JacobThreeThree

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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>and lead to an annulment of the electoral process That would be the goal.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
So any third party can spend a bunch of money without the knowledge of the candidate that they purport to support, purposefully not report it, and then that candidate can be disqualified? If that's how the system works, it incentivizes
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
The same amount of alternatives as there has been in previous years. If this was such a big issue for Canadians, why didn't the Canadian government do anything in the past 16 years since the DoubleClick acquisition? What changed this y
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Well said. Protectionism under the guise of regulation, similar to the EU.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Clearly NordStream was destroyed in a drunken escapade on a rented yacht. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
A company that never went to space once?
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Just setup oil-rig style landing terminals in the various oceans. He's already landing Starships in oceans. People today pay $15,000+ USD per seat now for 1st class, and it still takes them 18+ hours.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>I've never understood this, because the economics of hourly launches just don't make sense. There's not nearly enough demand, even assuming they drive prices down and induce demand. There's no demand for travel that
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Give them some smartphones with social media and it'll be forgotten in a generation.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
You can argue that all government contracts are a different form of subsidy, but in common parlance people do not use the term subsidy when describing government contracts.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
There's no "block user" requirement in the EU DSA.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>The second is with all the OpenAI drama MS has started to distance themselves over a souring relationship (allegedly). If so, this could be a smart move away tactfully. I agree, this was a tactical move designed to give them leverage ov
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
If he expects cybersecurity to be a factor for determining the compensation of other Microsoft employees, at least he's leading by example, even if it's not a really meaningful amount for him one way or another.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
They probably get way more reviews with the prompt, and positive ones, than without it, despite how some morally indignant outlier HN commenters would react.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
We're pretty far from starving ourselves to death.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
OpenAI's short definition of AGI is: A highly autonomous system that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>It's crazy to me that anybody thinks that these models will end up with AGI. AGI is such a different concept from what is happening right now which is pure probabilistic sampling of words that anybody with a half a brain who doesn&
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Ahh, okay, glad to see they've updated the process. Previously you had to call and find your way through a maze of disinterested people putting you on hold.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Cancelling The Economist was pretty terrible too.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>comparatively enormous infrastructure investment Any infrastructure that can remain on the ground and doesn't have to be on the rocket is worth whatever the investment cost.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
There is a quasi-open podcasting index that many podcasting apps use. It's here: https://podcastindex.org/
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
The original poster of the thread mentioned it. >Unless you have a stake in the company, it is NOT your job to make sure the company is the most profitable it can be. Your job is to create great software. What's great software? The
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Having the interests of the bottom line of the business in mind does not equate to sacrificing yourself. Do what's expected in the interests of the business, not in pursuit of some "great software" ideal.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>the government eventually sent cops in riot gear to dismantle the blockades by violence. The Ottawa police did the exact same thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/world/canada/canada-truck..
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Here's one where the protesters blockaded rail lines for months causing layoffs and many millions in lost revenue. Why didn't the government shut down these protestors bank accounts? https://www.cbc.ca/news/bu
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
If lives are at stake, it would probably elicit different emotions altogether.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>Here we're talking about banning smartphones The topic is about banning smartphones for students during school, not in general. Even if social media was the best thing for your health since sliced bread, it's not appropriate f
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
We recently scrapped our old Bootstrap-like framework too, and also opted out of using any type of UI widget tooling. Everything can be done so much more easily today with vanilla CSS and JS that it's hard to justify the overhead despi
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
You're referencing a small fraction of cherry-picked American weapons Ukraine is receiving. Other nations are giving other weapons, many of which are current generation. Patriots are current generation, and are continuously updated wit

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