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by blandcoffee 9d ago
This article mentions the allegations, but you can also read them directly here: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
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by blandcoffee 5mo ago
On IOS 26.3.1 - settings > notifications > signal Show previews is set to Never (Default).
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by blandcoffee 1y ago
I ask this with sincere curiosity - what does his current place of residence have to do with his message that programmers should avoid companies building infrastructure for the police state?
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by blandcoffee 1y ago
Do you think this might be tied to a person’s financial situation? Grow up with a safety net, you’ll enjoy the process. Grow up poor and/or with people depending on you and you focus on the end state?
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Did you read the complaint? If the honeypot description is accurate, the wolf is real. The below is from section 5 of their complaint [1]: > Rippling’s General Counsel sent a legal letter to Deel’s senior leadership identifying a recentl
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
You may be right, but I think China specifically has learned something from Russia. Before invading Ukraine, Russia held assets across the world and they were frozen (some of it USD). Now imagine you are a large holder of US treasuries, wou
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
I think perhaps you may have misread the article. Here are some items that stuck out to me: > As for American gold holdings, they’re essentially pointless: Fort Knox is a legacy of the days when the U.S. promised to exchange gold for dol
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
In the article it says: > Sacks said that he has sold his personal crypto holdings. I went to his twitter account, that's exactly what he said, but that does not mean the same thing as divesting from companies that hold crypto.
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
> Finally, it is not sufficient to have an army of parachute ninjas large or smart to drop into all the agencies in the executive branch. Many institutions of power are outside the government proper. Ninjas will have to land on the roofs
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
> “We should treat Trump and members of his administration like Elon Musk as akin to Russian oligarchs,” Macfarlane wrote. “We need to impose meaningful costs on the U.S. for its economic aggression.” The most meaningful cost you could i
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Interesting - I genuinely want to understand your perspective here. Are you saying following the laws to protect sensitive information is not worth it in this case, because it has been authorized by the party of the day?
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Does anyone else find it odd, that this type of access would typically require training and/or a background check, yet here we are 12 days after this administration was sworn in? Are there no checks and balances in place? Seems like on
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Recently the protonmail founder has come out for republicans on antitrust enforcement - you can view some recent discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_poli...
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
I appreciate a response like this on HN. IF there is a problem, let's solve the root issue (which may include looking at the algo feeds of all big tech, etc).
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
I will not comment on the European data here, but this is so wrong on the Canada side. Sentiment against immigration is real in Canada. You're comparing refugee numbers when in reality Canada's population grew faster than most of
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
This policy needs a refresh - there are many issues with the H1B program today - a good article if you're interested: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-... We should be wary billionaires
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
This topic reminds me of the old interview Bernie Sanders gave nearly a decade ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 I hope citizens wake up, business interests are not always aligned with your (citizen) economic
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
| I think Elon and Vivek's comments are more nuanced than they are taken. If they are, they have the platform to provide that nuance. Take a look at the public H1B data for Tesla (disclaimer it doesn't tell the full story), it d
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Is there no balance we can strive to hit? Seems weird to be ok with slave labour and poor practices, simply because you want to ignore the negative externalities and consume cheap things (ie. undermining local economic production).
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
Are the laws written such that companies as large as Nvidia have zero accountability over the destination of their products that may violate laws? They don't need to track down every unit, but 20% of revenue ending up at a Singapore ad
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by blandcoffee 2y ago
The article mentions return to office policies as a reason, but you have to wonder what the severance package was. Anecdotally, a company my friend works at just laid people off, and a majority of the ones that were not let go, wished that
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by blandcoffee 3y ago
Is this a sarcastic quip or are you able to expand on this? I use a lot of serverless daily, handling events (even ML inference), and it seems to work great, but would love to understand the alternatives and your perspective.
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by blandcoffee 3y ago
I don't dispute your claim (and am personally swayed of the argument of technical > admin in most situations) - do you have data that shows this disparity? Purely conjecture (which means absolutely nothing), I've always assumed
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by blandcoffee 3y ago
Can you expand further on what you mean by this?
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by blandcoffee 3y ago
There might be a slight miscommunication here. I downloaded the code from their repo, exported their pytorch model to onnx, and ran a prediction against it. Everything ran locally on my system (cpu, no cuda cores) and a prediction for the i
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by blandcoffee 3y ago
This was my first thought too - I'm starting to question it, because they do have a product. Whether they have fit, will be interesting to see. More than most of the hype seed rounds in 2021.
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by blandcoffee 4y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by separate system installs? Today, I manage python via pyenv (local and global state) that let's me create infinite .venvs with different python versions.
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by blandcoffee 4y ago
What's the point of this vs. creating your own venv (python -m venv .venv) and having a much smaller library of intentional tools?
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by blandcoffee 4y ago
Why cause yourself difficulty by drifting towards optionality vs. using the ops suggestion and using venv? This topic gets posted to HN far too often - I'm starting to think people are deliberately avoiding venv for some reason, becaus

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