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by smcin 2y ago
Neat. Could we rank by how common/rare/archaic the words are, or else by how insulting? 'vice president jd vance' is only 20 letters but has generated 233 million+ results so far and counting; 'verdict jive spend ca
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by smcin 2y ago
(Other people are flagging this so you might like to explain why it's on-topic.)
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by smcin 2y ago
(For some reason this got caught in a flagging spree and had to be resurrected.) If this is the price to pay to keep the free part of Reddit alive, it sounds ok as long as they implement it well and handle the conflict-of-interest about mod
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by smcin 2y ago
For more theoretical and pure CS stuff, yes they do since some point between ~2012-5 when SO got overrun by web developers and people grinding coding challenges. And of course the mushrooming number of specialist SE network sites [ https:&#
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by smcin 2y ago
How many videos were there, how many of them were archived, are they officially required to be archived? Per the article: - the CFPB YouTube page [ https://www.youtube.com/@cfpbvideo ], which has 15,000 subscribers and was cr
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by smcin 2y ago
Affilate link fraud? No idea. Maybe they should be flattered if scammers think they have enough affiliate revenue to even make affiliate fraud worthwhile.
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by smcin 2y ago
Yes I don't like that they don't at least have a no-DRM filter. But you have to expect that publishers with DRM make more sales at higher margins.
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by smcin 2y ago
- they are tax-paying citizens. You mean "private-sector" - a better analogy would be your organization is taken over every 4/8 years by a direct competitor, and the new executives order you to sideline/mothball your pre
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok then email both Bookshop.org + the publisher citing the specific book. If they now have a bigger agreement that should not happen (for new books). For old/ second-hand, sure.
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by smcin 2y ago
The price was irrelevant, it was just to illustrate that we can send linklove to Bookshop.org instead of Amazon. Instead of complaining about the choice, why not post a better link to a book at Bookshop.org? e.g. "On Tyranny: Twenty Le
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by smcin 2y ago
Don't be abrasive. It neglects mentioning the commission structure which other recent articles do mention, and actually is important - Amazon is currently pushing affiliate commission on e-books a lot, YT is awash with spammy ads for o
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by smcin 2y ago
The Verge article was incomplete and misleading because it says nothing about affiliates (doesn't even mention the word) and says the bookstore always gets all the profit from any referral. And in fact it says "The Bookshop mode
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by smcin 2y ago
I think "affiliates" means "any person/org promoting it in a social media campaign". (similar to "Amazon affiliate link")
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok. I misrecollected the articles by TheVerge + others said: "Bookshop’s deal is the same for ebooks and physical books — the store gets 30 percent of the list price." (and doesn't mention affiliates but other articles do)
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by smcin 2y ago
Bookshop.org just launched, US-only initially, with 3 million titles; they pay affiliates 30% commission, whereas Amazon apparently pays Kindle affiliates 5-10% commission (+ bounties for SM campaigns, which is getting annoyingly overdone).
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by smcin 2y ago
A wild tale. That one seems to be paywalled, here's another article: "Tom Goldstein Ran Out of Luck - How the most influential Supreme Court lawyer of his generation gambled it all away." https://nymag.com/int
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by smcin 2y ago
"universally considered to be one of the worlds' fairest" is not accurate, and "good by Asian standards, but not as good as the North European average" is more like it. It is not stereotype but simple fact to state
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by smcin 2y ago
Not so - Japan's [criminal] justice system is absolutely not "universally considered to be one of the worlds' fairest". Cite any authoritative source for claiming that. Most sources I found cite the Nordic countries or o
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok, but when I read that article on TheRegister, it also linked to this not-totally-unrelated story below [0]. And I guess whenever the Crowdstrike/Microsoft/Delta Airlines litigation gets resolved we'll get a better idea who
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by smcin 2y ago
Lurk, be an observer, figure out the unwritten rules and power hierarchy, who's in and who's out, don't commit yourself to any cause or person or stance, don't accidentally get sucked into other people's conflicts.
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok, I'm fairly recent to HN so I thought that was the posting etiquette.
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by smcin 2y ago
Same topic, different article
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by smcin 2y ago
Right. everdrive commented "People can incorrectly attribute consciousness, intent, and personality to things which don’t actually possess it." [0]; and I posted my reaction to Hopkins' piece below. At the most basic level
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by smcin 2y ago
[To the downvoter]: Hopkins is making claims way beyond saying "as a suddenly single time-pressed remote-working mother of a 15yo son, I found AI useful both for managing my schedule, parenting/relationship advice, digging up affi
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by smcin 2y ago
"A recent ruling from the US Copyright Office added further complexity to the debate. The office clarified that human artists can copyright works created using AI tools, but that purely AI-generated material is not eligible for copyri
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by smcin 2y ago
Tune in at the next G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, June 2025.
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by smcin 2y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018251
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by smcin 2y ago
[The Hacker News] Google Confirms Android SafetyCore Enables AI-Powered On-Device Content Classification - sources quoted say it does not (currently?) provide client-side scanning, and is mainly designed to offer on-device ML models that ca
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by smcin 2y ago
Actually doing it would be a very new thing, and could be inflationary (since the US doesn't have a 2c coin). Imagine prices and change being rounded (up) to the nearest nickel. [0] says Trump doesn't have the legal authority to
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by smcin 2y ago
Article [0] and graph [1] FT citing Bloomberg, UNLV says Macau gambling revenues outstrip LV every year 2007-2020 except 2009 (recession); even with the huge Covid drop in 2020. And [2] second graph says "Macau [Gross gaming revenue ($

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