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by nikanj 3mo ago
In BC, the government bought all the unsold, unfit units to prop up the housing market. Your tax dollars at work!
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Do you have US citizenship? How did you acquire it? If you inherited it from your parents, how did they acquire it? Usually strong opponents to birthright citizenship are just a few generations removed from someone who got theirs via birthr
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Hacker News front page remains the one true support channel for all larger tech companies. The official channels stonewall you, but HN reaches people who can actually help
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Does Sony have stores?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Apple should have burned billions in cash, so that they would be able to sell RAM at below-market-rate prices? But why?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Takes more eng resources to block mobile than not
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by nikanj 4mo ago
You can compare all of the US to just a suburb of Paris, if you insist on making stupid comparisons, but lumping all member states into one monolith is pointless both ways. Oregon is incredibly different from Florida, and so is France from
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Europeans say ”Americans xxx while the French yyy” all the time. Member states should be compared to member states, or the US to the EU.
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by nikanj 4mo ago
”Hey so all your animals and crops are dying, but if you just install AC and stop going outdoors this whole thing can be ignored”
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Would it also be corpo brain to say ”He was the guy that landed on the moon”? That was Neil’s job, after all.
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by nikanj 4mo ago
CVE 10 if you use you current version of Python to serve files over ftp, and parse the incoming files using the most obscure file type found in the forbidden libraries of the Vatican And your ISO etc certificates make this CVE mandatory pri
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Most stable of the bunch does not mean ”100% stable”
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by nikanj 4mo ago
The lawyers from evilCorps are on a first-name basis with the key lawyers from the copyright lobby, because their fates are fully intertwined
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by nikanj 4mo ago
You choose every piece of food you eat, how do you not know all the macros?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Currently in Finland, a major public health provider is moving to chromebooks. By the end of 2026. They won’t even have the test environments ready before Q3 2026. Interesting times.
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by nikanj 4mo ago
But they should still give you money to run your studies?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
A person who’s been told all the people doing the science look down on them. Partially true, too, based on how I’ve heard people talk about ”dumb redneck trump voters”
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by nikanj 4mo ago
And the real partisan question is ”should the US fund studying the black holes”, not the actual science question
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Claude is broken once a week, codex is worse every day. I’m starting to understand why managers put up with high-performance divas
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Scientists disappearing? Isn’t that a dream come true, why would the current administration investigate?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
I have had my license for over 20 years and to this day have not encountered a single event where I had to decide who to kill
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Backscatter scam is huge nowadays. I get so many "ticket opened" emails from various zendesk instances, where the contents of the ticket is cheap dick pills and crypto scams. I don't think zendesk does any validation on the f
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Comment I replied to was talking about Europe during WWII
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by nikanj 4mo ago
WWII was much easier to sell to the people, because the nazis were invading _now_. It seems impossible to sell reduced standard of living today to respond to a problem tomorrow
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Tell HN: Facebook login is down for many
8 points by nikanj 4mo ago|1 comments
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by nikanj 4mo ago
The legal system generally disagrees with that take. ”It wasn’t worth the cost, so we don’t have to pay the invoices” is a tough sell for any lawyer
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by nikanj 4mo ago
No interactio needed from the user, presuming the attacker can already modify files and execute commands!
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by nikanj 4mo ago
"I ignored a ton of emails from Blacksmith and then I was completely surprised by something that happened" Lessons learned: 1) When you spam your users with too many emails (engagement! marketing-thinly-wrapped-as-transactional-in
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by nikanj 4mo ago
That's what people have been saying about Oracle for decades, and they're still going strong
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by nikanj 4mo ago
50 iterations of CSS / layout? Easy, not even pushing it. A freelancer will cuss you out after 3-4 rounds of re-doing everything, but an LLM is happy to keep generating.

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