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by gruez 2mo ago
So why would anyone give a loan to someone who can't legally work? If it's really spouse that's the sole earner, why not have the spouse take out the loan?
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by gruez 2mo ago
1. So you'd agree that AI datecenter with 100 (or whatever) jet turbines merely "lacks a permit" rather than "not supposed to be there"? 2. Practically speaking, how many people lack a work visa (or similar document
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by gruez 2mo ago
>He's also making it difficult/impossible for people without work visas to obtain auto loans [...] >They're banging the national security drum to make it unlivable here for some. But they're not supposed to be here
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by gruez 2mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by gruez 2mo ago
>So if an Amazon delivery driver driving an Amazon delivery truck delivering Amazon packages causes an accident with millions of dollars of damages, Amazon should not be responsible? If you paid someone to drive you to the airport, and t
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by gruez 2mo ago
They might not be prefect but they have a better track record than social media commentators. If you were going by the sentiment on HN or reddit, you'd thought Kamala would have won by a landslide.
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by gruez 2mo ago
No. Companies should be on the hook if that's the law says they're on the hook, not because some politician put out a youtube video. This is rule of law 101. As for changing the law so they're on the hook, I'm against th
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I think if one thing Mamdani is great at, it's that he's a great marketer. His brand is just so much better than any candidate You could say the same about Trump, and no, this is not supposed to be a compliment.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>set impossible delivery standards that require these subcontractor employees to do things that break the law OR cause damage to their health Source? Is it actually physically "impossible", or simply a race to the bottom dynami
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by gruez 2mo ago
>This matters if they do something and you go to sue them. All of sudden, you find out it's tiny company with only 1Million in assets and crappy insurance after they crash into a bus and cause brain damage. ( https://www.d
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by gruez 2mo ago
Progressives love to point out how popular their candidates are but fail to realize they're in a filter bubble that doesn't reflect the wider electorate. They were jubilant when al-Sayed won, but betting market odds for democrats
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by gruez 2mo ago
> The result is linked below. Those cranes in the back of photo 2 are building yet another data center. Is this supposed to be bad? Maybe the datacenter in the first picture has an ear piercing whine, but neither of the pictures looks ob
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by gruez 2mo ago
>NIMBY is largely used for housing development discussions and to contort it in support of developing data centers is incredibly intellectually dishonest. No, it's frequently used in infrastructure discussions as well, eg. high spee
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Modern heat pumps easily keep efficiency below freezing. Ours goes to 22F before there’s any efficiency drop. A different model goes below 0F (we just didn’t need it). No they don't. Their efficiency is linearly correlated with the
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Heatpumps should absolutely be the primary choice in the correct climates. But these deals are rarely good or efficient for a taxpayer. I'm amazed at the cynicism here. [thing] is objectively good, but it's still bad because g
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by gruez 2mo ago
...after they abandoned communism ("let some people and some regions get rich first") and liberalized their economy?
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by gruez 2mo ago
> I don't know what they put into pizza "dough" but it's not real flour. That conspiracy doesn't make sense given that flour is probably the cheapest ingredient in a pizza besides water. You'd have a hard ti
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by gruez 2mo ago
But oil companies are already subject to a windfall tax, bringing their total tax on profits to 78%? If the author's complaint is that oil companies are making too much profits, failing to mention this is a massive omission, but perhap
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...or UPI (India), wechat pay/alipay (China), SEPA (EU). The problem is that none of these systems are actually global.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Longtime subscriber. Pretty disappointed in how biased their coverage is. >The most critical piece they have put out on AI is oh no it's so powerful it's hacking everything. It's like being in a job interview and sayin
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Why not create a new HN account for every post? Your profile: >created: 1 day ago
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Right now RAM is the same price per GB as it was in 2007 and prices per GB look to continue to rise. ...when looking at nominal prices (ie. not adjusted for inflation). If you adjust for that the furthest back you can go to get that pri
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by gruez 2mo ago
"subsidies" implies the number is negative. Now it sounds like you're moving the goalposts from "datacenters are getting subsidized" to something vague like "they're not paying enough".
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Subsidies to multitrillion dollar companies at the expense of taxpayers. How does this square with the fact that one county in Virginia derives half of its budget from datacenters?
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Arguably if new information arrives which changes the risks or impacts of a project, especially if the project was initially on some kind of fast-track process, then projects should be subject to re-reviewed and scrutiny (which I would
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by gruez 2mo ago
>but Israel has joined the group of countries that taint everything they touch, much like Russia. [...] Israel seems to be working hard on becoming a pariah state. Sounds like you're agreeing with the OP that the country is being me
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by gruez 2mo ago
>We direct scraper traffic to a bot-specific server using Cloudflare's load balancer, slowly analyzing traffic and adding conditions one at a time. No accidental scraper DDoS in a long time. What's the point of this compared to
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I don't really understand why there is resistance to in-browser Anubis-style gating using crypto mining for public sites like this. But in the case of anubis it's not even used for crypto. It's just wasted. >You mine c
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by gruez 2mo ago
>But this was early on for domains and I wonder what the process is like now. UDRP: https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/consensus-polici...
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I thought the whole issue with manifest v3 is that prevented extensions from being able to block connections? No. See: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d... >The chrome.d

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