samgtx

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by samgtx 3y ago
I'm curious how the hacker news algorithm works that something with (to me, currently) 9 upvotes and 1 comment can hit number 1 on the site and be hugged to death.
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by samgtx 3y ago
This is like saying more lawyers should be writing software. Lawyers have extensive education and experience in the law and so work with..the law.
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by samgtx 3y ago
It's telling that your comment is currently 2nd ranked. It comes across generous "there are bright math kids everywhere" but really boils down to "don't talk about how they're black" and "don't t
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by samgtx 3y ago
Oh HN is going to love this. > A somewhat more subtle form of negation, is refinement of measurement. One man says that a tank weights ninety tons. And for that particular discussion, accuracy is of no consequence. Yet someone’s ego spea
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by samgtx 3y ago
Wow I definitely thought it was named after the facehugger from Alien.
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by samgtx 3y ago
Because a trailer has a bathroom and a kitchen and these are sheds?
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by samgtx 3y ago
Sheds. These are sheds. at 25 grand a piece some private contractor is going to make a killing.
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by samgtx 3y ago
I received this email and figured hey, having an account for 15 years is finally paying off. But they just stuck me on a waitlist. I didn't even have a microsoft account when I tried to sign up for bing, and was accepted off the waitli
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by samgtx 3y ago
> But maybe they are preparing a bombshell or something This is what I don't understand. Didn't they fire an employee for coming out and telling the world they had an AGI? Where is this LLM that convinced an employee it was ali
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by samgtx 3y ago
And zero acknowledgment that Credit Default Swaps were pioneered by Blythe Masters AT JP Morgan and used relentlessly to move risk off of balance sheets in a house of cards that led to millions losing their homes and life savings. "In
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by samgtx 4y ago
If someone created a twitter bot right now that was able to pull old hard libertarian tweets from these people and post them as replies that would be...entertaining. Hypocrite-bot?
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by samgtx 4y ago
What is even the crime here? "This person requested a torrent link" "This person posted a torrent link". What do they expect to charge these people with, even if they could track them down? It isn't like anyone is u
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by samgtx 4y ago
Great game. I have played a similar game to death on android called Flow Free. I binge the new packs as they come out. The first game/set of puzzles was free and I have purchased and completed every new pack to optimal/5 stars. Th
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by samgtx 4y ago
> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants. That would be horrifying news to many women.
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by samgtx 4y ago
You might enjoy the book then. The tools that were built in the NSA and its contractors that are now in the hands of our enemies, combined with the shocking lack of security throughout the country is borderline terrifying. We are so vulnera
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by samgtx 4y ago
I just recently read This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth which was an extremely interesting and concerning book, explaining the escalating capabilities of chained zero-day exploits to create devastating cyber attacks
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Biden says Russia exploring options for possible cyberattacks against US targets(ft.com)
9 points by samgtx 4y ago|6 comments
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by samgtx 5y ago
A bit of a woo-woo aside but I've been trying to practice more gratitude thinking in my daily life and the grocery store is an easy place to be reminded of how good we have it.
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by samgtx 5y ago
I knew that post was a mistake as soon as I saw it.
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by samgtx 5y ago
Wow that's pretty rude.
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by samgtx 5y ago
Hiding the news behind paywalls means only people with money get to be well informed. Is this not "hacker" news? Seems like a lot of well-paid people forgot where they came from. I love this extension. It works very well. I use it
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by samgtx 5y ago
What a neat little tool that is. Bookmarked.
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by samgtx 7y ago
>Why can't women just go to a sperm bank and buy premium DNA? They can. High end sperm banks that do thorough background checks and create profiles on donors already exist.
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by samgtx 7y ago
The problem here is really that public spending has been vilified through decades of propaganda. The general public will vote against any taxation increase to pay for public works, even if those works would, in the end, lead to better lives
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by samgtx 7y ago
>Being mixed with concrete and distributed evenly throughout it, they can lay there in a dormant state for up to 200 years; only when the concrete cracks, air and moisture awaken the bacteria which use the calcium lactate as a food sourc
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by samgtx 7y ago
But doesn't that mean that WeWork could become the AirBnB by making itself the app/website where all of these independent landlords list their office spaces and where workers go to rent them?
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by samgtx 7y ago
It surprises me that they don't offer quiet cubicles or areas of office space for quiet workers. I see noise of coworkers as a major complaint among office workers and the source of hatred for open concept offices. Do these WeWork offi