pjc50

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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   You could address the underlying issue?
2. 512.▲
   by pjc50 4mo ago

   This is way too much of a hassle to do unless the number of zeros gets too high.
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   This is why the starter motor spins the shaft in a known direction.
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   > Trump offered the freedom of Ross Ulbricht at the libertarian convention Libertarianism is when you can buy your way out of criminal convictions?
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   Still enjoying my 05 Focus, in which I have done zero recalls, although I did have to fix the persistent trunk leaks with bathroom sealant.
6. 516.▲
   by pjc50 4mo ago

   Stock prices have always been more important than a habitable environment. The really stupid thing is that shareholders are also rewarding useless burns of their money. It's capitalist Stakhanovism.
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   All AI is a hostile superpower. Might as well use the cheap one.
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   I suppose we should bookmark this for the next time that HN claims that the rise of China's tech industry is inevitable.
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   by pjc50 4mo ago

   Most of those aren't about the government, those are people using social media to threaten their ex and so on.
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Yeah, this is not a good use of AI and the customer service people are going to gradually work that out, especially once people start having the "you know this is a legally binding statement on behalf of your company, right" dis
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    AI is an extremely powerful weapon against a blank page. It's much easier to take "well now I have an app, which after using for a bit I find it sucks in <quantifiable list of ways>" and then fix them, than it is to s
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    I don't follow these things on a daily basis. 5% down. What was the other event on ~9th June?
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Software quality assurance can be automated in a way that artistic and textual quality can't. That doesn't give you good taste , but .. for yer basic line of business or enterprise app, expectations were already low, and most web
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    This has arrived everywhere except Apple products now. The Steam Machine is just the latest example.
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    I suspect you'll get similar results on the subject of high schoolers and social media: everyone uses it, quite a lot of them are unhappy with the outcome, but realize that you can't afford to not play the game. Why wouldn't
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    That, and the people doing this cheered it on obnoxiously on social media. This is IMO one of the factors that people who want us to be China hawks have missed; there isn't a huge industry of Chinese thought leaders being obnoxious i
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Academia is almost entirely steered by government policy, at least in the Anglosphere. There is a bureaucratic not-very-scientific evaluation process for research proposals. And things like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    ?
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    How does caching help here? How much repetition is there in queries?
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Should be, but you've got to tell the funders that.
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    I do think people should consider trying a bit harder to change the opinions of their fellow citizens. Yes, this is a lot of work; yes, I've mostly delegated this myself by paying money to the Open Rights Group. But if you start from
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    It's a press release, i.e. put out on his behalf by his defenders.
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    I think this is starting to change, fortunately, with things like the yellow Renault 5s. Mind you, when ordering a lease car for the first time recently, I did notice that I was paying a premium for non-bland colours. I suspect the weird fi
24. 534.▲
    by pjc50 4mo ago

    This is why insurance exists!
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    > It doesn't sound easy nor cheap to buy a company and change the company name. Again this is very straightforward and routine in the UK: https://paramountformations.com/product-category/off-the-she... ; a simi
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    For a small company with 0 assets and one owner which has ceased trading, I believe you can just abandon it, stop filing and wait for it to be wound up - but check this!
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Anyone got the actual indictment? From linked https://freedes.net/jun-23rd-2026-press-release/ : "Sanchez Estrada, a 39-year-old artist, was found guilty on March 13, 2026, alongside eight codefendants who partici
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    > The IRS requires all transactions sent to them if they total $600 or more on a payment app I regret to inform you that your tax obligations don't disappear just because they're in a different currency. Worse, because you&#x27
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    Wasn't CPAC literally being funded by the Hungarian government (and thence ultimately Russia)? Oligarchy is definitely a global problem. Every billionaire is an unexploded political liability.
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    by pjc50 4mo ago

    My UK Halifax bank card says "Visa Debit" on it, because Visa/Mastercard control most of the payments infrastructure.