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by sofixa 6mo ago
They're probably counting on the majority of the current Congress losing their seats over this.
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> In the early days, if you learned the OS, those usage patterns and skilled transferred to every app on that OS And locked your thinking into the OS' way of thinking. Every software vendor had to do their application a few times ov
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> Full-service Hiltons in the US don't even have executive lounges anymore. Some (at least one) don't even have breakfast facilities...
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We are, but throwing the static HTML on a global CDN (like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc) makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of de
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No, the medium and small players are the Mistals, DeepSeek and H Company of the world, with their own models using quirky optimisation techniques to be able to compete.
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> re people then not able to choose to live somewhere No, because no such somewhere has been built in the country in question (US) in the past ~60 years, because the default is car-centric. So you're left with a few uber dense, old,
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by sofixa 6mo ago
Your analogy is well off. You hire a contractor and agree they'll bill you per tile, regardless of how many tiles there are. They bill you per tile. End of story. For a more acurate comparison, consider a utility. You agree to pay for
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If that happens, you create a support ticket and AWS/GCP/Azure wave it, especially the first time. They're aware that billing per usage can have surprise effects, but at the same time they don't want to kill their custom
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> So much for the folks defending these three companies that refused to provide hard spending cap ("but you can set the budget", "you are doing it wrong if you worry about billing", "hard cap it's technicall
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> “Not sure who was driving” Doesn't matter, fine the owner and let them deal with the driver.
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Driving recklessly is not an "essential liberty". Safer roads equals less deaths and injuries on them, which is not "temporary safety", it's literally life or death.
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> You can at least question an officer in court. Automated stuff is incapable of testifying - which is why traffic camera "tickets" are not enforceable in every state. That's besides the point, you don't need to quest
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> I did see a whole lot of stupid people doing stupid things, and none of them were ICE agents, so I'm surprised there weren't more deaths. Random masked goons in unmarked cars trying to arrest people is pretty damn stupid, ye
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Coverd is impressively next level sociopathic. I love how their first common spending example is OnlyFans, it figures the type of person who imagined this needs a paid parasocial "romantic" relationship.
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Yeah, we're talking a VC. And one run by and named after two guys who between them have publicly backed racism+misogyny+xenophobia+nepotism, have asked for more housing to be built while blocking housing in their own city, etc. Them in
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> And what's this garbage about selling to the military? You pay taxes? You fund the military. Without security you can't protect your nation or your allies, and enemy nations would do as they please. There is security, and the
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There have been articles depicting him in a negative light, for good reasons, for years.
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You can even automatically do that on your CDN/delivery/web server layer. Or as part of your web deployment pipeline.
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> I could see a few reasons why power banks present a larger risk than phones/computers (battery capacity, quality control), but it seems like the 100Wh battery limit already covers one of these. Yeah, and it's the other one th
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by sofixa 7mo ago
There are ways, like double blind age verification, in which neither the website knows anything other than "yes, >18", nor the verificator knows anything other than "I was asked if user X is >18, checked, yes". Web
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by sofixa 7mo ago
That they did not apply. They let a guy who tried to overthrow the government free to run for election again. This kind of thing should never be allowed. Someone who physically demonstrates they have no business in a democratic society do
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by sofixa 7mo ago
> yet I think Nazis legally being able to "spout Nazi ideology" is a healthy thing for our society How did that end last time? We know where it ends, we know there's nothing redeeming. Nobody needs Nazis, there is nothing
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by sofixa 7mo ago
Ok, and on the 2nd the price crashes, company goes bankrupt, stock is worth zero. You were taxes on theoretical value that you can't sell at to pay that tax. What then?
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FYI American exceptionalism is stuff like having, bar none, the worst school shooting rate in the world, and by far the highest murder rate in a developed country, and stating that what everyone else is doing wouldn't apply to the US.
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> We’re talking about a group of countries with active, enforced blasphemy laws In a very narrow interpretation, yes. Everyone with a modicum of common sense would realise that countries with laws on the books against offending religions
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> Imagine the outrage EU would have had if US seized immigrants jewelry The US literally deports people to concentration camps in countries with no civil liberties. Many have disappeared there. A whole other group have been raped and bec
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Most European countries have functioning legal and electoral systems, and more than two parties. On top of that, constitutional courts aren't political appointments. So it would be incredibly hard for a political entity like AfD or RN
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> Taxes on unrealized capital gains would be a start A start to what? There is no way of taxing unrealised capital gains that makes sense. You're taxing theoretical value that may or may not actually exist. Rebates (e.g. you're
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by sofixa 7mo ago
Because some of them still have standards. They will correct themselves if something was wrong. Everyone can write a comment on Reddit / make a podcast / video / whatever claiming whatever they want. Unless you already know a
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by sofixa 7mo ago
> Basically an admission of wanting to fake news that'd sound good How did you read that? Something sounding good and making sense and you wanting it to be true doesn't mean you'd fake it.

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