MrThoughtful

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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
What is the modus operandi for upvoting links on HN these days? Is it to upvote interesting titles , so we can discuss certain topics? Or to upvote interesting content ? The topic (AI and the future of copyright law) is interesting. But t
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
For some definition of "Inflation". The original defintion was an increase in the amount of money. This amount can be seen here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE We are still in an experiment which
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
For author recommendations, there is also Gnooks AI: https://www.gnooks.com The recommendations seem to get better with every author you rate.
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Ask HN: What are the terms of the $10B Microsoft / OpenAI deal?
43 points by MrThoughtful 4y ago|51 comments
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
Europe dug itself deep into a hole. At first, we missed the internet. Because of way too much regulation. Then we found ourselves using only US software and digital services. What did we do? We created more regulation. Way more regulation.
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Ask HN: Will Microsoft benefit from all the awesome stuff OpenAI is building?
6 points by MrThoughtful 4y ago|6 comments
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
Like so often with new laws, I think a more general one would have been better. Why is it about apps, app stores, developers, voice assistants and all that specific stuff? In my opinion, it should just have been this: A company is not allow
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
That is not what I see on the page you linked to. It says "READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE when accessing other apps' files on Android 11 (API level 30) or higher" So, as I understand it, a user has no way to allow an app to read only
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
Where is this "own external storage directory"? The behavior you describe is not what I experience in real life. I see apps being able to read and write from all directories on my SD card.
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
When you sees news about some company and the news does not mention Thiel, how do you know he is not invested in them?
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
It looks like Felt uses Mapbox under the hood. Which might also require attribution. So if a journalist makes a screenshot of a website that uses Felt, they would have to have a text like ... "Image courtesy of SomeSite with an image c
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
What I always found very confusing is that apps on Android can either read all of the SD drive or nothing. Wouldn't the normal approach to gate applications from each other be to give each one the right to access a single directory? Th
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
Is anybody publicly tracking Teslas self-driving progress over time? I have been googling a bit, but not found anything: Is somebody out there driving the same route again and again , tracking the number of disengagements over time? There a
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Ask HN: Is anybody tracking Teslas self-driving progress over time?
3 points by MrThoughtful 4y ago|3 comments
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
Could one make a lock that unlocks wirelessly via radio communication? I would imagine something that gets its energy from the outside, similar to wireless charging. So the key would provide the energy. It could be Bluetooth or some proprie
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by MrThoughtful 4y ago
It might not be possible to create a public forum in a way that it stays thoughtful and interesting even when it becomes popular. The first problem is that thoughtful and interesting content rarely attracts many readers. The second is that