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by pibaker 4mo ago
There is a difference between you taking a look through your neighbor's window, and compiling a list of houses known to have curtains open in your city and publishing the list to the public. > What about Google because it can find a
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Ironically in real life most offline activities of these kinds that I know of are facilitated on Facebook groups.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> Fun part was that those apartments/hotels wouldn’t hire locals but rather people who would drive like 20-30 km away. This is also true for data centers. They tell you there will be new jobs, but what they don't tell you is th
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by pibaker 4mo ago
What you conveniently forgot to mention is this means the death of open general purpose computing. No more rooted devices, no more self built PCs. You go buy a government approved device and run the government approved OS preinstalled and t
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by pibaker 4mo ago
My parents always kept a few bottles of wine in a cabinet in the living room. If 8 year old me wanted wine, I could have drunk a whole bottle while they were away and there was no way they could have stopped me. Yet I didn't drink my p
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by pibaker 4mo ago
The idea that browsing the internet is remotely comparable to smoking is utterly retarded.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
You can end all wars and eliminate hunger if you point the Death Star at us and kill all life on earth. If someone objects to the collateral damage, remind him that when you said "world peace and no hunger at all costs," you meant
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> kids caught with unrestricted devices in school have them confiscated This will surely fly on hacker news where the prevalent wisdom is to buy your kid an old thinkpad and install Linux.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> The government issues an eID to your wallet I'll stop you right here. I don't want to be forced to use a government issued ID — one the administration can revoke at a whim, one that will certainly be backdoored by intelligenc
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Because public image matters. Steam has built a reputation for being customer friendly. Coming up with a Byzantine pricing system for your highly anticipated new hardware will not be well received by the steam users. The extra short term ea
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Valve is where they are at because Gabe knows he is rich enough and doesn't need to squeeze every penny out of their customers' pocket, nor is there any investors making him do so. Maximizing the price of the steam machine which i
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by pibaker 4mo ago
It is very hard to just quit any hobby cold turkey if you have built your entire identity, your friendships, your social standing and in the case of FOSS even your employability around it. Maintainers are human. That means their welfare mat
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> I never used any LLMs, even for searching I highly doubt there is any mainstream search engine that doesn't use any LLM like technology in the backend to provide search results. > I checked it with a couple of AI detection tool
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by pibaker 4mo ago
And you drive? https://www.youtube.com/@DashCamOwnersAustralia
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by pibaker 4mo ago
The US is too used to wars where they have absolute domination and has developed a very low tolerance for casualty. If any ship, not even just a carrier, any ship, gets sunken by an Iranian missile, it will sink the already abysmal approval
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Who do you trust to moderate a platform like twitter? Its current owner? The US government?
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Have a look at what's going on in the foster care system and tell me with a serious face that taking children away from parents, outside the absolutely worst cases, is actually helping the children.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
GP's proposal does content filtering on the user's machine. Your age info never leaves your own device. The Californian proposal requires telling the service your age. I can see why HN absolutely hates the later given the HN crowd
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I have some really bad news about the freedom of offline speech in the UK.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
What are the viable alternatives to LE? And in case none exists, what does it take to build one? Requirements: free, available to everyone, automation friendly, issues certificates that are actually considered trustworthy by other parties.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
No one middle class is buying humongous houses with more rarely used bathrooms than the average house has bedrooms. These houses are for the top 10% earners of their respective localities.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I find it interesting that you think this article is bad because it is elitist but at the same time bad because it makes fun of rich people. I used to follow the author on Twitter. No longer do as I don't agree with her other opinions.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
The decaying rural areas of Japan would probably love to be stuck in the 80s if they can. Too late, now they have hollowed out and everyone young is moving to the same cities most tourists stay at. Every time you read a story about some Jap
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by pibaker 4mo ago
This article is about the JR branding and design, not train operations. The title may be overstating the case, but the content is definitely not drawing over generalized conclusions about railroads in Japan. Not to mention the idea that JR
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Unfortunately it's not uncommon to find legitimate websites that break autofill in some ways. And the more such websites a user encounters, the more likely he will just mindlessly paste his password into a phishing site as he has learn
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Very hard to believe that a government that stopped publishing unemployment data is the one to side with workers.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> actively sink OpenAI/Claud's bottom line Considering that hyperscalers are effectively funded by hype, you can also make the argument that by using AI you are helping their business by adding one to their active user number a
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> given its very nature, understand economics I'd say being a realtor is more about dealing with the psychology of buyers and sellers than the economy. And yes, you are wise to not trust them. Their interests are not yours. And as t
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Of course you should take care of your home, but to be fair, the moisture that caused the mold could have come from a leak elsewhere. The roaches could have found a way into your home from that crackhead neighbor's place through cracks
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> Cost of labor is insanely high due to cost of housing This is not the reason. Labor is expensive even in parts of the US with low housing costs. The real, simple reason is the US has a more prosperous economy where the average worker h

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