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by nico 3y ago
And this is how you get the case of the president of Stanford, who not only benefited tremendously from all the research that he was supposedly a part of or leading, but when it came to light that a lot of it was fraudulent, he was able to
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by nico 3y ago
This is so cool. Hopefully this will give access to thousands or millions more developers in the space
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by nico 3y ago
Impressed and sad with how toxic HN can be sometimes Just sharing some art here, and getting downvoted without even a comment about it. And even getting flagged @dang care to check what’s going on here?
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by nico 3y ago
Not op, and not sure if these qualify as cinemagraphs, but they kinda fit the “subtle image movement” description https://twitter.com/nicobrenner/status/1685754265393041408?s... https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by nico 3y ago
This is something that every country should be doing to preserve their culture And also for security reasons. Essentially anything that is sent/stored to the US is subject to being taken/copied by security agencies In that sense,
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by nico 3y ago
This is so cool, great write up and excellent demo Only wished there were a couple more images besides the windows default background Other than that, really excellent read and great technical exploration
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by nico 3y ago
Unfortunately that’s not an accepted defense. Ignorance of the law doesn’t excuse you from complying
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by nico 3y ago
Not op. Thank you for the resources > if you create an account at the publisher's site, nfpa.org If you need to create an account, that’s only free as in beer, but not free as in libre, which in my opinion every law/code should
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by nico 3y ago
> If you abuse your powers, you will lose them How I wish this was true (this is not a comment on Unions, just on abuse of power in general)
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by nico 3y ago
I live in the LA-metro area, 15min away from downtown LA This is a pretty dense urban area, and we can only get Spectrum, which goes down at least once a month for hours at a time, in the middle of the day The only other alternative is gett
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by nico 3y ago
Politeness depends on the person you get. Most of them are as you point out But regardless of the politeness, the strategy is the same: get you to admit owing more taxes on your own, with the least amount of effort possible It’s a known fac
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by nico 3y ago
This is the same with tax collection in the US (seen different versions of this done by IRS, California’s BOE and SF treasury) It goes something like this: they send you a scary looking letter telling you there’s something off about your ta
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by nico 3y ago
> Thought to be 405 years old, Ming was later determined to be 507 years old, although the clam had previously been killed to make this determination
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by nico 3y ago
This is pretty much the same excuse used to prevent full democracy from happening Hey, voting is great, helpful and powerful, but letting The Common Idiot vote is a slippery slope For the record, yes ideally we should have better education,
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by nico 3y ago
You are right. Not sure about their official policy, but I know of multiple instances of where they’ve invested on competitors of their own companies Sometimes this happens without them even knowing, because they put money into a company ve
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by nico 3y ago
I did miss it, thank you You can still apply multiple times after getting rejected. There’s plenty of stories of companies/founders that only got into YC after several rejections To be honest, if I were in their situation I wouldn’t ap
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by nico 3y ago
Legal action is fine as long as you have the time and money to do it For the looks of it, in this case they should either not do it at all or just wait until they have enough money to do it Even large companies wait for the right timing to
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by nico 3y ago
Unless you have tons of funding and lawyers already on retainer, this is horrible advice Legal fees will drain your funds faster than anything else and you will probably not see any benefits from it In fact it might be what makes your compa
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by nico 3y ago
Paul Graham says you shouldn’t care and they will probably fail: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1697761812698034630?s=46 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1500779743804903427?s=46 Of co
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by nico 3y ago
It’s a reference to MS strategy: “"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to descr
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by nico 3y ago
The issue is that well-being is relative and subjective You can’t “objectively” look back and say people “have it better” now Sure, you can look at all sorts of data and metrics, but that doesn’t mean people feel like they are better off no
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by nico 3y ago
That’s for LLMs, but at the same time, there are other types of models coming out Wouldn’t be surprised if we get small models that can run locally on a phone and just retrieve data from the network as needed (without sending your data out)
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by nico 3y ago
True, and maybe we could say this about almost anything in the Universe Even just a single cell is made up of millions of smaller particles, all moving around Everything is always either forming/growing or decaying
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by nico 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation Amazing how at a certain distance, a galaxy starts looking a lot like a living organism Same for planets, or at least what astronauts say about Earth after seeing it from space
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by nico 3y ago
Most legal firms do something in between, you pay a retainer or a minimum package, and then they bill you hourly They get the money upfront, before they do any work So, from the get go they know the minimum they are going to make, and they
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by nico 3y ago
That’s great, glad to know there’s been plenty of scrutiny over this At the same time, we’ve had regulatory capture in a bunch of industries for decades and it seems there isn’t much the public can really do about it The public being able t
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by nico 3y ago
Not saying this is what’s happening here, but this is a typical way in which corrupt government/politicians make bank They sell hugely valuable public assets to some private entity, which then sells it back (or lease or rent) to the go
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by nico 3y ago
When first reading the title, I thought this was an article about consulting and legal firms About 90%+ of the work you get from these companies is done by their junior employees, even if the senior partner that sold you swears otherwise Es
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by nico 3y ago
For the ones who might not know, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD
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by nico 3y ago
Because when you look at it closely, there isn’t a fine and clear line that defines life vs death Exploring these limits and definitions have had tremendous impact in at least the medical field It also has an impact on the way we see, under

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