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by Veen 4y ago
Law enforcement and the courts mostly do make the distinction effectively—it's what they are for. That they sometimes accidentally or deliberately fail to do so is true, but it doesn't license lawbreaking. In the US, there's
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by Veen 4y ago
Aren't you mixing up two different things? There's your problem, being harassed for something you say you didn't do. And there is the criminal's problem, being found out for something they did do. For the latter problem,
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by Veen 4y ago
Presumably the board have considered that course of action and decided against it. It’s just possible that they have access to information that you don’t, and so have come to a different conclusion.
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by Veen 4y ago
In addition to the pleasure of reading these lovely prose passages, I learnt a new word: cunctation. Seems it’s a near synonym to procrastination, defined as the act of delaying or putting off doing something.
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by Veen 4y ago
Why would he? He's doing the job he's paid to do, which includes managing downsizing when it's appropriate.
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by Veen 4y ago
Tax pounds.
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by Veen 4y ago
Or we can complain, suggest alternatives, and hope that it motivates a change. Hacker News is, after all, a place for conversation—people are entitled to express an opinion.
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by Veen 4y ago
There are crappy books, and there are excellent books. I find that business and self-books in particular match your description, and sometimes popular science books. But not well-regarded histories and biographies.
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by Veen 4y ago
You can look in this thread for legitimate non-deceptive uses. Voice synthesis for people with degenerative diseases like ALS, for example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309432
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by Veen 4y ago
They do focus on them. Reminders has had loads of updates in recent years: it's actually a pretty good todo app these days. Mail is updated every year with new features. Messages is key to Apple's services push, and get a massive
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by Veen 4y ago
The main thing I learned watching these videos is that Cornell students—or Americans more generally, perhaps—hold pens in a way that seems unusual to me. For example, with the thumb wrapped round the pen or with it gripped by the tips of al
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by Veen 4y ago
Like many legal terms, it has a specific meaning influenced by statutes and case law that differs from and is more precise than the standard dictionary definition. You’re not likely to win a legal case if your defence is pointing at ‘perpet
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by Veen 4y ago
It’s not big enough to to tell the major publishers that. Especially if it wants mainstream titles on its relatively small ebook platform.
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by Veen 4y ago
Because he's concerned he'll be charged with corruption now he's no longer immune from prosecution. He might be guilty of corruption or he might not. Either way, 'democracy' isn't a magical state of affairs tha
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by Veen 4y ago
He's probably right, but the post gives vibes of "I used to pimp (as he puts it) for LastPass and now I'm pimping for my friends over at 1Password."
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by Veen 4y ago
It takes 32 ETH to be a validator.
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by Veen 4y ago
That's how the terms sex and gender were used in English until a couple of decades ago. Gender was later coopted to refer to social and cultural factors, as opposed to biological factors, of sex.
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by Veen 4y ago
Attention and support aren’t the same thing. Their stupid behaviour makes it less likely the general population will support climate action—few people want to be associated with these morons.
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by Veen 4y ago
There are many reasons to use metaphors [0], but not if you're aiming for maximal comprehension by people who may not have advanced reading comprehension or English language skills. This advice is intended for writing in a very specifi
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by Veen 4y ago
I am a professional copywriter and technical writer, so I have a dog in this race. But I don't agree that Cgpt is anywhere near a professional standard. It can produce mostly coherent and correct English, but not concise, creative, or
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by Veen 4y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that RSS a solution to the filter bubble problem. But the benefit of RSS is that you create your own filter bubble, rather than relying on someone else's (often malicious) algorithm to do it for yo
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by Veen 4y ago
> better content, well sourced, well written and quantifiable intentional I've not seen AI create "better content" than even a moderately competent human, let alone an expert writer and researcher. How do you know AI cont
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by Veen 4y ago
You're not reading it right. The FT journalist in this story is not American. But, as a general rule, nations seek to protect their own citizens.
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by Veen 4y ago
> Please enlighten me. For the purposes of enlightenment: Your comment is typical nerd stuff. You’re biased by your failure to understand how human communications and social interactions work.
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by Veen 4y ago
There's a difference between critiquing an opinion and being a rude asshole. The "typical fanboi stuff" commentor was being a rude asshole.
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by Veen 4y ago
I’ve been quite tempted to delete my account and start again so getting to 10,000 doesn’t become a goal. It’s fake internet points but I feel the temptation nevertheless.
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps I'm a bit old-fashioned, but paying writers to write doesn't seem like a particularly nefarious activity to me. I mean, I believe the NYT does it too, and a few other organizations.
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by Veen 4y ago
> "There are a range of provisions in criminal and civil law which may be applicable in the case of password sharing where the intent is to allow a user to access copyright-protected works without payment," I'm not sure th
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by Veen 4y ago
It’s not just a bookmarking service. It’s also an archiving service. People are annoyed that the archiving part doesn’t work reliably.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's funny and annoying, which is Maciej's schtick. The cooly ironic lets-not-take-it-too-seriously approach to customer service.

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