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by rendall 16d ago
It's a roulette which can lead to a ticket, or an entry in the sex-offender registry, or nothing. Where it stops, nobody knows. Best just buy something at a bar, restaurant, café to get bathroom privileges.
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by rendall 23d ago
> > Compared with meat-eaters, vegetarians were more likely to have a higher educational level, whereas vegans had a lower education level > this is such a... wrong conclusion to make from the study. the study has found a correlat
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by rendall 23d ago
> "If you’ve ever been wandering the streets of Chicago or New York, wondering why there’s no place to pee..." Oh, there are places to pee, if you're brave. My last venture into a NYC public restroom was the one at Sun Y
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by rendall 1mo ago
A government may have entirely benign reasons for creating a comprehensive population database, but you cannot guarantee who will control that database later. You have to trust the people who control it, not only now, but at all times in th
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by rendall 1mo ago
Each officer would then have malpractice insurance, like doctors or lawyers. Criminal or incompetent officers' insurance premiums would get so high that they would need to find another career.
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by rendall 2mo ago
> Think about what's happened since 2016: Populists exploit ad marketplaces, using them to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and deliver tailored messages to susceptible audiences. I'm neither a fan of advertising nor Trum
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by rendall 2mo ago
Flagging for being paywalled
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by rendall 3mo ago
His "cheat detection method" mostly consisted of playing someone online and then reporting them for cheating if he lost.
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by rendall 3mo ago
The accusation is so transparently self-serving, but HN has been so unhinged with its IDS, I want to see which impulse wins out.
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by rendall 3mo ago
Primary source from Colombian President Gustavo Petro. The key claim is: “Hoy tenemos evidencia de un cambio de direcciones IP de varios servidores de la Registraduría Nacional. Significa que se vulneró el software...” and then: “El único c
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Colombia's president accuses Israel of compromising election software(twitter.com)
8 points by rendall 3mo ago|3 comments
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by rendall 3mo ago
Semitic does not refer to people nor to a race of people, but to a family of languages including Hebrew and Arabic. The man who coined the term "antisemitic" used it to describe his own views which were specifically anti-Jew. The
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by rendall 3mo ago
* Avisa Partners / iStrat , a French lobbying, intelligence, cybersecurity, and online-influence firm, has been accused in French investigations of information manipulation through ghostwritten articles, fake or undisclosed profiles,
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by rendall 3mo ago
* CLS Strategies , a Washington, D.C. communications firm, was named by Facebook/Meta in 2020 when Meta removed fake accounts and pages tied to operations in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mexico. Meta defines coordinated inauthentic behavio
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by rendall 3mo ago
I'd love to hear more about this if you have the time. What specific things happened?
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by rendall 4mo ago
Video adaptation. https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg
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by rendall 4mo ago
Apparently Harvard is introducing a 20% cap (plus change) on As. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/plan-to-rein-... No cap on A minuses though.
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by rendall 4mo ago
Yeah, as a non-Mormon, I agree. I think the Mormon connection is a paranoid distraction. The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across
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by rendall 4mo ago
Big, if true. Mansel received ineffective counsel from several lawyers, because no lawyers he initially consulted mentioned this form.
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How to Make Sure AI Doesn't Spy on Us or Kill Innocent People(reason.com)
2 points by rendall 4mo ago|0 comments
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Why The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic – ReasonTV [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rendall 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rendall 4mo ago
> "A horse is an extremely sophisticated biological machine, but it has no idea what makes itself tick." To my ears, a lot of detail is hidden in "knowing what makes itself tick". The limit of human Umwelt, cognit
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by rendall 4mo ago
Being treated as innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is considered to be a fundamental right in the West.
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by rendall 5mo ago
This headline reads like the subject line of an alarming scam email.
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by rendall 5mo ago
For me, there is a sign-up modal overlay that prevents reading or scrolling, even though the entire article loads. How did others manage to read the article?
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by rendall 5mo ago
Indeed. Do not blow up the balloon. Just use it as a rubber pouch. If anything is still unclear, describe as detailed as you can the difficulty you're visualizing.
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by rendall 5mo ago
> One of the things I've loved most about HN is that it was real — grounded in observability, empirical evidence, not bias or feelings. Alas, this is not my experience of HN. About neutral topics, sure. Not a lot of flaming and ir
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by rendall 5mo ago
So, literally, "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength in mice" then.
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by rendall 5mo ago
...in mice. :/
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by rendall 6mo ago
I see your pedantry, and raise it one more! Through substantivization one can definitely have stream-of-<adjective>. Think "a stream of blue" or "a stream of the poor". People often shave off the tail of well-kno

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