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by a3n 2y ago
Well, of course. They wouldn't be able to research and implement innovative excess billing without excess billing. Your overpayment today funds your children's and grandchildren's more effective overpayments. It's your l
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by a3n 2y ago
JD Vance urges billionaire Peter Thiel to help bankroll [alleged billionaire] Trump campaign. FTFY
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by a3n 2y ago
Haven't we been saying for years that corporations getting away with everything will never change until CEOs start going to jail?
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by a3n 2y ago
Simple solution: Only let contracts where verifiably senior company technical employees are to accompany equipment in war and peace, and to have all technical data in their possession, verified unencrypted. After they're all dead, the
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by a3n 2y ago
Effing great. It's shocking how so much can be unsurprising yet still shocking. On the other hand, what good is [effectively] owning executive agencies if you can't use them for your own ends?
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by a3n 2y ago
There won't even be any pushback from department analysts and lawyers, since they'll all have been replaced by loyalists.
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by a3n 2y ago
As the article is overtly political, I'll make a political response and cut to the chase: Trump is the most for-sale candidate and president in history. He solicited $1B in campaign contribution directly from a meeting with oil execs,
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by a3n 2y ago
My phone is hidden in its case. It's just a shallow black tray with a screen. I barely remember what the phone looks like.
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by a3n 2y ago
I think the only compelling use case that applies to every IoT user is selling their data; the user as product. In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation of the exact same thing: a surveiling data collector. What
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by a3n 2y ago
In the future, AI will write our manifestos for us!
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by a3n 2y ago
> For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.” Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.
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by a3n 2y ago
"This free app syncs across devices" If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?
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Observe HN: ChatGPT Fills in My Memory
63 points by a3n 2y ago|36 comments
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by a3n 2y ago
According to Microsoft it is, because [they assert] anything on the web is in the public domain: "freeware." [0] Eric Schmidt says it doesn't matter, just do it and let the lawyers clean it up. [1] 0: https://www.f
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by a3n 2y ago
> It's basically reduced them to a Chinese vassal state. I like to think of them as North Korea's client state.
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by a3n 2y ago
A script to connect to my phone's hotspot, and then mount it via sshfs. Need to turn on hotspot and start the DropBear ssh server on the phone first. A script to copy new photos from the phone to the laptop, and then resize them all an
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by a3n 2y ago
Those are quite nice, and so much more fluid than I would have imagined.
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by a3n 2y ago
"On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born. The Word needed to be rewritten in HTML." No no no no NO. On the sixth day there was still no need or use for HTML. On the sixth and a half day, the Web was born, in
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by a3n 2y ago
Disappointment. I thought it was going to be about art with the kind of nails that you hammer. Ob on-topic: I'm a truck driver, and have to check in with the gate guard to gain entry at pickups and deliveries. While I was going through
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by a3n 2y ago
Create and sustain a society where people feel secure, and they'll have kids.
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by a3n 2y ago
"At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations." [When we're caught out.]
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by a3n 2y ago
Very enjoyable watch. One of the few times I allowed time to watch a video.
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by a3n 2y ago
Does the drug itself cause the risk reduction, or is it the weight loss? Or also, if you're less hungry, are you eating less high-carb junk? I'm not saying people shouldn't take these drugs. These questions come to me because
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by a3n 2y ago
The speedometer on most cars is a kilometers - miles - kilometers calculator.
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by a3n 2y ago
Tunnels are often labeled "no hazmat." I wonder if electric semis, or even cars, should be kept out of tunnels.
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by a3n 2y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines says "no."
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by a3n 2y ago
That's so cute. It's like birds waking up in a tree just before dawn. "Is that ..." "It's the sun! Again!" "Worms! Seeds!" "Gravel!" "The sun!" "Light!" "Bath!&
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by a3n 2y ago
That I'm a Dunning-Kruger idiot, and that I wish I had never asserted most of what I've asserted. I've cut myself off from most people that I've ever known because of this. End-stage embarrassment? I assert that I'm
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by a3n 2y ago
I had the same question as your first sentence. I'm not sure I understand your second sentence, as I don't follow "entanglement news." Is entanglement currently being seen as taking part in everything, everywhere? Specif
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by a3n 2y ago
I am blessed with the Don't Exercise gene. That's how I do it.

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