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Trump order lets US firms hack overseas groups under certain conditions(cnn.com)
9 points by freditup 1mo ago|0 comments
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by freditup 1mo ago
I never understand why companies post AI-written articles like this on their blog and why authors are okay having it attributed to them. Authors: If you actually put deep thought into the content and then have an AI do the final writing, it
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by freditup 11mo ago
Does anyone know the best way to get a reliably working PS2 nowadays? I happen to have a bunch of old PS2 games and would love to have a reliable PS2 to be able to use them with. But buying online seems fairly fraught - how do you have any
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by freditup 2y ago
Note that it was snowy in NYC today, so people were likely dissuaded to drive by other factors than congestion pricing as well. It'll be interesting to see what impact there is as we get further along in the year. The dashboard is base
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by freditup 2y ago
Apparently NJ turned down an offer of $100M+ per year: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/18/nj-refusing-generous-...
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by freditup 2y ago
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have d
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Reflections on Palantir(nabeelqu.substack.com)
482 points by freditup 2y ago|581 comments
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by freditup 2y ago
The picture of the roundabout from above at the beginning of the article is extra confusing because it doesn't have the final lane markings yet and the ones you can see are misleading. The (presumably) final markings[0] make things les
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by freditup 2y ago
What's the benefit to streetcars over busses with a dedicated, physically separated right of way? I like the idea of streetcars, but busses seem easier to purchase than streetcars, standard road paving seems easier to maintain than str
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by freditup 2y ago
Checking out on Amazon seems to have been down for a large number of users for the past 5+ hours or so (as of 10PM ET). This is the largest actual Amazon shopping outage I can think of in a long time and interesting how long it's been
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by freditup 2y ago
The context here (since the title isn't too revealing), is that the FDA expanded approval for a drug despite essentially unanimous didagreement from the scientists actually analyzing the drug. Derek Lowe, a well-respected pharma blogge
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Sarepta. Why?(science.org)
11 points by freditup 2y ago|3 comments
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by freditup 3y ago
It is, sort of, through Dependent Care FSA programs which let you contribute money pre-tax and then spend it on child care. For some reason though, the limit is $5000/year which isn't nearly enough to cover any sort of frequent ch
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by freditup 3y ago
Thanks for the improved tip - I have found it hard to parse through all the address-bar-related about:config options in the past, the UI seems like a better way!
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by freditup 3y ago
You can also tweak the behavior via `about:config` to emphasize the types of results you care about. I like to set `browser.search.suggest.enabled` to `false` to keep it from showing search suggestions since I almost exclusively want to eit
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by freditup 4y ago
Are teachers really the ones pushing for such early starts of school? Anecdotally, most teachers I know don't love waking up at 5am in order to get ready and get to school on time. I always thought the early start was to have enough ti
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by freditup 5y ago
> "Bring my concerns to the people I have concerns with in private before having to talk about it in public" is just the right way to talk to people about problems. Yes, it typically is. However making non-falsifiable public ac
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Justices Side with Police Officer in Test of Anti-Hacking Law(news.bloomberglaw.com)
3 points by freditup 5y ago|0 comments
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by freditup 6y ago
> Interviewer: I suppose if you think that, the next obvious question is do you think Google itself is institutionally racist? > Dr. Gebru: Yes, Google itself is institutionally racist. > Interviewer: That's quite a thing to s
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Maternal Fluoride Consumption During Pregnancy May Lower Children's Intelligence(npr.org)
4 points by freditup 7y ago|1 comments
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by freditup 7y ago
It's a bug for sure, but conclusions like this are over the top for a single small bug: > This isn’t an Apple which has any concern over the quality of its products, or for its users. It’s just another leviathan corporation which ha
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by freditup 7y ago
Clickbait title. Actual title should be: [Orcas] Can Make Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
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by freditup 8y ago
A large stretch of Queens Boulevard has a bike lane alongside of its local lanes now. I just biked the length of it the other day, it's actually quite a pleasant urban biking experience in terms of safety (though not in terms of scener
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by freditup 8y ago
It's interesting that so many people would enjoy AMP, because on my Android, viewing AMP sites in Google's main app often feels much slower than regular web browsing in Firefox for Android. The difference? I have an ad-blocker in
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by freditup 8y ago
Time makes a lot more sense than stops: for example, at Columbus Circle in NYC, a downtown A train that's one stop away is about 3.5 miles out. A downtown 1 train that's one stop away is less than a half mile out. Except if the do
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by freditup 8y ago
Quality declining is an interesting point that's hard to quantify. I went to a very well-viewed public school, and a large potion of my classes were quite unimpressive. (Think poor teaching; questions/answers to exams basically pr
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by freditup 8y ago
> Amazon executives met two weeks ago with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the governor’s Manhattan office, said one of the people briefed on the process, adding that the state had offered potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies
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by freditup 8y ago
Fair points, though I don't know how high of an expected value I'd give to 50k of Box options . It's hard for me to imagine that options given that late are that valuable. I'd imagine the equity compensation at lots of
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by freditup 8y ago
I'm actually surprised that as a 'Principal Architect' he was only making $208,000 a year. Considering that entry-level positions at large companies which can have cash compensation of around $150,000+, it seems he may have b
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by freditup 8y ago
I actually quite like Google Keep. Curious why you view it as so bad?

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