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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Some people don't like protectionism because in the long term it's worse for both countries. You have a short term benefit of protecting a handful of jobs in exchange for vastly more expensive goods for everyone as well as mo
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> how many of you who say that they can't find the job any more, have considered manufacturing? If one wants a skilled job in manufacturing, they have to earn a qualification first, or go through a period of apprenticeship. The wage
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Humanity will just have to relearn the lessons of the 1920s-1940s again, if it learns anything at all that is Every 3rd generation, the cycle starts over. It's the circle of strife. The last generation that saw war on an industria
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Despite his best channeling of Russ Hanneman, he is one comma short of the tres comma club. Maybe his new passion in life will be getting his net worth to a billion dollars.
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Can you come up with "non-evil" ways to cut 2 trillion, while you wait?
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America has tried giving robber-barrons free reign before. How did that turn out?
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Championship-winning 12th grade soccer captains probably have decent leadership skills, but that doesn't mean they can automatically succeed as M&A advisors at a multinational. We don't need a blitz version of the Peter princi
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Not just rebranding, but it's going to provides useful decision-laundering political cover, similar to what McKinsey and other consultants offer management. They were going to do it anyway, but the public reason becomes "It's
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You mean the lives of NPCs - as he'd call them? I doubt the thought even crossed his mind
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The whole post is Hannemanesque, isn't it? It could easily be a flashback episode (or prequel spin-off) of Russ' struggles after selling his Radio on Internet startup. For timeline purposes, he'd briefly work for VP Cheney&#x
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Not surprising for someone who describes post-acquisition colleagues as NPCs. They do have a modicum of self-awareness around wanting to be Elon, so perhaps there's hope. I'm only realizing now how empathy goes a long way in givin
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I have my doubts you'd take any such arguments seriously, if you are set on the idea that productivity universally requires a 14-hour battery and a 2.5k screen. I was traveling recently and got a lot done on an 8-year old tablet . I
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I dream of someone taking the internet archive data, capping it at 2010 or so, then making a search engine out of it It sounds like you're describing CommonCrawl.org, and yes, it's already popular with AI companies.
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Linux had this for more than 10 years with KDE Connect phone app. KDE connect has a bunch of other neat tricks, like letting you phone act as a touchpad for your computer .
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> Also, given that this is the author's work laptop, what's the economic justification for not investing in the primary tool you use for work? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on the obverse - Why should one buy a new lapt
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The sanitization is for commercial considerations. Getting a PG13 rating maximizes number of box office ticket buyers, so no blood after stabbings, no gore, and a maximum of one swear word.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Is grinding code at a FAANG really that different? On paper, code is code. In reality, grinding code at a FAANG has a lot more "performance anxiety" and is generally more competitive, and likely worse mental health but pays w
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Product and profit limiting too, if you're deleting profitable code for aesthetic reasons.
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The idea of the fediverse as an agglomeration of private forums is a half-decent mental model. Each instance has its own rules and community, and some of them really hate each other.
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I understand all that - my point is the price is nowhere close to being too high for what's (allegedly) at stake according to AGI zealots, not to mention where the Chinese government sees the role of China world affairs in the coming d
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I wish there was at least a way to delete ones profile here. Not that will help much, because all 1013 of your comments[1] are likely archived in at multiple indexes: search engines, hn.algolia.com, the internet archive and half a do
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> This is the kind of scale the sanctions make a lot harder to achieve Harder and more expensive, but far from impossible. I doubt they pay more than doubles Nvidia's sticker price, all told. My comment was inspired by recent real-l
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> if it prevents large scale transaction then it it is achieved its goal. It doesn't prevent the transactions, it only makes them more expensive than they would have been otherwise. If the the US was able to covertly buy enough tita
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Yes or No: Can the US singlehandedly defend all those bases without the help of host country? If the answer is "Yes", then China has a long way to go to achieve that capability. If answer is "No", then the bar is much lo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> 1. To start, if decentralization does not "solve the problem" then what do all AP platforms bring to the table? There was already a decentralized facebook before mastodon - it used to be called a "web site". You cou
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Indeed, that's why it's one heuristic/signal among many others
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Unless organization policy forces you to, you do not have to put all resources behind a CDN. As a matter of fact, getting this heuristic to work requires a non-optimal caching strategy of one or more real or decoy resources - CDN or not.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Speaking as a person who has played on both offense and defense: this is a heuristic that's not used frequently enough by defenders. Clients that load a single HTML/JSON endpoint without loading css or image resources associated w
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> You wind up having to use things like tls fingerprinting ...and we've circled back to the post's subject - a version of curl that impersonates browsers TLS handshake behavior to bypass such fingerprinting.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> With email, if gmail decide to ban you, you are unable to communicate with 90% of people with no recourse To reiterate my point (and perhaps what you said in your first sentence) this is completely unrelated to the decentralized nature

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