throw-4e451c8

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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
> He owned four cab licenses in Portland. Then Uber came in and shredded his retirement plan. I am sorry for your friend, but not for him losing out on his rent seeker plans.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609182834/https://news.ycom...
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
> Supporters of the plan included presidential candidates Barack Obama, ...
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
I still don't get why the democratic Obama government didn't handle that the way Sweden handled a similar situation in the 90s: 1. Nationalize the bankrupt banks. 2. Get them in order. 3. Sell them and collect the profits. https:
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
I agree. Please let Reddit die already. Just before I stopped using, some stranger messaged me (in the same language) and offered to sell me video sex with a young person. Reddit has become a prostitution platform.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Do you see anyone here arguing that journalistic reports should be biased by personal opinion? You're making quite some leaps there.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Both parts of that sentence stand on their own. How do you feel that omitting the first part changes the meaning of the second part? Also: please take a moment to read the HN guidelines on comments.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Freedom House, Freedom of the Press 2013 - Sweden: "most of the mainstream media view criticism of immigration and Islam as a form of hate speech" https://www.refworld.org/docid/5238498214.html
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
It's a German newspaper that has relatively recently been caught publishing nonsense about foreign competitors to German companies. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handelsblatt#Anti-Vaccine_cont...
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
I first focused on adding relevant context. Also; not your monkey.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
He comes out as a crypto bro. Interesting move.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Let's generate more nuclear energy.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
My 80+ mom still doesn't get hamburger menus in e.g. bank apps even though I've explained them a few times. They are obviously a discoverability fail. Meanwhile she's surprisingly proficent at using Google and the mobile we
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
And South Africa the no 1 space power, I guess. SpaceX was founded by someone from there.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Please remember; Eric is very open to both the positives and the negatives. But do keep in mind the negatives. Also, did you know that french nuclear power plants sometimes are taken down for maintenance. That seems super sketchy, doesn&#x2
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
I really thought HN was smarter than that french anti-nuclear college kid trying so very hard to appear super vague/undecided... but still clearly anti. Guess not.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Oh no! "as someone living near a plant" My first 18 years: I lived 45 km from a nuclear power plant. It helped me getting interested in physics because of some in hindsight exceptionally well performed guest lectures from a physic
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
GG?
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
"I am not against nuclear power" - this is litterally the calling card of a tactical hit, forum-wise. It very obviously means the opposite of what it says. I generally look at how people perceive things like this as an IQ test. At
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
It was said, but not by employees, since OpenAI has a much lower percentage of very well-paid political activists on their staff.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Afaik Twitter still has one office left in India so there is some leverage against local directors etc. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-mu... Twitter Inc. has shut two of its three India
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Musk haters^Wcritics: Do you think Twitter instead should block India?
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
Agreed, that makes this scenario a lot less likely.
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by throw-4e451c8 3y ago
> A supposed glitch in the popular “Found My iPhone” app has been directing random strangers to the home of an unsuspecting Texas dad at all hours of the day, falsely accusing him of stealing their electronic devices. [...] he’s been vis