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by mmooss 6mo ago
That link is confusing. That message is from Gary Sparkes. Sparkes quotes a message from Jamie Thain [0], the author of the OP [1]. Thain quotes Lucien Hoydic who wrote that paragraph many messages prior [2] but for some reason Thain doesn&
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> GPS itself is always receive-only on our end as consumers. AFAIK it's almost always enhanced by things cell tower data, wifi network data, and external data sources (besides the satellites). Look up GPS/GNSS enhancement and a
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I think you can substantially reduce the information collected about you, without an enormous amount of time. Security - and any solution - isn't about perfection; it's about improving the situation and making attacks more expensi
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> the author seems to wave a bunch of conspiracies around without the evidence to support it The author provides links at the top to credible reporting on relatively well-known privacy concerns.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I don't know, what are they funded by? Is that how AP is funded? The NY Times, WSJ, FT and many others are now funded by subscriptions. Your claim from a few comments up doesn't seem to match reality: > That is unrealistic and
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by mmooss 6mo ago
And there are also sites with free news, such as AP, NPR, CNN, Fox, etc.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
That result is a change. You and others write as if it has always been true, but there is no evidence of that and the people who have dealt with it directly, for well over a century, have believed otherwise. Princeton is changing its policy
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Comments express surprise that this honor code has been in place. Many schools have similar honor codes. Despite HN trendiness, SV and business world advocacy of 'animal instincts', and current cultural trends, humans are generall
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by mmooss 6mo ago
What is that based on?
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by mmooss 6mo ago
In the US: NPR, NBC, AP, The Guardian, ...
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by mmooss 6mo ago
'Free' and 'government funded' are not the same thing. The OP doesn't seem to be government funded. Also, the BBC has no problem criticizing the UK government.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> If the people arent interested in paying They are, according to the OP: https://www.sltrib.com/news/business/2026/03/31/tribune-payw...
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Economic central planning always fails over the long term. So do businesses - capitalism has business failure built in and expected. Private industry in energy has failed the public dramatically at times. Economic planning works in man
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by mmooss 6mo ago
What was the technical brilliance of BeOS? If I remember the story, Be provided incredible multitasking multimedia performance at a time when resources seemed too constrained and other OSes couldn't match it. So how did they do it? And
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> West Hollywood had put up several billion West Hollywood has several billion dollars? To spare?
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by mmooss 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112299
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Not quite Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112299
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by mmooss 6mo ago
For those wondering about the OS: "We’re bringing together the best of Android, which comes with powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence, and ChromeOS, which comes with the world’s most popular br
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> $600 per month The article doesn't say it's weekly. Some people I know with housecleaners are do it monthly.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> cosplaying poverty Again, they have $14 in their bank account.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Mods: Why is this comment, from the OP and definitely contributing to the discussion, flagged, and with no opportunity to vouch? Here's what I see: ciwrl 18 hours ago | unvote [flagged] | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Sh
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by mmooss 6mo ago
This is all very interesting and I appreciate your commitment to serious research. > How do i find the signal to identify whats a good film or not. What is your the definition of 'good'? Without having that, answering the quest
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> $600/month The article doesn't say it's weekly. Some people I know with housecleaners are do it monthly.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
The OP also said they had $14 in their bank account. This whole thing seems like a not uncommon pattern in our society: shaming poor people for not living acetic lives, as if they should suffer to qualify as the 'good' kind of poo
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> $150 house cleaner To clarify, in the OP that's $150 flat rate per cleaning, not per hour. If you've tried to hire a housecleaner recently, that seems a bit below average (depending on the apartment). It's not an extrava
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> The “ghost participant” approach, sometimes called a ghost user proposal, was floated by GCHQ in 2018 and rejected by every major privacy organization, civil liberties group, and security researcher who looked at it. The idea is that t
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I'm not talking about individuals - where is the overwhelming pushback that Intel faced?
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> In 1999, Intel received an absolutely massive amount of opposition when they decided to include a software-readable serial number in their CPUs, so much that they reversed the decision. > It turns out a significant (but hopefully de
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by mmooss 6mo ago
The Internet was mostly slop before LLMs. While LLM automation can increase it by orders of magnitude, we've long needed curated indexes.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
You gave the questions a sloppy, unchartible reading, misunderstood them, and then dismissed them. So I think I was right in the first place.

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