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by pjc50 29d ago
Trump, sitting on top of a Republican government, is responsible for 10Trn of the debt, about a quarter. Conservatives gave up on principles long ago and have settled for simply lying about everything, including what's happening and wh
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The politics of this is grindingly difficult; people think of "them and us", not "we're all together in three free world". Achieving free trade means either dismantling all the little market carve-outs that local po
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The war(s), especially with the impact on pipelines and the Houthis taking over more of Yemen, are finally affecting fuel prices and hence turning the global economic outlook less positive. You can print money, but you can only ""
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JavaFX is fairly high up for "I want to run the same UI on Mac and Windows, and I don't want it to be an Electron web app in a box".
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I don't get this either. You can even lock the language level if you really don't want it, or you can just ignore it.
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Rubbish. They don't want to. The tractors have license plates, allowing them to be pursued after the fact, and the NL police have firearms if they want to get spicy. There have been a number of attacks in Europe of the form "deran
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by pjc50 29d ago
Ah, the magic of being a rightwing populist, which gives you a free pass to do illegal things (drive a tractor on the motorway) even if that results in fatalities.
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by pjc50 29d ago
Really Western Europe has been ignoring Russia's war for far too long; the MH17 shootdown was in 2014 and the situation has only deteriorated since then.
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Not that airgapping is expensive so much as it's really, really inconvenient once you take it seriously. You need to build special rooms for it, you can't just API out to a datacenter. You need to have processes for requesting dat
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by pjc50 29d ago
Isn't that .. what people were told to do? To use AI for as much of their job as possible?
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There was https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th... , but that was (validly) dismissed by other scientists working on it, and also wasn't a discussion that was happening in pub
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If the nuclear power or life sciences people were putting out press releases saying "our product may kill us all", they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries.
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What?
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No, the gender role stuff is absolutely critical and you can't just handwave it away. Married women couldn't own their own property independently in England until 1870. In particular, the belief that a married woman had no agency
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This has the useful property of being regulation-exempt because it's already literally everywhere. Unlike "F gases", which have much more serious greenhouse effects and are regulated in the UK (and elsewhere): https:/&#
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Yeah, I think people forget that before the internet there was the telcos. They had a "microtransaction" infrastructure, and they were determined to use it by gatekeeping everything. The power of the internet making almost everyth
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Really this is the problem: the internet has enabled the global Hater community, who come together and find common cause in their hate, and that radiates outwards into everywhere else. Even if you're trying to define your place as &quo
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by pjc50 1mo ago
I generally agree with this, but a problem I can't solve is: at what point does a "large group chat" become a "public channel"? If, hypothetically, someone is organizing a thousand people in balaclavas to turn up ou
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by pjc50 1mo ago
> you physically cannot feed yourself, get to appointments, or do anything without operating a vehicle? You also physically cannot feed yourself, get to appointments, or do anything else once you've been fatally run over by a vehicl
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We think of "frictionless" as good, but the friction was the only thing preventing services from consolidating to a single point. Of control and failure.
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Oh, indeed. There's been a real public reversal in tolerance for open racism, over the past (see date) almost exactly 25 years. This is now coming full circle in the UK; the Daily Mail (!) has a rightwing extortion mob outside their of
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You also can't make a card purchase if your card is stolen ..
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> killed the business model of the Web in favor of ads I don't think there ever was another business model? Nobody has ever got true microtransactions for the web to work. Even the old days of premium rate telephone numbers and payi
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> cars Good example: cars come with a tracking identifier (license plate), tied to a responsible individual, who is subject to a test, and whose permission to use it can be revoked if they abuse it badly enough.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625933 - is it actually enforced?
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An absolute classic of "we've done no requirements analysis at all, but our exec went drinking with the wrong people and that now defines the solution, regardless of the problem".
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This is a bit like asking "do people prefer vegetarian meals if we don't tell them there's actually meat in it?" People care about the production process even if they can't tell you're lying to them about it.
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I am explicitly asking people to fill in the blank on how it would succeed. It's intelligence, not magic. A lot of these scenarios seem to assume that nobody else gets a move. That there wouldn't be a human response.
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If you substitute "shareholder value", this is basically how corporations already make decisions with effects on human life.
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> Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside. I was ignoring that, but it did seem somewhat intentional by the human running it? There's a lot of "I&#x

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