inertia.

The only time this is taken seriously is when all these contracts are scrapped. (They won’t be.)

mrcartmeneses · a month ago

So we can’t take it seriously until the problem is already solved?

I think the worry regarding Palantir is that it is explicitly and openly fascist rather than just doing fascism on the side

mrcartmeneses commented on Why High Food Prices Will Make Public Groceries Inevitable grocerynerd.substack.com/... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

dmitrygr · 2 months ago

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York completely, absolutely, and unquestionably fixed high priced housing by making it effectively subsidized via rent control. It totally worked. There are no problems with the system at all, there are no vacant units being held by owners who fear the results of rent control and inability to actually engage in capitalism. Groceries will be an equal success.

Government involvement by distorting markets always fixes everything.

mrcartmeneses · 2 months ago

Germany, for example has rent controls, this is generally a great success, but in Berlin it’s a total disaster.

The contention that it “doesn’t work” in LA and NYC doesn’t really tell us anything useful about groceries.

What you also seem to miss is that government intervention in markets is actually the norm, not the exception, they just don’t normally intervene in ways that get sensationalised by the press.

mrcartmeneses commented on Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100 littlemountainman.github.... · Posted by u/autonomydriver

mrcartmeneses · 3 months ago

I saw a CTO put an email send script in a while (true) loop like this and we only stopped dossing one of our investor’s email after our sendgrid bill hit £32k. Funny thing about emails is they get in a proverbial traffic jam all across the internet so no matter how many times the poor guy would clear his inbox more would magically arrive

mrcartmeneses commented on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here hackerone.com/reports/334... · Posted by u/redbell

DonHopkins · 5 months ago

The word "hacks" is so charitable, when you could use "sociopaths".

Russ Hanneman raised his kid with AI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGy5SGTuAGI&t=217s

A company I'm funding, we call it The Lady.

I press the button, and The Lady tells Aspen when it's time for bed, time to take a bath, when his fucking mother's here to pick him up.

I get to be his friend, and she's the bad guy.

I've disrupted fatherhood!

mrcartmeneses · 5 months ago

disrupted neglect

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mrcartmeneses · 6 months ago

Outlaws

mrcartmeneses commented on Yet Another LLM Rant overengineer.dev/txt/2025... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

efilife · 6 months ago

> it cannot "logically reason" like a human does

Reason? Maybe. But there's one limitation that we currently have no idea how to overcome; LLMs don't know how much they know. If they tell you they don't something it may be a lie. If they tell you they do, this may be a lie too. I, a human, certainly know what I know and what I don't and can recall from where I know the information

mrcartmeneses · 6 months ago

Socrates would beg to differ

mrcartmeneses commented on Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics lottie.github.io/... · Posted by u/marcodiego

chrisldgk · 8 months ago

100% what you said. One thing I ran into as well was that horrid after effects -> Lottie workflow. Many layers and styles also just don’t work when you export them, so you have to explain to motion designers which features they’re allowed to use and which they aren’t, which a lot of time they’re not thrilled about.

In many cases just rendering a video and binding playback to interaction is much more lightweight and less work-intensive than using Lottie.

I’ve heard about Rive before and a lot of the choices they make seem to be exact fixes for the issue of Lottie. I haven’t worked with it yet however, so YMMV.

mrcartmeneses · 8 months ago

Or worse! You get handed off something unrealistic that won’t compile to lottie but “client has signed off”

mrcartmeneses commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir

jen729w · 9 months ago

If you were Ive, you wouldn't need to.

mrcartmeneses · 9 months ago

Need != want

mrcartmeneses commented on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room clientserver.dev/p/malici... · Posted by u/jakevoytko

mrcartmeneses · 9 months ago

“I wish I knew the identities of these brave meeting crashers. I saw them pull this stunt twice and then ride off into the sunset, and I never got to learn what team they were on. I wish Were they true believers in the 50-minute policy? Were they bored pedants? Were they wraiths, cursed to hunt the office for available meeting rooms?”

No, they were software developers

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