hypeatei

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by hypeatei 9d ago
Machine guns are banned at the federal level, though, and it's been consistently upheld by the courts. I'm not sure I follow the argument anyway; the US constitution consists of negative rights (e.g. freedom to do something) rathe
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by hypeatei 21d ago
They can't make it an explicit line item of "3% surcharge" or whatever. Instead, the business will raise prices across the board and offer a "cash discount" of 3%
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
If your argument is that Bitcoin is only good for illicit purchases, then I sort of agree with you but there are better alternatives like Monero. Regardless, you would agree that current valuations are insane given that's the only real
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
> If one uses a good source of entropy then one will not "get screwed." How many users were told to verify the source code to make sure it was using good entropy? How many would actually do that even if told? Obviously not even
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
No, via direct deposit. I had a co-worker once who miskeyed his routing+account numbers and guess what? He still got his money a few days later and it wasn't lost to the void. There is no blockchain, seed phrases, nor cold wallets requ
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
> You, as a developer working on Bitcoin, need to take your time to understand your changes, document them clearly, and verify they do what you think. Or, you could realize that using a financial technology which relies on no software bu
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
No, I don't participate in crypto nonsense. Especially such a speculative and volatile "asset" like Bitcoin.
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
Haha, so you can bribe the President? I hope this comment is satire. The "masses" are well aware of crypto at this point and BTC is down 47% over this past year. It's just not that useful unless you're trying to skirt la
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
Bull markets are born out of skepticism. Everyone is fearful that there's a giant bubble so all eyes are on the fundamentals. When euphoria sets in, i.e. neighbors and co-workers start telling you how easy it is to make money on stocks
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by hypeatei 2mo ago
Doing basic math makes someone a "spreadsheet head"? If the "actual world" wanted American-made gloves then this cash injection from the government would've resulted in a boom in glove manufacturing here, no? I alwa
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
> And they are posed here as gospel The same could be said for people who suggest regulation for every problem that comes up, even for problems that were caused by regulation. Maybe we have our blindspots, but the "regulate everythi
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
Discussed three days ago (251 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687508 The other owner replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696800
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
Problems have been ongoing for a few hours already.
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
> though if that happened I would have expected it to be leaked From Feburary: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/iran-strike-trump-gen-dan-c... Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine has been advising Presid
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
I never swapped claims. We're talking about nuclear weapons and why the US started a war with Iran this year due to this supposed "crisis" (in your words) but there's no evidence that a threat is imminent. The NIEs wer
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
> a former member of the parliament of Iran He wasn't a member at the time of those statements nor did he have any involvement in their nuclear program. That's misleading to say the least. Ali Motahari—former member of Iran’s
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
> The crisis exists because Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons According to whom? I know there's one country who says Iran is two weeks away from nuclear weapons, but who else?
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
I'm not worried. You cannot hold a machine accountable and there's no way OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are going to take on that kind of liability if some code resulted in a major outage or a lawsuit. Perhaps that's the signal I&#
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
> Humans also do not know how to do this reliably These are machines, not humans, so I don't understand the comparison. The point of tech advancement is that we eliminate entire classes of errors that humans make. You'd probabl
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by hypeatei 3mo ago
I think there's a lot of confirmation bias in this thread coming from two groups: anti-AI activists and cathedral-development proponents. They take what was written at face value and use it to further their narratives that AI is ruinin
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
DHS is not the same as the CIA. The former is heavily politicized and the latter kinda just does its own thing and I'm pretty sure they haven't paused vetting (ICE agents don't require TS/SCI clearance like CIA officers)
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
I don't think U.S. intelligence thought any part of this war was a good idea or justified. There were two National Intelligence Estimates (a panel of all 18 agencies in the IC) that concluded Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. Th
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
> Most people do not do this, and many homes thus slowly degrade in value I agree with the first part, people absolutely do shoddy work or none at all but the value doesn't seem to go down. My mother bought a house had it inspected
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
I'm firmly in the renting camp and I'll only own a home if I can buy some land and build it, probably. From a US perspective, I see too many people buy a house because that's what they're "supposed" to do sin
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
I believe you contradicted your first point by following it with "If Bun starts having more bugs and feeling like worse software" ...so you do use feelings in your calculation? To be clear, I have no problem with that and thin
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
> Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism? Reactionary[0]? Trump and the MAGA movement embody this desire to return to the "golden age" which is an idealized period in the 1950s where you had a factory job, a
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
Fair. It's definitely too broad of a statement and I feel like calling out the reusable cup policy that Starbucks already has would be more helpful. The current statement reads like there is no alternative whatsoever and you're
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
> It's time for Starbucks to stop making misleading recycling claims and start prioritizing plastic-free, preferably reusable, alternatives for its customers. I agree on the misleading claims part, but they do allow you to bring i
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
So I take it you're going to buy shares of OpenAI on opening day then? ;) Institutions merely owning a newly-IPO'd stock means nothing. They get access to shares at a reasonable price before opening while retail is buying at ins
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by hypeatei 4mo ago
To me, it's not that complicated. The point of a vault backup is to not leave you completely hosed, even if it means some new entries didn't make it in. You don't really need to automate anything, set a calendar reminder ev

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