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Claude AI used for missile, influence projects in UAE, Iran, Yemen: Anthropic(al-monitor.com)
8 points by jmyeet 5d ago|3 comments
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by jmyeet 7d ago
How people interact with LEGO varies. Some people like to buy specific sets and make them. That's fine. Some people see a random pile of bricks and build a massive city [1]. There are also competition events for what people can build f
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by jmyeet 7d ago
If you have to hold your phone closer to your face because of poor eyesight, Face ID will constantly fail. So you have this dance of having to pull it away to get Face ID to pass when required. Touch ID just works.
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by jmyeet 7d ago
I don't know why we even have this event anymore. There's a new iPhone every September. It's incrementally better than the last iPhone. Phones keep getting more expensive while doing basically the same thing for some reason.
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by jmyeet 7d ago
Reading this, I'm reminded of... New Coke. Despite post facto conspiracy theories that it was a guerilla marketing campaign to promote "Old Coke", it was not. Coca-Cola tested a new formula in focus groups and people preferre
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by jmyeet 10d ago
Google is playing a dangerous game here and I think it's going to bite them in the butt. First, some history. One thing that made Microsoft successful was a strategy called embrace, extend and extinguish ("EEE"). This is what
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by jmyeet 12d ago
In many countries around the world, corruption is a huge problem. But pretty much everywhere it happens there's a surface-level denial or attempt to hide it. If you're Putin or Erdogan, for example, you'll have children who g
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by jmyeet 12d ago
Consider: 1. Lawmakers literally do not care what you think (study from Princeton) [1]; 2. Private utilities are more expensive than public utilities [2]; and 3. Nobody goes to war over a solar panel [3]. All of this is relevant here. The p
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by jmyeet 13d ago
Reading other comments, it seems like people don't know that Gloria Steinem was a complicated figure, specifically her involvement with the CIA for at least 4 years is documented [1]. By all accounts, this was in the wake of the Red S
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by jmyeet 13d ago
Tech in general (including HN) skews right wing. The era of the countercultural social rebel is long over. Now it's largely just people who have the bag defending the status quo and a whole bunch more people who think they'll one
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by jmyeet 13d ago
> ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the bo
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by jmyeet 14d ago
There's a far deeper and longer standing issue here and that's rent-seeking. We know what works in education. It's phonics and direct insturction, basically. But nobody gets rich that way so you end up buying into a worse sys
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by jmyeet 15d ago
Companies under a capitalist mode of production are funddamentally incompatible with creative output because companies want a reproducible formula that they can scale. This is why we get endless sequels, annual FIFA, CoD, etc releases, adap
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by jmyeet 16d ago
So for people who don't understand, there are two markets for Apple hardware in this space: 1. Running an agent like OpenClaude. The $599 Mac Mini was an insanely good deal for this. I happened to buy a M5 Pro Mac Mini for $999 last ye
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by jmyeet 18d ago
So I support the general idea of European integration but boy are there some problems and certain industries or political groups punch way above their weight in terms of influencing these processes. For example, agriculture is a relatively
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by jmyeet 19d ago
Have we forgotten Megaupload? Napster? Limewire? BitTorrent? Anyone setting up infrastructure has to consider, in the very least, how this will be used for CSAM in particular but sure, I guess terrorism too. Years ago we had The Office make
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by jmyeet 21d ago
No, it's not. This seems to be Stephen Miller's baby and the efforts to limit legal immigration (see my other comment) predate the birthright citizenship case and pretty much started day 1 of the administration. Birthright citizen
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by jmyeet 21d ago
I want to give some context to this because I know a lot about this system. You have to see it as part of the larger moves thi sadministration has made to restrict legal immigration. The most important thing to note is this for immigrant
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by jmyeet 21d ago
This administration is clearly on a war against immigration of all sorts but... we need to be accurate here. This is specifically a pause on immigrant visas. That is, green cards. So this is for family-based green cards and investor green
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by jmyeet 21d ago
This has likely been the case as long as jobs have existed. Some CEOs spend their entire time tweeting, apparently. The way any large company works, and this includes all the big tech companies, is that they end up in a state of constant ch
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by jmyeet 21d ago
The ACA tried to address this sort of thing with a Medical Loss Ratio [1]. This basically meant that 80% of premiums had to be spent on healthcare. This has two obvious flaws: 1. Certain government contracts are what are called "cost p
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by jmyeet 24d ago
The media is trying to manufacturer consent for a deeply unpopular war of choice that has already been lost. That's so weird . Why would Iran do this? They've already won. Nothing will change the fact that this war has been a com
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by jmyeet 24d ago
This is a real pancakes and waffles moment. God, the Internet sucks some times. Where did I say "only"? As best as I can tell ~40% of Canada's exports to the US are energy, making it the most dominant export sector by far. On
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by jmyeet 24d ago
Which is just over 10% of Canada's oil exports. How does that invalidate my point? Also, I explicitly said "energy". That includes electricity (you can't export that anywhere else really) and natural gas (almost all of w
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by jmyeet 24d ago
After WW2, the US largely designed the new world order for its own benefit. It became the world's arms dealer, the US dollar became the world's reserve currency and it had effective control of the world's financial system. An
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by jmyeet 25d ago
Unfortunately for Canada, you guys have screwed up. Why? Because you're completely dependent on the US for energy exports. All that oil you dig up and turn the landscape into the Moon for goes out via pipes to the US from where it&#x27
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by jmyeet 25d ago
You need to realize just how performative most votes in Congress are. The Democrats, for example, will vote for all sorts of progressive policies when they know they won't pass. For example, Kamala Harris was a co-sponsor on a Medicare
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by jmyeet 25d ago
I really don't want people to be left with the impresion that this is Democratic Party incompetence. It is not. They are complicit in pretty much everything the Trump administration has been doing. They know what works. Just do what Ob
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by jmyeet 25d ago
This is the problem I run into with technical people discussing the law all the time and I mean this constructively: stop trying to figure out technical workarounds or look for technical compliance. So much of the law comes down to subjecti
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by jmyeet 25d ago
First, the law applicable here is 18 USC § 2232 [1]: > (a)Destruction or Removal of Property To Prevent Seizure.— > Whoever, before, during, or after any search for or seizure of property by any person authorized to make such search o

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