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Do you have the same objection if it for a housing project, built by a private corp?

That's a practice that exists everywhere. This is an article about a case of expropriation in the Netherlands. The government frequently uses expropriation ("onteigening") to forcibly remove old, small wind turbines owned by private farmers to make room for massive, industrial-scale wind farms. In Dutch, so you'll need to swith on English translation:

https://www.dirkzwager.nl/kennis/artikelen/afdeling-bestuurs...

They asked a tough question that needs to be addressed. It's as necessary as "is there a place for assisted suicide?" question.

They proposed 1) Address large markets; 2) Address disorders with high incidence; and 3) Constant innovation and portfolio expansion.

Does that sound like to you they proposed not curing patients?

People almost never post their project and in the rare cases that they do, it's usually some shambling mess that doesn't actually function

It's funny because you chose to target the one who is pro-AI, who has since posted their code, and not the GP who is against AI, who also didn't post any code to support his opinion that "it turns out the models don't care about your ideas and want to do what's popular in their training data".

Do you see the irony?

4 year bloodbath

That caused endless tragedy and trauma. Perhaps the 10 mins terror was the less worse outcome of the two, mode decisive, that ended the war quicker. Who can decide? Wars aren't statistic.

Tone deaf? It's the reality. Developers shouldn't bury their head under the sand. Chart your course accordingly.

Rewrote your project

That project would die without user's adoption. Be appreciative. Nextjs is an open source project. What is it with HN that constantly praise the virtue of open source software, but downplay that fact the moment they don't like the outcome?

You can continue to do that for your personal projects. Nobody forces you to like AI. You may not have the choice at your job though, and you can't take Claude Code et al. from me. I've been programming for 30 years, and I still have fun with it, even with AI.

"Social Credit" ala China was the big scary propaganda

Propaganda, like not as prevalent as in the US? Are you kidding me? China also has used many tool control the population. Did you hear of hukou? "Acktshually, ..." I can already hear you saying.

The western nations have way way more cameras that 'Evil Capitalist China'

You know this because?

Although the last few times this world dealt with fascists, it was the Communists who finally broke them.

Remind me who supported Polpot that killed a million of their own compatriots? Where did the Culture Revolution take place?

Slop Terrifies Me 5 months ago

Well, you can't call your loved ones from anywhere with rotary phone, when you need them, so which one is better? I know which one I'd choose.

SSD is not only faster but also quieter and more efficient. See how much power a modern laptop consumes vs 20 years ago?

Some things have been improved, some things have gotten worse, but however good things are right now you can bet they will be made worse going forward. Enshittification is real and increasing all the time.

You said everything is trade off but choose to believe the future will get worse. Seems contradictory? I believe life will go on, and in 2046 people will complain about modern life and talk about how good things were 20 years earlier.

In a thread about survivor bias, and you fall for the same trap. How many people coming from wealthy background end up failing?

Take Bill Gates, his father cofounded a law firm, and his mother was a board members of several firms. That is a very wealthy background, but not outrageously so. How many people of the same level of wealth became successful businesspeople? It's said that his mom being on the same board as IBM's CEO at the time was a more instrumental factor to his eventual success than his family's wealth, and his own effort of course.