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1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate so.... yeah. There is no way this is true.

Aren't 1 out of 5 Americans functionally illiterate? [1] There is no way this is correct.

[1] https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-liter...


Yes they are very illiterate, especially in math; of which you are an excellent example.

? What's going on man? I... didn't use any math in my comment?

The commenter above is saying that your suggestion that there is some contradiction here indicates a mathematical error. The post claims 60% have read a book; you claim 20% can't read at all; both can be true.

Yeah… I didn’t say they both weren’t true due to a mathematical error… I was insinuating that the survey is probably flawed because if 20% of Americans can’t read… they likely aren’t even taking this survey.

It is also my uneducated guess that the actual percentage of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the past year is MUCH higher than 40%. Maybe a survey of HN commentators but not of the general population.


I think something like 25% of the population reports 0 household income.

(I don't understand the implications, it was just surprising when I heard that.)


I wish they would give a real-world cost estimate of what this would look like. They have a section of it "in action" [1] and I wish they would be like, "with this setup, the invoice is going to look like this, include these products, and with similar daily usage be about $XXX.00 per month."

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/...


One of the devs responded on Twitter: https://x.com/i/status/2016896529416478798

Oh man, so many big players are JUMPING on this bandwagon! I got an email for Digital Ocean's Moltbot app this morning. All of them are touting their increased security over rolling your own.

Yes, too many

I see value in the LLM being able to read/integrate my iMessages since a lot of my scheduling/commitments are discussed on there.

But if only one person feels that way, wouldn't it no longer be universal? I genuinely believe there has to be one person out there who would think it is moral.

(I'm just BSing on the internet... I took a few philosophy classes so if I'm off base or you don't want to engage in a pointless philosophical debate on HN I apologize in advance.)


There will always be individual differences, whether they be obstinate or altered brain chemistry, so I'd probably argue that as long as it's universal across cultures, any individual within one culture believing/claiming to believe different wouldn't change that. (But I'm just a hobby philosopher as well)


You just moved the goalpost.

I never got that far in the game... but that song gave me a visceral body memory of "difficult things in games that trigger intense 8 bit music" memories.


I rented this game *TWICE* as a little kid and never got to actually do anything because I couldn't figure out how to land the damn plane.


My friends owned it (I was never allowed to have a NES myself). Not once did ANY of us ever manage to land the plane. We tried MANY times. This blog makes it seem so easy I want to be angry at it :-)


I love how the top comment on that Reddit post is an *affiliate link* to an online therapy provider.


> I love how the top comment on that Reddit post is an affiliate link to an online therapy provider.

Posted 6 months after the post and all the rest of the comments. It's some kind of SEO manipulation. That reddit thread ranked highly in my Google search about Betterhelp being bad, so they're probably trying to piggyback on it.


oh no. someone might make money. we can't let other people succeed. someone stop them!


I’m not against affiliate links. I’m just pro-disclosure especially for something as important as therapy and it seems like maybe you should mention you make $150 for each person that signs up.


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