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by rurp 3y ago
Hah, same here. That line jumped out to me as a big toxic red flag. The quotes further down from users who suddenly lost all of their content were sad to read. It sucks how often regular people get burned for taking tech companies at their
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by rurp 3y ago
A friend of mine went through an ordeal because a cop spotted a ziplock bag filled with climbing chalk in his car.
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by rurp 3y ago
>I think the atomic bomb is more credible as a seed of human destruction. Nuclear weapons absolutely are an existential risk. >By the way does anyone know anything about any launch codes? I don't have any top secret knowledge abo
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by rurp 3y ago
Not to mention the times someone has said that an issue couldn't possibly have been caused by a recent change they made, only to find out that it was.
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by rurp 3y ago
93% of stock wealth is held by 10% of Americans; the amount of Apple held by The Regular Person is relatively miniscule. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958534
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by rurp 3y ago
Because the two giant companies that own those markets like it this way, and they spend millions per year on lawyers and lobbyists to keep that position.
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by rurp 3y ago
2FA can also be a way to get more private data, like phone numbers, out of users; which will be used for things having nothing to do with security or helping the user. Facebook did exactly this and I'm sure other companies have as well
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by rurp 3y ago
I recall reading some interesting neurological research on this topic, about how phonemes are learned and accessed. The specific sounds stored in the brain are largely fixed by a pretty young age, making it almost impossible for adults to l
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by rurp 3y ago
Yep I can confirm this works quite well since it's what I used for over a decade until I got a new car a couple years ago. Bluetooth can be annoyingly flaky in many cars but plugging in a cable literally just works. My old sound system
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Hertz is selling 20k used EVs due to high repair costs(arstechnica.com)
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by rurp 3y ago
The big problem is that it's orders of magnitude easier to produce plausible looking junk than to solidly verify information. There is a real threat that AI garbage will scale to the point that it completely overwhelms any filtering an
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by rurp 3y ago
So "winning" for Bitcoin has now come to mean becoming a boring traditional security that doesn't do much of anything else? That's awfully different from what 99.9% of Bitcoin optimists have spent years claiming the futu
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by rurp 3y ago
There isn't any question that Iran proxies, including the Houthis, have been attacking American assets. No major actor disputes this. The tricky part is what to do about it. The Iranian proxies have been trying to strike a balance of h
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by rurp 3y ago
> Overall, a lot of what I can say about Twilio is super obvious now. But it's kinda like how people watch Friends for the first time in 2023 and say "meh it's a pretty generic sitcom". It's because they created
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by rurp 3y ago
> In a best-case scenario, going outside is ruined for everybody. It's not like progress will get to a certain point and then just stop. If terorists reach the point of being able to bomb anyone they want, an insane amount of resour
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by rurp 3y ago
Cartels don't seem like the most laissez faire employers, especially when they need a lot of people for risky menial work like drug mules. There's probably quite a bit of coercion involved in these roles.
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by rurp 3y ago
I think there are enough limitations with the current tech that this isn't a big concern at the moment, otherwise we would certainly be seeing these types attacks in Ukraine. But the field is evolving incredibly quickly and it's p
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by rurp 3y ago
> [Tesla] believes activating a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving That is the reason they went out of their way to make an awful turn signal interface?! Yeesh, ok then. There are enough other things I h
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by rurp 3y ago
Venemous snakes come in enough variety of types and sizes that most boots probably provide some partial protection. The venom of a baby rattlesnake for instance is much more potent than that of an adult; footware that can only stop small fa
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by rurp 3y ago
I don't think the tradeoffs really work that away, especially given how many succesful snake species have no venom at all. Biological traits are too conplicated and contextual to boil down to a single stat.
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by rurp 3y ago
No kidding! I briefly looked into mushroom foraging, but after learning how similar tasty mushrooms and you-will-die-a-quick-painful-death ones looked, I quickly lost all interest. The payoffs are about as asymmetric as it gets. Blindly fol
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by rurp 3y ago
It's unclear to me how much damage the pill prevents versus simply delaying it. I didn't see any clear statements on that in the article and there are a few quotes like, "intended to at least buy victims enough time to get to
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by rurp 3y ago
Yup, LLMs have the potential to ruin huge swaths of the internet, and I'm not sure it's a solvable problem. There are tells with the current models, but future models will be different and better. Detection and blocking could beco
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by rurp 3y ago
From TFA it sounds like the employees are all being paid for the week without having to burn their PTO.
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by rurp 3y ago
Disabling Javascript with your content blocker of choice also works.
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by rurp 3y ago
This seems to be happening more often on HN. I wish there were a way to vouch for stories that get flagged, like how we can for comments. As it stands, a small group of passionate flaggers can shut down a lot of articles on a topic they wan
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by rurp 3y ago
That quote is not only biased, the "without bias" part is strictly wrong. Treating people differently based solely on their race or gender is a core part of most DEI programs. Just because the proponents think it's "good
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by rurp 3y ago
Same for The Economist. I was about to enter my payment details for a subscription but then thought to check what the cancellation process was. Turns out it's one of those sleazy processes that's way harder than signing up. Just t
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by rurp 3y ago
Why is it up to everyone else to work around Musk's impulsive pettiness? For all Disney knows Musk will take some different meds tomorrow and do a 180 on the policy, like he has with so many other issues. If Tesla wants to clarify the
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by rurp 3y ago
Another big negative I think is underconsidered is that a Google owned self driving car fleet will be absolutely plastered with video ads and physical user tracking if they dominate the market enough to get away with it. Imagine those unmut

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