StanislavPetrov

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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
>I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. Making the jump from 300 baud to 2400 felt like magic!
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
I submitted a few of my papers from grad school (long before LLMs or so-called "AI" existed) and they were flagged as being ~70% AI.
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
Maybe so, but here in the USA I can walk into a 7-11 right now and buy a prepaid phone with cash and no ID.
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
The ability of the government(s) to exclude you from every day activities required for participation in society (or survival) if you run afoul of their edicts is a feature of digital ID/digital currency, not a bug.
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
You aren't required to identify yourself to get a phone. You can get a prepaid phone with no ID. You are required to identify yourself for an electricity account because it is essentially extending you credit. You use the electricity
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
My library card has no picture on it. Me and 100 of my closest friends could easily share the same card.
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
>I have no idea who the customer is for this product. Everyone who despises Google, Apple and all of the social media companies and wants absolutely no part of them. I'm going to buy one, along with several other people I know. Th
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
>Well, on the right side of the border. Which border? The Israelis don't recognize a border, which is why they have illegally annexed the Golan Heights in Syria, are currently attempting to colonize Southern Lebanon, the West Bank
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by StanislavPetrov 4mo ago
>But let’s not be under any illusion as to what the Iran regime was and still is - an authoritarian theocracy that backs numerous proxy terrorist groups across Asia. And let’s not be under any illusion as to what the Isaeli regime was an
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by StanislavPetrov 5mo ago
>and it does seem to be the case that they've been up front about their religious affiliation (online) at least since 2013, when I stopped looking. If they were only soliciting funds on their website, which made it clear that your d
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by StanislavPetrov 6mo ago
You are entitled to your opinion that I'm supporting the status quo by refusing to support the abject murder and depravity of one group of people over another, who may be slightly less murderous and depraved, and I'm entitled to m
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by StanislavPetrov 6mo ago
>I don't think "both sides" works very well when one side has been supporting the murder of citizens for exercising their free speech Obama was murdering US citizens for exercising their free speech, and their children, mo
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by StanislavPetrov 6mo ago
>The number of HNers who were earnestly arguing that this was the party of free speech indicates that this absolutely needs to be on the HN front page. The number of HNers (and people at large) who think that both corporate parties don&#
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by StanislavPetrov 7mo ago
Shout out to Phrack Magazine. https://phrack.org/
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by StanislavPetrov 7mo ago
If you think they are going belly up this year it is far cheaper and safer to buy a put. You risk losing the money you spend for it up front but your losses are capped. Right now the 25 strike for a DB Jan 15 2027 put is 2.50/2.85 bi
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by StanislavPetrov 8mo ago
Which is why ideally both systems would exist. Some people prefer to read the same few publications all the time. Others (like myself) browse extensively and regularly come across paywalled articles. I'm clearly not going to shell o
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by StanislavPetrov 8mo ago
Dreamscape, 1984
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by StanislavPetrov 9mo ago
>In an ideal world an ad network would show me 10 ads for products I want to buy Ideal for who? What if you don't want to buy anything, much less have all of your personal information hoovered up and sold/shared/exfiltrate
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by StanislavPetrov 9mo ago
Only after she finishes filming the next Lord of The Rings trilogy.
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by StanislavPetrov 9mo ago
>Or maybe don't make everyone responsible for the public roadway/sidewalk in front of their house and instead have the people that are responsible for all other things public roadway/sidewalk be responsible? Here in New Yo
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by StanislavPetrov 9mo ago
I found out that reading 900 wpm and actually comprehending what you are reading is actually possible and not that difficult at all.
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
A lot of that is tied into billing in general, even without the people who can't afford to pay for their care. When they send out an invoice for $50,000 for services rendered, even if the insurance company only ends up paying them a f
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
You are mistaking owning US debt and having your debt denominated in dollars. Many foreign countries find it desirable to own US treasuries, but they don't want to borrow dollars and have a dollar-denominated debt. When that happen
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped. Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
If you are driving a car on a public street and your solution to getting confused is stopping your car in the middle of the road wherever this confusion happens to arise, and sitting there for however long you are confused, you should not b
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
If you think this is swell, just wait until they move us to 100% digital currency!
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
I've got two more dumb TVs sitting in my closet for when this one burns out for exactly this reason.
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
One of the real levers is that if you get randomly and inexplicably locked out of your Google account and your whole life/business is destroyed, posting on Hacker News might be your only chance at redemption.
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
> If you (<-- I don't mean you personally, but anyone) "The royal you"
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
>There is a missing piece for me here. A magic 'send my PC browser tab to this other PC connected to the TV' button. I use an NVIDIA shield on a dumb TV with firefox sideloaded (ad blockers, ect) for 95% of my streaming. You c

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