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by brenschluss 1mo ago
We should zoom out in perspective. The question is not “is the experience in for-profit prisons better for incarcerated people”. It is “for-profit prisons create a system with a financial incentive to increase the number of incarcerated peo
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by brenschluss 3mo ago
Well of course, that’s the point - it gives the French government the cover to investigate while sending Israel a soft warning. “Israel, thank you for your cooperation, my gosh, we’re really going to get to the bottom of this” = ‘We know wh
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by brenschluss 4mo ago
Ah, see, you didn’t recreate it just because of the interface; you recreated because it’s currently a high-trust social environment, because your friends and family are using it, because they know who you are. Old Facebook was high-trust be
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by brenschluss 5mo ago
The “featured on scrolllaunch” banner covers the keyboard.
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by brenschluss 5mo ago
Is it just me or is it a huge letdown that the text is all AI-generated? Or at least, in the same kind of saccharine style? Are people not able to detect this?
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by brenschluss 6mo ago
Yes, because drawing is a way of thinking. There’s a distinction between technical drawing in plan and section, vs perspective. When you draw at scale, the size of your pen and its marks become scaled to the size of human movement. That is,
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by brenschluss 6mo ago
The truth is the truth, whether or not it might align with a narrative or stereotype. For example: NSA wiretapping was a truth that happened to align with pre-existing conspiracy theory narratives. It was easy to dismiss it as a crackpot th
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by brenschluss 6mo ago
sigh; this argument is the new Chinese Room; easily described, utterly wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEUclZdj_Sc
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by brenschluss 11mo ago
BTW, the OG demo from Johnny Lee is from 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
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by brenschluss 11mo ago
Unfortunately it smells of ChatGPT at points.
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by brenschluss 1y ago
If fighting X requires you to inflict war crimes, perhaps you should question the premise of why you are fighting in the first place.
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by brenschluss 1y ago
This isn't true; no reverse engineering or firmware modification is necessary.
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by brenschluss 2y ago
> For load bearing elements in buildings, we don't have anything substantially better today than 100 years ago What about post-tensioned concrete slabs? Cross-laminated timber? Structural glazing? Intumescent paint? Technology does
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by brenschluss 2y ago
Here's an idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166038#39173769
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by brenschluss 2y ago
This either 1) assumes a homeomorphism between rationality and ethics, or 2) is technically true but missing the point. Akin to saying: "Human deaths via a tsunami isn't a 'bad thing', it's a natural phenomenon&qu
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by brenschluss 3y ago
I looove this site. This helped me plan a Trans-Siberian/Mongolian train trip almost 15 years ago. So many people I met on the trains used Seat 61, too. An absolute classic.
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by brenschluss 3y ago
> Minimum height in the stairway isn't part of the specification Uh, yes it is? It's in most building codes, as well as in the IBC (International Building Code). Architects don't deal with structural soundness; that's
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by brenschluss 3y ago
Good point! Then: 2036: Due to increasing amounts of deepfake CSAM, the US's Congress passes a law against unconsensual deepfake porn, requiring "websites of sexual nature" to be POR-compliant or be shut down. Porn web compan
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by brenschluss 3y ago
Here's a scenario: It's 2030 and deepfakes run rampant. This is a problem creating political deepfakes, celebrity fake porn, CSAM, fake revenge porn, etc. Apple builds on their Spatial Photo feature, and their newest smartphones a
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by brenschluss 3y ago
Doesn’t work on a Kindle Scribe - maybe the user agent string is different?
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by brenschluss 3y ago
Knowing little about this - a genuine suspicion is - is this a feature, not a bug? As in - doesn’t this arise out of an incentive for health insurance companies NOT to cover procedures? I can only imagine that this bureaucratic tangle reduc
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by brenschluss 4y ago
I agree, but this has nothing to do with rights, which are a legal construct. This has to do with power.
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by brenschluss 4y ago
All of what you're saying is true, but it doesn't make assault okay.
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by brenschluss 5y ago
Very interesting! The one-minute videos are really clear, and the interface simple and brilliant, and I went from someone knowing very little about the system to someone thinking "if I built wheels for a living, I would definitely use
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by brenschluss 5y ago
Very glad this is mentioned. Form follows function, sure, but it follows capital and construction methods and labor practices. The author would best wonder why this is global, and not look towards solely design trends but construction metho
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by brenschluss 5y ago
It’s called a name, and names have real meaning, because they’re created with social agreements. Paper money, too, is valuable only because we agree to do so. Ergo, Saying “all this hullabaloo over a bunch of green paper” about money is… bo
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by brenschluss 5y ago
Uh, do you apply this argument to open source software as well? That open source libraries are a “black-market internet business”? Honestly it’s wild to see this kind of logic of HN. Goes to show how much technology has become more about bu
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by brenschluss 5y ago
Real question: do you use any alternatives? I completely agree but have had a hard time finding other methods of searching information.
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by brenschluss 6y ago
Looks like it’s both 2 and 3 획 when handwritten. I know people who write with 3 strokes; I do with 2. https://ko.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ㅈ https://namu.wiki/w/ㅈ
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by brenschluss 6y ago
ㅈ is three strokes; not sure what you mean by personal handwriting aside, but the 'stroke' is a designation of hand movement, not a count of curves that makes up the character. > I have never seen a native korean write ㅈ/ㅅ

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