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by jacquesm 7mo ago
What bugged me for years is that I ended up paying the microsoft or apple tax that way. In the end I figured out a more efficient way around that than any of the rebates/refunds: just buy second hand hardware. Someone else paid for and
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> e.g. 167,383 * 426,397 = 71,371,609,051 They may be wrong, but so are you.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I really hope we use this intelligence resource to make the world better. I wished I had your optimism. I'm not an AI doubter (I can see it works all by myself so I don't think I need such verification). But I do doubt humani
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
This was a while ago and I was absolutely shocked. In Europe they'd impound your truck.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Do you specialize in asking rude obvious questions?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I've met truck drivers in the US that were driving 16 hours per day. I'm not sure if it is legal or not but it certainly wasn't considered exceptional. It's insane the kind of pressure some jobs put you under. Now ATC ha
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Some of the stuff you read on HN...
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
At least 1.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I'm undecided about my stance for gen AI in code. Just make sure that you isolate whatever is generated so that if you ever decide that copyright means something to you after all that you don't end up with a worthless codebas
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Not without 100K coffins. And that doesn't really sell all that well in the US.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
At no risk to myself I will try your plan and if it doesn't work you owe me your billion.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I think we now have the answer to your query: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046401 But I don't think we should extrapolate from it.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's true, but there are not that many jobs that have so many lives on the line as ATC.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
It's marketing.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
MH17 was not an accident.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
It's statistics, not individuals. And I don't think BLM has anything to do with it other than that it is something that some people apparently find psychologically hard to deal with because they have arranged their lives in such a
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Mearsheimer and Rand... between those two a lot of damage is being done to the psyche of impressionable people. They're all just looking for excuses to act out their inner toddler believing themselves to be in the possession of profoun
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Absolutely. It's one of the most puzzling things to me, and I've seen that first hand many times over. Native Americans abusing African Americans, to give you one weird example. I figure that if you are racist enough you're w
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Anything other than lily white is brown, don't you know? More so if they're sitting on top of a bunch of oil, or have the wrong religion, or just happen to be born in the wrong spot. Racism isn't necessarily perfectly confine
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> "Pen is mightier than sword" You completely misunderstood that. Take into account that you see the swords failing all around you whilst one nation effectively messed up the rest of the world through propaganda and maybe you
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Cuba's biggest problem is its neighbor that through continuous embargo and immigration blockades helps cement the regime's position.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Oh, good one! I had never heard of it but yes, that would work.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You won't meet many IRGC supporters outside of Iran, that's the whole reason they are not in Iran in the first place. Just the same with Cubans outside of Cuba. Most Iranians (or people that still identify as Iranians in exile) ha
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Fortunately the West would never stoop so low.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> and deal with the baiting once and for all. That sounds very bad when you translate it into German.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The opposite: Trump and Netanyahu have just proven to the bulk of the Iranians that the mullahs were right all along. They have helped IRGC more than they've hurt them by taking out their leadership. The mistake here is to think that t
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The only reason that has not happened is because the West needs that oil to flow.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
There are plenty of educated Iranians within Iran. What's with the structural under-estimation of countries that are not quite like the West? Seriously, Iran has - especially given the sanctions they've been under - consistently o
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The IRGC has more support in Iran than the Republicans do in the United States, just to give you one datapoint to contemplate.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You and 97% of the globe.

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