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901.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
168 points and 116 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480038
902.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
> ...I think people who benefit... 325 Euros/week sounds like basic rent & food & transportation. Not artsy projects with enough spare Euros for someone to skim serious money off from. Providing "free" studios, su
903.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
With the modest size of the monthly checks, most of them may need to do that anyway. But the obvious point is to help "artists" in Ireland. It's pretty normal for small nations to want to cultivate / protect / subs
904.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
> and why are artists being subsidized instead of essential workers? There are far more than 2,000 real, paying jobs for schoolteachers. And for grocery clerks. And for nurses. And for fire fighters. And for drivers of rubbish lorr
905.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
That depends on context, and how you phrase the reply.
906.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Kudos for the article very quickly getting to the important stuff: > However, this approach is not ready for production. Even the best model, Claude Opus 4.6, found relatively obvious backdoors in small/mid-size binaries only 49% of
907.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
GOOG didn't get to be one of the most profitable corporations in the world by spending big on cost centers.
908.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
From Wikipedia: > The town is at the junction of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, a location which proved key to its growth as a centre of heavy industry during the Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
909.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
In a word - "true". In more words - it's interesting, but messy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_field > The complex numbers als
910.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Might you mean an n-dimensional concept in n/2 dimensions?
911.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/11/17/the-hidden-eng... YouTube version: https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/11/17/the-hidden-eng...
912.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Might there be an astronomer in the house, to roughly quantify the size & velocity breakdown of the 1.1 million tons of debris which an impact would throw into space? Especially how much would fall back onto the moon. With no atmospher
913.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yep. And hardly a modern or gov't-specific thing. Go back 150 years, and how many small-town papers do you think would publish content critical of themselves?
914.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
It's not spelled out, but my first thought is Genesis 40-41. In a regime where displeasing Pharaoh gets his personal servants imprisoned and killed, things do not look good for all those magicians and wise men who failed to interpret
915.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Kinda interesting as a "how I survived" tale. But their situation was pure Darwin Award. And how the bleep did he keep his pilot's license after that?
916.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
1 - It ain't actually that simple. 2 - Bureaucratic bloat (and purges thereof) have been talked about since way back in the Old Testament. Though yes, few business leaders want to go on record saying "we've been stupidly s
917.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yes, but it should be emphasized how dependent "Reserves" are on both exploration work, and current assumptions about future mining/refining/market conditions. China's secret to having most of the world's Reser
918.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Between the critical strategic/military need, the by-far largest producer being an unfriendly rival power, and commercial production looking like a very poor fit for the use case - the Old School solution would be for the gov't to
919.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Or stuck on a highway with bad drivers. My local paper's current "bleeds => leads" story is about a head-on highway crash, between a big pickup truck and a wrong-way driver. Less that 4 hours after being posted, that sto
920.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
One data point - in my local Simon Property shopping mall, the Eddie Bauer store closed down a few months ago. A new LL Bean store is "coming soon". In retail, a certain rate of chain/brand churn is what you'd expect.
921.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Beautiful.
922.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
True, though maybe that's covered by OP's "The practical details of implementing this are important...". Then there's the fine detail of affording to live somewhere with public transport. :(
923.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Interesting how the article fails to mention that aspect, isn't it? Not that the NADA has any serious power over the incumbent manufacturers, to force them to serve that segment of the market.
924.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sadly true. Or, the so-called internal IT Dept. can be a shambolic mess of PHB's, Brunchlords, Catberts, metric maximizers, and micromanagers, presiding over the hollowed-out and burned out remains of the actual workforce that you&#x2
925.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Put together a bunch of local focus groups of successful elementary school teachers - preferably ones who remember the "good old days", before how reading should be taught was prescribed by big-ego academics, consultants, ideologu
926.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
I'd call the headline maliciously deceptive: > Shares in the world’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years, according to Bloomberg.
927.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Quick Fix: Detail each student's supposed disabilities on their transcripts. Gotta make sure that potential employers and grad schools know, "so they can provide the appropriate accommodations" to meet all those disabled st
928.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
The Atlantic seems to give at least some coverage to the good-news side of this - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/youth-reading-book...
929.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sadly, it sounds like you're all-in on making it a zero sum, us-vs.-them game. If not declaring a war over resources in the Education-Industrial Complex, then condemning anyone who's reluctant to take up arms for your cause. Vs.
930.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
IIR, grade inflation was supposedly started by the Vietnam-era draft exemption rules - students without high grades lost their exemptions, and professors and colleges were often reluctant to "send them off to die". Unfortunately,

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