Meekro

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by Meekro 8mo ago
Right-- at which point, companies like Facebook will (hopefully) have to obey the law. But we're not there yet. Currently, people are moralizing at Zuck for not voluntarily killing his own products because they're "obviously
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by Meekro 8mo ago
A product can be helpful to one person and harmful to another. Most products are like that. All sorts of things can be addictive to some people, from potato chips to video games. There was a major public campaign in the 1950s to ban rock
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by Meekro 8mo ago
I don't see the problem. He's offering a completely legal product to an eager audience. If people want to propose banning social media in some capacity, that could and should be voted on-- but Zuck isn't violating any legal o
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by Meekro 8mo ago
I tried that too, and wound up unfollowing everyone except the people who never post. Then my page gets filled with "suggested" content.
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by Meekro 8mo ago
The EU would have to put the US on a list of "foreign adversaries", with whatever political fallout comes from that. Not saying they shouldn't, but there will be downsides. Since controlling these platforms is probably the be
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by Meekro 9mo ago
I'm considering switching to US Mobile from Verizon-- it seems way cheaper, and you can still use the Verizon network. Any downsides I should know?
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by Meekro 9mo ago
I think one of the tells might be that all major providers go down, not just one.
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by Meekro 9mo ago
My wife and I are on the same Verizon family plan. One of us can be down while the other is fine, then 30 minutes later it's the opposite. It's been like that all day.
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by Meekro 9mo ago
Infrastructure in general seems worse than 20 years ago. Our talent for black-bagging dictators has never been stronger, though!
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by Meekro 10mo ago
From a libertarian perspective, I also thought this was a bad law. It totally abandons faith in the idea of free speech, and admits that China’s “great firewall” was the right idea. I think it’s better to document any lies that were being s
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by Meekro 10mo ago
The stated purpose of the law was to get TikTok out of the hands of a foreign adversary, and that was accomplished. Remember when Trump took office, and lots of people were worried he would refuse to enforce this law? It sounds like the aut
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by Meekro 10mo ago
Well, I learned something new today! I always thought that kind of thing would be illegal because it's a fire hazard -- if the driver was unconscious after an accident, the passengers could be trapped in a burning car.
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by Meekro 10mo ago
You can just unlock the door and exit the car in that case-- there's no way to "lock someone in" unless you've modified the lock somehow. And if someone did that, they probably reinforced the glass too.
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by Meekro 10mo ago
Just imagining firing that in a car is making my ears ring.
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by Meekro 10mo ago
When you're a solo SaaS developer/company owner, the dedicated server option really shines. I get a 10x lower price and no downsides that I've ever seen. "But are your database backups okay?" Yeah, I coded the backu
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by Meekro 11mo ago
Guessing you don't follow politics much? The owner of that account is an American woman, her identity actually leaked years ago. She's sat for several in-person interviews, I think.
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by Meekro 11mo ago
Worth noting that these foreign accounts are pretty small. The biggest foreign pro-MAGA account mentioned in the article is "MAGA NATION" with ~400k subs, with the others being in the 10k-100k subs range. Contrast that with legit
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by Meekro 11mo ago
COVID was a problem, but other systemic problems allowed the lack of math skill to go unnoticed until the kids showed up to college. This article[1] discusses how high school teachers were subject to political pressure, forcing them to give
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by Meekro 11mo ago
I think the GP post might have been downvoted because "what the math is useful for" frames it in the wrong way, making it sound like every lesson needs to be immediately applicable to your everyday life. An honest answer might be
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by Meekro 11mo ago
I looked at the article that prompted this[1]. If I had to respond to the author of the piece, I'd say this: The fact that you wrote this introspective essay is good-- it means you've spent some time reflecting on the kind of pers
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Ask HN: Reason for the DDoS attacks on DALnet circa 2002?
8 points by Meekro 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Meekro 11mo ago
UCSD (and many other universities) dropped SAT testing requirements, and high schools are under political pressure to graduate kids who never learned elementary school math . The universities are now shocked by the results.
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by Meekro 11mo ago
You're right, that's definitely a mistake. Though to be fair, the same article gets it right if you scroll down to the Tesla section. The article on Tesla also gets it right.
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by Meekro 1y ago
This feels like biblical Pharisees putting ritual cleanliness above practical concerns. The professors see themselves as pursuing higher intellectual goals, but the reality is most of their students want programming jobs, and need to be tau
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by Meekro 1y ago
You mean there's another kind?
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by Meekro 1y ago
The payments are not going to Trump, personally. They're probably not going to the government, either; I bet this becomes like the EB-5 investor visa, where you make certain kinds of investments within the US. I admit that the text on
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by Meekro 1y ago
When this goes to court (and I'm sure it will), the administration's argument will probably go something like this: Congress has authorized the administration to issue visas to people of "exceptional ability in business"
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by Meekro 1y ago
The "extra-legally" part is not at all clear. When this goes to court (and I'm sure it will), the administration's argument will probably go something like this: Congress has authorized the administration to issue visas
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by Meekro 1y ago
It sounds like the objection you're making is to the website and not the program. Do you think it's always inappropriate for executive branch websites to reflect the style of the person in office? I can understand the push for a m
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by Meekro 1y ago
The permanent residency card they issue won't look like that. It's an ID, and will have your photo and other identifying information on it.

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