maybelsyrup

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by maybelsyrup 1y ago
> They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd Honestly thought they were the same people
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by maybelsyrup 1y ago
Man I was just thinking the other day that I was looking forward to his eventual writeup of whatever comes of this Air India accident. RIP to a real one.
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by maybelsyrup 1y ago
You may not agree with it but I fail to see how it’s disingenuous
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by maybelsyrup 1y ago
> I doubt he thinks about clippy much at all Guys I think I found Bill’s HN handle
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> My point is, anyone who isn't Israeli (be they Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Arab, Druze, Chechen, etc) or Palestinian should stfu (me included). On the contrary: for the vast sums of money and military power we contribute to kee
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
I liked him better when he was fourteen and helping me jailbreak my iphone
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> In this tale of two trains, OpenAI might need to change their name to "ClosedAI" if they keep putting up barriers, being closed. The free and open train? That's the one chugging towards a brighter, better, free AI future
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
There are many ways to decide to not read this writer, and they're all good!
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
Sorry, I feel dumb for asking, but what does “voice service providers” mean here? Like, Verizon and TMobile etc etc? Can’t be because there aren’t 2,411 cell companies.
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> But that did not stop social media commenters from leaping to conclusions and from showing a blatant lack of sympathy over the death of a man who was a husband and father of two children . The journalists' tone and choice o
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
Yes, that’s true, but in this case they’re all actually wrong. I’ve driven or lived in all of those cities, and they’re all placid next to Miami. It’s not even close.
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
You don’t deserve the downvotes here. Whether or not you’re kidding, I think you’re probably right.
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> but it is a biological disease I want to be charitable because I think I know the point you're trying to make in your comment, and what I want to say is mostly to the side of that. But I think that this statement at best glosses o
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> Also they're all on drugs and will kill you if you report them for embezzling unit funds. This is maybe not too related to the brain damage stuff (or maybe it is?), but I don't think the wider public knows nearly enough about
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
> the telecommunications infrastructure has been severely damaged Distal to the tech here but man, once you see the passive voice vs active voice stuff on this issue, you really can't un-see it. Astounding. Edit: finished the articl
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
Nothing specific to add other than that it's great to see Rob Wipond's work here on HN, and that I recommend him as a great journalist and researcher in a pretty niche field (maybe you could call that niche 'the underbelly of
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
This is some hateful stuff, even for HN.
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by maybelsyrup 2y ago
Man, so true. The easiest way to verify this is to walk into the container terminal at Gioia Tauro and start opening boxes.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Interesting, but how to square this with the earlier report [1] saying that one of the pilots had told a passenger after the incident that their instruments had blacked out during the incident? (Edit: which I see now has actually been menti
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Buddy if some meaningful proportion of your population is finding foreign propaganda convincing, your problem isn’t foreign propaganda. USA in terminal decline and, in typical fashion, it flatly refuses to look at itself and wonder why. Ame
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> People are just mad that it's telling kids to eat tide pods and then they get sick. I think it’s more accurate to say instead that “the oligarchs who run this place are just mad that it’s telling kids to support Palestine”. But in
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Thanks! Either of these tools allow you to see where an airframe was assembled?
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Anyone have the tail number for the airplane involved? Is it CC-BGG? Wondering if there's any way to tell if this is one of the 787s built in South Carolina or in Washington state.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> Feel like a Cheney Rumsfeld
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
I think you're mostly correct but while it's not been as bad as the Max, the 787 has a not-so-short list of controversies, starting with those electrical / battery fires early in the plane's life [1] and going through re
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Damn, he was cooking here
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> eg Exhibition Line Small nitpick but it was Exposition Line. Also “Expo” line. LA Metro did a big system rename though, so now it’s just the E Line.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> why you find it icky for grown men to have sex with teenagers Michael Bluth: Okay, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, and you just record yourself for a whole day. I think you’re gonna be surprised at some of your
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> The zealots pushing the sensationalism often don't comprehend the forces at play - both natural and human-made This is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real ext

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