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by danorama 2y ago
It’s fair to question someone’s judgment based on their expressed opinions, and take that into account when evaluating what they say later on. Also, he may just have a different definition of “ideal” than some of us.
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by danorama 2y ago
sorry, forgot the /s.
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by danorama 2y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
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by danorama 2y ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. Given your comment history, trying to call out others on this rule is interesting. But we all can improve, I guess!
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by danorama 2y ago
My sense is they're going to shred any requests like this or just send back a "No Responsive Records" response for every one and dare someone to try to call them on it. But I envy your trusting nature.
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by danorama 2y ago
So if it's government as usual they won't mind adhering to the Privacy Act of 1974 like every other agency, right?
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by danorama 2y ago
Flagged. We don't talk about privacy issues on Hacker News. Especially not when they involve the government.
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by danorama 2y ago
If you don’t want it to be such a tribal issue, maybe stop with the “you guys (who, exactly?) don’t know anything” routine?
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by danorama 2y ago
“Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek’s AI models to their customers, people close to the ma
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by danorama 2y ago
Because they’re a meaningless proxy?
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by danorama 2y ago
I don’t personally recall, but it’s kind of a silly idea to break down presidential votes by county anyway. At least counting states matters legally in elections. And counting people matters as a way to judge desires and sentiments. Countin
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by danorama 2y ago
Where do you see an ordered, thoughtful, deliberate process taking place here? Is that source (or sources) believable, and non-partisan?
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by danorama 2y ago
That’s a great question to ask. And if it were the question being asked by the new folks in charge that would be pretty great. Instead we’ve got drunk toddlers smashing valuable things with a baseball bat. I’m not sure that’s an improvement
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by danorama 2y ago
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that "inclusion" wasn't Trump's intent here.
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by danorama 2y ago
“he's at a point in his life where money isn't his main motivator” It seems pretty clear by now that this never happens with billionaires.
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Donald Trump wants to buy TikTok(jabberwocking.com)
2 points by danorama 2y ago|6 comments
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by danorama 2y ago
Amazing. A direct transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Bitcoin holders, with the US government left holding the worthless bag when the crash comes.
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Bitcoin Lessons(tbray.org)
2 points by danorama 2y ago|0 comments
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The end is nigh and here's why(experimental-history.com)
29 points by danorama 2y ago|89 comments
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by danorama 2y ago
“political correctness Nazis” [closes tab]
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Upwork announces $28M profit, slashes staff by 21%(sfgate.com)
3 points by danorama 2y ago|0 comments
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Balaji Srinivasan, VC advocating dystopian vision for San Francisco(missionlocal.org)
2 points by danorama 2y ago|0 comments
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SF exec defends 'brutal' tech trend(sfgate.com)
15 points by danorama 2y ago|9 comments
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New California law prohibits car parking near crosswalks(sfgate.com)
4 points by danorama 3y ago|0 comments
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Are Intel and Apple Silicon Macs Diverging in Sonoma?(eclecticlight.co)
2 points by danorama 3y ago|0 comments
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The cost of college has barely changed in the past 30 years(jabberwocking.com)
2 points by danorama 3y ago|0 comments