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by rurp 6mo ago
On top of these cases there is all of the aircraft that has been destroyed while grounded. The high tech AWACS getting blown up was a big hit, among others. The losses are likely much worse than we know since the military has been trying to
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by rurp 6mo ago
Requiring an internet connection for a nature app is absurd. As annoying as it is I get why a big tech company like Google fails at this sort of thing, many of their employees probably never leave a city and so the products always work well
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Elon Musk's SpaceX files to go public(axios.com)
5 points by rurp 7mo ago|2 comments
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by rurp 7mo ago
I agree with all of this except the notion that this is a recent change. Infantry being needed to seize and hold territory has been standard military doctrine around the world throughout history. Air power can tip the balance between opposi
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by rurp 7mo ago
I was thinking the opposite. Using those words might be the best way to provide feedback that actually gets considered. I've been wondering if all of these companies have some system for flagging upset responses. Those cases seem like
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Ask HN: Google Finance Replacement Without AI Slop?
5 points by rurp 7mo ago|1 comments
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SpaceX's monster IPO is unlike anything we've seen(axios.com)
4 points by rurp 7mo ago|4 comments
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by rurp 7mo ago
Yeah every single time I click on one of those posts the top comments are NTA. A couple times I tried randomly opening a few dozen posts and checking the top comments to see if I could find a single YTA and struck out. Granted many of the O
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by rurp 7mo ago
This happened on my work machine. One day I noticed tons of important files had been deleted without my permission after being migrated to OneDrive online only. At no point did I authorize anything like this and it took some time to copy th
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by rurp 7mo ago
Are we talking about the same FBI director here? Professional and competent are not how I would describe Kash Patel. Given his overt buffoonishness and the whole administration's disdain for procedure and expertise I would be shocked i
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by rurp 7mo ago
The underlying models are improving at the same time as the guardrails and I'm not convinced the guardrails will keep up, especially given the perverse incentives. At some point the endless investor billions will dry up and a whole bu
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Iran war could crimp Gulf allies' US investments(politico.com)
6 points by rurp 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rurp 7mo ago
Under a sane president there would be a pretty clear off ramp available in the form of a negotiated settlement. Iran stops attacking neighbors and the strait in exchange for a US promise to not start another unprovoked war, along with anoth
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Poker Legend and Author of 'The Theory of Poker' David Sklansky Passes Away(pokernews.com)
1 points by rurp 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rurp 7mo ago
China views the US as an adversary. They would very much like to reduce America's sphere of influence and are cognizant of the fact that we might end up in a war in the medium term future. The US bleeding immense amounts of money and m
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by rurp 7mo ago
I disagree. Even though I think the Iranian regime has been extremely incompetent overall their war strategy has been surprisingly lucid. They aren't actually risking much more by attacking neighboring countries that are already cooper
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by rurp 7mo ago
I think this is one of the biggest tragedies from big tech companies. Their automated approaches usually work great for most people, but will be hopelessly broken for edge cases, often with no recourse. This happens all the time with non-st
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Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability(apnews.com)
35 points by rurp 7mo ago|7 comments
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by rurp 7mo ago
> if your goal is to solve some specific problem for yourself, your friends/family, community or your team, then the "last step" you mention - the one that "takes majority of time and effort" - is entirely unnece
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by rurp 7mo ago
I don't know, I think a simpler explanation for Google's behavior is that monopolies act like monopolies. Combating spam and SEO junk is hard and expensive. Once they became synonymous with web search for most people they graduall
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by rurp 7mo ago
I agree with you but man the absurdity of aggressively pushing cloud or AI adoption as a cost cutting move is off the charts.
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by rurp 7mo ago
This sounds like pretty dangerous thinking to me. A government financial crisis is something that happens slowly and then very quickly. The US currently enjoys extremely low borrowing rates and still spends a significant portion of its tax
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by rurp 7mo ago
I've never publicly scolded someone for doing free work for tech monopolies but I do understand the impulse. The problem is that it's a completely one-sided relationship, and there are perfectly legitimate concerns about how the b
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by rurp 7mo ago
Many people who provided quality technical content on blogs, Stack Overflow, and other forums thought they were providing a public good and helping to create a lasting culture and community. Turns out they were making fuel pellets to power
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by rurp 7mo ago
Just want to clarify that "naughty" doesn't at all mean "bad" or "immoral". It means "Anything any current ot future regime will dislike"
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by rurp 7mo ago
I feel the same and find myself extending it beyond forums. I've started skipping over articles about AI more and more from authors I normally enjoy reading because so few of those articles end up being particularly interesting or insi
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by rurp 7mo ago
Exactly, the definitive claim in the headline is not at all supported by the article.
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by rurp 7mo ago
They're also the only party of fiscal responsibility, although Biden broke the pattern there. Nearly all deficit reduction over the past couple generations has happened under Democrats.
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by rurp 8mo ago
What do you think is going to happen to LLM content after it has replaced the rest of the internet? It sure as hell isn't going to stay relatively unbiased and ad-free. The degradation of Google Search is probably an optimistic compari
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by rurp 8mo ago
Agreed on all three points, but I think this is pretty obviously terrible in the long run. The open internet was one of the greatest common goods in human history. That ecosystem is quickly being exploited to death by a handful of tech comp

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