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by k310 4mo ago
Government doesn't need warrants. They spy the old-fashioned way. They BUY it from our surveillance capitalist overlords. They are interchangeable pieces these days.
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by k310 4mo ago
I got to 1737 the hard way. Lots of 1 point posts (which don't seem to count) but mainly, I collect karma points so I can afford to fend off downvoting trolls. All done with good intention.
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by k310 4mo ago
I seek quality. That's why I read and contribute to Hacker News. One can seek and live a life of quality experiences with focus and depth or experience infinite random "hits" that require tedious curation to have any meaning.
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by k310 4mo ago
https://archive.is/vvOjT
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by k310 4mo ago
IMO, they buy companies, lay off en masse and sell the now sunsetted products. Reminiscent of "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, but he gutted and then flipped whole companies. I think of them as the bakery outlet store that sells only stale g
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by k310 4mo ago
Similar, no paywall. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-faces-bipartis...
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by k310 4mo ago
I was more replying to the word "hoarding" What if the really wealthy didn't hoard so much? I checked the Buddhist notion of wealth. Perhaps in the earlier teachings, it's all about denial, but the later teachings are al
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by k310 4mo ago
> None of this is evenly distributed. Wealth data show extreme inequality among older Americans: early work using the AHEAD survey found that households with someone 70 or older in the top tenth of the wealth distribution held around 2,5
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by k310 5mo ago
My nearest credit union branch is about 150 miles away, as is Fidelity. Do I love online finance, with the 2FA and heartless chatbots? I have worn out the letters HUMAN on my keyboard. Until Apple removes them. Siri will help you now.
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by k310 5mo ago
It's way more than code. Sure AI can crank out code at prodigious rates. Gary Tan, Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day [0] And so can I. (oops) "In the Beginning" (I was there) people wrote a
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by k310 5mo ago
What are the odds that this administration is telling the truth? Ever?
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by k310 5mo ago
Cult gonna believe what the leader and propaganda ministry say. Denial is top of the list of cult traits. Also, projection. These two are blatantly obvious, and the cult members don't see it because it's always THE OTHER GUY'
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by k310 5mo ago
While most of California's population is packed in cities near the coast, the "other California," as some say, is rural, lots of it, and both the densely populated and the sparsely populated areas have unique problems to solv
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by k310 5mo ago
Reminds me of the time I booted up a Sun-2 workstation from tape. All that was available for text editing was ed. (Surprise!) I learned a lot about ed real fast. Though this won't happen again, the lesson is "Learn the basics&quot
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by k310 5mo ago
See also https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ai-strategy-9.722323... Here's the goodie: > Create up to 90,000 AI-related job opportunities for young Canadians. This sounds like buying at the peak -- a
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by k310 5mo ago
I am reminded of the story that Apple was using Cray computers to design the next Apple products and that Seymour Cray said that Cray was using Apple computers to design the next Crays.
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by k310 5mo ago
Count the number of people doing financial calculations on home computers versus logging into the mainframe. Do you remember VisiCalc? I believe that common tasks, the ones that have meaning in everyday life, will move to personal devices,
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by k310 5mo ago
DOJ definition of election fraud. "We don't like the results" And, about that 2020 presidential election ... Every accusation is a confession.
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by k310 5mo ago
Well, so can I.
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They're just getting us used to military occupation of U.S. cities.
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by k310 5mo ago
Syndicated (no paywall) at MSN [0] I view and use computers as tools. They (mostly) do what I command. That's because I am by nature a problem solver, and so are others. In fact, if knowledge consists of understanding a particular doma
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by k310 5mo ago
Similar info, no paywall. https://www.pcquest.com/smartphones/apple-wwdc-2026-what-to-...
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by k310 5mo ago
No problem with Firefox. But I have ublock-origin and every paywall buster I could find. Common fixes are to clear cookies, for "soft" paywalls and turning off javascript for the site. consult your browser for easy ways to do this
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by k310 5mo ago
Article is syndicated without paywall at Irish Times [0] [0] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/02/more-harmful-...
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by k310 5mo ago
See Columbia article (it was slashdotted yesterday) [0] Leiden Declaration [1] [0] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15705 [1] https://leidendeclaration.ai/
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by k310 5mo ago
This from the party of "no interference with business". It's obviously a means to take control of AI, because the security argument fails Bigly after the firing of top security experts in the government (who might have the &q
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by k310 5mo ago
I previously posted about DDG search results (not personalized, but as geolocated as they can) > DuckDuckGo search results, seem to be based on either crude geolocation or recent movies of similar names, bizarrely, when I search for spec
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by k310 5mo ago
I know, don't shoot the messenger. Orders are orders. I was kind to bosses except for the four times I left summarily, with a few choice words, or not. They were grasping at straws, a massive ego trip, their boss's ass, or just a
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by k310 5mo ago
If an ad is targeted, it's unwanted personal surveillance. If it's not targeted, it's meaningless crap. If it's from DuckDuckGo, like its search results, it's based on either crude geolocation or recent movies of si
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by k310 5mo ago
(repost from 10 hours ago) The administration is a grift fest, and with legislative and judicial capture, NOBODY CARES. The possible blackmail factors will come out when the DOJ'S Epstein data comes out (and is not incinerated, electro

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