patrickmcnamara

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by patrickmcnamara 24d ago
Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.
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by patrickmcnamara 29d ago
Windows 7 was pretty neat.
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by patrickmcnamara 2mo ago
I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.
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by patrickmcnamara 2mo ago
They could also just have their maps and others show in the results as normal.
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by patrickmcnamara 2mo ago
Codex CLI not having a rewind makes it useless to me.
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by patrickmcnamara 2mo ago
Nothing should be improved unless it solves world hunger.
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by patrickmcnamara 3mo ago
https://www.ft.com/content/d419bd2d-a6ba-44a5-a93a-1276f3e5d... This is the article I was thinking of. I don't think we can pretend that pensions are not a problem, and not a massive strain on government budgets.
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by patrickmcnamara 3mo ago
I don't know why everyone is being so dismissive. Pensions in Europe nowadays are just transfers from young and poor to older and wealthier. The average French pensioner (not working) has a higher income than the average French worker
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by patrickmcnamara 3mo ago
True hacker spirit here.
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by patrickmcnamara 4mo ago
45 billion / 1500 $ is 30 million workers. How did we arrive at 30 million?
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by patrickmcnamara 4mo ago
Nobody ever said other models were bastions of objectivity. They only implied they weren't corrupted by Musk. Which is true, and which is good.
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by patrickmcnamara 4mo ago
Trump 2 is worse than Trump 1 by far from EU perspective. And it also proved that it wasn't a once-off that Americans will vote in someone who threatens to dismantle NATO, invade Greenland, or start trade wars with allies for no reason
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
It's not a marathon, or any race. There is no a finish line. It doesn't matter that much that someone is a minute ahead.
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
Which system are you talking about?
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
Hyperbole.
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
The big difference is that the assets are given back when they stop invading other another country.
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by patrickmcnamara 5mo ago
> given Europe seized a ton of Russian assets Those assets are frozen, not seized.
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
The majority could have voted for a different government if they didn't want this one. I could understand this argument somewhere else, but the US has fair elections and voted for this twice.
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
Americans should stop voting in governments like this then.
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
Who issued this fine?
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
Ryanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
What is the HN way to say "touch grass"?
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
I saw nobody making those arguments. Most people were thinking that Ireland doesn't burn coal anymore. People who think or care about this stuff know that interconnects exist.
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by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
I'd love to see proper WebSocket support, and JWTs.
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by patrickmcnamara 7mo ago
Truly we entering the era of AGI.
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by patrickmcnamara 7mo ago
People on HN never been wise to any law. For some reason they think that law operates like a set of instructions that a CPU operates.
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by patrickmcnamara 7mo ago
Do bugs and bad implementations not exist in US software? If an US company did this, nobody would be bloviating about how it is a cultural issue or whatever.
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by patrickmcnamara 8mo ago
It's about collecting stickers.
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by patrickmcnamara 8mo ago
> presume pulling this data out is simple if you’re, say, China Why would you presume that?

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