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by runako 5mo ago
> the old world order, the need for these companies to follow rules at least in spirit? That’s dead now Pendulums swing. Anyone advocating for the development of more advanced technologies should be in favor of a system of fair laws enfo
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by runako 5mo ago
PRISM[1] has been publicly-documented for over a decade. China, Iran, Russia, among others obviously also intervene in electronic communications at a low level. I'm not caught up entirely, but I would imagine that NSA's capabiliti
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by runako 5mo ago
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by runako 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109360 > go back another 10 years and you have Viet Nam Eisenhower was a Republican when he committed forces to Vietnam.
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by runako 5mo ago
If you're going to get technical, you need to pick apart the AUMF for Iraq. In any case, I personally don't think the US interventions in Bosnia or Haiti rose to the level of the colloquial understanding of "no more wars.&quo
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by runako 5mo ago
This point came up in a discussion of whether the Iran war is the first US war to be started and lost by the exact same team. Vietnam was floated, but they had a few shift changes before defeat was clear.
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by runako 5mo ago
"started by" here was used to indicate that there was not already a shooting war in progress.
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by runako 5mo ago
In 2015, the US lifted its ban on exporting domestic oil. Since then, US domestic pricing has been linked to the global price. This means that "domestic production" does not mean what you imply (which is "domestic production
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by runako 5mo ago
One thing I have noted during this inflationary period is that individual stores/chains are gaming pricing much more than I remember before. For example, your store might be competing for business using the headline price of eggs and m
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by runako 5mo ago
That chart is rough. Q3 2025 about equivalent to 5-6 years prior.
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by runako 5mo ago
> long history of more wars from both parties Which wars were started by Democratic presidents in the last half-century?
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by runako 5mo ago
So much of the kerfuffle about DEI has always been around the fact that people don't understand what DEI means. Also, in the current environment, I don't see how anyone can look around and argue that merit-based hiring is a norm a
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by runako 5mo ago
> we get meta.ai to build an app inside the artifact preview Is this the kind of use case that is seen as valuable? I joked a while back that LLM-brain was going to have people building bespoke apps on each HTTP request, and people thoug
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by runako 5mo ago
Cost. The economics don't work unless Starship is doing flights in quantity, and it has met or exceeded its cost targets. Roughly, a single rack plus solar to power it in the $15m+ range just to launch. (This assumes power dissipation
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by runako 5mo ago
The financials for a Musk company do not, and will not, affect investor sentiment in the slightest. Investors in the SpaceX IPO are buying a call option on Musk.
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by runako 5mo ago
Early in my career, people said this about programmers who (weakly) insisted on using assemblers. Then, about people using high-level languages like C. Then, about people using C++. Then, about people using "toy"/"script
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by runako 5mo ago
> The only way you can get away with creating an application without touching sql Please look at app platforms like Firebase[1]. There are absolutely complex Web applications running at scale that do not use SQL anywhere in the stack. As
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by runako 5mo ago
There's now ~2 generations of professional engineers for whom SQL was rarely/never a thing to learn. Between the hard(er) split among front-end/back-end developers, ORMs improving, and the (flawed) idea that NoSQL would make
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by runako 5mo ago
No hate to any of the PaaSes out there, Vercel included. They truly serve a need. That said, if you are an engineer planning on working in/around the field, I would strongly suggest developing some competence at basic Linux systems adm
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by runako 6mo ago
> If everyone could make these machines, there'd be more of these machines. My post is in violent agreement with this, for this generation of machines. ASML spends ~$5B annually on R&D with the expectation that they will be able
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by runako 6mo ago
That's a great way to lower the cost of the current generation of the tech while ensuring there is no next generation of the tech.
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by runako 6mo ago
Azure did $75B last quarter. That article doesn't give a timeframe, but most of these use 10 years as a placeholder. I would also imagine it's not a requirement for them to spend it evenly over the 10 years, so could be back-loade
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by runako 6mo ago
> The user would like the website to have native scroll physics, respect their system preferences, react to changing window sizes and with different input methods, screen readers and so on. Yes, these are features implemented by every po
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by runako 6mo ago
> Modern web application is essentially 2 apps (frontend and backend) This doesn't have to be the case, though. We all use e.g. banking & telecom sites that worked fine before being rebuilt using "modern architectures"
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by runako 6mo ago
> putting extra load on the server This is precisely where the publisher has the most control over the user experience. Putting load on the browser makes a user's experience dependent on their hardware & software stack.
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by runako 6mo ago
You asked who doesn't have the required documentation, I am telling you it's minors. Saying parents are also on the account does not change that as of this moment, those documents do not exist and therefore have to be secured. &gt
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by runako 6mo ago
Generally will leave as an exercise for the reader. But immediately one can say that most minors will not have the requisite picture ID because they do not drive and we are not required to carry picture ID (this rollout would be touch more
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by runako 6mo ago
This is not pearl-clutching. The point is that there are hundreds of millions of consumer bank accounts in the US, and it's not clear that Treasury appreciates the turmoil they are proposing. The country has not had a debate over this,
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by runako 6mo ago
If the US Constitution is to have force as the core document foundational to the governance of the US, it is important for its clear text to have the force of law. An executive agency creating new requirements for citizenship has the effect
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by runako 6mo ago
> I don't agree the "underlying idea is fine" at all I gave you a shout out! :-P > the reluctance to issue any kind of national ID Americans have tended to resist this kind of surveillance (when done by the government).

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