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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
The people claiming to be making sense of charities are the people who are supposed to be teasing that data out.
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
This. Everyone will do this, because everyone will believe that everyone will do this. Even worse, there really is no guarantee that the great powers will create the best terminators. Everyone talks about China and the US. (And we should.)
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
I think the material point of HN User Yuliyp's comment is that the organization claiming to be providing us with "Charity Sense", for some reason is not providing us all of the data we need to make sense of charities. Even wo
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Well, ok. But this just goes to show that we need watching and monitoring infrastructure even for the organizations who claim to be watching and monitoring on our behalf. We have to know who's full of it, and who is acting in a more tr
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
This is getting downvoted, but it's a salient point nowadays. Who watches the watchers? Because if it's no one, then all we're doing is vouching for what could easily be scams set up by who knows who to steer our money to dub
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Exactly what I thought as soon as I learned the name. It's like, man, how to kill a product? No pun intended. It could even work? But you put yourself behind such a poorly placed 8 ball when you do these things. Even among researchers,
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Well the data says: 2022, gained 678,000 jobs in February (Doesn't really count, global economy was emerging from Covid shutdowns.) 2023, gained 311,000 jobs in February 2024, gained 275,000 jobs in February 2025, gained 151,000 jobs i
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
They probably have tried, but you have to have more cash than those researchers feel they can get starting their own lab. When you consider the fact that their new startup lab would have the entire nation of China as, in effect, a captive m
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
apparently, middle school boys aren't that good at caring for iPads. :-) Your district is liable to be unpleasantly surprised. Like ours, they will likely find middle school-ers are worse at caring for Chromebooks. The rate of broken
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Yeah. I'd be curious to know what school HN User jimmydddd's son goes to that it uses windows only software instead of the web? It just seems like something out of time. Like an engineering school that only teaches those building
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
It is. That's how they make loot on their 128GB MacBook Pros. By kneecapping the cheap stuff. Don't think for a second that the specs weren't chosen so that professional developers would have to shell out the 8 grand for the
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Yeah, that's the thing, we've always imported scientists. So I'm unsure why HN User terminalshort is trying to connect this tendency to bad education? From literally the very beginning of the US we have engaged in this prac
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Well, let's not get into this left-right thing because that could go back and forth forever. Especially in the current environment. eg - "As an outsider, why is [the jury and judge] a credible institution over the monitors?"
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Meh. If the government is only restricted from buying the data, then they'll just have someone else buy it. Palantir is not the government. So they can buy the real time feed, analyze it in real time, and give the real time results o
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Sure. Everything's built overseas. We all already know that. Why can't things be be built here, in a state other than California? What is the fixation with California? Tennessee or Nebraska would love to build smart phones, or eve
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Doesn't that just make California's case for them though? I mean if these jobs are so bad, isn't it good that California is trying to not have them in its own municipalities? The way you laid it out, shouldn't everyone
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
> while even the Deep South, which has consistently been at the bottom, is going up Well their PISA scores haven't been going up. In fact they've been going down. So if their education is getting better, it's not showing
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
None of which answers the question of why we can't manufacture things in other states? Things that California clearly doesn't want to manufacture. Again, what is the reason New Mexico, or Utah, or Nebraska, or Tennessee cannot man
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
> Texas - K12 Uh.. I'd do Massachusetts K-12. Texas is pretty bad. Massachusetts consistently ranks in the top 10 in the world on PISA. An exam which removes all the political "BS"-ability from the results and comparisons
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Just Devil's Advocate.. but why is this a problem? There are other states without the regulations that these businesses apparently find offensive. Why can't the manufacturing be spun up in those states? Serious question.
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
This is what I don't understand? We do manufacture things. Just not in California. So why does it even matter if California bans manufacturing dangerous things? Who cares? Just manufacture it in some other state. As a bonus, you don&
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
This. You could also say that this is what the people have wanted for decades. Remember the PATRIOT Act? Voted in by a vote of 99 to 1 in the senate. (And the 1 who voted against it? Yeah, we got rid of him for a more "law and order&qu
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Which is no different than any other state.
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
But you also want smart phones, electric cars, and a navy This is kind of disingenuous. I mean, not everything used in California, needs to be manufactured in California. Why not manufacture it in New Mexico? Or Arkansas for that matter?
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
I don't know man? The Chinese are clearly doing some "rebalancing" lately. Some would even say that "rebalancing" is not a strong enough word. "De-linking" is a word a lot of those people are more comforta
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Obama wasn't around in the 90's. And Clinton only deported 2 million across his entire 8 years in office. With a laser focus on convicted criminals as part of a war on drugs. (Now the efficacy of the old "War on Drugs" c
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
I think we should be careful of writing off this sea change as simple professional influence campaigns. That kind of thinking is just what got Trump to the Whitehouse, and is currently getting the immigrants rounded up. Things that didn&#x2
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
java didn't have an http client [...] and STILL doesn't have an http server. Wow. How long has it been since you guys have used Java? Serious question?
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
Not any time that most of us have even been alive. It's been well over half a century since tailors operated in the "cheap clothing" market. The clothes tailors make have, pretty much, always been expensive relative off the r
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by bilbo0s 8mo ago
cheap new clothes Uh.. I don't mean to be that guy, but tailors aren't even operating in that market. People who use tailors aren't interested in off the rack items. Even when they do purchase off the rack or even secondhan

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