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by pessimizer 8d ago
> But surveillance by private companies who have the government's ear It's the opposite that is true. Governments can selectively enforce laws against companies based on whether they comply or not, and pay them for whatever the
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by pessimizer 8d ago
Trump didn't bring the CIA and MI6 into existence. That's liberal cope from the years they spent yelling about how secret police were actually good now, because they didn't like Trump. Well now they like Trump - happy?
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by pessimizer 8d ago
That's because there's not really a there there when it comes to Hinduism. It's a nationalism disguised as a religion (by eating every local religion.)
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by pessimizer 8d ago
I'm nervous because of how articulate, reasonable and numerous grapheneos's posts have been on HN recently. From experience it has a smell of getting a very good corporate comms person on staff, and that's a sign that a rugpu
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by pessimizer 8d ago
> The governments cannot fund this with tax payers money because they have other critical problems to solve The governments can's solve this problem because the entire economic model of the EU is that the core exploits the periphery
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by pessimizer 8d ago
Pretty sure that Cloudflare has absolutely no moat in Europe, and could be replaced by any adequately funded European version. Never believe that European talk about separating from the US is anything but slop for the plebs.
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by pessimizer 8d ago
Better to just ignore the anti-Russian and hasbara spam. It's being posted opportunistically. The chance to attack archive.is in an organically posted thread is probably the only reason an intermittent outage (common) of archive.is was
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by pessimizer 8d ago
I don't think it has anything to do with google, it's an intermittent issue on the archive sites that usually clears out within an hour or two. You're being successful, then being bounced back out again. Also firefox from lin
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by pessimizer 8d ago
What does this link have to do with anything?
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by pessimizer 9d ago
Seems very related to another electrek story today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599058 If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn’t sell you one They seem to just be laying downside risk off onto s
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by pessimizer 9d ago
> Spare batteries are a nightmare to handle. New definition of nightmare just dropped: changing a battery. Or is it simply handling a battery? I can't figure out what's supposed to be the nightmare. Maybe it's the turning
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by pessimizer 9d ago
This happened under him. ---- Favorite part is Gates' opinion of the entire Windows project: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This
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by pessimizer 9d ago
> No one cares about a woman entering a men's sporting contest, because a) she almost certainly will never get anywhere and b) if she did, it would be an amazing achievement, and would be men losing out, which very few people would
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by pessimizer 9d ago
> None of the male-led scams have "being male" as a talking point trying to sell the scam If she never mentioned being female I don't remember it. In fact she used to talk in a fake man-voice to sound serious. Other peopl
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by pessimizer 9d ago
You don't understand - it's not meant to spy on you, it's only meant to spy on you. It's only meant to spy on you in the way that won't get really bad viral press right now. If it spies on you in the way that people
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by pessimizer 9d ago
You change the conversation about televisions to be about judging the person you're having the conversation with for what they think is "ill-intent" and for one-upsmanship, you put words into their mouth, and when they point
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by pessimizer 9d ago
> Some open source hacked-together box, then? I've just used an old Intel NUC with Debian stable, a remote mini-keyboard and an automounted Samba share on the network forever. It's no more hacked together than any other compute
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by pessimizer 10d ago
I've been waiting for AI matchmakers. Not just for dating, but for p2p sales, now that ebay has discouraged low-volume sellers and everything has moved behind the facebook wall with facebook marketplace. One of the problems with OKCupi
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by pessimizer 10d ago
Such a bizarre question. Many, many people have read statistics textbooks. Can you write one that's more worth reading than the standard ones? Don't answer that question, just prove it.
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by pessimizer 10d ago
> The question is why are we needing to read these disks in a thousand years. I would guess right now that the most likely case is information we care about is archived on modern formats such as hard drives, which are constantly being co
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by pessimizer 10d ago
Ignorance of how computers work is a moat. One that Apple influenced the entire industry to adopt. Same reason the Church didn't want to translate the Bible into the vernacular. If you can read the Bible you don't need a priest, o
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by pessimizer 10d ago
Yes. That was the weird claim. I find hundreds of books about each thing I want to know about, and don't have the time in my life to read even a tiny fraction of them. What are these interests that fall entirely outside of the range of
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by pessimizer 10d ago
I love how Europeans get pumped up on anti-American rhetoric when they are far more submissive to the US than even a Ukraine or a South Korea is. I'm starting to think the rhetoric (always about what they're about to do, somethi
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by pessimizer 10d ago
It's bad in and of itself the way LLMs use it. They separate it into a weird declaration when it's usually something you'd say at the beginning and/or end of a paragraph or passage where you're making a case for tha
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by pessimizer 10d ago
Who cares this is a subthread about legal advice.
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by pessimizer 10d ago
> In both cases the judges found Google in violation of antitrust law Exactly. They have been determined to be a monopoly, but have been allowed to continue to be a monopoly because not being a monopoly could damage their business. Why w
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by pessimizer 11d ago
> The reason to learn an instrument today is because the former situation was romanticized. Lol. The reason to learn an instrument is because it is directly pleasurable to play an instrument. You've got consumer/spectator brain
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by pessimizer 11d ago
There's neither a right nor a "right" for everyone to collect disability, to not pay rent, and to stop anyone from building. The British state is being flooded with requests for things that people are actually entitled to, bu
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by pessimizer 11d ago
> Yet it threatens to become a tragedy of the commons. If the state is overwhelmed and cannot function, everyone loses. When 20th-century governments created broad rights, they had the noble ideal of making citizenship meaningful. The pu
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by pessimizer 11d ago
Lot of people discovering the value in having a union after they've lost all of their leverage. There's nobody more replaceable than the maintainers of a collaborative encyclopedia. A lot of AI will fail where the rubber meets the

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