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How can you decouple this, when there's a flood of headlines saying something like: "Company X layoffs Y% of workforce, betting on AI productivity".

For that Y% of people (and their dependants like kids, spouses and aging parents) - AI[1] is direct reason for "inequality accelerant".

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[1] Lets not discuss if AI in these layoff reasonings is actually true or not.


> <...> even though that someone never did something against them, <...>

Many tech billionaires openly, publicly and loudly said something among the lines: "I/we/my company/tech-bros are building torment nexus - it will take your job and/or kill people and/or shut up political opponents. You are powerless to stop this."

There are some of those billionaires willing to put their name and face in front of billions of people in the world. You will have no trouble finding people that will think that X or Y tech bro is personally responsible for some poor persons problems.

Especially when there's a bunch of news like "layoffs due to AI", "record investments due to AI", etc.

I am not supporting violence, never done it and never considered it. Though not surprising when talking heads of political/economical extremes can get threats from people that have nothing to lose.


Ah, good old Linux, where for free, you cannot experience what macOS offers since 1984.

/s of course. Just pointing out that your comment is just to flame.


I remember something like 10 years ago there was an article here in HN, where someone created a user on macOS with password out of emojis.

Then he couldn’t login, because login screen does not have a special character keyboard.

EDIT: found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10742351 (apparently I remember it slightly wrong, but idea still the same)


LotR is cool.

Palantir, Anduril industries and Mithril capital companies are not.


Colin from Earendil here. Will be up to us to prove whether we can become a Company Tolkien would be proud of.

I think author meant that you can't use claude code subscription with non claude code harness/clients (whatever you wanna call it).

From what I gathered, Lefos is some LLM tool with email interface, with maybe potentially giving Claw-like capabilities to read your inbox.

Earendil seems like some startup focused on open-source founded by a bunch of famous open-source devs. Though I am not sure if they're VC funded, but various mentions of "buying out" make me think that they are.



> Ok so bad intel or a similar mistake?

Forget "rules based order" or any sympathy from US Military/Pentagon/DoD.

When "arabs" bomb "the West" - it's "terrorism". When "the West" bomb "arabs" - it's a "mistake".

Same forces that did laser precision strikes against Maduro or countless military heads of Iran are attacking civilian infrastructure with double tap precision.

I am amazed how since WW2 there wasn't a military coup in USA as many wars from them were against any logic. I guess it just proves year after year, generation after generation that US military from top-to-bottom thinks that they are the only "good guys" and have been brainwashed just as their counterparts (be it Iraqis, Iranians, Chinese or anyone).


> Iran has been one week/one month/one year away from acquiring nuclear capabilities since 2014

Not disagreeing, but Bibi is saying this since 1980s. Now he found US leader stupid enough to believe these tales.


It is not jist Bibi, but also the IAEA and other international organizations. And at least the last 5 US administrations. I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though.

Iran's 60% enriched uranium stockpile is really not up for debate. Iran is happy to tell everyone that they have it. With the proper equipment, 60% can go to 90% in a single month. So the question is how advanced is the Iranian infrastructure for the final enrichment step, and (less commonly talked about) how ready they are to actually make a fission bomb out of that material. The latter task is not considered to be very hard, North Korea did it after all, so the main focus has been on the former. There does seem to be some decent information that the centrifuge array has been under active development at various points, and has been consitently, actively targetted by Mossad/CIA for at least the past 20 years or so. For example, Stuxnet was a joint CIA/Mossad operation that begain in 2005 and continued through both GWBush and Obama.

Unfortunately, even with some nice bribes from Obama, Iran was always a little cagey with the IAEA inspectors, and officially kicked them out in 2021. So after that, the only sources for the state of Irans nuclear infrastructure information effectively became Iran itself and Mossad.


> I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though.

Now you're getting it.


I'm not gonna argue whether it is true or false, but the scale of the conspiracy you are proposing is pretty massive. Multiple orders of magnitude bigger than anything that is currently within the mainstream public consciousness.

In this case, I think a network of mostly independent actors whose interests happen to align makes more sense. But maybe sometimes those interests are a little different than what people commonly understand them to be.


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