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by culi 5mo ago
Except in this case, damaging cars belonging to Google—a collaborator with ICE— is the point. It's more comparable to people who were damaging Tesla vehicles or the Tyre Extinguishers in the UK than the very common tactic of halting t
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by culi 5mo ago
> that basically consisted of applying the same steps and rules n times. Why use a non-deterministic, possibly hallucinatory, definitely expensive, LLM when it sounds like a codemod is the perfect solution for this?
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by culi 5mo ago
Biodynamic at least requires farms to produce their own fertilizers. For that reason alone I try to buy it. Fertilizer dependency will be the end of us I ignore all the magic stuff (in fact, if you have some spiritual devotion to the food y
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by culi 5mo ago
Sure, but a 6/10 for "the most repairable macbook in 14 years" is still a 6/10. Lenovo ThinkPads range from 8-10 and even the Microsoft Surface 7 got an 8
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Waymo was a target during the anti-ICE protests because of Google's collaboration with ICE. In addition, Waymo is seen as a symbol of the gentrification problem. Agree or disagree with it, my point is that that xkcd doesn't take i
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by culi 5mo ago
The larger contrast of very bright lights can actually make visibility worse. In urban planning it's well known that having more smaller lights is always best for safety and visibility than having a few very powerful ones. I'm not
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by culi 5mo ago
Yeah but which use has more research funding behind it? We've always prioritized military uses and tech. The research landscape isn't flat.
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by culi 5mo ago
This seems like the opposite of doing anything about it. Surely military contractors would just as readily use openstreetmap data if it's of sufficient quality. Legislation establishing consumer ownership over their data and requiring
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by culi 5mo ago
The U.S. operates over 160 public schools physically located on military installations https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/public-schools-military-insta... I never said AI is responsible. I pointed out the US is clearly the
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by culi 5mo ago
US used AI (Claude on Maven) to determine a girl's elementary school as a target in war[0] and then triple tapped it and you're still more worried about hypothetical misuses of the single country responsible for this technology no
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Unfortunately this is just the only defense we currently have against powerful interest groups. It's the reason we still have any redwoods today. Absent of a fair replacement, a powerful corporation will, over time, always win even if
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"Exotic countries" lol. There's at least a few species in the banana genus that grow in almost every single country in the global south
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There's a well-known sociological concept called "imperial boomerang" that describes this. It's also seen in surveillance technologies used against oppressed people. As far back as the surveillance apparatus Britain buil
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by culi 5mo ago
Of course not.[0][1][2] But nowhere as extensively as South America.[3][4] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... [2
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by culi 5mo ago
All but 2 countries in South America have had the experience of democratically electing a leader only to have them overthrown in a US-backed coup. The US/CIA started with this obsession with the 1954 Guatemalan Coup specifically to mai
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by culi 5mo ago
More banana varieties. The reason Panama Disease was so successful is because of the practice of cloning. Every single crop is the same genetics. Researchers warned that starting over with the Cavendish would result in the exact same thing
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by culi 5mo ago
Unfortunately this is an all too common pattern in the history of pesticides. In 1979 DBCP was banned in the US after factory workers became sterile. Dow Chemical happily shipped tons of it to be sprayed directly on banana workers in banana
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by culi 5mo ago
1. Cromwell family donated 87 acres to nonprofit Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation in 1999 2. City sold 53 of those acres to Blueprint for $10 million in 2024. In addition, the city gave Blueprint 50% rebate on property taxes for 10 years
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by culi 5mo ago
The full 87 acres were donated to the nonprofit Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. The city sold 53 acres for $10 million to the developer. In addition: > The Taylor City Council and the EDC are giving Blueprint a 50% rebate on propert
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by culi 5mo ago
Fair point. I looked it up and I didn't realize that possibly only around 40-50% of HN traffic is from the US https://marcotm.com/articles/stats-of-being-on-the-hacker-ne... I do wonder what similar polling/s
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by culi 5mo ago
The HN crowd is much less anti-AI than the rest of the country. But that's a low bar A Quinnipiac poll showed 80% of Americans are "very" or "somewhat" concerned about artificial intelligence, with only 35% feelin
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I guess you can think of torrents as sharing. The modern shareware
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Invisibilia's episode was my first exposure to it. https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be... The man posits that clicking is instinctual for blind people but they are told to quiet
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Gov't spending is 38% and that's totally normal, if a bit low. France is at 57%, the UK at 44%, and Japan at 39%
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You use Zod if you want runtime features. I'd say it's pretty industry standard. On the type level there's no reason it couldn't account for any of the examples you pointed out. And since Zod supports all the expressiven
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Palantir's Maven is not an LLM. Maven uses Claude.
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Until they piss off people there too and wealth taxes are adopted there as well. The less havens they have the better Besides, the proposed wealth tax specifically includes provisions to capture billionaires attempting to flee state taxes
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oh "green land" not "greenland". Got it
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I think TypeScript can feel like there's too many gaps because not enough people take it seriously enough to truly learn it. Hardly anyone reads a book about best practices/design the way many do about C/Java/Rust. It&#x
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by culi 5mo ago
You seem to be trying to win a technical argument while ignoring the practical implications of the order. But even technically I think you are wrong. Just because it's not passed by Congress doesn't mean it's not "regula

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