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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Merely a matter of perspective. If you don't mind endless fee increases, then they don't mind endless support.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
They're proclaiming that AI is the Latest Big Thing in the perpetual computer security arms race. So unless you want to be stuck fighting in propeller-driven planes when every real air force has jets, you better start spending big o
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
But as with pretty much every cardinal sin of late-stage capitalism - there are a whole lot of very entitled people, who are both very accustomed to and skilled at getting their own way, who are heavily invested in opposing any real solutio
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Interesting...but the Gizmodo article is fact-lite and hype-heavy. Vs. the research paper - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652... - is perfectly honest about its proposed trajectorie
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Speaking of ways to - rightly or wrongly - veer off on a tangent, and convince large numbers of people that the anti-Big Brother side is unhinged... A better counter argument to "catch the pedo" is to bring up cases of creeps wh
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
My recollection is that decision was a straight-up "success is irrelevant, HM Treasury has decided that the UK cannot afford to have an orbital launch program". Wikipedia's version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Old family story: Back in the 1920's and 1930's, one of my cousins (a bit removed) was a poacher in rural northern Michigan. Everyone from the County Sheriff on down knew that she was a poacher. Everyone also knew that she was
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
A regular item over the past decade; the 91 comments from 2022 would be the most current - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mrsk.me
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
It doesn't matter what fancy tech you have, or how much money, or anything else - if the people you have making the decisions and doing the work either are shit, or they go to shit, then you'll never be able to produce much beyond
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Gas stations in my area often give a 3% discount for paying with cash, vs. credit. Leading me to suspect that they're paying 3%+ to Visa/MC. And that the benefits of cashless are nowhere near what its proponents claim.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Not to argue technical details, or say that Poland's ABW should keep incidents secret - but both the content and tone of this sort of article strike me as almost designed to teach defeatism and despair. Maybe the good guys could occ
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Yet you can see crowds of ... The "logic" of xenophobic nationalism is that narratives are selected for how well they (1) cast "us" as victims, (2) cast some convenient "others" as villains, and (3) fire u
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Generally true, but the school's core protection responsibility is for its own students and staff - not the rest of the world. And the school's authority and resources are even more constrained. At least in some places, school sy
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Visa/MC is nice but allows ... Not sure how it is overseas - but in the US, the #1 problem with Visa/MC is the huge percentage that they skim off every transaction. Businesses running on tight profit margins often give a dis
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Beyond the easy quip, my point was that "big tech" has taken on a far-too-narrow meaning. I'd bet you didn't really mean "software" either - you were, in effect, referring to the whole amoral (at best) ecosyst
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Does anyone believe a single big tech company isn’t harvesting data en masse from everyone in duplicitous manners? TSMC, maybe?
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
...unless they generously grease the right palms, or push the right "us vs. them" buttons.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Pre-1980's, it seems to have been enforced well enough to keep a whole lot of mom-and-pop grocery stores in business. I'm thinking the faded-out enforcement was due to a certain 1980's President, and his administration's
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Anyone here familiar, to comment on the situation? From the article, it sounds like a classic case of "a party far too long in power, and forgetting that those bothersome voters expect them to actually govern decently".
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
It would be Un-American to overlook any chance to forcibly intervene in a Latin America country for the financial benefit of a large American company...wouldn't it?
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
My intent: "it's universal" means the correlation between girls being low-value and child marriages is universal. Your seeming reading: "it's universal" means child marriage occurs in every country...but that
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
99% of the reason for the mom-and-pop groceries dying out is that "our" Federal Gov't decided that it would stop bothering to enforce the law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act A
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Pretty much "yes" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_Sta... I'd guess your pot/kettle comment is something nationalist/political? My prior comment was trying to say it&
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Am I misunderstanding ... NO. I've seen quite a few things, across many cultures, pointing out that girls being any combination of low-value, low-status, and unsupported leads to them ending up as "cheap bodies". That i
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
This, as a generality. There are plenty of multi-billion-dollar Wall Street firms doing algorithmic trading. Your prospects for being smarter or faster than them are very poor.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Color me extremely skeptical. Yes, Bad Vibes are a thing. But blaming "the vibes" is useless performative BS. The closest thing to "vibes" that I'd blame is the ways in which modern media, shrunken and scattered f
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Similar here, though they are too small-scale to make their own ice cream. Upside, they stock very good quality ice cream. And their prices are about the lowest in town.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
9 hours, 5 serious HN users replying...and nobody noting that "A Modest Proposal" might flag satire.* Or that my "proposed" solution, in many ways, describes the current status quo. Tricks like California's Prop. 1
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Beyond "what superficially sounds best for me ", I don't see much evidence of "carefully considered" voting now. :(
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> I just want to buy ... Find a locally owned ice cream parlor, and asked for a hand-packed half gallon.

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