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by kbenson 2y ago
Once the infrastructure and social acceptance was there to allow for subscription based pricing, the bost benefit ratio shifted enough that the benefit of those people using Adobe products at home that weren't paid for changed, since t
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by kbenson 2y ago
> It's just a useful example of something that plays well in the HN comments section but not in the real world I take it you're referring to the earlier, short one, of "We don't store your data, period." If that
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by kbenson 2y ago
I appreciate that the version they indirectly encouraged you to use by rejecting the other one is much more clear about how you not only don't store anything, but don't collect anything. For the pedanticists here which might argue
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by kbenson 2y ago
Every time I search up a DMV question I get a DMV FAQ link that answers my question. Nine out of ten times when researching a tax question (I do my own taxes) I get a link to the IRS or the franchise tax board for my state with the specific
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by kbenson 2y ago
> I still don't understand why you're trying to shoehorn this into a narrative about being poor Well, part of it was that a sibling reply[1] was already present, and the idea that "oh, we can all just run our own AI models
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by kbenson 2y ago
> While middle class people are more likely to pay for things that need skilled repair (due to knowing fewer people who can do such work informally), they're not paying for things they can do themselves like housecleaning, landscapi
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by kbenson 2y ago
Poor, as I intended it, was meant to encompass many things. Working poor people have less money, but they also often have less free time because they have less money . If you have plenty of money you can shop around for jobs that fit your
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Ask HN: How much time do you spend in meetings?
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by kbenson 2y ago
Caring about privacy has always been a rich person's game, since the poor have little to pay with other than their data. That's worth keeping in mind.
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by kbenson 2y ago
> I think many people here on hackernews live in a bubble and just don't understand what is an average human being. Plenty of us understand, but it's depressing and usually trying to explain to others that have a rosier view of
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by kbenson 2y ago
> The essence of the problem is that there's no standard pathname for a personal directory that's guaranteed to be on local disk, even if $HOME isn't. Consequently, people have relied on /var/tmp/$USER for t
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by kbenson 2y ago
Windows has the same thing, it's just much less exposed, and none of the paths are magical, they're well defined and mostly adhered to for all major distros. The core of how it works in Linux is fairly straightforward. The main di
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by kbenson 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply it was exactly analogous, just a lot simpler, and there is a lot to be gleaned from that data. In fact, I would assume the more data you pass over it (e.g. if you proxy all your traffic across TOR) the easier it
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by kbenson 2y ago
> If these guys can do it, remind me again how Tor is secure because nobody could possibly be able to follow packets from your machine, through the onion hops, to the exit node where the same packet is available unencrypted... You'r
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by kbenson 2y ago
Eh, it's an average of one a day, but it could be rolled up in a report once a month and there's 20-40 to look through, and depending how hands on he is (he might have delegated some of this work) that may or may not be something
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by kbenson 2y ago
That is weird. Although OpenAI isn't even listed in their startup directory, so maybe the investment was done differently, and not through their normal channels. Or maybe they divested their share after a short period. Whether that me
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by kbenson 2y ago
> and it's been priced out of the market. Whether that's likely is entirely based on the cost of the device. Some things are simple and cheap and extra hardware cuts deeply into the profit. Others are not but this sort of thing
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by kbenson 2y ago
Is it? They state they've funded 5000 companies since 2005[1], and if that was evenly spread per year, that's about a company a day. Maybe pg only pays attention to the ones that other people bring to his attention given that am
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by kbenson 2y ago
> The full storage/kernel/network/UI stack required to make that happen isn't ever going to run under "ROM" in the sense of truly immutable storage. Why not? I'm essentially describing a specialized O
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by kbenson 2y ago
You could but a base level firmware on ROM, with a hardware trigger, and all that does on boot is listen and receive a signed firmware to write to the system. It needs a way to be triggered through hardware examining traffic and that also n
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by kbenson 2y ago
I'm not sure that says what you claimed? Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection. Contact with soil is from cats shedding oocyst
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by kbenson 2y ago
No judgement here. If I was dating, that would be my dating pool... In all seriousness, since this topic comes around every couple years, I've always wondered if we tested different populations of people based on career if we'd se
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by kbenson 2y ago
It was both, like it usually is. All that investigating and reverse engineering would have been for nought if the program didn't have the problems in the first place. Hard work is often how you capitalize on luck. Sometimes the work
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by kbenson 2y ago
Are you thinking of the one shown in Jurassic park? The scene in hackers was much more CGI, and while I don't doubt it was inspired by fsn, I'd be very surprised if it actually was fsn.
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by kbenson 2y ago
Really? I find that for some people the only criteria they need for a stance, whichever side they're on, is just to know how to stand so they're opposite the other side.
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by kbenson 2y ago
That's a horrible story, but pulling it out seems to indicate you didn't understand what the GP was trying to convey at all. The point was that to use a crime from twenty years ago for which a person was convicted and served time
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by kbenson 2y ago
"Best" is relative to how you're measuring, and cheapest doesn't mean that's where you want to put all your investment. The cheapest option that can work for some small about of the time can be best by one measureme
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by kbenson 2y ago
Seems to render fine on Firefox mobile for me, but maybe I'm just not noticing what's broken.
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by kbenson 2y ago
I'm mostly going by the author's own notes on how they responded, in which they state this: • You assumed we'd never gene sequenced the bacteria, even though I posted the sequence publicly. I assumed you did not regularly se
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by kbenson 2y ago
And good faith conversations don't come away with one party publishing assertions of fact just because the other side didn't directly refute the assertion in question. If the company thinks the journalist isn't working in goo

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