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by lowkey_ 2mo ago
Someone said it would "quickly be illegal to launch satellites without permits", then you/they found out that is already illegal, and you nitpicked about who you need permission from. It feels like there's no feasible so
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by lowkey_ 2mo ago
Europe is too well-run (even the poorer parts) for Starlink to be as relevant. Having lived in Central America, imagine all the workers that are laying the internet cables going back at night and digging them up to sell. A government that,
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by lowkey_ 3mo ago
Looks super cool and love the idea! I saw Clerk and noticed that it says that they have verified 250 months runway. Maybe true but sounds crazy high. Maybe if there's a specific article a verification is attributed to, you could add it
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by lowkey_ 4mo ago
IANAL but civil statute of limitations is based on when the prosecuting party reasonably discovered they were wronged and had legal recourse, not when the event happened. It is entirely possible to debate when that was in this case.
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by lowkey_ 5mo ago
IANAL but a proud American haha, and we're very specific on not allowing ex post facto laws per our constitution. It would be a huge avenue for abuse of power by the government against the people. The caveat I added to my initial comme
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by lowkey_ 5mo ago
> “If you commit insider trading on Kalshi, that can and will at some point be a federal crime. It is a federal crime,” Am I misunderstanding? It seems like two different statements he always conflates. If it becomes a federal crime at s
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by lowkey_ 6mo ago
I had a pretty poor experience as a startup on Vanta. Maybe this is my own ignorance, but I told them when our contract was to renew that we do NOT want to renew. We were an early-stage startup soon to shut down and didn't need it. We
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by lowkey_ 6mo ago
I've put a lot of thought into hiring in this era, and what I've personally found works the best is: Let them use their preferred setup and AI to the full extent they want, and evaluate their output and their methodology. Ask ques
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by lowkey_ 6mo ago
Agreed on the bimodal, but I don't think this is junior vs. senior - I think it's just competence being rooted out. The majority of engineers, in my hiring experience, failed very simple tests pre-AI. In a world where anyone can c
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by lowkey_ 6mo ago
Not the OP but curious why you think so? If this gives an extra 1% per se, I imagine that is more worth it to a company fresh off a large fundraise with a ton of cash in the bank. Startups otherwise are lean and won't hold enough cash
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by lowkey_ 7mo ago
I'd challenge that if you think they're fearmongering but don't see what they can gain from it (I agree it shows no obvious benefit for them), there's a pretty high probability they're not fearmongering.
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by lowkey_ 7mo ago
A movement is better terminology than an organization, fair. But okay - I'm confused what sources you would accept? There are "Antifa" groups on social media that literally advocate for doing this, I've seen it first-han
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by lowkey_ 7mo ago
This is the one response here so far I agree with — I should've said movement to be more accurate.
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by lowkey_ 7mo ago
Google "Antifa silences speaker," and you'll find literally hundreds of cases of exactly that (I just did to verify).
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by lowkey_ 8mo ago
Definitely agree on which is worse! To be clear, I'm not saying I agree with the French raid. Just that statements about severe crimes (child sexual abuse for the above poster - not AI-generated content) being "lesser problems&quo
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by lowkey_ 8mo ago
> The child abuse feels like a smaller problem compared to that risk. I think we can and should all agree that child sexual abuse is a much larger and more serious problem than political leanings. It's ironic as you're commenti
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
> Where I think we can legitimately say this is MAGA versus Republicans is in the reverse brain drain. America in the 1950s was a destination for top minds. Ameirca in the 2020s is not. I do think it's counter-productive for America
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
You're just asking for the opposite of what AI does. 90-99% of an engineer's work isn't entirely novel coding that has never existed before, so by succeeding at what "already exists", it can take us to 10x-100x prod
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
If I compared HN today and Reddit 5 years ago, I'd agree, but I'm still extremely grateful for HN as I tried looking at Reddit this year and it actually made me feel like there's an extremely misinformed, radical, brainwashin
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
1) Years ago for work, I went deep investigating these; some of the team actually flew to China to see it all first-hand and verify the data. This is not a bunk narrative. 2) I've never made this accusation on HN before and apologize i
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
If I can ask on business model, as I have a friend with a similar predicament — what percent of the time do you find vulnerabilities in those audits? Do companies push back if you don't find vulnerabilities?
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
(1) Are you saying it's bad if they're upping engineer pay to be more competitive, or you're just skeptical that they will? (2) I'd actually like the American government to pay better wages for its engineers, and optimiz
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by lowkey_ 9mo ago
I didn't read it that way because Boom went through YC while Sam was president of YC. The connection makes a lot of sense, and dates back to pre-OpenAI days. I would assume he's just telling the story as it happened.
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by lowkey_ 10mo ago
The above commenter's point was actually drawing a distinction between these, and "one-upping" by saying there was a difference, or worse one, out of these extremist ideologies. I disagreed and said that they are both equally
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by lowkey_ 10mo ago
Not the above poster, but: OpenAI went closed (despite open literally being in the name) once they had the advantage. Meta also is going closed now that they've caught up. Open-source makes sense to accelerate to catch up, but once ahe
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by lowkey_ 10mo ago
> In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains. Nobody particularly likes them (outside of select finance bros), and people openly express disdain for them and their greed. I think you may be confusing 'power' or 'impact&#x
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by lowkey_ 10mo ago
Mamdani has said that (1) they'll open government-run stores, and (2) the government will seize buildings from bad landlords. My family is from a communist country and I can assure you, that is communistic.
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by lowkey_ 10mo ago
> they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population They dehumanize and kill everyone equally. I think the West (US especially) has a great system of government figured out, and I wouldn't try to say any group attempting to
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by lowkey_ 11mo ago
A lot of folks give it flak for being incredibly dystopian, but this: https://world.org/orb I first thought this was just a crypto play with 1 wallet per real person (wasn't a huge fan), but with the proliferation of A
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
TL;DR: They're using the wrong denominator, comparing apples-to-oranges. They aren't actually revealing that an exodus didn't occur, they aren't debating any numbers or adding any new data. I added context for people who

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