Detrytus

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by Detrytus 7mo ago
A human driver would just get out of their car and beat the crap out of you, something that Waymo is not capable of (yet).
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
1: This "ADHD" issue is because you've never seen properly ran bus system. I used to live in big European city, riding bus to work everyday, and I never even knew the bus schedule. I did not have to. They would come every 15
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
> 3 years together and I still couldn't understand a single word she said to her mother. Well, maybe they both did not want you to... ;-)
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of global revenue in the previous year. If a company has 30% profit margin then they can, in theory, treat is as a cost of doing business, indefinitely.
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
> I use my credit and debit cards the same way today as I did before smartphones existed. How exactly are you doing that? with 3D Secure online credit card transactions now require confirmation in the mobile app (or via OTP sent by SMS,
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
> Nevertheless, an optimum seems to have been reached around 20 years ago, and since then more often than not I see only worse interfaces that make harder to do what was simpler previously, so there is no incentive for an "upgrade&q
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by Detrytus 8mo ago
OK, I’m renaming my home WiFi to “Riverside_Strip_Club” :-)
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by Detrytus 9mo ago
As a person who moved to US from Europe recently I can say that prices charged by US healthcare providers are ridiculous - all overpriced 10-20x compared to my home country.
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by Detrytus 9mo ago
For me the problem with mail-in votes is that they are (in many jurisdictions) allowed to come in long after the in-person voting is closed, and the preliminary results are annouced. So it creates the space for manipulations, where you coun
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by Detrytus 9mo ago
This solves only part of the problem: it captures CO2 and can release it later. But you still need to figure out what to do with this CO2, how to turn it into something useful.
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by Detrytus 9mo ago
Still, making only 32k PLN ($9k) profit on 137M PLN ($38M) revenue seems like a really badly operated business.
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by Detrytus 10mo ago
The keyfob was brought up by someone so they can make a clickbaity title: "A thing in your pocket has more computing power than Apollo guidance computer. And it's not your smartphone"
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by Detrytus 10mo ago
But you haven't made any money either. That's what "profit" means. Also, "the asset" here means stocks of a company that is losing billions dollars per year. OpenAI has no clear path to become profitable, espec
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by Detrytus 10mo ago
Well, by offering food for punch in the face you changed it from charity to free market transaction. Basically you gave them a chance to earn their food instead of just giving it to them. If they deem the price too high and refuse your offe
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by Detrytus 10mo ago
Well, some kinds of disability still are a stigma, but here on HN neurodiversity/autism is celebrated as some kind of superpower, basically.
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by Detrytus 10mo ago
"Totalitarian nightmare" is the natural state of the mankind. At the end of the day we are just animals, seeking to establish dominance over other animals. Couple centuries of democracy were an anomaly, raising from the fact that
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by Detrytus 11mo ago
Sharing intel is another big thing. Without US satellite imagery and gps coordinates Ukraine soldiers would not know what to shoot at.
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by Detrytus 11mo ago
So it is possible, and you just calculated the probability of that happening.
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by Detrytus 11mo ago
Off topic but: Jury trials are one of the weirdest things about America: If I’m ever on trial for some crime I want my case decided by professional judges not a team of random idiots.
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by Detrytus 11mo ago
It's always funny how people get this backwards: China being an export economy means that the whole world is dependent on them, not the other way around.
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by Detrytus 11mo ago
> The alternative is dispensing with the notion that some people are illegal and must be purged, or even that this a legitimate function of government. That's not an alternative at all. Countries are built by certain groups of peopl
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Which, ironically, would mean that knowing the current rule set is not needed to drive safe.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
That's why I have those passwords written down on a piece of paper that I keep in my desk drawer :) /s
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Call me old fashioned but I distrust any form of authentication that is tied to a specific device. I might be getting older but my memory is still good enough to remember a couple of secure passwords (secure, as in: 20+ chars long random st
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by Detrytus 1y ago
The problem is: if you do that, then you need to create a big government agency that will interview the potential candidates, evaluating their value on the job market, in order to grant them a visa. Right now that job is done by their spons
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by Detrytus 1y ago
OK, but this is just an USCIS guidance to how they are going to interpret the proclamation when approving petitions. Important thing would be to have similar thing from CBP on how they are going to treat H-1B individuals at border crossings
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I think you meant to say Eastern Europe. Western countries such as France, Sweden or Germany went through quick enshittification process thanks to uncontrolled immigration.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Nothing in the proclamation [1] says it is "per year". What it says is that every existing petition must be supplemented by $100k check, otherwise the employee won't be able to (re-)enter the US. So, if you already got your
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I guess duty-free stores were a thing decades ago when international trade was actually constrained by duties. Right now free trade is the default (or was, until Trump)
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by Detrytus 1y ago
They don’t even mention The Beast of London from Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere”. Or Mr Coup, or Vandemar.

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