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by latexr 1mo ago
“Fun” fact: Even the creator of one of the most widely recognised and used assault riffles wasn’t enthusiastic about it by the end. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/13/262096410...
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by latexr 1mo ago
This is reductive to the level of the people misusing the Douglas Adams quote, with a sprinkle of false dichotomy. Fear and embrace aren’t the only options, and neither camp is entirely positive or negative. There is plenty of middle ground
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by latexr 1mo ago
Is there a name for this pervasive psychological phenomenon where someone reads an ancient text and becomes convinced of its profound relevance to their own field? Seems to be especially common amongst the influencers of the tech sphere.
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by latexr 1mo ago
> Caveat emptor, it’s really not worth it compared to setting up a 3 USD per month Hetzner proxy box yourself, if you’re looking to pirate movies. How does that work? Wouldn’t Hetzner know who you are (because you pay them), meaning that
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by latexr 1mo ago
In fairness to Google, it’s not like they didn’t warn us. The service is called “Ad Mob”, after all. “Nice app you got there. It would be a shame if your account got banned.”
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by latexr 1mo ago
Another post already has an excellent list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662025 I do all those and more. For example (relevant to your analogy), I speak with the people around me (never preachy, that’s no way to c
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by latexr 1mo ago
It would still be nice if you stated upfront that this is built with AI. The people who are interested in “no AI features” are likely to also be the ones who do not want something built with AI. It would help to be clear about the project’s
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by latexr 1mo ago
I get what you’re saying, but that doesn’t seem helpful. We don’t need to discuss better words to describe the intricacies of the situation, we need to do something about it. It also doesn’t help to keep saying “this does seem to be the r
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by latexr 1mo ago
Thank you for that recommendation. I find the website hard to read¹, but the submissions themselves are as a whole much more interesting² than any HN homepage in the past year. ¹ But I can do something about that, as opposed to the submissi
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Kallax STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from IKEA [video](youtube.com)
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The Hidden Dangers of Musk's Votesafe.org(popular.info)
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Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set a New Standard(gamespot.com)
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Open Letter: Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner(noyb.eu)
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by latexr 1mo ago
> I think the Duo looks great. To each their own. Personally, I find it horrendous. It’s by far the ugliest iPhone i’ve seen, possibly the ugliest Apple device ever. But then again, paraphrasing The Dude¹ “that’s just like, uh, my opinio
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by latexr 1mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR1uLHmxmcg
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by latexr 1mo ago
Do you have JavaScript off? That also works, as the article is hidden after it’s shown.
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by latexr 1mo ago
> I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them You know it? I sincerely hope you don’t and that it’s not really “most” of us. That would be incredibly sad. Tracking m
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by latexr 1mo ago
Not every company is publicly traded, so they don’t have shares nor shareholders. Also, not every company is a massive behemoth who only cares about profit above all. Plenty of people start companies with the goal of providing something use
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by latexr 1mo ago
Even the FBI warned about that. https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...
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by latexr 1mo ago
Bingo. And algorithmic social media feeds reward fringe opinions—the more hateful the better—because those drive “engagement” which translates to attention, fame, money. Which means people are incentivised to be as controversial as possible
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by latexr 1mo ago
> Users can choose to opt in to having their default feed include personalised content recommended by the algorithm. Alternatively, users can opt out of personally recommended content in their default feed and see the friends and creator
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by latexr 1mo ago
> The war on drugs was a failure Continues to be . It’s not over; it has been going on for over half a century, and counting. How was it that Toby Ziegler (The West Wing) put it? “Since it never ends and no one ever wins, maybe we shoul
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by latexr 1mo ago
> You can already do this on youtube by not allowing history. And what a bliss that is! I love it how YouTube thinks it’s punishing me by turning off the home page recommendations if you disable history (it didn’t always do that) while i
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by latexr 1mo ago
You are massively underrepresenting the situation. This is not “girls have cooties”, this is full-on women bashing. This is calling all women subhuman whores who don’t deserve respect. For crying out loud, there are massive “influencers”
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by latexr 1mo ago
Oh, this was not parody… Looks to be just a bad faith argument about abortion from a “Pro-Life Catholic Mother” rage baiter who loves guns, is against women voting, and is “just asking questions” on the street.
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by latexr 1mo ago
There seems to always be an encoded loophole, eh? Though while marking anyone an “enemy” is subjective to interpretation, “armed” not so much. Unless, of course, you bring a sandwich with you to the polls. https://www.mediaite.co
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by latexr 1mo ago
Exactly. This (the argument you’re replying to) is basically the same as when some new tech is introduced to the public (e.g. LLMs) and on day one you get hundreds of hot takes on how some company (e.g. Google) is DOOMED . As if they’ll ju
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App Review Shenanigans(kaylees.site)
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by latexr 1mo ago
> This is just a sound bite I agree it sounds like a sound bite. > Write enough to defend your position. But it also feels to me their point was clear, despite their more… mathematically poetic way of putting it. I believe their arg
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by latexr 1mo ago
Agreed. As a society, we have this silly habit of dismissing criticisms of incoming societal shifts because previous ones “turned out fine”. We grab the most extreme of the bad contrarian takes of the time and use it to ridicule the positio

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