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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> Orbán's government never got to the full-on violent oppression used in actual autocracies, but instead used many of the tools that the Republican party uses today to attempt to stay in power. That being: gerrymandering and other
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> That's actually kind of important to the tech community, considering we are wildly complicit in this. This should be why modern fascism is of interest to the HN community. Pretending tools exist in a vacuum is shirking ones et
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I'd counterpoint that if one can't make oneself feel good through something other than lighting cash on fire... one isn't thinking hard enough. In the parent's example, I'd be surprised if anyone can't find ano
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> If you are not an expert, AI seems to create a complex solution to whatever it is you were trying to do. I've been watching non-developers vibe code stuff, and the general failure mode seems to be ignorance of 3-pick-2 tradeoffs
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> from an entity that isn't SOC2 & HIPAA certified What do you think the fake Delve attestation scandal was about? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319
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Experts take the time to learn why the fence was there in the first place.
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> minimum viable commercial development This is fundamentally what we're talking about. A business that requires a retail footprint in 2026 is going to want to do that in the cheapest, most controlled way possible. If McDonalds co
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The way to read that is that parent was being paid 2.5x what their FTE hourly rate would be. In which case, I'd say they struck a helluva bargain at salary negotiation. Kudos. It's not like they didn't ask for more work to do
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The irony is when political advertising manages to convince people that a policy that would benefit them (because they're poor) would benefit someone they dislike (because they're racist), and they vote against their own self-inte
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Want to see what no zoning looks like? Find your nearest organic strip mall development road, then imagine that in a neighborhood.
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What people think commercial AI is: a friend What it actually is: a salesperson It took the mass public a long time (15 years?) to realize search engines had shifted from the former to the latter, and that allowed Google to leverage that mi
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> I'm hoping fast on-device AI agents finally kill off advertising. I'm hoping my agent will stand between me and (advertising, toxicity, the algorithm, etc.) and literally rip the suit and pants right off Meta, Google, et al.
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My charitable company strategy take: this is companies skating to where they think the puck will be Given the rapid progress in LLM capability in recent history, it's reasonable to expect that continues... at least to some degree. Cons
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I'd say the most accurate casting would be: Companies have ideas. Companies have finite budget to pursue these ideas, and never enough to fully pursue all of them simultaneously. It's management's job to prioritize the order
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Ooh, like an advent calendar of crazy! Me? I'd rather just keep reading through mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.
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Exactly. The deeper wisdom is that the current bifurcated US economy reveals the malaise at the heart of modern America. When a company can make more profit by catering to the ultra-rich-only than selling a quality mass-market product at a
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There's two takes on America. One: It's terrible that you're shopping at a big box hardware retailer instead of a local hardware store and drinking high fructose mass market soda. The other: Home Depot usually has what's
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The irony is that, in contrast to their relative positions in the 1960s, communism (in the political-economic Marxian sense) vs capitalism (in the 2026 sense) is now more true to the original communist view above. To wit, that end stage cap
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AI space datacenters only make sense from one perspective -- sovereignty. If you're someone with a lot of money, who dislikes governments meddling in your business, and often pisses off governments... ... oh, I see why this is an Elon
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I had a "Violence in the Political System" professor who only assigned executive summary research assignments. No more than one page. His explanation: I don't want to read more than that, and you should be able to fit all the
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One of the last existent species of North American megafauna!
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I mean, he was sentenced to 11 years and served 7 1/2. But untreated (at the time, no penicillin) syphilis turned him into a mental pre-teen after his release, so I guess the universe serves some justice where the laws of the land do n
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> bullshit performance management Having a manager manage performance is the worst organizational option, except for all the others. Good managers understand they (like senior ICs) are the grease between the working gears of a large co
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The US justice system doesn't start from fair. It starts from what you can prove to the letter of the law. And when you're targeting someone / something with unlimited lawyers, you'd better have ironclad evidence that ex
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You get Al Capone on the charge you can make stick.
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It's hard to get lower friction (register a new account) and lower fee (0%) than Craigslist.
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You realize it's a whole thing, right? Being a console ecosystem owner doesn't work if one doesn't have a console? Hence why it makes sense to look at their gaming division revenue as a whole: a large part of that revenue is
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Windows power / restart has gotten absolutely fucked in the last 10 years. Hibernate? Gone by default. Sleep? Ineffective 1/2 the time because a Microsoft utility force-wakes it. It's sad that 15 year old Windows system was m
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There are some well-known scripts. All variants of the same pattern. E.g. https://gist.github.com/LuisAGC/843a2a45617d7ad05687c2f8a15c... or https://github.com/TheBear1616/CapsLock-PreventSleep-Scr
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Management and PM kung fu: - Here's the KPI - Team can't figure out another way to boost KPI - Team implements dark pattern System working as pathologically-intended. The root problem is there are seemingly no user e

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