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by mmooss 1mo ago
> There is just more of everything If that was the cause, 1) book sales would drop overall, and 2) nonfiction books would perform the same as fiction books. The OP says neither are true: "What has happened in the last ten years is t
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Also, consider who controls what propogates and what nobody sees. Social media operators are like news (newspaper, tv news) editors, deciding what gets covered and how, and what doesn't. But they operate on a far larger scale, more pow
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Suddenly at 11:10am PT I can't find this OP in the top 210 HN posts. I'm pretty sure I found it on the front page less then 20 minutes ago. It doesn't show as flagged. Do other see the same? Anyone know what is going on? (And
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if that's how Codex uses LibreOffice.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
One way to look at it: Why wouldn't they use this capability? (Moral qualms?) Powerful interests, including corporations and foreign powers, have long worked effectively to frame public perceptions, even when their access to the member
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by mmooss 1mo ago
How does that theory explain, * So many people using the same nonsense talking points at the same time. Did they coincidentally make up the same lies? With no anchor in objective reality, why would they converge on the same talking points?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> normalizing document formats for analysis What do you mean here? Normalizing it into ODF format? Does that limit which tools/libraries you can use to analyze it?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> valuable features to many people! Which products that sell this are broadly popular? I can see some people on HN wanting it, but people I know who are outside that bubble don't even think of it as an issue.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
You don't mention generating code from scratch; is that on purpose? Perhaps a developer could add many constraints that would have been too expensive previously - e.g., code in Spark, use only these ___ system calls, never use this ris
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by mmooss 1mo ago
? It's not hard to find material based on primary evidence and direct observations of it. That is fundamental to all scholarship and also, to a significant degree, journalism, law, etc.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> Most software isn't built that way. It can't be because the priorities of developers and customers work against it. The most significant such priority may be the costs of paying developers and of time to delivery. The dramati
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by mmooss 1mo ago
That's theoretically arguable. Still, for the many reCaptcha users in the world, Google dropped it on them and they are at least temporarily stuck with it. Not everyone has the time or energy to implement another solution, and what sol
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by mmooss 1mo ago
That's Google's reCaptcha service, which archive.is happens to use, not archive.is itself.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Currently their attorneys cost much more than yours. That doesn't appear to be sufficient.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Remember that depicting their software as out of control is part of their marketing - our software is extremely powerful, our organization is very cutting edge. And with these radical, disruptive narratives they are getting people accustome
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> They survive because someone cared enough about it to make a copy. Sometimes, and sometimes we have the originals. And to make a copy, you need an original, and sometimes the copies were made >100 years after the original. > Burr
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by mmooss 1mo ago
That misapplies systems thinking: It's necessary to have both the software and the hardware, so it is necessary to have the hardware. By the above comment's reasoning, you wouldn't invest in hardware because you'll lack
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by mmooss 1mo ago
This false (IMHO) equivalency is weapon people like to keep handy these days, ready to shoot at any target. There is all the difference in the world between the scenarios. The argument's popularity seems to be born in the argument, mor
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by mmooss 1mo ago
The OP talks a lot about volunteers, but doesn't clearly state they are part of the union.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Also, there are allegations of adversarial management behavior. I can't find the link now, but some background: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-workers-vote-on-whethe... https://news.ycombinator.c
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> I don’t think I’d be able to get through a Shakespeare play without hand-holding. Wow. Kevin Kelly is obviously an intellectually capable, well-educated person. Shakespeare isn't that hard - people have been enjoying the benefit
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> Trump’s grotesque actions do not represent the abdication of empire, as some Trump supporters from the far left and right hope, but its degeneration. and > A world order enforced by the United States was morally unpalatable for many
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by mmooss 1mo ago
(Reader mode works well if you want to read more than the intro.) The U.S.-led, rights-based, rules-based international order was the most free, most prosperous, and most safe in human history, with really no second place, and it was enormo
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Let's Remember Some Publications That Said We Would Get to Mars by 2026(defector.com)
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by mmooss 1mo ago
That's an intense reaction. Do you have experience doing it?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Yes, and there are many other tradeoffs. How do the tradeoffs fit this use case?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> eInk is the right display tech. It's interesting and I clicked on the OP, but why? The variable ambient light conditions, refresh rate, etc would seem to favor standard LCD/etc. Battery capacity isn't much of an issue fo
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by mmooss 1mo ago
If they can do it effectively, that would be impressive. There are so many ways phones and other devices are tracked. Do they prevent users from installing apps? For example, I was reading Apple's Platform Security guide, a technical,
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> naturally It's not nature, it's the strategic actions of members of those parties to create and protect that system. For example, look at laws in states that make it very difficult for 3rd parties to get on ballots, participa
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Wasn't it reactive from the start? From (mostly journalistic) history I've read, GBII started their administration by refusing to do all sorts of things because the adminstration associated them with Clinton, including listening t

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