barneygale

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by barneygale 4y ago
Welcome to HN, where suburban America is the only developed country.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Again, this is mostly an American problem. In other countries you know your neighbours and local community and wouldn't have a problem feeding hungry kids.
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by barneygale 4y ago
> Your goal is nice, but impractical? If the only way to do AI is to encode racism etc, then we shouldn't be doing AI at all.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Don't bother with HN comments for anything other than tech and startups, and even then you should be suspicious. It's full of privileged tech bros pushing shitty solutions to the wrong problems.
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by barneygale 4y ago
HDMI ports and SD card readers ftw
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by barneygale 4y ago
Can I ask what sort of traumatic experience would lead to such a trivial thing triggering you? Understand completely if it's still too raw to share publicly.
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by barneygale 5y ago
That's OK in principle, as long as those companies function like governments (i.e. they work to improve things rather than turn a profit, subject to constitutions, public voting, judicial review). As engineers we should embrace the eff
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by barneygale 5y ago
Their wealth and power rivals many states, yet they act with a level of impunity that most dictatorships will never attain. We can and should break Google and others up into many smaller companies. They'll be less efficient that way, b
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by barneygale 5y ago
If the CIA/FBI wanted to make people think a plane had hit the pentagon, why wouldn't they just use a plane? This conspiracy theory is one of the dumbest.
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by barneygale 5y ago
This a community for startup founders. Each of them cultivates a personal myth that they're successful because they were smart and worked hard. They don't like to admit that the system is rigged in their favour.
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Elizabeth line Trial Operations – First volunteer mass evacuation exercise(youtube.com)
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by barneygale 5y ago
Amazon needs to be broken up into hundreds of smaller companies.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Good.
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by barneygale 5y ago
I'm a firefox user. What am I missing by not using Chrome?
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by barneygale 5y ago
Charity won't solve poverty you muppet
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by barneygale 5y ago
TFT?
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by barneygale 5y ago
The "scary slide" is towards megacorps owning our lives, not the EU's very late effort to slow it down.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Relevant bash.org: http://bash.org/?949214 > <azonenberg> wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that, as a useful side feature, also contains a blog Circa mid-00s
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by barneygale 5y ago
Most NFTs aren't stored on the blockchain.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Google/Facebook employees: do something good for civilisation and quit your jobs. There are plenty of employers out there where you can create something real and positive.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Serving ads doesn't require cookies
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by barneygale 5y ago
> Even though the work product was purchased from the bankruptcy auction, the copyright was still owned by the creators and could not be rendered/released just because they bought a box in auction for $20. Does the first-sale doctri
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by barneygale 5y ago
Because the readership of HN is mostly Americans who can't imagine not driving. The knee-jerk against public transport is pathetic and predictable.
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by barneygale 5y ago
My friend has VJ'd large clubs and music festivals on her ancient Macbook without ever using an external display driver. There's not a lot of money in the scene for most people. They use the software/hardware they have. Hidin
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by barneygale 5y ago
All is forgiven if you can share the trick to not getting AFK kicked? (first.last@gmail.com). I've wanted to bring the OG code back for years.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Hello! I'm the original owner of the 'BibleBot' account/bot. Glad to see you put it to good use :-)
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by barneygale 5y ago
I do wish google engineers would do something positive for society and switch to a career in subsistence farming. No one needs ads. Not arbitrary JS ads, not declarative ads, not personalised ads, not any ads.
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by barneygale 5y ago
I wonder what your YouTube recommendations look like, could you share a cropped screenshot?
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by barneygale 5y ago
This is an american-centric view of the law; elsewhere in the world (including europe) judges don't reach silly decisions because a law was imperfectly drafted.
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by barneygale 5y ago
Working for Google is outright unethical.

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