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by stetrain 1y ago
> I wouldn't want to get into a debate with RFK Jr about it, even with lots of time to prepare. I would also not want to debate someone who vehemently denies saying things he has recently said on tape. And someone's ability to
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by stetrain 1y ago
> The man is mocked here on HN but is extremely well informed and can easily win debates with any normally read person. The man who rejects germ theory in favor of miasma? > Did you know all the above already? I am aware that we do n
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by stetrain 1y ago
Do you think that zero existing vaccines should be considered safe by the Secretary of HHS?
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by stetrain 1y ago
“There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.” https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/scicheck-rfk-jr-incorrectl...
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by stetrain 1y ago
They could absolutely maintain that quality of software in the App Store while also allowing people to install software from other sources. By fighting so hard to keep the App Store as the sole distribution mechanism for iPhone software App
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by stetrain 1y ago
This is related to the previous Apple v Epic civil case. The judge recently determined that Apple had not complied with the previous ruling. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
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by stetrain 1y ago
I did all of those same things while in school with a Nokia candy bar phone. I did waste some time playing Snake though. Per the article this is a ban on using smartphones during class time, not a ban on bringing them to school at all. That
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by stetrain 1y ago
Prices fluctuate all the time especially on Amazon items. Inflation is also a factor. Just taking prices from Jan 19, 2025 as a baseline and attributing all other changes to tariffs isn't going to be accurate.
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by stetrain 1y ago
You're right, but the parent comment was asking about the exception to that majority.
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by stetrain 1y ago
Company A imports steel and pays a tariff, uses the steels to make screws in the US. Company B imports lumber and pays a tariff, manufacturers it into furniture rails in the US. Company C buys furniture rails from Company B and screws from
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by stetrain 1y ago
Sure, but the goal was first a trillion dollars, then $150 billion dollars. There's also the question of what is actual savings versus what is going to end up costing us more in the long run. You can save money in your personal budget
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by stetrain 1y ago
It never really stopped. All of Elon's crying about bots stopped as soon as he took ownership.
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by stetrain 1y ago
There are options other than working to the exclusion of other fulfillment right up until a specific age cutoff and then having zero work. Honestly saving all of that until retirement is not a great idea when you look at how many people die
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by stetrain 2y ago
> And this is why Democrats lost. What do Democrats have to do with Republican candidates in a Republican primary?
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by stetrain 2y ago
> Democrat voters didn’t want anything to do with her during the 2020 primaries and didn’t turn out as much for her in 2024 as they did for Biden in 2020, so who are the real misogynists here? Are you talking about Harris? I'm prett
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by stetrain 2y ago
There are carrots and sticks. The current plan seems to be to cut down giant trees at random and hope they don't fall on anything important. If they do there will need to be government welfare applied anyway to keep businesses alive ju
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by stetrain 2y ago
> It's annoying Americans were given only two choices - offshoring is great and let's keep doing it, and, as you say, the opposite, meth-fueled let's bring back manufacturing overnight. There were a lot of slower manufactu
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by stetrain 2y ago
The main issue is that if you ask most LLMs to do something they aren't good at, they don't say "Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that yet," they says "Sure, absolutely! Here you go:" and proceed to make thin
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by stetrain 2y ago
> that makes all government money spent on SpaceX worthless I don't follow your logic. I think you're conflating two very different things, the US government launch market and the Artemis lunar program. The US government previ
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by stetrain 2y ago
> They have strategic reasons why they cannot be limited to SpaceX. Hence anything "saved" by a SpaceX launch is illusory: they can choose to pay for SLS ... or they can choose to pay for SLS AND for SpaceX. There are other opt
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by stetrain 2y ago
SpaceX bought the land and applied to and received approval from the FAA to conduct launches there. First as a set number of Falcon flights per year, then a small number of Starship test launches, and now up to 25 Starship orbital launches
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by stetrain 2y ago
The UK is the one saying that they have the right to request backdoor access to any E2EE services. This could extend to any app available in the UK market, or in preventing the phone makers from allowing software to run that is not approved
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by stetrain 2y ago
That's true but I'm not sure how it's relevant. Most people asking their bank to withdraw $50k+ in cash are by definition going to have above-average assets.
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by stetrain 2y ago
> but being a republican is better for business these days Unless your business is directly impacted by tariffs being applied or reverted on a weekly basis.
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by stetrain 2y ago
But you have to implement and test both sides of that "if" statement, both behaviors. Thus "build the feature twice"
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by stetrain 2y ago
Yep. $999 for the latest M4 with the full 10 CPU cores and 16GB of RAM is a pretty good deal in Apple hardware terms.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Compared to the M4 MacBook Air, the base M4 MacBook Pro has - Larger display with higher resolution and DPI - Brighter display (1000nits vs 500nits) with mini-LED backlight, local dimming, and HDR - 120Hz display - 24hr battery life vs 18hr
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by stetrain 2y ago
The M3 series was able to support two external displays with the laptop closed. M4 can do two external displays with the laptop screen active as well.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Because some people would pay the same price (or even more) as a MacBook Pro to have a great screen in a thinner, lighter laptop that shouldn't cost Apple that much more to make. Like how the MacBook Air was originally a premium-priced
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by stetrain 2y ago
> It seems like some of the people who don't think our government is functional are determined to make it so. This has been the playbook for all of my life at least. Probably longer than that.

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