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by deaux 4mo ago
> These kinds of morally-superior, we'll show them, type of attitudes and suggestions are precisely why so many folks have come to be anti-EU. This would be a hilariously dumb reason to be anti-EU when the other major Western power,
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by deaux 4mo ago
That makes perfect sense. But clearly Switzerland, unlike America, barely has any proponents of Sharia-like Biblical law. This is a large cause of misunderstanding in threads like these by fellow Americans. Because the US has very similar
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by deaux 4mo ago
They're partially right, some cultures are awful by any common usage of the word. The problem of course is that they're dogwhistle implying that this means all Afghan asylum seekers must be part of such cultures and therefore must
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by deaux 4mo ago
> via a Gulf style guestworker program They get to keep their passports and can return any time, calling it Gulf-style is a bit much. There are abuses - so are there in Europe - but it's not like they sacrificed a thousand or so imm
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by deaux 4mo ago
Because it is real, and there _is_ in fact a large difference in the propensity to do this across cultures. This post is about Switzerland, and as said by parent a lot of this is about Germans in Switzerland. Are Germans in Switzerland more
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by deaux 4mo ago
I've actually been in such a situation and I didn't. Or if I did have such a bias it must've been rather small as none of the applicants benefited from it.
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by deaux 4mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034087 Paper was discussed here 4 months ago, and the linked tweet on this post doesn't add any insights and completely misses the huge caveats that come with the found res
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by deaux 4mo ago
A burner phone is a device, it doesn't come with a phone number. Phone numbers are all real-identity-tied, so what they really mean is _identity verification_ through phone number. Everyone on HN knows the downsides of that, but there&
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by deaux 4mo ago
No, there is zero truth in it. It would be trivial to detect phoning home. On top of that, all claims of this are written on devices built on Chinese hardware. That makes it a joke to worry about hidden backdoors in Chinese models. Complete
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by deaux 4mo ago
Guy is all over this post commenting nonsense because he's in love with the party that instated martial law recently and tried to do a coup. You're wasting your time on him. You're completely right that the Korean blues are a
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by deaux 4mo ago
I agree with some of them. Others need much more nuance. > - External map providers were iced out of hte market until this past year This was a positive for literally every Korean resident and only a negative for Google shareholders and
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by deaux 4mo ago
You're the one downplaying here. How many other non-Islamic countries where porn is entirely banned with the websites blocked? Doing deep packet inspection by default? (The difficulty of getting around this isn't very relevant) Be
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by deaux 5mo ago
The opposition you're talking of will hold no significant power in 2029. They currently hold a minuscule amount of power and this isn't going to skyrocket within 4 years. A meteor causing an extinction event is more likely and I d
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by deaux 5mo ago
Looking at their exclusion criteria, which one do you believe it falls under?
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by deaux 5mo ago
You mean "Listen to [someone who started on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, joined PayPal in its earliest days and worked alongside Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and eventually became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley] argue why AI p
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by deaux 5mo ago
Its not as if things are any better in the country that boasts the most about its freedoms regarding access to supposedly public spaces: https://www.instagram.com/780_lord_of_bench
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by deaux 5mo ago
99.99% of SaaS could only dream of the revenue of GTA5, and this post is about GTA6. It generates more revenue than famous SaaS unicorns like Notion and Figma.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> It makes me wonder(i'm korean): how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? I'd be pleasantly surprised, very impressed and it would make me reach out to have an offline chat.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by deaux 5mo ago
In a just world Zuckerberg would already be talked of only in past tense. This reality will get flagged/killed without a single Meta employee/astroturfer who does the flagging providing a justification as to why this isn't tr
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by deaux 5mo ago
No. The answer is no, and such spurious claims are parroted only by the privileged class.
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by deaux 5mo ago
Which part of "confirm the transaction by opening the banking app on your mobile phone." does not depend on a banking app installed on a Google/Apple-controlled environment?
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by deaux 5mo ago
Trading a dependency on MasterCard and Visa for one on Google and Apple is at best a sidegrade. More likely you end up worse off.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> You have choice with a company, This is wrong for a large share of the companies that most people deal with on a daily basis. And that share has been steadily increasing every single year.
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by deaux 5mo ago
This is like the 4th post I've seen on here about the exact same event.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> as the rest of the world moves on without a single fuck given. Hilarious thing to say when half this comment section is Americans giving so much of a fuck that they consider China-adjacent hosted models unusable due to the supposed ris
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by deaux 5mo ago
The US has for decades been engaged in mass dumping of their products to establish monopolies all over the world, and punishing anyone who dares try do anything about it. This isn't better than corporate espionage.
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by deaux 5mo ago
> These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. You're abusing "us" here. There are billions of ESL learners, and the group you're part of who recei
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by deaux 5mo ago
Nothing about this is a hallucination. The Codex that it talks about is real, existed, and did go on to power the original Copilot. You neither specified that you meant a different Codex, nor did it make anything up. The CodeGemma isn'

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