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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
There are no rights, there are only privileges (that can be revoked at any time), regardless of which country you live in. That is the brutal truth
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I used to think I preferred a smaller phone until I upgrade from an SE3 to an iPhone 17. It’s not even that much bigger, less than the screen size suggests because of the end-to-end screen and taller aspect ratio. And that extra screen area
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
Open banking protocols exist and are widely used but they’re called crypto, which everyone on HN hates for some reason
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The art of good business is being a good middleman
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EBay there are alternatives (gumtree etc.). YouTube there’s no real alternative because hosting unlimited amounts of video for free is a money pit that’s impossible to turn into a viable business. If some big corporation wasn’t willing to s
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iOS is noticeably better for this though because it's more locked down, there is a real tradeoff there
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Almost certainly some asbestos dust still in there from prior decades as well, the tube is absolutely filthy and never cleaned properly
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
That’s my experience too, going off the deep end with CoT doesn’t meaningfully improve output on a lot of tasks but it does incinerate tokens and take longer
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
It’s become common over recent decades for endurance athletes to consume gels etc during events. Maybe those gels are themselves bad for you somehow (they are basically pure sugar), but also if you don’t eat while running and just eat a nor
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
Yes actual crack is pretty popular among that demographic, the UK has a very good relatively low cost supply of cocaine. The classic combo is Afghan buj + crack but synthetic opioids are starting to make an appearance now the CIA isn’t prod
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Maybe not organised like the mafia but you 100% get crackheads shoplifting in an organised fashion to get money for drugs in London, and self checkouts obviously make this easier. Not unheard of to get crackheads trying to sell you stolen s
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
If you’re OpenAI you have to have an ethics department even if you don’t care at all, because otherwise it looks bad (“they don’t even have a head of ethics!”). So it’s entirely possible you end up in a situation where you have a highly pai
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
As other people said, the difference is dashcams and Waymos need the cameras for practical purposes, as do Ring doorbells etc, so while the privacy implications aren't great people will continue to do that stuff. Wearing a camera on yo
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
Either Mark Zuckerberg is playing an elaborate practical joke on everyone, or this is further proof that the West Coast tech scene has become such a bubble people have lost all sense of how ordinary people think. There is just no way this w
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
It’s not that you’re crazy, it’s that human beings are not actually rational most of the time. More intelligent human beings can do a better impression of rationality but in most situations they’re still using their intelligence to post-rat
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
The US hasn't fought a just war since WW2 and even that is actually somewhat questionable
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GitHub is different because they need to scale writes , that’s fundamentally a much much harder problem
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Reminds me of when ISIS was at its peak a few years ago and the BBC and all other news in the UK would always prefix it with “the so-called Islamic State”. Like… no, it was a state. It had borders, it had a monopoly on violence within those
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
This is the flip side of East Asian societies where everything is polite and orderly: they're also extremely conformist (sometimes stifling so), and the conformity and good manners are maintained by strict social policing (it's no
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
Yes, good chance this all ends with Microsoft absorbing OpenAI and Google absorbing Anthropic, or something along those lines
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To be fair the US has been an extremely successful country all things considered, so maybe they were onto something
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Arguably the natural end state of every system to be honest. Power, money and influence were concentrated in the Soviet Union, they're concentrated in modern day China...
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
The US is not really capitalist, it’s an oligarchy - a small number of people like Larry Ellison essentially control everything. It’s always been like that, even going back to the 19th century and the robber barons of the gilded age
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
You have a maze (a really, really complicated maze). Two cases: 1) you have to find a route to the middle 2) someone gives you a route to the middle and you have to validate it It’s not proven that case 2 is necessarily easier than case 1.
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
The $100,000 H1B fee is probably one of the only ambiguously good things the Trump admin did. Genuinely need a skilled worker? Well $100,000 is quite a lot, but not absurd relative to US salaries. Just trying to bring over an Indian to work
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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
This approach is wrong though, as we’re now seeing. GPS is comically easy to jam or spoof and assuming it will work all the time is just a silly, dangerous assumption. We just happened to live through a brief period where you could believe
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Iran was fighting them though, the Shia leadership of Iran have absolutely no time for Salafism. You need to be a bit more specific with exactly what you mean by “religious” extremism, you seem to be conflating things that are in many ways
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The Occam's razor explanation is that it's all about Israel. They're the only country that actually benefits from all these misguided Middle Eastern adventures, and it's not like it's just one, there's a patter
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Some industries (e.g. law) are close knit, at the top level everyone knows everyone, you’d get blacklisted for pulling stuff like this. But tech isn’t like that, there’s always a new startup and a new VC firm that don’t care that you ripped
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Happened once in English football: Wimbledon moved from south west london to the soulless new town of Milton Keynes. It was radioactively controversial at the time, most fans never made the switch. Eventually Wimbledon fans created a new cl

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