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by keernan 2y ago
Are visitors to the US now required to produce their phone and password to allow immigration to look at messages? It's been a very long time (1972) since I traveled outside the US, so I'm obviously not up to speed on international
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Show HN: AI Chats Unable to Solve Easy Coding Problem
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by keernan 2y ago
Things are inching closer to the ultimate show down between the Trump Administration and SCOTUS. The Judiciary isn't anxious to push things to the brink because they understand the ramifications for democracy if they push Trump to the
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Violence
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by keernan 2y ago
From the article: Suleyman’s team has also been testing alternatives from companies like xAI, DeepSeek, and Meta
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by keernan 2y ago
>>getting excited whenever a new version of DOS, and later Windows came out And installing the new version required 20+ 3.5 inch 'floppies'
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by keernan 2y ago
>The property or goods purchased with a loan are subject to tax. There is no such federal tax in the USA. And it is just ludicrous to suggest that stock holdings cannot be subject to a wealth tax. The value of stock holdings are establis
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by keernan 2y ago
Anyone with 100 million dollars or more does not have an income (unless they decide for their own reasons to voluntarily have one; but we will ignore that for the moment). Who do you think makes the decision regarding the way the government
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by keernan 2y ago
The type of inequality being discussed is very different from 'keeping up with the Jones' that you are discussing. Historically, one of the major turning points in the cycles of society/governments is when there is massive in
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by keernan 2y ago
Mortgages that were packaged into mutual funds that traded on the stock exchanges. Meanwhile, the insiders who knew what was going on (that the packaged mortgages were super high risk) insured their risk through new financial products - spe
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by keernan 2y ago
>Obama happened Being born in 1952 and having lived though the 1960s riots in both Newark NJ and LA, by the time Obama was elected, I believed my world (defined as 'away from the Confederacy') had radically different than the o
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by keernan 2y ago
>>“The idea that trauma and violence can have repercussions into future generations should help people be more empathetic, help policymakers pay more attention to the problem of violence” Violence impacts virtually every aspect of hum
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by keernan 2y ago
Haven't seen Opera on the list. I regularly use 6 browsers daily, each with different security/privacy settings - one with everything blocked but for my financial and health related sites. And I use Opera as a weak alternative to
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by keernan 2y ago
Tor Browser is Firefox (modified for Tor) but updated with each Firefox update.
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by keernan 2y ago
When I finished reading this article, several of its resource articles, and the HN comments, I returned to my HN feed, and a few HN posts down, I come across: DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures. What an interesting intersection. h
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by keernan 2y ago
Meet the Electrome. It Can Turn You Into an Assassin. In “We Are Electric,” Sally Adee explores the body’s capacity for electricity; the results can be shocking. NYT 2023 https://archive.ph/DpMMr
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by keernan 2y ago
Seems like a great way for Google to confirm connections between otherwise unconfirmed disparate bits of data.
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by keernan 2y ago
Thank you for doing that!
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by keernan 2y ago
There is simply no excuse for this. When an attorney submits a brief to a judge asserting a legal principle is xyz as set forth in a specific case, they are ethically obliged to have actually read the case when making such a representation.
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by keernan 2y ago
The ABA, lawfare, and many trial attorneys have been sending 'red alerts' that there is mounting evidence this administration intends to demonstrate the fragility of our democracy by taking the position SCOTUS has no authority ove
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by keernan 2y ago
The courts do not have a way to stop the President. The US Marshall Service is part of the Executive. Without the US Marshalls, Judges are tigers with no teeth. Literally nothing SCOTUS can do when a President does not voluntarily comply ot
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by keernan 2y ago
JD Vance has made clear they are following the pre-election script: The Judiciary does not have the constitutional authority to compel the Executive to do, or stop doing, anything. They are simply going to ignore SCOTUS and, since SCOTUS ha
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by keernan 2y ago
I can't even guess at the number of accounts I haven't touched in 10+ years.
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>crossed the line between advocating for digital rights and political activism The lawsuit was filed by individual federal employees claiming their private health records, social security data, and other private information was revealed
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by keernan 2y ago
Article fails to explain how to calculate an accurate 'intrinsic value', without which everything else is irrelevant.
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by keernan 2y ago
As a trial attorney for over 40 years, it is sad to bear witness to the end of democracy. Prior to the election, multiple billionaires belonging to the 'Tech Right', referring to themselves as Dark Gothic MAGA, backed Curtis Yarvi
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by keernan 2y ago
I am trained as a trial attorney. I believe I do not fall for conspiracy theories, false flags, etc. But I am shaking. Scared. Shocked. This video was created on Nov 13th. Predicting exactly what is happening right now at the White House. I
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by keernan 2y ago
Please, please everyone watch the incredibly disturbing video I link below. The video was created on Nov 14, right after the election. It is about the plans of 6 billionaires (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Arm
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by keernan 2y ago
I can definitely relate! When I was a young trial attorney working for a small firm, my friend and I decided to start our own firm. His gf was a realtor and sent a fair number of closings our way. It was barely enough to live on, but we wer
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by keernan 2y ago
An outrage. Not just the fraud, but the lack of consequence. My mother died from alzheimers as did my wife's sister. I have four adult daughters ages 30-40 who are therefore at elevated risk from this horrible disease. I have no doubt

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