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by labster 1y ago
Why do you trust that they will actually wait 90 days to run the same playbook? There’s nothing stopping Trump from reneging on his 90 day tariff pause.
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by labster 1y ago
Hollywood was right all along then about hackers being outlaws, then. Hacker News must be the very heart of the Dark Web (where “dark” is short for late-stage capitalism).
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by labster 1y ago
Putting aside the public safety problems an AI mistranslation could cause: for the current administration, making foreigners more welcome in America would be counterproductive.
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by labster 1y ago
Yeah, it talks about how the author was progressive for his era and pulled a quote about how Presidents have a tradition of serving only two terms. If this article isn’t pulled for being a gross example of DEI, I’ll eat my hat. Good article
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by labster 1y ago
Who is the attacker and who is the defender? Can the candidate be sure that the person asking that question isn’t secret police?
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by labster 2y ago
From Prof. Tim Snyder, https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point > War with Canada is what Trump seems to have in mind. Fentanyl is not the only the big lie. That Canada does not really exist is the o
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by labster 2y ago
It would be foolish to cut the military now, since the US will soon need it to pacify its 51st state, Canada.
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by labster 2y ago
You mean the American language
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by labster 2y ago
There’s still a way out, the US Congress could convene over the weekend and revoke the President’s ability to impose tariffs. Restore it to Congress as stated in the constitution. Of course they won’t do that. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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by labster 2y ago
Leopards getting purchased instead of Abrams.
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by labster 2y ago
Suffering as a Service
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by labster 2y ago
San Marino, obviously.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s a set phrase, a quote of George W. Bush.
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by labster 2y ago
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. I can’t imagine why one would take a philosophy course if one does not like reading.
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by labster 2y ago
Maybe it is, I’m old and remember old stuff. Also the rules maybe apply differently under Trump, who knows.
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by labster 2y ago
Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to another host is either a manual process that could take days of downloading, or
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by labster 2y ago
Thanks for the shout out to Miraheze, a free wiki host with no ads. We really appreciate it. We’re about to celebrate our tenth anniversary in a couple months. I hope many Fandom wikis can come join us by then.
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by labster 2y ago
My comment made zero moral judgements. History has consequences. Spreading the English language to over a billion people while enriching Britain means a lot of people will want to live in a rich place where they can speak the language, for
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by labster 2y ago
Hi Liz! Looks like it’s time to update my profile, sadly I’m doing more PHP and Lua these days (wish it was Raku, it’s much better, but that’s how it goes)
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by labster 2y ago
If the UK didn’t want immigrants, they shouldn’t have colonized half the world and took their stuff
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by labster 2y ago
It’s hard for me to consider a successful propaganda campaign as ironic. The word you’re looking for is either hypocritical or malicious.
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by labster 2y ago
Another related article, three Yale professors are leaving for Canada: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-t... Brain drain is happening in real time.
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by labster 2y ago
I’m pretty sure the management team will include Boris Badenov as the new DPO
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by labster 2y ago
I’m not sure which Berkeley you’re thinking of, but I’m pretty sure it’s named after the one located at: Lr Bk National Laboratory, Bk, Cf Am
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by labster 2y ago
It does correctly change “cuatro candelas” to “fork handles”
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by labster 2y ago
What is a mystery cult? Is it like functional programming?
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by labster 2y ago
Fields -> manufactory -> factory -> office -> WFH -> fields As AI takes over creative work, we won’t need humans to sit at a desk, so they can be employed in subsistence farming while AI VCs make record profits.
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by labster 2y ago
While I really want to agree with your sound argument, I have this suspicion that climate change significantly affected forecast skill on Hurricane Otis.
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by labster 2y ago
AI is not just pattern matching. Assuming they have some idea of initial and boundary conditions, they should be fine.
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by labster 2y ago
There are words that add ambiguity to sentences, like “quite” and 「ちょっと」(chotto), but names of diseases are not that.

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