filoleg

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by filoleg 8d ago
Unless he has an actual plan for effective global enforcement of his proposed policy, this is all just posturing at best, and a transfer of power to adversarial foreign states (that have no such moral qualms and worries around superintellig
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by filoleg 8d ago
> Immigration agencies are absolutely monitoring social media when people cross borders, apply for visas, etc. There's nothing hypothetical or future about this at all. The hypothetical part was not about them being able to do it, b
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by filoleg 19d ago
> the reason why the 4 is tolerated but the 8 got axed is that 4 is a honeypot and 8 wasn't That's certainly a take. My personal take is that 4chan actually complies with the US laws, specifically the ones around promptly remov
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by filoleg 19d ago
> Well you can get it only in some kind of machines, and you need to pay it cash. Also you need to use cash to charge it Totally forgot about that aspect, you are 100% correct. I remember traveling with my friend who had a physical card,
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by filoleg 19d ago
Thanks for bringing this up, I actually had no idea it was simply disabled, and assumed it was simply not included at all (for whichever miniscule savings it would bring). Your explanation makes more sense, because it is definitely cheaper&
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by filoleg 20d ago
I heard from friends that physical Suica cards tend to be difficult to obtain these days at times, but digital one isn't at all. Took me roughly a minute to create one within Apple Wallet ahead of my trip, and that was it. Didn't
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by filoleg 20d ago
Maybe I am just plainly wrong or encountered some specific stations, but this does not feel true from my experience. During my last visit to London (in 2025), it felt noticeably slower than even NYC subway tap-to-pay. Suica is a whole other
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by filoleg 22d ago
Just to clarify, what do you mean by "without revealing my personal phone number"? Did you use a voip number (e.g., Google Voice/Twilio/etc.) instead? Or somehow no number at all? Or a secondary (real) phone number, and
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by filoleg 25d ago
They basically embed company names directly into team names. Here is a couple of examples: Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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by filoleg 29d ago
> this is true for every laptop vendor Are there any reports out there of macbook OTA updates causing laptops to become entirely unbootable with no recovery options (and, in case it actually happened, Apple refusing to fix/replace a
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by filoleg 1mo ago
> dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio I feel like you missed the part where the parent comment said "[...] and there's even passthrough options for when you need to
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by filoleg 1mo ago
> Why don't we export some better culture to Europe then? Because there is way more impact potential of doing so from within the US than from Europe. Also, because moving to another country with the primary intent to "export cu
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by filoleg 1mo ago
Good for you, and I fully respect other people making choices like that. I don't believe that you should be forced into a situation that makes you use waymo despite your wishes, and I believe that you should be able to opt out (in case
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by filoleg 1mo ago
> Translation: Poors are allowed to exercise their freedom of movement iff they stay in a huge corpo's good graces. Would it placate you, if we did it for non-poors instead then? I am a non-poor, and I would like a free/subsidi
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by filoleg 1mo ago
Imo it would be more accurate to say that topic experts overestimate how much the average person knows about it.
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by filoleg 2mo ago
holy, that's quite a lot. Even the strongest energy drink I've ever seen sold retail in the US had "only" 300mg of caffeine. And it came with plenty of signage on the packaging, indicating very prominently how high the c
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Did you have those jagerbombs in Belgium to begin with or while on the way to Belgium?
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Fair point, but yeah, it is still quite a crazy amount, esp in terms of alcohol, even for someone like me. And I am saying this as someone with very strong alcohol tolerance, not as a (likely) smaller 18 year old woman with way less toleran
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by filoleg 2mo ago
I am with you here, especially given that the examples listed in the article were basically: * Some young man downed 6 beers and "several" energy drinks, then dove into a lake, and subsequently died. His mother said that he grew u
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by filoleg 2mo ago
> Pay $32/mo (so $770 total) to use an iPhone for two years and then give it back to Apple. At the end of your device lease term, you have an option to buy out your leased device. With the buy out cost being equal to the device stic
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by filoleg 2mo ago
I am of the same opinion. Just doing the napkin math on it, it doesn't come out to be a crazy number, and the bang per buck (in terms of how much it benefits the students) was great. Another similar event that my school did was reservi
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by filoleg 2mo ago
If you are hesitant to mention it in the comments, please consider at least putting it in your profile bio. This sounds like a genuinely useful tool that I would personally want to use myself.
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by filoleg 2mo ago
You don't even need to be a celebrity or a hedge fund to do that. The public state college I attended rented out Six Flags every fall semester for a day, with free (or nearly free/subsidized) tickets for students. It was a great w
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Not going to lie, I wish they also added a square footage as a legal requirement too. It is entirely baffling to me as to why, but NYC is the only major city in the US I've ever lived in where it is genuinely a problem. In all other ci
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Failing to load for me as well.
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by filoleg 2mo ago
That was my first thought too, I wonder if it works the same in countries speaking arabic (as that's the first one i could think of that's a language with truly no-buts right to left writing).
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Sure, and "manufacturing novel types of explosive devices, with evidence of them having been used in destructive acts of terror" is just a different name used by cops for "innovative applied chemistry". The criminal law
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by filoleg 2mo ago
> Let's say I invented a genius way to use cryptography to send anonymous payments, I'd go to jail for doing that (Tornado Cash) This is just a disingenuous take. Tornado Cash founder didn't get criminally convicted for &q
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by filoleg 2mo ago
> This is the opposite direction AI should be going. Human relationships are the most valuable thing we have, and so, naturally, technology seeks to intermediate and now replace them. Valid, but, I think, you conflate two separate things
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by filoleg 2mo ago
Yeah, it's just one person here, but I am starting to see that type of a person across all HN comment sections way more often these days. Nothing personal against that specific user at all btw, especially since they recognized it. It w

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