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by gspetr 1y ago
These aren't mutually exclusive, unless you have an extremely narrow definition of a startup: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/38-startups-have-become-un...
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by gspetr 1y ago
> The influence of money in politics is one of sharply-diminishing returns. It is invaluable for name recognition This part is true. > There is a tendency, when we disagree with an election, to tally up the donations made to the other
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by gspetr 1y ago
Which oil companies have a free tier product available to the general public?
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by gspetr 1y ago
Free trade? They put tariffs on China in October 2024, before the US Election. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-vot...
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by gspetr 2y ago
Throwing from balconies doesn't work. Pavel Durov tried it in 2012, it quickly turned into a brawl under the balcony. So the one above got bad reputation, being called out by the media for making PR stunts in bad taste, and the ones be
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by gspetr 2y ago
> the dumb and unsophisticated criminals This appears to be majority of them if Brian Krebs is to be trusted. Very few have proper OPSEC, fewer still are disciplined enough to prevent cross contaminating their virtual identities. Even if
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by gspetr 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/britai... "another respected data journalist, John Burn-Murdoch, calculated that without London, the UK would be poorer, in terms of GDP per cap
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by gspetr 2y ago
Where were the police and regulations when Boeing's products killed hundreds of people? Last time I checked, nobody among top management went to prison for that. That's what "too big to fail" corporations can get you: fa
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by gspetr 2y ago
>Do you truly expect any steam games to have anything like a root kit that’d exfiltrate your credentials? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steam-game-mo... "Downfall, a fan expansion for the
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by gspetr 2y ago
Even on the face of it this sounds too far fetched. If he's in it for the mission, and not for the money, then surely you can't claim that there aren't companies with a more meaningful mission than blogging? And if there are,
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by gspetr 2y ago
I think it just never hit close to home for you to matter. A developer I know had it happen to him. A startup raised $25M squarely off his open source work and they've donated to him a grand total of $250, i.e. 0.001% of the value. He
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by gspetr 2y ago
I've read some of the threads, and it appears that Discord and X are not the end of it. Apparently, this same CM also runs Godot's Github account: some people have reportedly been banned on Github as well, and if that's true,
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by gspetr 2y ago
Paternity testing is illegal in France. Attempting to verify a very basic fact that your child is indeed yours is criminal. So is outsourcing it to other (even neighboring) countries. If French customs intercept DNA samples or results in th
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by gspetr 2y ago
> It makes celebrities of people like Andrew Tate Legacy Media made celebrities out of people far worse than Tate decades before Youtube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mesrine Media's propensity to do s
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by gspetr 2y ago
Experience and age have diminishing returns. Biden's been hands-on in his domain for over 50 years, yet "quick" is definitely not the word that comes to most people's mind when they think of him nowadays.
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by gspetr 3y ago
I don't know if that makes a significant difference for that purpose. It's not like places where weddings take place are conspicuous enough that you couldn't tell the difference between them and a normal govt agency, and it&#
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by gspetr 3y ago
>in Italy, a wedding is a contract Last time I checked it is a contract just about anywhere, including the United States. Marriage rights are primarily property rights. (or "liabilities", ask any divorce lawyer).
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by gspetr 3y ago
> or being unable to travel at certain times at all. This is all fine and dandy until enough people decide to travel by car, and eventually there are traffic jams making you virtually unable to travel (by car) at certain times as well.
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by gspetr 3y ago
>Apparently the tool seems to be reluctant to produce images of white people at all. It's not that. It would have been one thing that when you said "I want a picture of 4 doctors" for the tool not to generate any white doc
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by gspetr 3y ago
I really doubt there are any Stalinists at Mozilla. My 85 y/o grandpa who's a communist's communist calls the modern DEI left "Trotskyists to a fault": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
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by gspetr 3y ago
>as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt If you want to get *very* technical then it's possible to not be African if you're from Egypt: "Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Afric
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by gspetr 3y ago
>I wonder how it got passed QA? If we take Michael Bolton's definition, "Quality is value to some person who matters" then it's very obvious exactly how it id. It fit an executive's vision and got greenlighted.
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by gspetr 3y ago
This seems to be completely in line with the previous "AI is good when it's not news" type of work: Non-news: Dog bites a man. News: Man bites a dog. Non-news: "People riding Tokyo train" - completely ordinary, tons
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by gspetr 3y ago
Beat me to posting about the Songbook, but this one's a much funnier article about it: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/tripp... Prev HN discussion about it: https://news
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by gspetr 3y ago
What's funny is that if we substitute Canada with Russia in your comment, every word of it still holds true. I suppose "stable" and "stagnant" are two sides of the same coin.
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by gspetr 3y ago
This makes me even more incredulous than the GP commenter. How did people who "read /etc/password from disk on every file access." get hired by Google? Or perhaps the right question is for which roles, because with that
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by gspetr 3y ago
Would love to watch/read any sources to better educate myself about things you believe Huberman gets wrong.
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by gspetr 3y ago
>though they are the same absolute number. They literally aren't. 15 * 0.33 = 4.95 100 * 0.05 = 5 You don't want to be one of the 50 people extra that got canned.
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by gspetr 3y ago
Win10 119.0.1 (64-bit)
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by gspetr 3y ago
I initially did not want to bring this up, but Firefox literally changed my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Google after I updated it yesterday. No opt-in, no user input, no warning, no nothing. Just shoved Google down the user&#x2

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