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by alterom 9mo ago
You missed the part that I linked it for the video . You don't have to read the rest of the article.
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by alterom 9mo ago
Because The Boring Company hasn't built any tunnels worth noting, perhaps, and stalled most of its projects. This isn't a case against tunnels, this is a case against The Boring Company. The tunnels aren't a great idea aprio
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by alterom 9mo ago
Not in principle, mind you. It's just that the company has stalled every major project they started, and, so far, completed a rather shitty an uninspiring one in Vegas that has no reason to exist in the first place (it's subway bu
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by alterom 9mo ago
Unfortunately, enough for many regular people to be screwed when that stock crashes.
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by alterom 9mo ago
> It seems like the motivation here is that Musk is aligning Tesla to a narrative that justify the absurd stock price, even if that narrative isn't reality. Since Tesla stock has always been 90% based on the narrative, the narrati
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by alterom 9mo ago
> I'll let you find the video, it's brutal This Daily Mail article¹ has it. It.. doesn't look brutal to me? Just looks like the minibus driver, who was driving on the median , veered across it into the oncoming lane t
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by alterom 9mo ago
OK, not a flop. An failure that didn't live up to the hype that generated the initial sales volume in pre-orders. The idea of the Cybertruck sold well — at a time before Musk's Roman salutes, shadowing Trump, running DOGE, and
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by alterom 9mo ago
To be "for the masses", it would need to: - be smaller - have an actually usuable truck bed - be painted (so rust isn't an issue) - have a body that's not literally duck taped together in some places and can easily snap
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by alterom 9mo ago
>I'd just like to invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines. To say that it doesn't apply here, I hope? Spoiler: the "celebrated researcher" in the title was discovered to commit fraud on a massive scale, was stripp
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by alterom 9mo ago
> GP is talking about codeine, you're talking about morphine. The difference between the two is at the crux of this article. It appears that they didn't really read the article before commenting. The entire point, the damning
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by alterom 9mo ago
> Which banks do you use? My local credit union (TechCU) does none of that nonsense, and I highly recommend a credit union over any of the big banks in any case.
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by alterom 9mo ago
> Does no one care that this is potentially a murder case? I'd say, a very low chance of murder , and a near-certainty of at least manslaughter (unintentional killing), with a zero chance of prosecution due to lack of evidence.
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by alterom 9mo ago
Holy damn, this map is a dream and the best map of NYC I've ever seen! It's as if NYC was built in Transport Tycoon Deluxe. I'll be honest, I've been pretty skeptical about AI and agentic coding for real-life problems an
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by alterom 9mo ago
Why not both. Protectionism that works to bolster inovation. TSMC didn't become the world's supreme chipmaker by a laissez-faire aproach from Taiwan. Same applies to Samsung. And oh-so-many Japanese tech ventures. And all of them
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by alterom 9mo ago
> The point however is that the United States is supposed to operate under a different model than China. Does it mean we shouldn't have borders and a military because China has them? Same applies to tariffs.
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by alterom 9mo ago
I knew he was a loonie, but thought that you're exaggerating. Nope. Quote [1]: While I’m being politically incorrect, let me describe to you the mind of a teenage boy. Our frontal lobes aren’t complete. We don’t imagine the future. Ou
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by alterom 9mo ago
Exactly — they wouldn't.
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by alterom 9mo ago
> We don’t need good vaccines anymore even though infectious diseases are on the rise To clarify, this is an example of RFK's lunacy , not the user's opinion to be voted on.
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by alterom 9mo ago
> we will all get to watch this slowly unravel however Trump wants, will we not? My understanding is that they consider this part nihilistic, though it sounds more like apathy, jadedness, and learned helplessness with a dash of catas
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by alterom 9mo ago
>For me personally, I only want to see politics that are directly tech-adjacent here. Since when is government censorship of social media posts[1] not "directly tech-adjacent"? I adore the mental gymnastics here. [1] The p
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by alterom 9mo ago
> How about the part where the Pentagon, staffed by a Fox News anchor, fresh off firing the top legal heads, are now accusing a decorated American of sedition for reciting the law? So, there's no doublespeak in the article . Ther
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by alterom 9mo ago
>It's pretty clear the "kind of content" I'm referring to is the doublespeak that pervades American politics Clear to whom ? You are clearly referring to the BBC article (that's the content ); characterizing
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by alterom 9mo ago
It's a BBC article related to technology (legality of video content and government censorship of it). Factual reporting from a reputable news source. That's "the kind of content" you're talking about. I hope that
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by alterom 9mo ago
BBC article related to technology (legality of video content and government censorship) is clearly antithetical to hacker culture and interests, I guess. Go figure.
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by alterom 10mo ago
>This whole thing just won't go away because many people are operating outside their area of expertise on this subject. The point the author made in the article is that the reconstructors are well aware of this, and are, in a way,
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by alterom 10mo ago
>They are probably like me: if punctuation isn't on my keyboard, I don't use it. LPT: on Android, pressing and holding a punctuation key on the on-screen keyboard reveals additional variations of it — like the em-dash, for ex
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by alterom 10mo ago
It's Federal Blackmail.
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by alterom 10mo ago
>Many of those regulations at the federal level, yes? In addition to ones at state level, yes.
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by alterom 10mo ago
>its crazy that russian search engine is more "open" compared to US search engine It's crazy that you think there's only one search engine in the US. Try this one: https://www.bing.com/search?q=sci-hub
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by alterom 10mo ago
>There are alternative search engines to Google, ..and of those, I really wouldn't be giving the one under the direct control of Russia's FSB as my top recommendation. A little-known American search engine known as Bing[1] li

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