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by chgs 2y ago
Apologists don’t consider this torture. This type of treatment of innocent prisoners has been common for decades in America.
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by chgs 2y ago
Half the people on HN either support what’s happening in the US now or say “doesn’t directly affect me so leave me out of it” as if this is an argument about yankees vs mets.
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by chgs 2y ago
So 80% of journeys have a 50% refund?
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by chgs 2y ago
This is standard U.K. policy
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by chgs 2y ago
A lot of people on HN whine “oh I’m not picking a side” and “I just want to get on with my life” and “I’m an island what others do doesn’t affect me” and other nonsense. Sadly the damage these people are causing by their implicit support fo
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by chgs 2y ago
And hsbc https://www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/insights/starting-a-busin... And sage https://www.sage.com/en-us/blog/glossary/what-is-gross-profi... And the uk education system https:
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by chgs 2y ago
> Lots of people are indifferent or even supported what's happening Yes. Yes they are. We see the true face of Americans and what they really believe. Whether 51% or 49% of America wants this is basically irellevent.
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by chgs 2y ago
Americans have always been selfish. “I’ve got mine so fuck you”. It’s that “rugged individuality” they claim to like.
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by chgs 2y ago
Because when the people around you are suffering it is connected.
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by chgs 2y ago
If you are a-political you implicitly support what’s happening.
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by chgs 2y ago
Looking at my YouTube watch video, and that creates get about 45%, it tends to be about 50p an hour (I watch about 12 hours a month and pay about £12) so say 10 cents per 10 minute video. From what I see ad views tend to net about $1-5 per
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by chgs 2y ago
YouTube has a “jump ahead” built in - at least on the phone - which skips sponsored bits
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by chgs 2y ago
And then you cancel. I did that with Amazon, will do it with others when I start seeing ads.
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by chgs 2y ago
Why don’t you have shift work?
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by chgs 2y ago
Last time I was on call it was a one hour payment per day, a 4 hour payment for answering the phone. That lasted about 3 months, just not acceptable.
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by chgs 2y ago
They get far more from a premium viewer than an ad viewer.
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by chgs 2y ago
You can run vault warden just fine. Open source Beats Closed source Beats Managed service from Europe Beats Managed service from America
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by chgs 2y ago
Making yourself a subsided of Amazon was never wise. You exist as long as Amazon allows you to. It’s modern feudalism.
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by chgs 2y ago
Not true regarding logs given mullvad is the only half-trustworthy vpn provider out there.
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by chgs 2y ago
I use Zoho for my personal email. They aren’t European but they aren’t American. Crucially though it’s easy enough to migrate to another provider of self just by updating my mx records.
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by chgs 2y ago
When I started in tech, Freedom was key. You put a value in your freedom to run and modify your code. Over time that has not only regressed to just free to run, but not even that - you have to have permission to run your stuff It’s easier t
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by chgs 2y ago
My company has operated a 24/7 shift rota for 100 years. American “On call” is not normal. Some companies might have exceptional on call - the C suite will get called back from holidays or whatever should things really hit the fan. Tha
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by chgs 2y ago
I was thinking more of when a sufficiently advanced device would be able to “decide” the task would be worth using its own capabilities to write some code to tackle the problem rather than brute force. For small problems it’s not worthwhile
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by chgs 2y ago
How many times would you need to parse to get an energy saving on using an lm to parse vs using an llm to write a parser, then using the parser to parse.
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by chgs 2y ago
Needs to be some reciprocation on American “digital nomads” on tourist visa.
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by chgs 2y ago
Norway borders Russia if you’re being technical, but yes the entire of Finland is within about 400 miles of Russia, and Helsinki just over 100 miles from border, where Oslo is 1000.
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by chgs 2y ago
I would opt in. If adverts were for my benefit I would be able to choose them, rather than have to block them.
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by chgs 2y ago
Rent suffers more from supply and demand because of artificial supply problems. Wages have increased far more than the price of food over the last 200 years, wage rises aren’t inflationary on their own.
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by chgs 2y ago
I’ve used ddns to deliver service to millions, it’s a helpful tool. There’s no “taste” in a professional world, there are results.
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by chgs 2y ago
Your statement was “The US founding fathers included everyone in their vision” It isn’t true. And the idolisation some people have for wealthy white landowners from 250 years ago is just weird. Judge the world on today

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