Guid_NewGuid

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by Guid_NewGuid 3mo ago
I almost feel like it doesn't matter if Joe-public is on board or not at this stage. For as much as capitalism kinda got us into this mess, at this point the flywheel is going in the other direction and it's a natural market conse
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by Guid_NewGuid 6mo ago
There's a difference between informed speculation and uninformed speculation and most of the opinions so far fall into uninformed speculation where the writer implicitly blames those suffering for poor diet and lifestyle choices. In ad
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by Guid_NewGuid 7mo ago
I mean doesn't your take strain credulity as well? Let's actually think where most discussion happens these days, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, the few remaining newspaper comments sections. I'd struggle to list more off the top
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by Guid_NewGuid 7mo ago
Indeed, and try suggesting there should be minimal accountability for flagging[0] and you'll likewise be flagged. Sure maybe the data says there's not some cartel flagging conspiracy but it starts to seem awful suspicious that eve
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by Guid_NewGuid 8mo ago
This site has always been easy to co-opt to fascism with their supposedly apolitical outlook. Flagging from unknown accounts easily kills stories of importance, even where they have relation to the supposed interests of the site. Such as th
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by Guid_NewGuid 9mo ago
More Zhongnanhai-ology from our cold warrior correspondent. As usual I feel like he overestimates the US' ability to impose rules and underestimates the Chinese ability to both circumvent those rules while developing self sufficiency.
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by Guid_NewGuid 9mo ago
Correct, in every thread about BYD or other car manufacturers people seem to forget about the other 7.5 billion people in the world outside of the US and Europe. Sure the US' broken dealership laws and red-scare tantrums will stop thes
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by Guid_NewGuid 11mo ago
The cheerleaders for the current authoritarian coup that swarm around here are all too happy to conflate the Hunter Biden pardon and what's currently going on. As if we can't currently open a god-damned news website and read about
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by Guid_NewGuid 11mo ago
It's exactly like cigarettes because it is the same companies. https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-new...
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by Guid_NewGuid 11mo ago
Funnily enough just like guns the reactions in this thread seem to more or less be "no way to stop this says only nation where this happens regularly".
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Best as I can tell, and I'm just some guy, is there is a real problem with the job market, not just in the US. AI is mainly interesting for the media to report on and hype for CEOs and the kind of MBA airheads no one with any self resp
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Worth reiterating since the phrase "attacks on institutions" more usually implies bureaucratic maneuvers. These people have incited actual murderous gun attacks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y796q
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
I'm not actually sure what the karma threshold is for flagging, I've already crossed it on this which is my alt account. Perusing active at the moment it looks like a fairly quiet time for flagging, though the example didn't
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Thanks for providing some food for thought on the specifics of the proposal. These are real and justified drawbacks. My interest is more in access to the flagging behavior in aggregate rather than campaigns against any specific person. But
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
But the exact reason for flagging per-person is kind of orthogonal to this request right? It's a request for transparency. You are able to override other people's interest in discussing topics for no real personal cost. Is there a
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
I'm not too interested in the reasons for flagging since they don't currently exist and would be self reported and largely irrelevant. I'm more interested in just seeing a list of the users who flagged and the times they flag
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
While the site is pseudonymous and that's a good thing, making flagging data public would still allow analysis on why exactly flagging seems to be so aggressive. E.g. are these all accounts who flag the same stories? Are they accounts
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Ask HN: Make Flagging Activity Public?
21 points by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago|18 comments
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
It was interesting to read how much of the US drugs market relies on imports. The article deals with the high value stuff. However, by volume, 90% of drugs used in the US are cheaper generics often with no US manufacturers. The US is heavil
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Evidence for the Republican party becoming more authoritarian: - attempted illegal book bans - suppression of right to protest and free speech on university campuses with lawfare - US citizens being black bagged and deported to foreign conc
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Xiaomi is such a deranged (not a negative statement) company. I think most people in the west don't really have exposure to this but I was transferring through Panama City (Panama) on a recent trip to the US and they have a couple Xiao
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
On C# this could be your country/sample. As far as I remember, though this is from almost a decade ago now, C# is more popular than Java in the UK and Australia but Java comes out ahead in the US.
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
In my misspent youth I've tried to introduce Cucumber/Gherkin a couple of different times but it's something with a deceptive promise. The preconditions are that you have domain experts or business people interested and willi
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Good thing TB respects borders and that drug resistant TB isn't a thing.
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Yes, never again is right now and I am afraid to even say that under my real name because it would put my job at risk. Watching a redux of the Warsaw Ghetto being livestreamed, watching children starving to death because of state military d
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
I'm sure existing restrictions have had exactly the desired impact and that China -- being a state that prioritizes science and engineering over lawyers and financial engineering -- has no answer to it... Oh... https://semia
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Fire Department Overall Run Profile as Reported to the Nfris (2022)(usfa.fema.gov)
2 points by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago|0 comments
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Why does a fire truck cost $2m(thehustle.co)
225 points by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago|305 comments
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
I have a theory that this is built into the American system. People are brainwashed into thinking the system of government is perfect and unimpeachable (pledge of allegiance, constitution being this holy scripture). So when the imperfect sy
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by Guid_NewGuid 1y ago
Just to add to their pile of woes there's also the loss of regulatory credits[0] for offsetting other automaker's emissions. [0] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...

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