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by phil21 5mo ago
> Or if you read the fine article you would realise that AML rules generate so much noise that there isn't any analysis. Which is even worse, since the only practical use of that data is now selective enforcement and/or paralle
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by phil21 5mo ago
Not in the US without the dealer doing all the same work a bank accepting $100k of cash in a duffel bag would be doing. Plus filling out a suspicious activity report on top of it all. They might have a real hard time explaining to the feds
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by phil21 5mo ago
Neither, large Enterprise storage name where the prices start in the six figures for the smallest boxes.
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by phil21 5mo ago
The strangest/scariest and honestly in the end all that surprising one of these I had was with a major storage appliance provider that most in the space on HN would know by name. We needed to delete a storage volume to urgently free up
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by phil21 5mo ago
As opposed to hiring someone to do it? Or rather, that software not competing with the wider market as a whole? Those areas are exceedingly small in the web-dev space. Or even technology as a whole. I recently used AI to make me a custom so
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by phil21 5mo ago
> AI/robots/automation was supposed to usher in some kind of techno-utopia for all the good and bad that it entails. Depends on which sci-fi and/or literature you've been reading, I suppose? Plenty written on these su
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by phil21 5mo ago
> I've never worked on software that automated someone's job away. I think this would be very difficult to do as a web-dev. The web itself is a form of global scale automation in-itself. I am also a self-taught tech nerd. I hav
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by phil21 5mo ago
> Those people could've traded up. And plenty of people in the trades have done that. This is precisely the karma that is coming to us as a group. Because of this sort of stuff. No, a 50 year old trade worker cannot "trade up&q
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by phil21 5mo ago
Pharmacists also don’t need your doctor to write a prescription. They can dispense on their own authority. Scheduled drugs probably have made this more complicated. But if you’re looking for something that can’t get you high when abused it’
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by phil21 5mo ago
Corpo was never gone. It’s just that it’s culling a bunch of useful idiots who thought they were part of the club. Most of whom gleefully automated other folks out of jobs without a moment of introspection. The mafia boss tying up loose end
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by phil21 5mo ago
I am not a financial advisor or even remotely an expert. I did look into this briefly long ago for SpaceX. There are ways for relatively small investors (and I do mean relatively!) to get into some of these companies equity pre-exit by buyi
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by phil21 5mo ago
It’s basically going to incentivize gambling and skinners box type implementations to juice revenue. Sure, people can opt out and some will. However the base human psychology is pretty well documented. If the ability to simply not engage in
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by phil21 5mo ago
I have the skills to run HA, and I despise the fact I must use it for any reasonable multi-vendor ecosystem. I'd much rather have an open version of Apple Home or whatnot, even if I paid for it. I really don't want to spend a bu
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by phil21 5mo ago
> but light switches The internet? Probably not. Having smart switches is great though. Both for very basic automations and laying in bed going "oh shit I forgot to turn off the basement lights" style moments. It's importa
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by phil21 5mo ago
The end result is the goal for most of my home projects these days. I suppose you could put almost all my stuff under "devops" vs. "development" but the idea is the same. Recently I "vibe coded" some IoT sensor
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by phil21 5mo ago
> Lumping together anti-data-center sentiment with anti-development sentiment in general is bullshit. Yes, there are certainly impossible to negotiate with NIMBYs who don't like apartment buildings because they cast shadows on a sid
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by phil21 5mo ago
> But remember nobody ever wants “development” except for the fact that it might bring jobs and economic growth, to them, not you living somewhere else. This is really the only point that matters. It's held true my whole life, and I
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by phil21 5mo ago
> but helmets are a fantastic example of reasonable PPE Sure. They should be widely available, cheap or free for kids, public awareness campaigns funded, etc. > not overactive safetyism. Not once they devolve into laws. That would be
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by phil21 5mo ago
> My daughters would be arrested if they would let their kids to do any of it. Don't know where you're from, but where I am people love to state this but it's almost never true. Much like how everyone thinks there was some
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by phil21 5mo ago
You can only mitigate risk so much. At some point life is for living and there is a risk involved in it. Sequestering oneself or one's kids to home seems outright inhumane to me. Making eye contact and waiting for a vehicle to actually
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by phil21 5mo ago
The Oasis solves this - buttons are in the middle. Since you tend to not use the back page button much, it works pretty well. I was skeptical of the "lopsided" design at first but it grew on me and is what I'd prefer in futur
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by phil21 5mo ago
> But then I also understand that'd increase the price by 10% and only help right handed people with weak hands so... c'est la vie. You can... turn them upside down to become a left-handed device. That way you can be weak-hande
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by phil21 5mo ago
No amount of "getting used to buttonless" can keep a touchscreen from registering water droplets as touch. So until they can figure out how to make touch screen work in those conditions, any device released without page turn butto
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by phil21 5mo ago
> The Oasis was the pinnacle of e-reader hardware design, and it'll be sad when they stop supporting it, but it certainly won't be worthy of a news article or this kind of reaction. To me it would. If they don't have a sim
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by phil21 5mo ago
Pretty much. For my home IT projects I have been playing around with various means of implementing agents. I’ve looked at the outputs here and there - and holy hell would it never pass review if I were trying to make something robust and an
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by phil21 5mo ago
> So I spend 30 minutes to set up an LLC and then transfer my assets to that LLC. Now, I don't hold the assets; I hold a stake in a privately-held company. Beneficial ownership is a well established concept in law, and this strategy
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by phil21 5mo ago
What’s an average nvidia “tech employee” worth today? How about compared to their base salary vs. Samsung line workers? You have a point. But on this precise topic it’s pretty hard to make. A tiny handful of companies who are winners beyond
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by phil21 5mo ago
Processors are currently becoming the next bottleneck on the server component side of things. If consumer SKUs start seeing even less volume than they are today, manufacturers will simply produce more for the datacenter. Certain popular AMD
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by phil21 5mo ago
It’s not about just being a top worker though. It’s about showing up ready to do an honest days work for an honest days pay. Not going above and beyond, but being reasonable about the fact that at the end of the day it’s work and things nee
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by phil21 5mo ago
Similar life experiences. Like the idea of unions - especially how they are explained at a textbook level. I fully believe labor needs as much leverage against capital as possible for the scales to be balanced at all. But US unions seem to

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