mikeyouse

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by mikeyouse 5mo ago
Not just scrapping them - literally paying foreign companies billions of dollars to not build wind farms. Illegally as well, there’s absolutely no authority for these payments to happen outside of Congress.
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by mikeyouse 5mo ago
Nearly all US homes have 240V to the electric panel, and some have it for specific places in the house (though many places are almost entirely gas dryers/ovens), but you would need a special outlet run to charge your car at 240V since
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by mikeyouse 5mo ago
I’d love to take the word of the military at face value, it’d be extremely comforting to be able to do so — but they have been lying constantly about the war. Not proactively disclosing losses in real time is one thing (though the excuse
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by mikeyouse 5mo ago
Per your link, he denied they moved THAAD but admitted they moved other radar systems… > In previous moves, radars were taken off the peninsula, Brunson said, without specifying their types. “This was in advance of Midnight Hammer,” he
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by mikeyouse 5mo ago
In many businesses, the employee is responsible for inputting most of that. If a LLM can get to 95% accuracy and flag exceptions, the employees (and AP team) would actually have less work and bureaucracy. Though we’ve had a few incidents wh
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Thanks - very useful to know that there is still risk for the unpaid ones.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Which is a very “HN” sentiment when the vast majority of recruiters and hiring managers are absolutely not doing the same. Especially for roles outside of tech.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Yeah I don’t think he’s a pedophile either.. but I do think he’s okay with consorting with a known one because it would provide him access to young women. His history of dating and impregnating young women is well known and while not illega
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Our small company offers a remote paid mentorship for students anywhere in the world - often times, international students in the US want to apply but then there’s substantial confusion on whether they can be paid without jeopardizing their
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
At minimum Musk repeatedly claimed that Epstein was the one reaching out trying to get Musk to visit his island, when in reality Musk was the one initiating and asking which nights would be the wildest parties. And after making plans to vi
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Yep! Why his shareholders in Tesla abide by this kind of thing is beyond me, but he often mixes resources from completely unrelated companies: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Assuming equivalent capabilities and longevity.. I know physicians who have used their "20x too expensive" Littmann for 30 years.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Michael Hastings was on DMT, smoking weed, and having a manic episode. His family was so worried about his erratic behavior that his brother had flown out to try to get him to check into rehab.. His brother met with Michael the day before h
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Which of those did Twitter suppress?
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Blockstream is mentioned multiple times, as is Back's wealth; > It was the beginning of an era in which Mr. Back quickly amassed influence and became a ring leader in the still small Bitcoin community. To staff Blockstream, he poac
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
No - Zimmerman was an anti nuclear weapons activist with the Nuclear Freeze campaign when he invented PGP.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
I see your point, but PGP was literally invented by an anti-nuclear activist and intentionally disseminated to human rights groups.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Feels like the Trump / Binance situation is under appreciated at the moment... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employ... > People in Iran had gained access to more than 1,5
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
The effect bugs me personally mainly because the cars are implausible colors, there are a ton of small changes to e.g. the windows on the campers etc. But even more annoyingly, most of her posts are just the color photos without even the s
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Likewise. There’s this older woman who is trying to add some historical color to our local beach town FB group by using some terrible AI tool to colorize pictures from the early 1900s. She doesn’t accept any feedback that it’s problematic t
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Probably true, it's more likely that it's a variation on "there are only a small percentage of people willing to pay any amount of money for an article, so if we offer one-time options, a large enough percentage of people who
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
Many have tried it (as well as the oft-recommended micropayments idea) and it never justifies the added expense and overhead of the customization. Closest is probably the NYTimes’ gift article feature.
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
This would be a great opportunity for the government to get involved.. Tell them to just make two of every order they have now and the government will buy the second one at whatever price the customer is paying. Put the spares in a strategi
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by mikeyouse 6mo ago
There's certainly the 'National Interest Exception' which the President / DHS Secretary can extend to anyone they determine to be deserving of skipping the $100k fee; https://www.employmentlawworldview.com&#x2
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
They also own multiple other huge companies that had tens of thousands of their own employees working in completely different areas (Netsuite, Cerner, Acme, etc)
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
Worded provocatively but with a $200B Iran war bill being pushed and DHS funding in the OBBA being increased by over $300B from baseline, it’s not necessarily wrong.
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
Where do you think the children of our armed forces go to school? There are hundreds of schools on or adjacent to military installations in the US. The only people with blood on their hands for bombing a school are the people who bombe
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
Also - there's zero chance any employees at Google could decide to leak the contents of a specific inbox. That'd be an insane security hole which would've been exploited multiple times already.
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
Also wildly illegal to use to conduct government business, especially confidential government business. (and yes the messages were auto-deleting and largely lost before anyone chimes in with technically they could be archived! )
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by mikeyouse 7mo ago
That's not remotely true of his history.. he's a full on Jan-6er, deep into Q-Anon, he was involved in numerous serious scandals during the first Trump admin (Nunes Memo / Russiagate 'parallel' investigation: https

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