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by nickff 1y ago
Jews were forced to spread out and live as minorities in many different countries. Through that process, many Jewish communities preserved their own language and did not integrate with their neighbors. This bred suspicion and hostility. The
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by nickff 1y ago
But you could have a hardware problem (such as with the OS drive interface) that doesn’t show up with that sort of test, or a software-triggered problem that doesn’t go away easily (like a driver-caused hardware fault). It seems easier to j
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by nickff 1y ago
How would you prove that? It seems like a nearly impossible burden.
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by nickff 1y ago
The top-level comment added nothing to the conversation that this site is supposed to be about. We are supposed to assume that commenters read thee article, and if they did, a LOL, ROFL, or WTF doesn't move the conversation forward.
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by nickff 1y ago
I think the comment you replied to was criticizing the "/rofl". These shallow reaction/dismissal comments really are turning this site into the hell-hole that Reddit already is.
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There are two issues with doing a static analysis on something like this: 1) Survivorship Bias: you are only looking at airlines that currently exist, and ignoring ones that have gone out of business. 2) Recency Bias: you're examining
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by nickff 1y ago
Why is Kansas City such a bad choice? I understand that you think it’s awful, I just don’t know why. From my very naive perspective, KC seems lower cost, and closer to farms than DC.
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The way that politics works these days means that any gradual move like that would likely be reversed by the next administration. The unfortunate reality is that if you want something done, the only option is to do it suddenly.
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by nickff 1y ago
The airline industry is famously unprofitable; it is commonly said that on net, the sum total of airlines have made $0 over the course of their history. It is true that there are periods where they do make a profit, but these periods are of
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by nickff 1y ago
> "Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it." -Descartes
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by nickff 1y ago
People quit for all kinds of reasons unrelated to the functional of the organization (child-rearing, desire to live somewhere else, better offer, etc.).
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by nickff 1y ago
There's no use to interviewing someone who doesn't want to participate, which is probably why nobody follows up.
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by nickff 1y ago
> "the moment you’ve handed in your resignation, that part of your life is over. There’s literally no upside in doing anything other than smiling and getting out of the door." From a purely selfish point of view, you're u
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> ” The blue cities are enforcing the Constitution as sanctuary cities are legal laws of those states. The red states and federal government are violating it.” There’s a supremacy clause, and it’s quite clear.
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There's lots of oversight in the automotive space; everything from the dashboard indicators to the crash standards are tightly regulated. Perhaps the regulators should be 'better', but it seems to me that Tesla is quite compl
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by nickff 1y ago
I have heard of at least one case where someone thought that cruise control could operate as an un-supervised 'autopilot' and nearly died; I believe their (almost new) RV went off some sort of cliff.
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by nickff 1y ago
That seems like an awfully low bar to imprisoning people. Shouldn't executives at every company which designs or manufactures vehicles go to jail by your standard? If not, why?
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He is being punished for what he was convicted of; whether you agree with the penalty or not. If we do change the penalties, the convictions will change too. I just wanted to point out that there is clear evidence that this individual was i
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by nickff 1y ago
Many dealers and addicts who are involved in extremely violent crimes are plead down to drug crimes after having been charged with both drug and violent crimes. https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt47
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by nickff 1y ago
The ‘smothering’ you speak of is taxing the retention of earnings for capital assets. If you think this smothers software development, you should look into how much capital assets cost in other industries. Personally, I think we should eith
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by nickff 1y ago
That is helpful, thanks, but I think it is not practical to redact LLM request information beyond the GDPR personally identifiable standards without just deleting everything. My (admittedly quick) read of those rules is that their ‘redacted
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by nickff 1y ago
I agree that your assessment of the legal state-of-play is likely accurate. That said it is one thing for data to be cached in the short-term, and entirely different for it to be permanently stored and then sent out to parties which the use
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by nickff 1y ago
Only external LLM use is ‘always deductable as op-ex’. If you build your own server farm and/or developer your own LLM, those are capital expenses which must be depreciated.
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by nickff 1y ago
I think your points are all valid, but… On the other hand, this sort of preservation does substantially reduce user privacy, disclosing personal information to unauthorized parties, with no guarantees of security, no audits, and few safegua
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by nickff 1y ago
I think that some of the people here dislike (or are alarmed by) the way that the court can compel parties to retain data which would otherwise have vanished into the ether.
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by nickff 1y ago
> ” Sometimes basic science research funding is framed in terms of "this program generated $10 of economic activity for every dollar spent."” This type of cost-benefit analysis (or economic multiplier calculation) is also used
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Most of the people running and operating mass transit are motivated by remuneration as well.
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by nickff 1y ago
There may have been a discontinuity at the beginning of time... but there was nobody there to observe it. More seriously, the parent is saying that it always looks continuous linear when you're observing the last short period of time,
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by nickff 1y ago
Founding is not the same as incorporating or being the first to work on. For example, the founding fathers of the USA were not the first people to live in the thirteen colonies, and many of them were only involved with some part of the orig
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by nickff 1y ago
Your 'snarky' intent was not obvious to me, and would be in clear violation of the HN Guidelines: > "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

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