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by billiam 20d ago
This is a completely inhuman and unamerican take. Money buys secrecy, it always has. Money is a tool, exercising speech is a right. For the Supreme Court to equate them is ahistorical, plutocratic, and terrible. You sound like you support g
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by billiam 21d ago
"you don't want to get flagged" Ding!
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by billiam 1mo ago
The vision of the automated stove is partly fulfilled, at least around San Francisco, by the astounding number of people who get all their meals delivered, for the moment by humans but soon robots.
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by billiam 1mo ago
Quaint? We are the closest we've ever been to nuclear annihilation, according to the experts: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/
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by billiam 3mo ago
I sure hope the community is working on these APIs now for Linux, with pressure to come on M$ and Apple.
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by billiam 3mo ago
Maybe you should be asking yourself what you did to piss of this corvid? They have been shown to recognize faces.
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by billiam 4mo ago
Straw man argument. Teachers are important but don’t have impunity to use deadly force.
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by billiam 4mo ago
Exhibit A for why we need to rewrite sovereign immunity laws and get them out of union contracts, at the same time professionalizing how DUI is enforced. If we made the punishments like they have in Europe, the incidence would go way down.
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by billiam 5mo ago
these dramatic and colorful massive specimens are perfect for an art museum, but as a recovering mineralogist I feel like the true beauty of the world of minerals in Earth is shown on the microscopic level, where you can see both the incred
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by billiam 6mo ago
This seems like a classic straw man argument. Plutocratic oligarchs have been making the argument that private monopolies are better than representative democracy at basically any societal function for decades without any actual data.
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by billiam 6mo ago
This seems like a classic straw man argument. Plutocratic oligarchs have been making the argument that private monopolies are better than representative democracy at basically anything for decades.
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by billiam 1y ago
Just pointing out that this silly exercise was mostly powered by nuclear reactors in France that (besides fission) transmute Uranium into Plutonium.
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by billiam 1y ago
This site is becoming the Buzzfeed of tech. Better moderation please.
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by billiam 1y ago
Clown take. The use of Signal or any app on a non-secure device by SecDef for what we know he messaged about in his office is absolutely a primary national security threat. Firing offense for any senior Pentagon official dealing with highly
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by billiam 1y ago
Afloat like Weekend at Bernie's. I lived through multiple efforts to prop up the corpse while making sure it would never ever be as good as Chrome.
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by billiam 1y ago
New headline: AWS RDS is not CockroachDB or Spanner. And it's not trying to be.
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by billiam 1y ago
The demographic time bomb that is the Russian population (human capital, to use an inhuman term) has been recognized since the late 80s. I am surprised how much that productivity along with health has plunged in the last decade. It is not a
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by billiam 1y ago
If dominance wasn't at least enhanced or supported by owning the browser engine, Google wouldn't be doing Chromium.
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by billiam 1y ago
As is the jury selection process, especially in low population areas. And jury instructions from the judge. This seems to be a particularly egregious example, and I think on appeal this will will be corrected.
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by billiam 2y ago
If you are a federal employee that got an email from these scumbags, look at who is extending this "offer." Trump, who has stiffed everyone who ever did work for him, and Musk, who still is being sued by lots of Twitter employees
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by billiam 2y ago
[flagged]
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by billiam 2y ago
fingers crossed!
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by billiam 2y ago
I just can't fathom the lack of self-awareness of people who championed Ross Ulbricht's cause, seemingly because he looks like them, codes like them, and sat in the same public library they frequent or became associated with a tec
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by billiam 2y ago
Wow, Paul Graham just kinda set the standard for cognitive dissonance on HN. In short, sins of elision, omission, and exaggeration in this post and elsewhere in his absurdly entitled world make it clear that he is himself the prig here.
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by billiam 2y ago
and this is why I can't read HN at work anymore........ I have increasing confidence that when AIs finally destroy the Internet the delivery vehicle will be the file format that was created, as the Internet itself was, as a form of dig
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by billiam 2y ago
I think the rare Earth hypotheses get it backward, it all looks unlikely when you only have one data point. I think that complex life finds a way and it all looks like a six cushion bank shot in retrospect.
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by billiam 2y ago
This is more of a hypothesis than a well-rounded and evaluated theory. I could argue that rather than the viscosity of seawater the isolation of hydrothermal vents during the Snowball Earth period was the primary driver of eukaryote evoluti
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by billiam 2y ago
The mental model my kids have for work is that typing or even thinking is itself a finished product. For my generation that idea of a conscious action of saving your work on a computer made me think more about what I was doing and how I was
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by billiam 2y ago
In our current panopitcon, lies work. Turns out if an entertaining man lies again and again into a mechanism (the Internet) that endlessly amplifies and repeats those lies for free (paid for by all of us with our attention), you can win.
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by billiam 2y ago
Please. The International Seabed Authority has been almost entirely captured by the same mining interests that are trying to perversely argue that only by destroying the last effective carbon sink on the planet can can we save the planet. A

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