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by etblg 9d ago
"Er ist wieder da", or "Look Who's Back" in English.
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by etblg 4mo ago
The em-dash tell makes sense for things like personal technical blogs, usually written by a non-professional writer, and without extensive editing. It doesn't work so well for things that are professionally written and edited, in my op
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by etblg 4mo ago
Maybe people should stop posting shitty LLM-written articles that don't generate any good discussion beyond "I think this was written by an LLM" and we won't have this "problem".
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by etblg 4mo ago
I'm not sure where you're getting that from, from wikipedia: > Anker was founded in 2011 by Steven Yang in Shenzhen, Guangdong, but the company moved its headquarters to Changsha, Hunan. And its listed on the Shenzhen stock exc
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by etblg 8mo ago
I feel like you have to expand the taxonomy of people expressed in milli-jobs. Does anyone out there exceed 1000 mJobs? Does anyone come the closest? Is there a suitable conversion to other systems of measurement?
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by etblg 8mo ago
Damn, imagine if an Australian or a South African billionaire did that with big media companies, oh well, that's just a weird thought, nothing to take from that.
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by etblg 8mo ago
The day of the dollar slice in NYC is dead, most places have switched to $1.50 slices.
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by etblg 8mo ago
> I hate to be that person, but the fact that so many people on HN think OF is prostitution is revealing of the site's demographics (i.e. older). It is, as some may put it, boomer thinking. Well it's not non-existent either, th
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by etblg 8mo ago
Judging from the recent news, it's also now so weirdos online can get an AI to make CSAM about your daughter's cousin. Fascinating twist.
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by etblg 11mo ago
> 67,000 Palestinians > 30,000 Hamas fighters those are different things.
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by etblg 11mo ago
> the idea is to use AI to build super productive farms and greenhouses How? What are the mechanisms in which AI will lead to farms and greenhouses being more productive? How will AI improve the existing automation that already exists fo
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by etblg 1y ago
Alcohol makes a good solvent so it extracts flavours in things that don't tend to go in a liquid. That's for liquors at least, for things like beer and wine, they're tasty drinks that also happen to have alcohol in them throu
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by etblg 1y ago
Third time's the charm, just one more revolution and we'll have it all sorted out, juuuuuust one more /s
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by etblg 1y ago
This unsubstantiated rumor coming from......the Secretary of Commerce? "Reuters was not immediately able to establish how the fee would be administered. Lutnick said the visa would cost $100,000 a year for each of the three years of it
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by etblg 1y ago
> The exec also said "less than one percent of one percent" of players are filing customer service tickets about performance issues, and asked people to "code your own engine and show us how it's done, please." ?
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by etblg 1y ago
> Charlie Kirk thought conversation was the only way we were going to heal America. He believed we had to learn to talk to each other without vitriol, without poison, without anger. We had to be able to listen, and say what we mean, with
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by etblg 1y ago
Well it's American immigration law, so who knows, really depends person by person. Like I legitimately think there isn't an objective answer to that question, it's a patchwork of laws and forms and guidelines that overlap and
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by etblg 1y ago
The points the article make come close to my gripe with ghost kitchens but don't quite cover it: they feel like scams and when I've accidentally ordered from a ghost kitchen it was by design a terrible experience. I'm talking
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by etblg 1y ago
I just assumed it was me getting old, but I do go "oh yeah that time when" and then realizing that was a literal decade ago. It all does just bleed together, COVID feels like it was just yesterday, 2015 feels like it was just last
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by etblg 1y ago
> Sure. Include all the politicians who have smeared Trump as a Nazi. And as a fun note: one of them is now his Vice President and the other is the Secretary of Health.
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by etblg 1y ago
> Is the internal guidance you received different from what's published? Probably, I doubt anyone in the US government has a consistent view of what immigration laws are _and_ how they're actually enforced. Whole thing feels li
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by etblg 1y ago
Oh for sure, it's a very short amount of time to arrange all that. Just want to clear up the time it is, and that people do exaggerate it as having no options at all, which isn't quite true. It's possible and doable, but not
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by etblg 1y ago
Presuming we're talking about the job offers from the article, it's for PERM, part of the process for green cards, not for H1B. As far as I know, you don't need to post a job offer to consider local candidates for someone to
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by etblg 1y ago
It's 60 days, not 2 weeks, and you can transfer an H1B over to a new job within that 60 days, or if you know you're going to be terminated (e.g. you're on a PIP) then you can transfer the H1B to a new employer anyway. Wouldn&
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by etblg 1y ago
Error: Compiler warning: Appeal to Authority fallacy detected on line 8, your argument is hereby invalid or whatever fallacy nerds like bringing up in debates, just pick your favourite one and insert it here.
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by etblg 1y ago
> One could find systemic examples of inflammatory rethoric from almost anyone in US politics: Biden, Obama, Trump, Waltz, Harris, DeSantis, Newsome, etc. Damn, sounds like more terrible people who encourage violence then, wish they didn
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by etblg 1y ago
In America's case, it often seems to be both at the same time!
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by etblg 1y ago
> When I was an undergrad researcher back during the height of the Great Financial Crisis, Keep in mind that was 17 years ago, how do you know the job market is at all the same now?
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by etblg 1y ago
How does she prevent them from falling through the holes and hitting the heating element at the bottom? Does she throw them in the cutlery basket? Wouldn't it be light enough to fly around inside the dishwasher and land somewhere undes
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by etblg 1y ago
Plenty of those that similarly went bankrupt over the years, and now the USA mostly has Boeing that's reached a set of continual crises and being propped up by the government.

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