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by smcl 1y ago
To be honest the argument works even if Iran was a democracy. Both governments doing evil stuff but only the citizens of one of those countries is absolved of blame. That alone should cause someone reasonable to pause and ask themselves i
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by smcl 1y ago
From our perspective common people aren't responsible. But from the perspective of the person who wrote the "your decision to arm Russia" on their website it is. So what is interesting is that this person is fully able to a
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by smcl 1y ago
If they started selling Spam in smaller cans and there was an article complaining that it has destroyed a dish my response would be roughly the same: the company are shitty for doing shrinkflation, and the recipe isn't destroyed the
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by smcl 1y ago
Honestly I don't mind if people don't make everything themselves as there's always going to be a line where you go "well I'm not doing that " (you're probably not milling your own flour, growing your
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by smcl 1y ago
> Her cookie recipe — a box of Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix, two eggs, and > ⅓ cup neutral oil — no longer works now that the box is a full 5 ounces smaller > than its original 18.25-ounce size ... “It’s just so upsetting,” sa
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by smcl 1y ago
This is hilarious, thank you
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by smcl 1y ago
Calm down it was a little joke, no need to flag me
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by smcl 1y ago
If you're experienced enough with Python to say "I want to eliminate pattern matching from my codebase" you can surely construct that as a pre-commit check, no?
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by smcl 1y ago
Last year they had $900 million in revenue and ended up losing $5.6 billion . I suspect cutting off a few whales isn't enough to reverse that and they're gonna need to "course correct" a bit further
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by smcl 1y ago
The problem is that this company is haemhorraging money and cannot possibly offer an unlimited plan.
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by smcl 1y ago
It was a very high-profile example of exactly this type of shenanigans during a live game picked up by the biggest broadcaster in the country, which will have been watched by millions across the world. The claim was that this simply isn&#x2
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by smcl 1y ago
> That's maybe why in football the league title is more prestigious than the cups Tell that to supporters of Scottish Cup Winners 2024/25 Aberdeen FC (I am a supporter of Scottish Cup Winners 2024/25 Aberdeen FC) :D
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by smcl 1y ago
The problem there is that there is often far too much variation in the teams year on year - squads change as players get bought, sold or retire, managers come and go. And when you do find a pattern I can virtually guarantee that it won&#x27
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by smcl 1y ago
The winner of a tournament is by that definition the best, it is basically a tautology.
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The broadcasters have absolutely no say whatsoever in how a groundsman prepares their pitch for an upcoming fixtures. In fact the kind of gamesmanship we are talking about happened as recently as the last few games of the most recent Englis
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by smcl 1y ago
How are you defining "best" here?
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by smcl 1y ago
> Soulless games But enough about the English Premier League!
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by smcl 1y ago
absolutely cooked 'em
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by smcl 1y ago
You can just say "my bad, I made a mistake by comparing the 30-year cost of Chernobyl cleanup to the annual budget. I was probably wrong on that part" The weirdly evasive language just undermines the rest of your points and makes
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I note that neither of those comments invalidate my point that this would not cause the collapse of the UK ...
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by smcl 1y ago
> A 2016 estimate said the overall cost of the Chernobyl disaster was US$700 billion ... You're taking 30 years worth of expenses and comparing them to the UK tax intake for one year. I am pretty certain the USSR didn't pay f
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by smcl 1y ago
The full quote is: > It’s very hard to take what is essentially a wind turbine normally found on land and put it under water With that context your comment looks pretty silly, no?
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by smcl 1y ago
Very nicely handled! I am really puzzled why people here are so against this. There's potentially really good news for a plentiful and predictable source of renewable energy with some fairly cool tech and a bunch of HNers are angry? I
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by smcl 1y ago
Those can be easily identified as "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Windows". However "X" is the name of the company and the product. I guess you could refer to it as "X The E
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by smcl 1y ago
I think what they're saying is that the whole "This is going to solve everything " hype around LLMs is a bubble. I think it's undeniable LLM technology will persist in some form as it definitely has uses. But I don&#x27
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by smcl 1y ago
Because Germany is the dominant power in the European Union and France isn't
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by smcl 1y ago
It looks like all of your comments are low-effort summaries like this. What’s going on here? Or is this a bot…
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by smcl 1y ago
"this Friday" vs "next Friday" should be unambiguous except some people abuse "next Friday" and cause problems.
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by smcl 1y ago
I also tried to open it got notified it was blocked due to "pornography" - lovely!
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by smcl 1y ago
Well the mass destruction and death in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya came with regime change but what followed was more death and chaos that none have fully recovered from. I'm sorry but that "we'll just bomb the country and ho

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