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by joe_mamba 93 days ago
Man, If I had a penny for every time HN jumped the outrage gun over statements taken out of context, or interpreted in bad faith, or over straight up misinformation simply because it's on an unpopular person/topic that's an easy target for people to attack without doing proper due diligence beforehand, I'd be able to afford a DDR5 kit. I'm glad there's people willing to go against the grain to clarify things.
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Since pennies are not produced anymore and are exiting circulation, will you take a tokens instead?
Sure, I'm having an amazing time tinkering with LLMs.
That's why it's a discussion board, other commenters more informed about a subject can point out the deception/misinformation by CNBC and make me, uninformed about the actual origins of the CNBC deception, more informed and able to change opinion with more information.

Clarifying things is part of the process, the easiest way to get informed is to be wrong about something on the internet.

Isn't that part of the process? I read the article, I was misled by it (it was clearly framing it as part of the "compensation model"), and someone who had better info corrected it.

I'm very sure you don't do due dilligence and cross-checking every single bit of information you consume daily, you didn't correct it either, and just generated noise.