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by pavlov 10mo ago
I had the same experience at age 13. I'd read the American classics like Asimov and Clarke, but Varley's short stories were the first time I encountered science fiction where society is genuinely something completely different tha
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by pavlov 10mo ago
That would have been brilliant. The “Foundation” we got has good moments and excellent production values, but it doesn’t seem to know or care exactly what the rules of its universe are. (I don’t like how Hari Seldon was apparently a font of
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Digital photography is one of those innovations that wonderfully ages pre-1990s science fiction where people of distant futures still fiddle with film chemicals. The first book of David Brin’s Uplift series was written in 1980 and takes pla
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by pavlov 10mo ago
If a service n4 can't be called by separate services n2 and n3 in different parts of the tree (as shown in counterexample #2), then n4 isn't really a service but just a module of either n2 or n3 that happens to be behind a network
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by pavlov 10mo ago
I think you’re missing the joke where the poster is advising others to always buy whatever he’s holding.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
> "buying this domain pseudo-anonymously (yes I know I can do things with monero too so thus anonymously too) is the only real use case" The domain registrar is required to have valid contact information for you. Sure, you co
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by pavlov 10mo ago
If you think about Gruber as a gossip columnist, then it's quite natural that people who just do their job well don't generate much gossip that would reach his ears.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Also CAT.EXE…
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by pavlov 11mo ago
I’ve spent some time there, and it did seem like a building that was primarily designed for satellite view — never mind what goes on inside.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Musk’s AI called itself MechaHitler, but maybe the real problem is MechaMurdoch and MechaGoebbels.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
But you had to mute the owner and sole decision maker of the platform to get that result. How long will he allow the peasants to mute or block him?
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by pavlov 11mo ago
It’s super easy to click the downvote button by accident on mobile when you meant to upvote. And this UI will never be fixed because this is HN after all.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
"Why don't the poor just have investment accounts" - Marie-Antoinette Dell Having $250 in an account does practically nothing for the child. But having $6.25B invested does generate fees for bankers chosen to manage this prog
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by pavlov 11mo ago
China of course…
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Eventually. The nice family business façade helped Madoff hide his crime for decades.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
That’s not an endorsement for a finance organization. Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump also ran closely-held family businesses. It makes it easier to hide the skeletons.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Useless cynicism that prevents any reform and is more befitting of a banana republic.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Every man in the White House is benefiting himself first. Look at Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. In his previous job as CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, he became deeply involved with stablecoin cryptocurrency Tether. Supposedly Cantor Fitz
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by pavlov 11mo ago
The name immediately makes me think of 1990s raves, since it’s a nickname for ecstasy (the drug). I guess that’s a generational thing.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Cute typo: ”if you run a command like mktemp -d to create a tempflorary directory” A tempflorary sounds like a pop-up garden.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Since the blog post is addressing a person cooking up babies, we can assume the reader is the mother and the “hopefully hot” people are the fathers of the children being cooked up.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Jupiter is 43 lightminutes from the Sun. If we shoot a thousand probes at 0.1c directly at the Alpha Centauri star, they should have several hours within a Jupiter-distance range of the star to capture data. Seems like enough sensors and ti
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Chinese cable manufacturers don't need contract guarantees to compete for the lucrative iPhone user market...
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Penpot is a startup that raised $12M a few years back: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/02/penpot-the-open-source-pla...
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Legal competence is like a legal person — it's a subset of what we normally associate with the term.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Disney definitely owns the character designs, so Roger and Jessica Rabbit will have to look different if a new movie is made using the IP owned by the book's author.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
It’s really easy to prescribe what other people should do when you don’t have to walk a yard in their shoes.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Thanks for the tip, I’ll have to read that!
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Ouch. This hits incredibly hard. I’ve been this dad who sits frozen at the TV every evening. I had the affairs with the emotionally unavailable men, and became one myself. Before you judge the man in this story too harshly — and there’s cer
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Create a separate high-end brand, Duralux.

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