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by cowpig 1y ago
Were you aware that Paul Manafort, the chair of Donald Trump's 2016 election commission, was convicted of conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice? He was serving a jail sentence until he was pardoned by
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by cowpig 1y ago
If I'm understanding correctly, you are implying that there was a Biden Administration-led investigation on foreign interference that did not surface evidence? Is that true? Where should I start to learn more about that?
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by cowpig 1y ago
selfhostyour.tech
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by cowpig 1y ago
This project has a grand total of two commits, one with the entire codebase and one edit of the README. The user behind the commit joined github in 2024 and seems to have only contributed to "awesome lists" so far. Is there some k
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by cowpig 1y ago
Why is a 2-10% increase a small amount? What increase would be too much?
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by cowpig 1y ago
Are slack/github/notion dumping company data into an unknown set of LLM APIs under the hood? (My company uses Zulip/Gitea/Affine for data sovereignty reasons, but this kind of thing seems worse)
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by cowpig 1y ago
Is this self-hosted? If not, am I to work under the assumption that my company's IP is worth ~$0?
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by cowpig 1y ago
This article had a debilitating effect on one of the most talented engineers I've ever met. A charismatic force of nature, whose impact was tragically chaotic. He read it as a teenager, and it became part of his personal philosophy. An
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by cowpig 1y ago
Source? And how is that "all we need to know"? I'm not even sure what your implication is. Is it that some CCP officials see DeepSeek engineers as adversarial somehow? Or that they are flight risks? What does it have to do wi
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by cowpig 1y ago
I associate the University of Chicago with a kind of religious exercise in economic theory, a movement dedicated to justifying a political stance in pseudo-intellectualism at the direct expense of empiricism. The University of Chicago is ba
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by cowpig 1y ago
You're nitpicking the term "journalism" here, but even in casual conversation if a friend went on and on about how great a company was and then I later found out that they: * Got paid a referral fee if I signed up * Owned sha
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by cowpig 1y ago
If you care about ethics of journalism then yes you should obviously disclose a financial interest in what you write.
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by cowpig 1y ago
> Nearly everybody gets over it really quick and the world moves on. Perhaps this article being #1 on HN right now is evidence that your perspective is not the same as "nearly everybody" else
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by cowpig 1y ago
Wouldn't that be a latent variable in health outcome data?
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by cowpig 1y ago
kagi.com is a superior search engine compared with all three, to the point where I pay for a license for everyone in my company to use it. The kagi assistant is also nice, only responding with AI when you add a question mark to your query,
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by cowpig 1y ago
In what sense?
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by cowpig 1y ago
You are thinking of "Palestinians" as a collective group, synonymous with a group of extremists who have done horrible things Just as most of the citizens of Iran are victims of an Islamic totalitarian government, just as many Ger
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by cowpig 1y ago
What do you mean by this? My understanding is that Stakhanovism is kind of the opposite of US work culture in that it lionizes the worker and social contributions
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by cowpig 1y ago
> RNT was assessed using the perseverative thinking questionnaire (PTQ). The scale consists of 15 items covering three domains: core characteristics of RNT, unproductiveness, and psychological capacity captured. Each item is rated on a 5
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by cowpig 1y ago
Are there examples of government policies that successfully encourage the adoption/use of open standards? I feel like the EU has successfully pushed the world towards USB-C as a standard, which seems like a big success to me (I no long
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by cowpig 1y ago
> That said I do recognize the risk of only a handful of companies being responsible for something as important as the collective knowledge of civilization. It's not just the risk of irresponsible behaviour (which is extremely impor
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by cowpig 1y ago
This is great, and really needed! Whenever someone sends me a luma or partiful link that asks me for personal info which will undoubtedly be bundled into some data broker when the VCs start putting pressure on the founders to cash out, I ba
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by cowpig 1y ago
I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to run coding agents as their own user on their own machines. I use this CLI tool for spinning up containers and attaching the local directory as a volume: https://gi
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by cowpig 1y ago
> This isn’t just another AI tool. It’s a paradigm shift. ah so this entire article is written by a language model
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by cowpig 1y ago
@danielhanchen do you publish the benchmarks you run anywhere?
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by cowpig 1y ago
What kinds of tools do you think are useful in getting control/agency back? Any specific recommendations?
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by cowpig 1y ago
How much of their revenue is from government contracts? Is their profitable business model based on the fact that they're good at enabling & profiting from authoritarianism and corruption?
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by cowpig 1y ago
Not abstractly. Specifically, in the United States, since COVID. The parent reply hand-waves away a point about bad policy by making an abstract point about inflation from money-printing, as if citizens of the United States are molecules in
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by cowpig 1y ago
> if we all have 3-10% more money and things are 3-10% more expensive Who has 3-10% more money, exactly?
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by cowpig 1y ago
How do you define "free market"?

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