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by refurb 5mo ago
> If AI is physically capable of misbehaving, it might ($$1) This is why all the “AI Armageddon” talk seems to silly to me. AI is only as destructive as the access you give it. Don’t give it access where it can harm and no harm will occ
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by refurb 6mo ago
Why? The level of graft would be breathtaking. No doubt some major builders would get preference for cost plus budgets on inflated numbers. Politicians would steer money to their supporters. They’d like be building at 1.5 to 2 times what
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by refurb 6mo ago
You’d think after a couple dozen “interrupted supply of X could halt Y industry” articles per year, yet these things never actually happen, would cause readers to grow skeptical. I guess not.
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by refurb 6mo ago
If this trade is based on inside information, it would be on the Iranian side since it's timed on the IRGC's X post. That seems like a smart move by Iran. Get rich off your own announcements.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Indeed! If you're around Taos, NM, there are several national/state parks that contain the remaining structures of the Pueblans. The Puye Cliff Dwellings are over 1,000 year olds, and you can free roam most of them. It is quite
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by refurb 6mo ago
Yes, and this person had left the US, needed permission to reenter, and thus the Secretary of State had the power to deny entry because it "wasn't in the interest of the country".
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by refurb 6mo ago
If Amazon punishes sellers for having lower prices elsewhere, isn’t it the sellers choice whether to lower their price on Amazon OR raise their price for other sellers? I didn’t see anything in the article suggesting Amazon ask for the 2n
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by refurb 6mo ago
You’re mistaking “barriers” with logical prioritization. Of course the groups that represent larger voting blocks get easier access - that makes perfect sense. But like the example I gave - the access is possible. Most people who complain
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by refurb 6mo ago
Whoa! I’d slow down with the hypotheses, considering we have one side of the story. What we do know is that the US, like all other countries, has wide legal latitude on not allowing foreigners into the country. You can be denied entry for
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by refurb 6mo ago
I mean this professor does because they put the work in to build a network. Nothing stops the average citizen from organizing and getting similar access to representatives. Instead we get people who don’t even know who their representative
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by refurb 6mo ago
I would be very careful drawing any sort of conclusions based on “what people say online” It’s hardly a representative sample of the country, and in many instances isn’t even an American citizen.
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by refurb 6mo ago
If you don’t have large support for your ideas then it shouldn’t be a surprise it’s hard. But that’s the intent of the system? Represent what most people want.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Well connected? A professor at a small college from a town of 15,000? Nope. She had been working on entrepreneurship for a while so had met her reps years ago. No money involved. Hell, not even from a very big state.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Organize, petition your representative and vote. The people saying it doesn’t work are the same people who can’t must the effort to even contact their representative. I had a professor in college who was big on entrepreneurship. So he form
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by refurb 6mo ago
There are azeotropes - mixtures that distill together at a different temperature than either alone. You can’t distill ethanol to higher than 95% because of the 95-5 ethanol-water azeotrope that boils at 78.2C, versus ethanol alone at 78.4C.
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by refurb 6mo ago
This is still done today if you buy tax free ethanol. The intent is not to poison people, since the alcohol is not intended for consumption.
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by refurb 6mo ago
You don’t think people have different goals than organizations? Do you think the goal of EFF posting on HN is the same as some random user posting on HN? Of course not. So it’s not surprising they have different actions under similar circu
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by refurb 6mo ago
I did something similar with drawer handles. I was living in a place with cheap furniture and the handles were aluminum billet cut to length and tapped so it could be screwed to the drawer face. The edge on either side were crazy sharp.
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by refurb 6mo ago
You don’t see a difference between an organization and an individual?
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by refurb 6mo ago
Would you say “if one country is the largest individual donor, then its bankrolling it” I would
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by refurb 6mo ago
We’re 5 years into Trump being President and you still take what he says at face value? Most of what he says is to rile up the people opposing him.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Well the “expert” analysis you mentioned said the world would grind to a halt last month but that didn’t happen did it? India and Pakistan have been running the “closure” several times with escorts, successfully. All it would take a is a
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by refurb 6mo ago
Lining up multiple low probability events and talking like it’s certainty isn’t that helpful to understanding the conflict. Iran does not “control” the strait any more than neighbor controls my front door because he threatened to stop me fr
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by refurb 6mo ago
That’s a funny way of saying the US is still bankrolling the Ukraine war.
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by refurb 6mo ago
That’s a whole lot of “ifs”. And they haven’t come close to “crushing the gulf states”. Lobbing a middle at the oil facility is not “crushing”, it’s harassment. If anything the gulf states have decided to not retaliate themselves, but if
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by refurb 6mo ago
How do you know allies and trading partners weren’t consulted? Of course they were! The US had to get overflight permission the first day. Iran had long been a thorn in the side of Europe and the Middle East countries. There is no love lo
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by refurb 6mo ago
Welcome to HN where users with little domain knowledge make comments of utter certainty about any topic under the sun.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Moral high ground? They lost it long ago when they were hanging people for being gay and sponsoring terrorist groups.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Now imagine how the international community feels about the toll - “sure would be nice if Iran’s leadership was replaced so we don’t have to pay a toll for an international waterway”. The whole situation further isolates Iran globally (they
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by refurb 6mo ago
This is in no way a win for Iran. Hundreds of regime leadership is gone. Massive destruction of infrastructure. Bombed all their neighbors who weren’t even at war with them. Pushed those same neighbors into closer partnership with Israel

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