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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> Why is this a government issue at all? For the same reason anything is a government issue, i.e. that we regulate acceptable and unacceptable behaviors as a society, and periodically adjust what we find acceptable? If your employer st
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Please link a photo of a coppice/pollard in Europe that's as straight as this, along with the location where I can see it. If you do, I have got a great new travel destination. If you don't then everyone else (and hopefully
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> Also known as 'Thing, Japan'. HN eats up articles like this every single week. And invariably the top comment is a "Thing Also in Europe/US" smugly citing that the commenter knows about something that's va
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Exactly, the loosey-goosey " Just do it a few times in the evening" is the real trigger here. How many times exactly? The more you try to quantify this, the better the case for the law gets.
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> I.e. if I ask an EA to check email a few times between 5pm and 9pm and schedule anything that seems urgent, that's probably 1-10 minutes of work on most days, but the bill would require the EA be paid for 4 hours (at overtime rate
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Again to my point, there is a lot of "I" in your comment. What this legislation means is that on aggregate , the politicians sponsoring are hearing from their constituents that they are being overworked via expectations of off-ho
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Lots of privilege in this thread showing. This is the equivalent of "what global warming, it was so cold today". Please remember that just because you aren't expected to have consistent unpaid after-hours comms doesn't
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Do you understand why the notary fees are €1,575.24? That's astonishingly high for (I presume) a couple hours of work at most.
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> If you want a GmbH quickly there are specialized lawyers that maintain a pool of freshly founded GmbH's for you to buy. The fact that this absurd situation exists is a huge proof that the bureaucracy has gotten out of hand and tha
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
I am appalled at the amount of commenters on HN saying stuff like "well he should have followed proper procedures , it's right and proper that he was fired". When did we all join IBM? A few points: 1. It's clear from va
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
I would love to read your article about the beautiful medieval crests on British fire engines, too! No joke, feel free to link something in reply to my comment as well if you have existing articles. I feel like there has been a lot of unnec
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
There is already an HN guideline against submitting AI-generated text. > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans. I think it's fair to discuss whether a post violates the guidelines. I
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> we have comparatively little history (we’re celebrating 250 years) You didn't exactly say this, but I'd stop short of defining history around the existence of the current US government and structure. Ironically 250 years is p
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
Huh? Not the OP, but I have heard that Rome is defined by the seven hills, so I thought the Aurelian Wall definition was excluding a hill or something. The Wikipedia article says the walls cover all seven hills and the Campus Martius: ht
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> How can we make books cool without pretending all this tech didn't exist? You don't need to pretend it didn't exist, you need to legislate and ensure that access to it is cut off uniformly for developing minds. We alread
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> Like the majority of the team is doing useless stuff that management thinks is impressive This is arrogant thinking typical of developers. Most developers I have talked to (including myself 10 years ago) thinks that they or their frien
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by quadrifoliate 4mo ago
> Sorry you didn't know this before going through the process, but it's important to read the proper channels for setting up business pages on all of the social media platforms these days. This is exactly why Meta and other lar
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
This is complete bullshit. I worked in an office for many years. The number of times I was asked to lunch with "the guy in accounts or the women in the sales team" or even anyone in our so-called People team was precisely zero. Th
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
Does EU dual citizenship help with university if you are not currently a resident of the EU? I always thought the low EU-local fees for European universities were based on EU residency, not citizenship.
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
Influencing Congress is wildly easier than shooting fireballs from your fingers. This is supposed to be a site with optimistic people that do things. Imagine what you could do politically with the help of LLMs.
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
Depending on your workplace and professional circle, influencing political opinions may be easier than unionizing. But both can be done.
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
I don't understand why people make these hyperbolic jokes about guillotines. Violence is counterproductive; and not practical anyway. Joking about it just makes you feel great without actually doing anything. There is a simple alternat
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
The solution to this is political. Under hyper-efficient capitalism, if there is truly such a 10x productivity improvement, a large number of people will be laid off in response and the rest will be squeezed. This is already happening. The
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
Looking at her resume, I don't see anything about writing encyclopedias or keeping them online. I think "Wall Street person" is a reasonable description. Perhaps "Career government person with a Wall Street background&qu
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by quadrifoliate 5mo ago
The reason really is the extreme arrogance of every single manufacturer that wants you to install their app and use their ecosystem. That might have worked if one of them became super dominant and pushed everyone else out. But because tha
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
This. Until we get regulations on AI-related layoffs, even the cheese making company will claim that their regular layoffs are to "invest more in AI".
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
> anytime anyone comes up with any system that takes water they should go in front of a panel of experts (seniors) who get to decide whether their water usage is for an "approvable" purpose. This is absolutely how things work,
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
> prevented her account from being displayed for a few days ...and prevented her from having any access to money? That's way more than a glitch, that's essentially a temporary version of theft. Think about how comfortable you
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
I've had an account for a while too, and I do think that that GP comment has a style typical of "AI boosters" -- breathless, big on hyperbole, and low on detail. To the GP: I'd like some details of these "insanely a
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
> Algorithmic content is not the target of this The quote from the article below shows that they are at least thinking about the algorithmic targeting specifically. > “We want a childhood where children get to be children,” Prime Mini

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