PeterHolzwarth

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by PeterHolzwarth 4d ago
Always been curious - what are some examples of trademarks being lost due to not being defended?
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by PeterHolzwarth 5d ago
The man has not yet been defenestrated, but I get your point.
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by PeterHolzwarth 5d ago
Yeah, you're right - I didn't think about that. Thanks!
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by PeterHolzwarth 5d ago
That's a great point, thanks - I didn't think about that angle.
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by PeterHolzwarth 5d ago
Wow! This didn't last long on the front page. Strange - I thought it was an honest and informative little article. I noticed it on the front page. An hour later, it's on page 3. <edit> Now I'm just curious to see how fa
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Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy(theguardian.com)
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by PeterHolzwarth 10d ago
What's enlightening is how astonishingly little salt is used, by our standards.
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by PeterHolzwarth 13d ago
Oh please. They do closed betas - hardly makes you a "second class citizen".
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by PeterHolzwarth 13d ago
Many LLMs down, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676
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by PeterHolzwarth 13d ago
American modern life. Vast swathes of the rest of the planet doesn't suffer from our unfortunate pathology.
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by PeterHolzwarth 23d ago
Yeah, that's always been my concern with the EU (I'm American, for context): the long worrying practice where the legal concept of the EU is assembled by a small group who very much want EU citizens to go back to sleep and only wa
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by PeterHolzwarth 25d ago
Just want to be clear here: you appear to be saying that you support a regime putting people in prison that a regime doesn't like, on made-up charges, with the excuse of "harmed society or the economy" - have I got that right
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by PeterHolzwarth 25d ago
It very definitely patterned its behavior on colonizer to survive - even becoming a local-sphere colonizer itself, interestingly. Definitely a case of "if you can't beat 'em, (temporarily) join 'em."
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by PeterHolzwarth 25d ago
In China, "harmed society or the economy" is very very often the excuse used to put political enemies into prison.
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
Sorry to see the down votes you are getting. I am an inveterate knuckle-cracker, but I very much understand that a subset of people find it unpleasant and irritating to hear.
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
It is distressing to hear someone on hacker news describe this, and the history of Syria over the last couple decades, as something that might be "propaganda" and "partisanship." My god, man - do you even slightly follow
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
The irony being that in the 90s nascent online world, "cyber" as a verb meant "cyber-sex".
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
Your comment kind of reminds me of the old slashdot spam-email-solution copypasta - the purpose of it is to highlight how so many sensible sounding ideas just can't work in practice.
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
I definitely get your broader point, but it turns out the smallpox blankets things is a myth. But I know what you mean, nonetheless.
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
No, I think it's about people - about us. About you, me, all of us.
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
It really is a strange and horrific metaphor, analogy, and parable about the effects of isolation - made all the more distressing because it wasn't intentional. It was just our broader ancestors going about their business as normal pe
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by PeterHolzwarth 1mo ago
This is wonderful! You should submit this to the HN feed.
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
Article grabbed at random that provides some more context (tho could use more): https://www.cyberkendra.com/2026/07/deepseek-pauses-fundrais... "The Hangzhou AI lab has told prospective investors in its seco
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
Holy crap, this article has been active here for 13 hours - it really needs a country callout (ie India) in the title.
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
Still not journalism. Just paid opinion blogging.
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
And then they get un-sick of it. Fads come and go, constantly re-inventing themselves and getting rediscovered.
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
It's been everywhere for decades - that's not the point. It's fadishness that is what may be going on here: restaurants are the tip of the spear of new trends.
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
Oh, the pandemic - that's a great counterpoint you bring up. And I like the distinction you make that the collective experience was quite strange: collective in the aggregate, but profoundly isolating in (individual) practice. I wonder
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
Thank god. Win 10 continues to be the most attractive OS Microsoft currently kinda provides, despite being borderline unsupported. It continues to astonish me just how staggeringly anti-user MS's OneDrive push has gotten: think of Word
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by PeterHolzwarth 2mo ago
so therefore don't create laws or pass city ordinances? I don't understand your logic.

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