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by cyclecount 9mo ago
Probably sometime around the early 1800s Malcolm Harris wrote a book “Palo Alto” about how this culture took root in SV long before it was called Silicon Valley: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10&#
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The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop(arstechnica.com)
597 points by cyclecount 10mo ago|311 comments
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by cyclecount 1y ago
The Spanish naval ship that is supposed to be escorting the flotilla is not shown in the list on this tracker. On MarineTraffic it hasn’t updated its position in 6 days: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details
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by cyclecount 1y ago
These planes are huge pieces of shit. No country should be spending money buying these from the US / Lockheed Martin.
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by cyclecount 1y ago
If it’s critical infrastructure it should be nationalized
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Crypto investor allegedly tortured businessman in scheme to gain password(nypost.com)
2 points by cyclecount 1y ago|1 comments
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by cyclecount 1y ago
Apparently we’re going to bury our heads in the sand and prevent any discussion of the topic!
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Censored Hacker News(mosermichael.github.io)
5 points by cyclecount 2y ago|1 comments
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This is like paying doctors to say only evil foreign cigarettes cause cancer. Buy American!
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This is laughable, even with your depiction of the events. The candidate in question (Georgescu) had a very popular platform, and was supported by a large bases or Romanians on the left and right. He was, however, opposed to further expans
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by cyclecount 2y ago
The US has one of the largest contributions of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This was mentioned in "The Brothers" about Allan and John Foster Dulles who directed the CIA to collude with right-wing French officers hoping to overthrow Charles de Gaulle.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
That would be Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
They could have turned to the second place contestants from their sham primary election which was held this Spring and largely ignored by the media.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
haha I think people aren't getting the humour here
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This would be relevant if the US were a functioning democracy. But the defence contractors have already seen the trillions to be made in boosting fears of Chinese AI and will, as usual, have 100x more say in policy than the electorate. E
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Russia doesn't want war with Europe, it wants to sell natural gas.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
OpenAI has an early lead in the AI battle, and their ChatGPT brand is already a household name synonymous with LLMs for most people. This is the first time there’s been a real threat to Google’s monopoly in a decade. Never mind they don’t
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iOS 18 Will Let You Activate Third-Party Camera from iPhone's Lock Screen(macrumors.com)
5 points by cyclecount 2y ago|2 comments
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by cyclecount 2y ago
>> Texas’ oilfield regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, has yet to offer… can anyone explain why the Railroad Commission regulates oilfeilds? is it because there aren’t many railroads in Texas?
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Every release is an LTS version, with support for about 8 years. The current stable release of macOS (10.14 Sonoma) supports all Macs introduced in 2017 and later.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Creepy, low-quality and overpriced! The Google hardware trifecta.
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Surveillance and interference: Israel's covert war on the ICC(972mag.com)
38 points by cyclecount 2y ago|15 comments
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by cyclecount 2y ago
link is wrong, should point to: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying...
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This is not my take, this is a proposal that has been suggested by Israeli officials.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Think for a minute why Israel might be “providing security” for this floating pier (built by the US), or why a sea-route for aid is even necessary in the first place. Wouldn’t it be much, much simpler to bring in aid by land (via the many
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by cyclecount 2y ago
I think Vision will be as big as the iPhone and this will be clear in 3-4 years.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Article is from 2021
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by cyclecount 2y ago
I can’t tell from the documentation on GitHub: does the API expose the flagged/dead posts? It would be interesting to see statistics on what’s been censored lately.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Al Jazeera claims this is direct retaliation for their 7 Oct documentary which is a very thorough analysis of some of the more extreme claims made by the IDF about what happened that day. Ironically, this documentary uses the Israeli gover

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