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by jpster 2y ago
Thanks! You might like the In Our Time podcasts from the BBC.
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by jpster 2y ago
This is a deep dive into the potential significance of the recent reporting that Microsoft has canceled some of its datacenter investments.
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Power Cut(wheresyoured.at)
5 points by jpster 2y ago|1 comments
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by jpster 2y ago
Starting to feel like Russia’s fire sale to oligarchs after the fall of the USSR.
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Borrowing from a tactic at X, Elon Musk says government workers must(nytimes.com)
14 points by jpster 2y ago|6 comments
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by jpster 2y ago
Hacker News’ submission character limit does not accommodate the full title. “Borrowing from a tactic at X, Elon Musk says government workers must detail their workweek or lose their jobs” This submission is on topic and should not be flag
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by jpster 2y ago
Ceding power is certainly a choice. Long excerpt: Yet initially the two current leaders of the Democratic Party seemed determined to broadcast their own weakness. Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries spent last week at a donor retreat with billi
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The Treasury Payment System Elon Musk Now Has Access To(podcasts.apple.com)
5 points by jpster 2y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 2y ago
The guidelines for what’s considered on topic: > anything good hackers would find interesting > anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosities IMO this story qualifies on both counts
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by jpster 2y ago
I’m observing that critical submissions about this news subject are being flagged, even when there is no editorializing of the headline.
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by jpster 2y ago
Is Elon trying to Twitterize the federal government? Is it really the case that renaming the Digital Services agency to DOGE allows him to do whatever he wants? https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/elon-musk-is-r
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by jpster 2y ago
> A glance at the raw figures shows just how far we have come: until the turn of the millennium, no algorithm managed to compute faster than m1.5, where m stands for the number of connections in a network that the computer has to calcula
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After publishing critical Israel arricle, Columbia Law Review's site shut down(apnews.com)
17 points by jpster 2y ago|1 comments
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by jpster 2y ago
Karim Khan, lead ICC prosecutor: I was told by a “senior leader” this court is “built for Africa and thugs like Putin”, not for the West and its allies. https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1792748783996207206/m
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by jpster 2y ago
ELI5: what’s a “world line”?
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US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer(theguardian.com)
27 points by jpster 3y ago|11 comments
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by jpster 3y ago
> the vast majority of people who have children find it a positive experience. How do you know this?
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by jpster 3y ago
> The captain was reportedly napping while sailing using autopilot when the boat drifted toward the beach. Guess he’ll never do that again.
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A sailboat is stuck on a Bay Area beach. It may be destroyed(sfgate.com)
3 points by jpster 3y ago|3 comments
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by jpster 3y ago
Curious if this can be a wedge to challenge the concept of at-will firings for non-app workers. European-style work councils in our far future?
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by jpster 3y ago
This “article” actually seems like content marketing. It’s hosted on harewood.org. Incentivized to embellish.
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by jpster 3y ago
Off topic but this is the first time I’ve seen a Mastodon post hit #1 on HN. Interesting datapoint re Twitter’s self-imposed mortal wound.
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AI as systemic risk in a polycrisis world [pdf](cep.eu)
2 points by jpster 4y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 4y ago
Mine was $22.50. Why the difference?
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by jpster 4y ago
What’s MOO & RO?
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Chien-Shiung Wu – A Heroic Experimental Physicist(sitn.hms.harvard.edu)
2 points by jpster 4y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 4y ago
Seems doubtful this will last, given the rapidly decelerating housing market.
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by jpster 4y ago
Asking them to come back for a revised and improved compensation package, right?
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West Texas Farm Grows the Most Expensive Spice in the World(texasmonthly.com)
1 points by jpster 4y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 4y ago
I really enjoyed your writing.

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