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by jacquesm 2mo ago
You think they're going to read that license and then go oh, sorry, we won't use this because you told us not to?
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
The easy way to deal with this is to stop using Apple products. Ultimately consumers hold more power than legislators if they act in concert.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
You'd have to become a billionaire first and that takes a particular mindset. The two might be mutually exclusive.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
In the real world the jails are for holding, the prisons are for convicted criminals and the homeless people (most of them anyway, because not everybody that is homeless is derelict, and the addicts) get whatever help they need. Because we
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Why would it have to be consistent? I've seen so many things be said and be done that do not mesh at al that this is really a very minor thing. Think about it, the list is just about endless by now it's hard to tell the lies from
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Because they aren't really people unless they could afford a DC of their own. When you view half the world or more as NPC then it becomes trivially easy to ignore the needs of others.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
There was little doubt after the last 24 months. Even if it wasn't with words they did plenty of deeds that confirmed that.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Then maybe he should write off his Greenland ambitions.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
The current US administration really doesn't like accountability, and if the judges can't be bought they get mad at them. One day we will be back to normal. I hope I'll be around to see it, the degree to which we are sliding
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Can we fastforward to that point so I can buy some GPUs at non-inflated prices? It is insane how fast they are going up. I bought some stuff last week and it is already up $1K compared to then. And I thought it was overpriced when I got it.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Gorgeous!
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
You'd need a functioning legal system for that.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
And then there is that one reason to vote anyway: things can always get worse if you don't.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
That's why I'm all for appliances. Stuff should just shut up and have buttons all these arguments with hardware are getting very tiring.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
There is always a way to interpret a comment in the worst possible way. I'm pretty sure you understood what I wrote.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
I hope you have extremely deep pockets.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
It's high time we get signed warrants that upon bankruptcy all data will be destroyed so it won't be used to make good either the creditors or the shareholders of the company that went under. I can't imagine any good outcom
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
That these aren't details. And for some reason there is always an Epstein connection.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time t
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
That would exactly be my response if my computer would start telling me what to do. It is really a 2001 variation at that point.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Make a new account then?
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
I no longer use it but never felt it was particularly complicated, but since the days of resnet there are much faster ways to the goal.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
They might want to live in it but they won't be able to afford it.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
This comment exactly nails it. That's the feeling that this all gives me. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we just had to bankrupt all of you to save humanity...
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
And in spite of the name, most the people on Hacker News.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Indeed, but it does provide them with a lot of tools for those other items on your list.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
It's not so much whether we believe this, it is about whether they and enough of their supporters believe it. Because the effect of believing that is what drives their need to 'be the first' at the expense of everything else.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
> I'm interested in how that turns out 6 months later. That really is the real question, isn't it? For me it has been a mixed bag so far, I've seen some companies use this tech in a slow and deliberate manner to do what th
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
No, they are excessively optimistic about the financial outcomes. Healthcare should not bankrupt people.
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by jacquesm 2mo ago
Fascinating. DJ Delorie rates a mention, I wonder how he's doing, I owe him a good chunk of my career. This reads very much like the same journey I made recently when reviving my old OS, only Oscar went much further than I did and wrot

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