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by gruez 2mo ago
>Why does that logic not go the other way, too? Because the "sticker" price is prominently advertised, so advertising a lower price than nickel-and-diming up leaves a sour taste in people's mouths rather than advertising a
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by gruez 2mo ago
The airport departure board doesn't have flight numbers? All the ones I've seen do. And if you can't notice the difference between two different flight numbers, how are you going to notice the difference between one flight de
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Now boarding - remain seated. Gate closing! >The author gave plenty of other reasons why someone might be stressed out by what's communicated at the airport. Without objective accounts (ie. a picture), it's unclear whether
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by gruez 2mo ago
Right, but if they show up and try to stop you, your options for escalation are limited and you'll have to comply (stop).
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by gruez 2mo ago
I mean, it's a < 1000 word article about AI, in the "business" section of a current affairs magazine, of all places. You really shouldn't be expecting a deep dive.
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by gruez 2mo ago
I can't tell whether you're being serious or there's two levels of sarcasm here. Agents today lie and cheat, so obviously the solution is to... add features so people are even more trusting of them?
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Title: Show HN: I told Claude Code never to reveal my secrets. It sent 3 of 4 anyway >Actual project description: Self-hosted PII redaction proxy for LLM APIs. I can't believe people are resorting to clickbait headlines for pers
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by gruez 2mo ago
>For example, overpopulation has been a concern for many decades, yet politicians that ignore the problem, or actually advocate for more population, somehow keep getting elected. Are you from the 1800s? Malthusianism has been discredited
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by gruez 2mo ago
Neither is writing down license plates.
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by gruez 2mo ago
OP's contention is that private citizens don't have access to a network of cameras to look for license plates and therefore it isn't "plain view", but I don't see how that's different than law enforcement
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by gruez 2mo ago
So by that logic, nation-wide ABPs are also illegal, because a single person can't rally the entire country's law enforcement to find someone?
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by gruez 2mo ago
That's not a good argument against ALPRs because citizens can theoretically set up an ALPRs too.
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by gruez 2mo ago
The guy touts this as something that favors them but why can't be true in reverse? ie. the US finds Iranian weaknesses?
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by gruez 2mo ago
The law says: >... In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include: >1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Fair use law isn't supposed to apply to commercial activity. No, otherwise there would be a straightforward "non-commercial" clause. Instead there's a 4 part test, which takes usage (commercial or not) into account,
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*synthetic training data
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by gruez 2mo ago
> Simply a stylistic choice to cause it to read clearly and stand out. Is this actually a thing? I've seen plenty of people capitalize "FED" but rarely see it for anything else. eg. "TRUMP" or "OBAMA".
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Every country in the world is trying to solve the same problem: how to preserve economic growth despite a shrinking population and declining productivity. Which countries are actually seeing secular (ie. not a dip for a few quarters) be
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by gruez 2mo ago
Source? I've heard of companies hiring undocumented workers, but that's not the same as knowingly hiring them, or failing to do checks. For instance, the workers could have used stolen/forged SSNs.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>You do see how that's different, right? Me, contracting a sole individual to perform a task. I thought the issue was that you want Amazon to be on the hook for damages, not that they didn't do enough vetting? You can do all th
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I gave you the biggest working example in the world, the one where a person definitively has no objective need to take loans and does so anyway because it's deemed advantageous, and what you did in response instead of saying "
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Not remotely the same thing as Ukraine's army being stuck in a war they cannot win. Or whatever other not-quite-apt comparisons you want to make. Did you get to comparison #3? >The purpose of the British government is to propose
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Even Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has billions of dollars in outstanding loans that he could repay today if he wanted to. If billionaires who lack work visas can't get an auto loan because of their stock borrowing schem
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Anecdotally speaking, I've personally lived in multiple countries on multi-year-long temporary resident visas without the right to work, because getting the right to work is a separate process from being allowed to be somewhere. So
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by gruez 2mo ago
"There are no illegals on stolen land" and "abolish ICE" might be totems of progressives, but they're a slim minority. Only about 16% of Americans support no deportations whatsoever. https://www.pewresear
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by gruez 2mo ago
>but his examples seem just as devoid of thought. His 67% cancer center could probably cure more cancers if society invested more in cancer treatments and research, or if doctors persisted in continuing treatment instead of palliative ca
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by gruez 2mo ago
>What you're suggesting is that all Mexicans suffer more because some money may somehow end up in the hands of the cartel. It's not just Mexicans. Cartels don't respect borders.
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>Prosecuting the employers who break the law by hiring undocumented workers. Don't employers already have to check for authorization to work?
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>Like any other system, the purpose is what the system actually does. Especially a system that's been around for decades. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260422 >We let them in, so they can work our f
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by gruez 2mo ago
>1) People get loans against assets literally all the time. Typically in these cases, there's actually a source of income. You have to pay back the loan, after all. Otherwise I struggle to imagine why anyone without income but with

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