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by warner25 2y ago
The fentanyl pipeline is what came to my mind as well; another thing exported from China to the US to disastrous effect on the well-being of many Americans. To be fair, trying to consider the other way around, I wonder what Chinese people c
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by warner25 2y ago
A couple things stand out to me: > ...while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may
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by warner25 2y ago
If you put them into the Kindle Kids mode you get a much cleaner, more streamlined, ad-free experience without paying extra. I've seen a few adults say that they prefer it to the full-featured mode.
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by warner25 2y ago
I recently used the system to order a bunch of chicken nuggets for my four kids. When my order came out, I got a bunch of spicy nuggets. If you have young kids, you know that this is a disaster. Anyway, I said, "Uh, spicy nuggets?
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by warner25 2y ago
That makes sense, but means that banning it from making money through (a) and (b) would be sufficient to kill it quickly (if it's a legitimate business, as you said), without directly taking it away from users and causing so much polit
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by warner25 2y ago
This part is unclear to me. I know the article says "app," but this is general news reporting, and the term "web app" for stuff in the browser is acceptable terminology anyway. It also says that opening the app will redi
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by warner25 2y ago
This part is unclear to me. I know the article says "app," but this is general news reporting, and the term "web app" for stuff in the browser is acceptable terminology anyway. It also says that opening the app will redi
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by warner25 2y ago
Not only this - my observation is that having a secret backup phone is not an unusual practice for kids who might get their primary phone taken away at times by parents, school officials, etc. Or if their primary phone is subject to technic
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by warner25 2y ago
I suspect that Washington might still be a household name 2,000 years from now like that. Other past US Presidents, I agree, no. As an aside, I'm really hoping that Trump doesn't do anything notable enough to somehow be like that.
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by warner25 2y ago
I'll be honest: I didn't know who Crick was. Now that you've associated Crick and Watson, I was able to find the appropriate Wikipedia page. And yeah, this is not the Watson that I was expecting. Regarding Shannon, I've
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by warner25 2y ago
To your point, I was thinking that this might only be stunning for someone with a modern view of the US Presidency. I understand that the powers of the office and the election campaigns for it were quite different in earlier eras. However,
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by warner25 2y ago
You make good points. When I looked up the word "immortality" in Merriam Webster while writing my first comment, I found it interesting that one of the definitions was actually "lasting fame." > we remember factoids..
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I was thinking that the while modern social media has made the "cost of entry lower," and everyone can theoretically reach more people than ever, it's hard to even describe most of it as "fame" anymore. I mean
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by warner25 2y ago
Totally indulging in this side discussion: I remember thinking in high school and college that fame was the end-all of life, telling people that my goal was to have my own Wikipedia page. I saw it as something like the combination of being
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by warner25 2y ago
I suspect that there was little data to analyze how much attention the ads were commanding back then. I often think about how so many things now have been optimized (mostly for profit) to the extreme by data-driven processes, with big corpo
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by warner25 2y ago
One thing that I think I've learned, to my surprise, even for most people in uniform on either side, is that much of life during wartime is still mostly "business as usual." I think we all tend to have poorly calibrated menta
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by warner25 2y ago
From the dawn of cyber operations elements within the US military, and continuing today, I think there has been a culture of trying to push them out to the "tactical edge." Basically, senior leaders have always been wary of them b
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by warner25 2y ago
This reminds me of things that I've read about intelligence agencies increasingly finding it impossible to give agents fake identities for cover; everyone now has just left too much of a trail of data behind them. And if you find or cr
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by warner25 2y ago
Here's a thread on the same topic from late 2023... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385434 I answered in that one, and I see that things have slowed down for me a bit since then. My routine has been more in flux
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by warner25 2y ago
Steven Levy's book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution , tells the story of how in the late 1950s the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT morphed into a computer club around the TX-0 and produced a number of early influential comp
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by warner25 2y ago
Relevant story: In 2015-2016, I was the commander of a few hundred new troops going through their initial Army training; not basic training, but the subsequent stage where they had a bit more freedom. When they violated the rules, I had the
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by warner25 2y ago
> It's a bit odd that blue Massachusetts would choose a Republican, even a relatively moderate one, to replace Kennedy It feels that way, but let's remember that Republicans have held the governorship in Massachusetts for most
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by warner25 2y ago
I think that those of us who live in the HN bubble, who tend to be more intentional and minimalist about our technology choices, are often out of touch with 90+% of users. My wife is my daily reminder of, and window into, the technology wor
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by warner25 2y ago
Because I want her to find authoritative sources, read, learn, understand, think critically, etc. rather than taking a given answer at face value.
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by warner25 2y ago
I absolutely agree that it handles natural language questions much better now than when I started using search engines in the late 1990s - in fact it's optimized for this task now, meeting demand where it's at - but a direct answe
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by warner25 2y ago
I've been fascinated by the boom in university CS departments since I was a CS major myself during the low point between 1999-2001 and the start of the current boom. At my alma mater with a total undergrad enrollment between 10-20k, my
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by warner25 2y ago
I think even when the answer is "right" in some sense, it should probably come within the context of a bunch of caveats, explanations, etc. But maybe I'm just weird. Oftentimes when my wife or kids ask me a question, I take a
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by warner25 2y ago
These are good points. You've made me feel a bit better about how much is really being wasted.
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by warner25 2y ago
But "search" and "getting an answer to a question" are two different things, aren't they? I realize that the trend has been going this way for a long time - probably since Ask Jeeves started blurring the line - and
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by warner25 2y ago
> YouTube and TikTok are their real competition Even in real-time... My wife will literally watch Facebook Reels on her phone while we sit on the couch at night to watch something on Netflix together. Anyway, I was thinking about this to

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