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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
This has nothing to do with your right to view content. Your right to view whatever content you like does not give foreign dictatorships the right to manipulate and attack our societies. If HN was under the control of the Chinese Communist
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Or let’s not change anything. Because it has nothing to do with race.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
> while abiding by Chinese law This includes Chinese national security law which is far more invasive than the US law. The party can order a company to do anything they want, or make any physical places they want available to them, and e
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Sorry it’s not meant to be a dig at you, but in I wish we could stop talking about the “cloud” and software running “in the cloud”. There is no cloud… it’s just software running on someone else’s computers that you don’t control. And that s
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
I’ve taken many taxis in Montreal and London and other European cities, and in Taiwan, and have never had anything like this happen to me. Instead I get Uber drivers who refuse to come to my pickup spot and drive around in circles hoping I’
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
I’m living in Asia and when I need to fly I’ll just buy a meal at 7-Eleven or Family Mart to bring on the flight. It’s amazing how these convenience stores can make good quality food so cheap but the airlines somehow can’t provide. Business
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
> ChatGPT can't sell it as its own content, ChatGPT has no brain, no thoughts and no agency. There are a few questions that matter here. ChatGPT is a machine built and operated by humans. If ChatGPT infringes copyright, then it is t
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Why not see everyone else correct up? Tech salaries aren’t too high. It’s many other salaries that are far too low from decades of stagnation.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
> do we account for velocity in determining whether light traveling at c towards earth will ever reach us? No, because the speed of light is constant for all observers. From our frame of reference on earth, light from distant receding ga
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
It’s not that it needs to be, it’s just that—based on our knowledge of the chemical elements—life based on some combination of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen is by far the most likely. Other forms are certainly possible, it’s just t
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
I’ve been saying for years, the only reason these kinds of online businesses are viable is because they are foregoing all the “human” services that they should be providing, and they can get away with it just by hiding everything behind mac
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Thanks HP for reaffirming my position of never buying an HP printer again and never recommending one to any of my friends or family ever. What a despicable company.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Speak for yourself. It makes me love the community. Rust’s memory safety definitely makes it a user feature.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
I would say it’s because the Haskell community is too arrogant and pretentious. I love the language and worked with it professionally for over a year, but I can’t stand everything around the developer experience and community. Rust is a bre
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Do people think the NY Times reports hearsay as fact? Here, straight from the horse's mouth: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio...
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
This is like saying “well I’m 70 years old and perfectly healthy after smoking my whole life”. We’re talking about probabilities and statistics over large populations. Not every child who plays outside will avoid myopia, like yourself. But
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Good riddance.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
> and overfitting can look the same as copying Is there really any difference?
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
No one is paying content creators on YouTube, honestly at this point that sentiment is misinformation. Google is the one who has a business relationship with content creators… how and how much they get paid is not our concern. Honestly, Goo
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
I don’t understand why these ads aren’t considered criminal fraud, why Google and its directors aren’t held criminally responsible for said fraud, and why all the income derived from such fraud is considered proceeds of crime and seized.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Yeah, in principle no market is open, but in the other hand the “openness” of the European vs Chinese markets is not even comparable. China’s market is notoriously difficult for foreign companies to enter and to operate in. For starters, E
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
This does not tell me what a passkey actually _is_. The marketing around passkeys is absolutely infuriating.
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
Huawei, and basically every Chinese corporation, should be considered extensions of the communist party as they can be used, willingly or unwilling, for espionage and any other national security purpose the Party compels them to, and they m
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by a_random_canuck 3y ago
There's also the fact that it's filled with genocide-denying CCP-apologists, communists, etc. A bit of an ideological cesspool...
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by a_random_canuck 4y ago
One obvious reason is that these documents can confirm spying operations that were happening and may still be continuing to today. For example the US was tapping and transcribing all the phone calls to communist bloc embassies in Mexico in