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by kashunstva 6mo ago
Maybe the U.S. could stop normalizing and modelling blatant criminality as a first step, in lieu of mass warrantless surveillance. Just yesterday, the U.S. president was giving what could be generously construed as a speech, in which he sai
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> Republican propaganda demonizing the poor who rely on these services. Collaborators like Bill Clinton didn’t exactly help matters either.
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> “Our law enforcement methods follow the U.S. Constitution.” Do they not consider the Fourth Amendment part of the Constitution?
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
My own parents are in their late 90’s. Because they grew up in the wake of the Great Depression, I always assumed their extreme frugality was a function of the economic distress in their formative years. They also properly accounted for the
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> that's how little support matters to them I’m coming up on my one year anniversary of having my Claude Pro account terminated for reasons that to this day remain an utter mystery. “Here, submit this Google form and we’ll look at i
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
I’m sympathetic to the author’s complaints about Anthropic’s support, though I would go further. It doesn’t exist. For reasons that continue to elude me, almost exactly one year ago, Anthropic cancelled my Claude Pro plan. To appeal, you mu
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> everyone Surely this claim cannot apply to all humans who refer to that social media service. There are multiple potential competing explanations that have nothing to do with virtue signalling. For many, particularly non-users or rare
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
I think you will have your answer if you consider which approach nets the recipient the larger number of golden tributes.
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
But the U.S. president would like everyone to know that as opposed to his predecessors, he is taking $0 in salary.
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
This has been happening forever but only on my bike trainer setup. I have a laptop and an external display mounted in front of my handlebars. The screen will reliably go blank when I remove my outer layer as I start to warm up. I tried grou
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> “Charlie Kirk was someone who encouraged everyone to love others,” Bulso responded. Except I recall him endorsing the stoning to death of gay people as “God’s perfect law.”
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> Sunlight is a carcinogen But sunlight is essential for the cutaneous conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D3, whereas ethanol serves no essential purpose, irrespective of whether one enjoys it or not. Personally I don’t consum
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
Did they just overtake the Wehrmacht for that honour?
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> Although Trump threatened the ICJ I’ve wondered, in the immediate aftermath of his recent genocidal threats, whether Mr. Trump was feeling left out of that club.
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
Fair enough, I missed the mark that I was intending. Possibly he remains better recognized in Germany than in North America; and it’s admittedly not my field. At the same time, more than once when I’ve posed the question about the utility o
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
They point to Luhmann and his hundreds of academic papers. But I’ve asked two sociology professors about Luhmann and they had never heard of him.
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
> hallucinate 10% of the time in charge of human lives Out of curiosity, about a year ago I queried a few models about how to fly a particular instrument approach. It was an ILS approach using a DME arc transition. Other the basic concep
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by kashunstva 6mo ago
Growing chillies easily becomes its own rabbit-hole. I grow between 30-40 different varieties, which, depending on where you live, can be an interesting and near year-long venture.
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
At least in studies that are about a decade old now, atheists are the most disliked religious minority group in the U.S. We’re regularly linked to major historical genocidal regimes, and consistently blamed for a host of social ills. So yes
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
The 4 character 5x7 LED dot matrix displays are a thing of beauty. Are they the Broadcom device? The ones that are ridiculously pricey.
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
I feel as if this is solving a problem I don’t have, at least not yet. My issue is that I’m contemplating building something and I’m sitting ordering from DigiKey and I can’t recall if I have a certain part. For example I have way too many
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
Whether or not professional military strategists and planners anticipated this shift in carrier-based projection of power in the era of low-cost drones, it is nearly certain that the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military has not.
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
> secular society based on Christian values Oddly the Christian deity is mentioned exactly zero times in the Constitution.
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by kashunstva 7mo ago
I wonder how long it will take them to link the dots to join their businesses.
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by kashunstva 8mo ago
They _could_ have a fix in 45 days apparently. I’m skeptical; and the cynic in me would say that they are hoping people will forget about it in the midst of the next autogenerated crisis or distraction.
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by kashunstva 8mo ago
If I’m reading the article correctly, imagery over Iran is available to clients; but that of U.S. assets is not. Seemingly this is explained by: > Planet also holds lucrative contracts selling overhead imagery to the US military and US g
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Ask HN: Anthropic account suspended, anyone reinstated?
2 points by kashunstva 8mo ago|3 comments
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by kashunstva 8mo ago
Financial Independence, Retire Early
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by kashunstva 8mo ago
> american tourists Tourists? Shouldn’t they be working?
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by kashunstva 8mo ago
Weren’t they able to purchase two Gulfstream G700’s for Ms. Noem’s use during the last shutdown? I think they could find the money if they wanted to.

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