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by khriss 3mo ago
You can guess where the bar is when the guy in the white house was literally convicted of sexual assault in a court of law, and he still won the republican nomination. Now compare that against a credible accusation being enough to derail a
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by khriss 3mo ago
If that's the only thing you can find to dislike about Costco, then they are indeed the saints of the retail world.
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by khriss 3mo ago
> We should all keep in mind that foreign interests, primarily China, are astroturfing to drive resentment in the USA against AI and datacenters There hasn't been any credible reporting on this so far. It's far more likely peop
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by khriss 3mo ago
> The Sacklers got prosecuted because the opiod epidemic was huge Sure, but which one of them is in prison? Now compare the prison time an avg person would get for theft.
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by khriss 3mo ago
Yeah, but the trick seems to be to kill thousands rather than one. Then you have the full might of the law out to protect you. Exhibit A is the Sacklers family.
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by khriss 3mo ago
We really need an FTC with teeth. Capitalism cannot easily survive monopolies as the first thing monopolies do it fight tooth and nail to shut out competitors. Sadly, we seem to be going in the opposite direction. First with the appointment
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by khriss 3mo ago
Yeah, I was wondering about that as well. Some weird AI transcriber?
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by khriss 3mo ago
> If you think people aren't obsessed with AIPAC you are not following US politics. I think a simpler explanation might be just that there is a lot of attention being paid to why the US seems beholden to Israel to the extent that
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by khriss 3mo ago
Exactly. Notice the ruling after ruling from the Supreme court strengthening the power of corporations and moneyed interests.
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by khriss 3mo ago
And as if to sprinkle salt on the wounds, the Supreme court today allowed unlimited spending by political parties 'in coordination with allied interests(read the money class)' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by khriss 3mo ago
> The question worth asking is why are people obsessed with demonizing the AIPAC in particular and singling it out as the one or primary 'evil lobbying group' Is your assertion that no one is allowed to criticize AIPAC unless t
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by khriss 3mo ago
And of course, you have ample citations for this beyond 'everyone knows' or the latest party political?
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by khriss 3mo ago
Another step down the road of dismantling reforms brought in after Watergate.
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Supreme Court strikes down limits on party spending in federal elections(apnews.com)
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by khriss 4mo ago
Thank you! I wasn't even aware that IVPN existed.
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by khriss 4mo ago
I believe the ports reservation is tied to a specific node, not globally. The config is via a Wireguard config file you download.
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by khriss 4mo ago
Fredrik, thank you for a clear and honest statement of Mullvad's position rather than corporate word salad. > Mullvad protects the right for people to express things we don't agree with. We protect the right of everyone to acce
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by khriss 4mo ago
+1 on AirVPN. They are amongst the handful of companies which successfully resisted the war on torrenting (targeting VPNs that allowed persistent ports) and still allow for port reservation. Mullvad, like most other VPNs gave in in the end
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by khriss 4mo ago
It's fascinating to see the battle between Trump's ego and self preservation instinct play out in real time. He knows the House is as good as gone in the midterms, but adding a Democratic senate is going to make his life ten times
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by khriss 4mo ago
It's a bit like saying weather forecasts are useless in Seattle as you should always be prepared for the rain.
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by khriss 4mo ago
Good luck getting your grocery store to accept Monero though.
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by khriss 4mo ago
If we are going by anecdotes, then I suspect the number and scale of anecdotes of capital misusing it's power are going to vastly outnumber unions doing the same.
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by khriss 4mo ago
I am not sure engineers in say, Europe have any lower career flexibility. It's a false narrative to claim otherwise.
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by khriss 4mo ago
I thought Apple usually locked in contracts with TSMC and Samsung for years in the future? They should be best positioned to weather this storm. If they are getting buffeted enough to raise prices by this much, things are going to be dire
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by khriss 4mo ago
Interestingly, there were no consequences for the execs that made this 'mistake'. There seems to be almost unlimited cover for execs cargo culting on using AI as a pretext for layoffs. If it doesn't implode almost immediately
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by khriss 4mo ago
I am not sure how it's OK for Anthropic to basically ignore copyright to train frontier models (using work owned by others without permission) while simultaneously claiming Chinese AI companies doing the same to them is illegal.
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by khriss 4mo ago
Just... go away, will you? This constant game of mental gymnastics to interpret open and blatant grift by the supreme leader and his cronies as some kind of genius 4D chess which benefits the 'proud american people' is exhausting.
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by khriss 4mo ago
The implicit assumption is that the people who would genuinely quality for the O visa would want to come to the US. That claim generally held in the past, however it has not been very true in the recent years. Yes, you will get people w
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by khriss 4mo ago
If there is a better way to hand the future to China on a platter, I honestly haven't seen it yet. All of the other despicable stuff by this administration is easily reversible since nothing except tax cuts for billionaires (aka big be
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by khriss 4mo ago
> The politics in this country have been intentionally broken going back to Clinton and Obama. Ahh yes, the presidents from the other party, including the one currently in office, who runs arguably the most brazenly corrupt administratio

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