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871.
by riffraff 1y ago
The request for payment in rubles came about when contracts were already signed. If you unilaterally decide to change the terms of a contract it's quite obvious that the other party may not agree.
872.
by riffraff 1y ago
The fact that Trump and Epstein were friends has always been known, it was always obvious that he would be in the files concerning him. Musk's accusation is relevant because it's a maga personality saying it, and blind supporters
873.
by riffraff 1y ago
> teeth have a full profession of study and development that the everyday act of breathing doesn't have Aren't pneumologist that profession? I mean they don't seem to have focused on breathing patterns but I'm doubtfu
874.
by riffraff 1y ago
I don't have trauma (that I can recall) which seems breath related, but this is my case. I'm also kinda ok with guided breath work of the "breath in, hold, out" kind but if I'm counting I get stressed out.
875.
by riffraff 1y ago
In keeping with "Cory Doctorow essay style" this is long, dense, and makes a ton of good points, e.g. > we don't have to be eternal prisoners of the catastrophic policy blunders of clueless lawmakers of old
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Online Media Is at a Fork in the Road, So We're Removing Ads for Members(theautopian.com)
3 points by riffraff 1y ago|1 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
Is there something missing in ruby's pattern matching? It has subpatterns, alternation, pinning, guards. I've got limited experience with it but it seems on par with what most languages have.
878.
by riffraff 1y ago
it was mentioned elsewhere on the article that the snake may spit out the newt of it's too strong, kinda like a human with chili peppers, I suppose.
879.
by riffraff 1y ago
Or he just gets his credits back and surprise, there's no longer a problem with pork and deficit. Trump may not care about reelection but congressmen do.
880.
Delivery Hero, Glovo hit with $376M EU antitrust fine(reuters.com)
3 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
881.
by riffraff 1y ago
You cannot vote out a single member of the government/parliament in many democracies, it is not an intrinsic characteristic of any system we call so.
882.
by riffraff 1y ago
Nitpick: doublethink is not about language, it's about keeping two contradictory ideas in one's mind and thinking them both true ("war is peace"). This is just plain "surveillance is bad when bad people do it, not w
883.
by riffraff 1y ago
Does it? I've only been to Portugal a couple times (Lisbon and Porto) and houses had bidets (standalone), while bathrooms didn't, but didn't have tp buckets either.
884.
by riffraff 1y ago
What kind of bidet? I assume it's Italian/French style bidet (a separate item from the WC) and not the Japanese/SEA thing where it's a WC addition. The fact we use the same term for three different kind of things is deep
885.
by riffraff 1y ago
Do the same in change for all? E.g. implement a simple compiler for a C-ish language with only functions, if and while loops; as the big change, ask to add for loops.
886.
by riffraff 1y ago
I'm not sure why you transllated the german entry for an american song, but FYI, there's an english wikipedia version. "I owe my soul to the company store" is one of the greatest lyrics ever. https://en.wikipe
887.
by riffraff 1y ago
> In contrast, when is the last time one of the greatest cathedrals were built? Probably not for hundreds of years. Our Lady of Good Health[1] in India is 1962. I think what the author means is "one of the famous ones in Europe&quot
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White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations(nytimes.com)
198 points by riffraff 1y ago|53 comments
889.
by riffraff 1y ago
Well, psychohistory is presented as a sort of mathematics for predicting the future, I think it fits the theme. Likewise, I'm not sure it's on the list, but starship troopers has a kind of mathematics for government (the military
890.
by riffraff 1y ago
My reading anthology book in primary school had Asimov's "The feeling of power". I was glad to see it was already in this list.
891.
by riffraff 1y ago
The shortened title on HN is misleading, "masking improvement" vs "masking whether the students improved". The former seems to say the students did improve but this was not visible.
892.
by riffraff 1y ago
> This includes the entirety of online and remote education I don't get this. Either you do graded home assignments which the person takes without any examiner, which you could always cheat on, or you do live exams and then people
893.
by riffraff 1y ago
AFAIU, it's a build strategy. Instead of having a fork, you have a configuration that says "checkout x then apply changes a,b,c".
894.
by riffraff 1y ago
We don't even know if the concept of offensive exists elsewhere
895.
by riffraff 1y ago
You'd need to build a lot more around the houses. Many "bad neighborhoods" in various countries started as affordable housing projects, but that's not enough to have a healthy social situation. We need the housing, but i
896.
by riffraff 1y ago
Also literal "resumable exceptions" in Smalltalk.
897.
by riffraff 1y ago
I experienced something similar and would posit that small communities accommodate diversity more easily, because you get to know the people, it's no longer "the homosexuals" or "the immigrants" or "the jews&qu
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by riffraff 1y ago
I forgot who coined the expression but it's a good rule "first make the change easy, then make the change", my top recommendation for incremental changes.
899.
by riffraff 1y ago
The article seems surprised that you can do so many changes at scale, but IMO that's the wrong perspective. The larger the scale you have, the easier it must be to ship a change. Yes, regressions will be more painful if you manage tril
900.
by riffraff 1y ago
Same here, I was a readitlater user, recent iterations somehow broke it and it stopped syncing for offline viewing which was my main usage of it. Screw you Mozilla.

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