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by dave4420 2y ago
More to the point… at what point do the countries of Europe ask the US to remove its military bases from the continent?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Yes, this seems to be common practice. 1. Borrow lots of cash 2. Buy a victim company with the cash 3. Carry out weird financial/legal alchemy to make the victim company solely responsible for paying off the loan 4. If the victim compa
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by dave4420 2y ago
The full screen option is the icon at the top left? It has no effect.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Also for me (iOS safari)
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by dave4420 2y ago
When the US president repeatedly threatens to annex your country, you don’t have the luxury of being able to laugh it off. Why would anyone even think it’s funny?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Bug report: only the very top of the bottom row of tiles fits on my screen, and I can’t scroll down to see what’s on them because it gets misinterpreted as dragging a tile. So that’s frustrating . iOS safari. Looks nicely done otherwise.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Start by switching to a different ISP.
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by dave4420 2y ago
I thought the $1 millions were protection money?
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by dave4420 2y ago
What would it take for a consumer grade or business grade device and messaging app to be suitable for discussing matters of national security? The article mentions being able to use a single account across multiple devices as being a proble
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by dave4420 2y ago
Not really. He has the sense of entitlement that comes from being super rich, and a track record of ignoring the law and others’ rights when expedient. I’d say it was more amazing that such a person had been appointed to such an important p
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by dave4420 2y ago
Because AI scrapers are indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. See e.g. https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/
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by dave4420 2y ago
What’s the overlap between “wants indie games” and “students who don’t work hard on their grades but could”? There’s a danger that students will see indie games as being “games that aren’t good enough to be worth anything” which could be re
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by dave4420 2y ago
Sure — but if the CCP decided it wanted the benefits of owning a reserve currency, it could change that. Then suddenly it looks more attractive.
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by dave4420 2y ago
I would say yes, but the key words here are “democratised” and “advanced”. How advanced do the AIs need to be to have this effect? Is current AI tech on a path to reach this level, or will we need to go through another AI winter or three? W
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by dave4420 2y ago
I suspect many countries would prefer a Chinese reserve currency to a European one, due to past bad experiences of being ruled by Europeans. But even on a purely economic level… does the Eurozone even have a larger economy than China? I can
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by dave4420 2y ago
As a software engineer I see the dangers of a nominally exhaustively-specified system. Where people would spend their lives in jail or go free depending on whether a majority of legislators had considered that particular edge case. It’s bet
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by dave4420 2y ago
What do auto pens have to do with this? People have been forging signatures for centuries. The whole thing from Trump is bullshit. “Plausible justification” for those that want to believe.
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by dave4420 2y ago
This is bullshit, US presidents have been signing laws etc by autopen for decades.
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by dave4420 2y ago
I don’t think so. The decision came too late to save Netscape. Microsoft then stopped competing, and were slow to react when Firefox emerged. Meanwhile, Apple were always going to create their own browser — as part of their own OS — eventua
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by dave4420 2y ago
Article has nothing to do with the headline.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Gmail was free (with ads) from the very beginning, before Chrome existed. If Google charges for Gmail in the future, they might try to spin it as being because of not having Chrome, as an excuse, but it won’t be why.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Yeah. I think that was the wrong decision. The problem was introducing features between IE and IIS and using that to extend their end user OS monopoly into a server OS monopoly. MS should have been blocked from the server OS market instead
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by dave4420 2y ago
HN doesn’t have lots of simple features. I wouldn’t read too much into that.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Browsers shouldn’t be a product because any modern operating system that doesn’t come with a web browser is defective. A browser is an operating system feature. I mean, you can get alternative file manager programs. Pay for them, even. But
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by dave4420 2y ago
I think the author mentions that first theory in order to implicitly reject it in favour of the second theory.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Native English speaker here. The number of times I’ve returned to a message I’ve left in a slack/forum thread to find typos, missing words etc is embarrassing. I can’t imagine my emails would be any better.
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by dave4420 2y ago
What’s with all the flags hovering round the page? Very distracting, worse than most adverts.
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by dave4420 2y ago
It’s a good place to find recruiters (and for recruiters to find me). I don’t waste my time on any of the content.
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by dave4420 2y ago
War, crime, climate change.
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by dave4420 2y ago
> Our internal clocks are most stable when morning light exposure occurs early in the day, This argues for continually adjusting our clocks throughout the year, so that sunrise happens at a stable time of day, doesn’t it?

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