cycomanic

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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Your quotes around the missing do a lot of work here. From the FAQ: > PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisio
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> I previously worked in fraud/risk at a major ecommerce platform. On my biggest day I closed 60,000 accounts. In one day. I knew other agents who'd done 10x that. > The scale of this work is unfathomable to those who have o
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Apple made 100 billion profit last year. They can surely afford to make this. Just because it would cost them profit does not mean we shouldn't require it.
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
What sort of argument is that? Just because I need to eat (also let's be real the developers/owners behind this app are not struggling to get food on the table), does excuse me doing unethical/illegal things (and this behavio
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Like the other poster said, this is a problem with default values not encoding the birthday into the personnummer. I think it also is important to remember the purpose of specific numbers. For instance I would argue a PN without the birthda
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> maybe it is just more comfortable to read, not necessarily faster? The article says that participants in the studies preferred the traditional fonts over the dyslexia fonts. I would argue that this contradicts the thesis that they woul
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
I somewhat understand your argument about how to prevent misuse, but I'd say one could do that by embedding the key in an ID card and someone will have to connect the ID card to the phone/computer (e.g. via NFC). So obviously you
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
The first question is how would the insurance find out that you are doing lots of things requiring age verification? The only body that could tell them is the government, while a distrust in the government can be healthy, I think this is th
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
So where are your definition of capitalism and fascism from? Because seems to me you just made up your own definitions. To me your definition of fascism resembles much more a difinition of general authoritarianism or totalitarianism.
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
I suspect these sort of differences, which exist not only between Chinese and English, but also between different western cultures/languages (and I assume similarly eastern ones as well, although I'm not so familiar with them), is
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> but it does not feature the particular structure and features that defines capitalism as a system rather than a feature of other systems; What do you mean? The defining feature of capitalism is private/corporate ownership of th
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> > showing that fundamentally digital computing with optical photons will be immensely power hungry > > > they really are completely unrealistic > > Unrealistic only because they're power hungry? That sounds like
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> > Fascism is one possible failure mode of capitalism. It is capitalism stripped of brakes, guardrails, and ethics. > This is not a useful definition of fascism, if that is what you mean. Fascism can exist entirely independently o
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
People have done these sort of "optical computing" based demonstrations for decades, despite David Miller showing that fundamentally digital computing with optical photons will be immensely power hungry (I say digital here, becaus
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Funny, but I (and I believe many who support this law) would say that's a good thing. The problem is not (and never was) social interaction online, it is large corporations designing their algorithms to be as addictive as possible to t
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Sure, but how does that relate to environmentalists? The people lying were the car industry, but somehow the OP questions environmentalism. Why are they not questioning the car industry?
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
What is your evidence? A quick search on google (and the git commits) would show you that many wayland developers are significant former xorg developers. 1. Kristian Høgsberg the founder of wayland, did all the DRI2 work on xorg before bec
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
MDs are just another example of Sony screwing it up by making things proprietary and keeping it to themselves instead of creating an ecosystem (memory sticks were another example, although they didn't offer quite the same advantages).
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> Those are single-member LLC revenue numbers. You can get $10M in revenue just by being in a low-margin business. For industries with a 1% margin that's $100k a year in net income, i.e. wages and benefits for one person. I'm n
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
Some correction here. FMCW lidar does not need fiber lasers. In fact most fiber lasers are actually very difficult to frequency sweep internally. Typical lasers used in swept wavelength interferometry (which is really the same thing) are so
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but it seems you had a subscription missed one payment some time ago, but now expect that your subscription works because the missed month was in the past and "you paid for this month"
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
That's such a silly argument. X, OpenAI and others have large Saudi investments. In the grant scheme of things the US is largely indebted to China and Japan.
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by cycomanic 10mo ago
> I wonder the same thing. The essence of a collusion scheme is a commitment between counterparties not to defect. Do you have any citation that supports that? That seems an awfully narrow definition.
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
Here is an idea: Fix your homelessness problem and don't let other policies be guided by the best way to keep homeless people out of sight.
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
Somewhat meta question, do you believe that down voting opinions we don't like is a good way of engaging with one another on HN? I wish we could discuss the issue here, and instead would have liked to hear from you why you think it is
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
That doesn't significantly change the argument. Most solar plants have capacity factors of around 20% (5% might apply to home systems, but not commerical), compared to nuclear which has around 80%. So a factor of 4. So numbers change a
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
Sometimes these posts feel like the old man yelling at the clouds kind of disconnected from reality. They don't seem to even be realising that what they are asking for is contradictory. "Only spend money on the browser/javasc
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
When I read posts like this I despair. I mean I can sort of understand that ML an AI have become largely synonymous, but that even on a technical website for nerds like HN, people now think that AI and LLMs are synonymous and that translati
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
> > The overwhelming majority of people who worked on Xorg are now developing Wayland. > I've never seen this documented. What do you mean you can look at the history of wayland on Wikipedia (it was started by Kristian Høgsber
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by cycomanic 11mo ago
I don't understand a lot of the complains. It asks for a remote connection? That's because of xwayland (which is x11 inside) not wayland AFAIK. Also all the comments about how that is weird on a single system, mmh the whole X serv

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