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by muddi900 2y ago
> Both of these "arguments" could be applied to any of the big tech giants of the last 25 years - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber, whatever (and there'd be other incumbents used by billions of people before them). I don&#x2
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I am sure the "muh waste and fraud" people are up in arms about it.
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I think the only smaet business move for twitter right now is to ban all external links in posts, like Instagram and TikTok. It was never much of a driver of traffic outside news and most news consumers that click have already left. And mos
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Yes Russia and China are causing Israelis to elect people like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Xi Jin Ping finances terrorist violence in the West Bank. Putin funds politician that wave around Greater Israel maps in official government gatherings. O
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I remember the Robert Fisk quote about the reason Americans don't feel anything for the Palestinians is "they can't see the bodies". Lo and behold they were able to do that on TikTok and now they care.
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It reveals the lack of technical expertise at play for the most powerful bureaucrats in the world.
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There are thousands, if not millions, of Americans with FNU, or First Name Unknown. And many with LNU, Last Name Unknown. Having well documented existence since birth is fairly recent. Not everyone has clear birth certificates. For example,
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by muddi900 2y ago
I think the way the headline is structured make it seem like this is merely a political issue. However the government staff's inability to understand the epoch in ISO standard is definitely a technical issue.
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But what is political now? Isn't climate science a political issue in the US.
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There are a non-trivial numbers of absconders hiding in the US and the UK. The most famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Mallya?useskin=vector The amount of money and effort required to extradite a perso
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The largest discretionary spending is the military. The issue Americans have is that they can't really afford non-discretionary welfare spending.
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Running away without paying the loan is a way better solution. Y'all have the delulu American exceptionalism brain. People will leave if they don't like living here. A loan eill not stop them.
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It's good that your grandfather isn't alive to see the catastrophe that is GE. Jack Welch is the reason corporate America is a shit show, and GE is a joke.
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by muddi900 2y ago
That's great that you are calling "Describing things as they happened" as conspiracy theories. Also you like to make it harder for the person you are calling tireless
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This forum is mostly tech bros. The vast majority does not think this is off-topic. Even the ones that support Papa Elon and Daddy Trump.
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Chief being that the EU is not a nation state. Nations within the EU have their own interests that conflict
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It is clear that people flagging these posts have a ulterior agenda. While the other posts have plausible deniability cover for being "political", this is as relevant to hacker news as anything.
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I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself.
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This is a very condescending way of admiting you did not read the article. Also this reaction alone shows that this topic is indeed relevant.
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by muddi900 2y ago
Given the upvotes this topic got, it clearly sparks some intellectual curiosity. But you can see other comments in this thread about how pro-Trump posts, while being rare, are not flagged.
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It was already flagged when I posted that comment.
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Yes, and I agree that the wholesale takeover of state governments by State GOPs is a precursor to what Daddy Trump is doing. They are brazen about it too, disregarding the will of their own Party's governors sometimes. However, Senate
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I don't think these posts are being flagged in good faith.
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A constitutional crisis in the world's biggest nuclear power clearly an interesting phenomenon. Whether new or not remains to be seen.
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I hate beating up this dead horse, but we need stop using AI to describe LLMs. As pointed out in this post, these models are not capable of coming up with novel ideas, or deal with newer use cases. Constant use of them in any space would le
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by muddi900 2y ago
Why is this post flagged?
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Why do I think you did not read the article?
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I am sure people who are mad at renaming of master branches will have similar issues with this.
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A bookshelf where all the books disappear unless you also give the person all your household purchase history.
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