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by cbeach 1y ago
> he was not even close to the person I thought he was, either in technological skill or wanting to actually improve humanity. He was the chief product architect of Tesla's first production vehicle, and he is the chief engineer of S
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I agree that it's crucial that in democracy, the press, academy, finance, industry, sport, religion, social should all be independent. That, unfortunately, is simply not the case at the moment. A good example is Biden excluding Tesla f
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by cbeach 1y ago
> there is nothing wrong with changing ones opinion of a public figure when he comes out supporting authoritarianism You can personally like/dislike whoever you like. But if you personally revile a man, please don't then preten
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by cbeach 1y ago
> proto-fascists in the US and around the world to convert democracies into racist authoritarian states. I think you've said enough to prove my point.
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Dear HN. Please make the Hacker News header stick to the top of the browser
6 points by cbeach 1y ago|13 comments
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by cbeach 1y ago
The car has many other safety features that make it overall one of the safest cars on the road. Teslas in general rank very well for safety: https://www.whatcar.com/news/the-safest-cars-on-sale-today/n... > Out
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by cbeach 1y ago
Ah, so if a Tesla feature is bad it must have been designed by Musk. And if Tesla does something good it was "obviously not from only one person" > I have posted similar strong compliments/defenses of Musk in the past, inc
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by cbeach 1y ago
> this is just one man's ego. Since you're attributing the design of all Tesla features to Musk, would you compliment him on the Tesla Model 3 being reported as the "safest new car on the market," acheiving an overall
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by cbeach 1y ago
Tesla fanboy and Model S owner here. I agree, those door handles are unsafe. https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2012_2020_models/en_ie/GU... > To open a rear door in the unlikely situation when Model S has
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by cbeach 1y ago
Timeline: Java 5 (2004) [code sample from the article]: public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("What is your name?
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If Gaza were rid of the Islamist terrorists that lead then then it would be better for Israel and also much better for the innocent youth of Gaza. Unfortunately there is no way for the innocent youth of Gaza to rid themselves of Hamas. In f
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Violence didn’t bring us the weekend. The arch-capitalist Henry Ford created the precedent for the weekend because he wanted people to have leisure time to be able to use his cars.
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by cbeach 1y ago
Consider Scala rather than Java. After a decade of enterprise Java development I decided to pivot to Scala after seeing the side-by-side code examples in the Play Framework documentation. Scala code is much more succinct and expressive tha
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by cbeach 1y ago
> Under capitalism, capitalists own the means of production What are "capitalists" and by which rules of capitalism do they hold a monopoly on the means of production? I live in a capitalist country (the UK), I'm an ordina
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by cbeach 1y ago
Since it’s unworkable, in practice, for “everyone” to own something, socialism inevitably means state ownership. There’s no getting around this. If everyone owns something, no one owns it.
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by cbeach 1y ago
Ending scarcity and funding UBI is uniquely possible in a capitalist society, where there is excess wealth generation. In the UK we use our capitalist excess wealth to fund socialised healthcare. But don't mistake socialised service p
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by cbeach 1y ago
> In March last year more than 180 staff wrote a letter to leadership expressing “serious concerns” about the organisation’s approach to diversity after it appointed four men to senior roles. Looks like activists pushing DEI have infiltr
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Using ChatGPT 5 to help undo a wrongful cancellation from the Scala community(pretty.direct)
14 points by cbeach 1y ago|5 comments
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by cbeach 1y ago
Jon Pretty used ChatGPT 5 to perform forensic, neutral analysis of thousands of private messages, in order to counter false claims made against him by two ex-partners, which led to his cancellation from the Scala community in 2021. https:&
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by cbeach 1y ago
The poverty rate should be based on an absolute amount, adjusted for inflation in the staples, like food and shelter. Any other kind of adjustment (like, for example, this latest intervention by the World Bank) is political in nature. We sh
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by cbeach 1y ago
*four years of uncertainty. https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/ ... In 2029, Reform UK will repeal the Online Safety Act. Zia Yusuf, tech entrepreneur and head of Reform UK Department of Go
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by cbeach 1y ago
Interesting. I've done some digging and found that the division you linked to was a procedural vote (that is, it was to discuss timetable and structure for how the bill passes through parliament, as opposed to the content of the Online
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Do you have an example, please? I wasn't aware that any Reform MPs were in power back in 2023 when the Online Safety Act passed through parliament?
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by cbeach 1y ago
I'm resigned to the fact we need the next four years to be sufficiently awful, that voters will want radical change in 2029. As things stand, it's coming: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-ki
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by cbeach 1y ago
ProtectEU sounds incredibly dark. Do you have a source for the information regarding on-device scanning? I had a look but only found the bureaucrat-speak overview and they didn’t discuss details.
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The Dereliction of Due Process in the Scala Community(pretty.direct)
17 points by cbeach 1y ago|3 comments
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by cbeach 1y ago
Jon Pretty was cancelled in April 2021 by two ex-partners and 23 professionals from the Scala community over allegations which were shocking to the people who read them. The allegations, in two blog posts and an “Open Letter”, were not true
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by cbeach 1y ago
We are restoring the straightforward principle of merit-based hiring. This is not a "right wing" concept. It is simply fair. We are moving away from a cultural Marxist leftwing ideology ("equity"), which meant discrimina
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How does meritocracy and color-blind hiring lead to white nationalism, mass deportation and concentration camps? Are you suggesting that foreign-born population would fail if judged on merit? That seems like quite a leap.
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I wouldn't say she was in a vulnerable position at all. Like Jon, she was already a conference speaker and a Scala group organiser. Really, she wasn't below Jon in any hierarchy. In her blog post she makes out as if she was naive

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