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by soerxpso 3y ago
I prefer it this way. I would love to see original jokes on HN, but the issue is that if you allow "jokes" in general, there's a flood of low-effort repetition of popular phrases or comments where the only "comedic"
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I wonder how reducing factions to a single axis impacts notes on tweets about matters that the two "teams" haven't really picked their sides on yet. During the first weeks of covid, it seemed like "this is a nothingburge
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I don't think he's painting a picture that all experts are automatically wrong about everything just because they're experts. Rather, that "experts" are as morally biased as any other person (it turns out that 8 yea
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You're arguing that it should be illegal for him just because you don't personally want to do it? We wouldn't be allowed to do very many things if "I don't personally want to do that today" was a good reason to
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> On an unrelated note, I have found captchas that don't even work and reprompt me all the time Modern captchas do a lot of background work regarding how human your inputs look, whether you have a human-seeming fingerprint, etc. Oft
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One way or another the NYT was still willing to print a story about the leaked writings for him. It's been well-known that he has connections there.
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This assumes that the only ways people have to find companies are search engines and other mediums that are prone to AI takeover. If everyone starts to realize that most of the surface internet is garbage, they would start communicating wit
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It demonstrates efficiency and ability to do something complicated and challenging under time pressure. Maybe it shouldn't be considered a big academic achievement, but it's definitely an impressive practical achievement. I don&#x
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Doing it this way instead of your suggestion seems to be garnering a lot of free press. Many companies would pay large sums of money for the reach he's gotten just for changing the logo to a letter (and it's yet to be seen whether
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Personally I see "doesn't scale well" as a feature, if I'm evaluating something to use on a personal or small project. Tools with clear limits on what they're not for usually have a more polished experience for what
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> Yet database schemas for internal applications tend not to be documented in Porsche-brochure-like sites like this Sweden Sans is. How did the typography guys get a voice so strong? The frontend design team naturally puts more effort in
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> The tool used to create said art has no bearing on the final art with regards to copyright. This is still an open question with regards to AI art generation tools. Do you have recent legal precedent to cite that I don't know about
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From what the commenter you're replying to said, it sounds like the guy was shown deeper evidence than just a joke. The tendency to assume that conspiracies don't ever happen is just as fallacious as the tendency to assume that th
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> I want to see => not some ligature. But again that's subjective and there's room for all at the table. The way you put this is funny, because your => renders as a ligature for anyone with a ligature font as their defaul
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The tech to make it impossible to start a car without the owner's consent, even when the attacker has hardware access? Are you also selling magic beans and snake oil?
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I don't see how it could be used for blackmail. All that's being tracked is that TikTok reckons that you enjoy LGBT-aligned content, based on a lot of chaotic circumstantial indicators. It's not porn, and it doesn't ev
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> Also, how is incitement to SUPPORT a person harassment? The obvious example would be a propaganda image to garner support for Adolf Hitler, in a way that doesn't fall under harassment of other groups. It's (probably intention
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> because as much as people yell, NSFW makes up barely any of the front page content This is a really important point. From what I can see, Imgur doesn't have a porn community, it just has a lot of porn because it's used as an
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by soerxpso 4y ago
How is receiving funding from someone not a form of affiliation with them?
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You are so smart! I suppose now I can start a gambling site for users in all states, in violation of state regulations, as long as the servers are hosted in a state with loose gambling laws. Can't believe other gambling sites weren&#x2
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by soerxpso 4y ago
Middle-Endian is how it tends to be said out loud in English. Even in countries that would write 25/3/23, you still usually answer "What day is it?" out loud with "It's March 25th" rather than "It&#x2
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As long as you're fine with people and corporations treating you that same way if your beliefs ever become socially unacceptable.
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The difference is the step at which that shutdown takes place. When visa shuts down processing for your business, they're taking away your ability to conduct transactions at all . When a bitcoin exchange refuses to do business with yo
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He's making a point about actual cryptocurrency and smart contracts, and you're trying to refute it by pointing out that the good qualities of crypto do not apply to a random private firm that happened to slap the word "crypt
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How is that well-deserved? His comment was literally about the topic of the post, and the post was apparently allowed. "We allow politics but sorry, you're only allowed to have the Right Opinion here. Take all other opinions to Tw
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What? That's literally the point. Why would you want to imitate startups that don't survive?
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> What if one day Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp want to implement something "different" That's allowed. There's not some new law that all messaging apps must implement the iMessage protocol, or that they must interoper
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You're describing a problem as old as academia, on which very little progress has ever been made. Before "add a factual confidence level evaluator to a bot that doesn't understand the concept of fact" you must first figu
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Looking forward to every era from now on being the new Web 3.X. Web 3.3-2, beta release C, coming soon.
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Search engines are already unusable for certain things that they used to be usable for. There's not really a such thing as "even more unusable." If I offer you an oven that doesn't get hot, that's not any better tha

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