mkii

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Ask HN: Any service for verified SMS numbers?
2 points by mkii 3y ago|0 comments
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by mkii 3y ago
For the sibling commenters trying to grief OP, he never said he randomly selects verses. I wish you all a nice day.
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by mkii 3y ago
I'm surprised someone's surprised, it's a well-known thing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sunday_scaries
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by mkii 3y ago
It could have been for a service that was not in production yet, and in an isolated environment.
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by mkii 3y ago
Whenever I listen to these types of recordings, there's so much static and it's hard to hear the words. Is this how it actually sounds to pilots/ATC operators or is their feed actually much clearer?
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by mkii 3y ago
I'm sorry, what? Do Russians not live on Earth or something?
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by mkii 3y ago
I had a more charitable reading of GP's comment: supposing, hypothetically, the US wanted a proxy war against Russia, it didn't have to "trick" Russia. This is a perfectly valid rebuttal to GP's parent imo, especial
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by mkii 3y ago
> If China downs one in South China sea, the US might keep it quiet because neither country wants a violent escalation into war just yet. >> just yet No, sorry. Neither country wants a war. Full stop. I despise this tendentious rea
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by mkii 3y ago
Sibling commenters saying US did not want to provoke a war with Russia are being biased imo. US drew a line in the sand, or kept pushing on the issue for Ukraine to NOT promise it would never join NATO. These are facts. Whether that justifi
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by mkii 3y ago
That might be a necessary condition, but definitely not a sufficient one to be considered a superpower. Simple thought experiment, "completely erasing" the US as you suggest would render the Earth unpleasant to live on, for a whil
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by mkii 3y ago
> indentured servants Could you explain what you mean?
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by mkii 3y ago
Ok, so you want to make a system that does not include some otherwise very popular criteria to the citizens of the host nation? Because... it benefits you?
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by mkii 3y ago
> point based system Today if you're an illegal migrant and claim asylum, you get +inf points. If you're born in certain countries with long wait time, you get -inf points. Clearly the system today is working within your defini
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by mkii 3y ago
> I suppose the counterargument is that the US educational system is generally so poor that it's not generating enough people with the necessary technical capabilities But what if it's not a policy/ed system issue but a cu
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by mkii 3y ago
You describe the current system, just that country of origin is a factor in the "scoring system."
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by mkii 3y ago
> Both the US and China have made it much harder to leave China and enter the US now. Which policies do you think create this? It could be entirely probable the Chinese just don't find it attractive to live and work in the US after
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by mkii 3y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise you could find X country that is loose with citizenship requirements and get around the US' per-country limit.
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by mkii 3y ago
The per-country limits are a good thing, the "bottleneck" is a feature not a bug
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by mkii 3y ago
Not just geometry on the math side but numerical computation and linear algebra as well. Was enough to make my head spin.
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by mkii 3y ago
> and before long you will have a search engine of real value for yourself (and possibly others) How much do you think hosting would cost?
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by mkii 3y ago
Thank you for clarifying, I get what you mean now. That study is over a decade old though. And I would think that there's too many confounding variables at play there. IMO the biggest confounder is "society issues" that make
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by mkii 3y ago
What does gender have to do with anything in this discussion? > in DC area it's something like 2:1 That's not true.
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by mkii 3y ago
Everyone, literally every person I know laid off at Google and Meta were subsequently rehired by the same company. It's strange.
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by mkii 3y ago
Charlie Booker, of Black Mirror fame, said (paraphrasing): it's not technology that sucks -- it's people.
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by mkii 3y ago
Oh please. Look and see some example Mandarin and Cantonese words loaned to English. [1] They also have your Japanese examples in there. Want more counterexamples? Probably literally every Italian food: spaghetti, pizza, ravioli... To me, t
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by mkii 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the average Joe would agree with you about the CPI numbers being a complete farce. It used to not matter when it was low. But after covid, when people, largely following the same habits over time, see their grocery rece
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by mkii 3y ago
It's not really the storing, it's the spending. USD buys oil, baby!
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by mkii 3y ago
You see, the AI will allow people to free up enough time in their J1, J2, J3, etc. that they will have enough time to run more side-hustles or gig-economy jobs. ECONOMY! /s
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by mkii 3y ago
> Did you take the history lessons into account, or it's business as usual? Did we take the same history lessons? Lots of what led to the fall of the Roman Empire has been happening in USA the past few decades. And then we have Chin
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by mkii 3y ago
In your world, what would a Xi victory have looked like?

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