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by rlt 3y ago
I imagine those would be highly correlated too.
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by rlt 3y ago
I absolutely read the title as the BBC choosing a single platform. If not why wouldn’t it say “BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon and X”?
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by rlt 3y ago
They have global coverage, including oceans: https://www.starlink.com/maritime https://support.starlink.com/?topic=9eb841b3-2e43-a6fb-ecc7-...
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by rlt 3y ago
You don't need AI to make art like you don't need a camera to make art. But it's likely you can use new tools to make entirely new types of art. It's also likely new tools will make certain types of art a commodity. Peop
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by rlt 3y ago
More hand-wringing over technological progress, as usual. Are artists going to stop producing art, or will they use AI as a tool to produce entirely new styles and forms of art?
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by rlt 3y ago
Couldn’t cryptocurrency proponents make a similar argument?
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by rlt 3y ago
Low cost access to space also implies low(er) cost cleanup of defunct satellites and other debris.
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by rlt 3y ago
Except that’s not what happened. Starlink was not active in Crimea at the time because the US had sanctions in Crimea . He got a request from the Ukrainian government. He has stated if he got a request from the US government he would have
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by rlt 3y ago
> Your Terms of Service do not superscede your host country's foreign policy goals. I must have missed the part where the United States government requested Starlink be activated in Crimea. Elon has explicitly stated if the request
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by rlt 3y ago
I'm already cautious about answering calls from unknown numbers. This could be a good reason to be even more cautious.
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by rlt 3y ago
As I understand it, Starlink was not “turned off” in the area, it was never even turned on to begin with. The entitlement of people believing a private company should be forced to actively participate in a fucking war is insane. Ukraine sho
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by rlt 3y ago
> Angular […] over-engineered mess of a framework Good to know I’m not the only one feeling that way
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by rlt 3y ago
Hey, don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
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by rlt 3y ago
Dude, keep these examples coming. I hate defending the guy, but regardless of how dumb it was he was obviously hypothesizing, never mentioned bleach, and outright said "it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to
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by rlt 3y ago
> took horse meds You’re still doing that? Ok. > immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
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by rlt 3y ago
Remember when some people were advocating others lose their jobs or be denied medical care if they chose not to get vaccinated? Maybe we should reflect on that.
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by rlt 3y ago
When did he deny climate change? If you’re honest with yourself I think you’ll fine these are all caricatures you’ve created because he’s no longer politically aligned enough with you. TDS has been replaced with EDS.
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by rlt 3y ago
> My casual observation says that HN has become more "Reddit-Like" in terms of low quality and off-topic posting People have been saying this pretty much as long as HN has been around
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by rlt 3y ago
> It is a filter, designed to screen out people who might have enough common sense the question the legitimacy of his claims. Well, except for the SEC, I guess. Out of curiosity, can you say how you knew him?
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by rlt 3y ago
Among other crimes against humanity is his incredibly gaudy sense of style https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/15402954048178831... https://sybershel.com/he-invented-the-crypto-that-gives-in
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by rlt 3y ago
Nice write up. A couple questions: - The use of “I” begs the question: what’s the “bus factor” of Tarsnap? If you were unavailable, temporarily or permanently, what are the contingency plans? - Will you be making any other changes to improv
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by rlt 3y ago
This is called a “moral hazard”, and I agree.
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by rlt 3y ago
That can’t be right. That’s nearly $1M per laid off employee.
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by rlt 3y ago
I must be using a different Twitter than you. You can cherry pick a few abhorrent Tweets but that’s not going to be representative of most peoples’ experience.
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by rlt 3y ago
Why would the people leaving Reddit because they killed the API go to Twitter which killed their own API last year?
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by rlt 3y ago
Why should such things matter if it fits his narrative?
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by rlt 3y ago
I’m a ~25 year web development veteran who has grown to absolutely hate CSS for building any remotely complex UI.
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by rlt 3y ago
People love to say this kind of thing about extremely successful people, but you can’t just bullshit your way to creating beloved companies/products.
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by rlt 3y ago
He probably did code, but he may not have met whatever arbitrary bar you’ve set for what you consider a programmer.
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by rlt 3y ago
“My good friend’s dad was brutally murdered” “My delivery was delayed” Maybe not the place for it.

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