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by woooooo 10mo ago
Zero sympathy for very poor people who were duped and coerced? None at all?
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by woooooo 10mo ago
Ah I didnt realize there were 2 different licenses at play, yeah that's a little sus.
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by woooooo 10mo ago
Isn't that standard protective boilerplate so that they cant get rugpulled themselves on a contribution, 2 years later? I thought the ASF had something similar.
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by woooooo 10mo ago
Re: US military quality, it's both. Massively corrupt jobs program on the weapons acquisition side, combined with an incredibly effective devolved leadership structure on the logistics and combat side. Tested frequently over the last
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by woooooo 11mo ago
FYI, about 10% of the population in China are party members and you have to be invited, its seen as a good way of getting ahead and building your network. So most board members of most companies are probably party members.
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by woooooo 11mo ago
Might be the numbered list of short points that keyed OP. And it's actually a great communication style! So much so that they overtrained LLMs to produce them. I wonder if we're all going to have to get idiosyncratically slight
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by woooooo 11mo ago
Thanks, I'm now shaking my head at my naivete :)
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by woooooo 11mo ago
I just realized, why don't they have some "definitely human" third party cookie that caches your humanness for 24h or so? I'm sure there's a reason, I've heard third party cookies were less respected now, but
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by woooooo 11mo ago
There's an incentive to blame "Chinese/Russian state sponsored actors" because it makes them less culpable than "we got owned by a rando". It's like the inverse of "nobody got fired for using IBM&quot
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by woooooo 11mo ago
An operating system is a lot stickier than a website URL. Google has stayed on top for 25 years because they're better and free. LLM providers will have to compete on price doing expensive inference.
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by woooooo 11mo ago
Because we dont fund or assist what's going on in Sudan? We have sanctions in place against the RSF rather than applauding their leaders in congress every year.
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by woooooo 1y ago
There's no significant evidence of fraud, but the states run elections. Feds just tally the electors. Biden admin wasn't closely involved either way.
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by woooooo 1y ago
I'd call it a necessary phase rather than sad. People needed scalability fast, key-value stores are natural to shard, so they did that first and then we got better distributed DBs later. Even Prime Google was on bigtable for over a d
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by woooooo 1y ago
SQL as a query description language absolutely brings its own value. We had a whole period of NoSQL because its difficult to shard SQL out across distributed databases, followed by people figuring out how to make SQL work on distributed dat
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by woooooo 1y ago
Medicaid is administered at the state level but funded federally, as a number of people might discover next month.
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by woooooo 1y ago
I think "hoarding" is the wrong connotation. They were happy to have it be a fun research project alongside alphago while they continued making money from ads.
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by woooooo 1y ago
I hear you and I once cringed at a "believe in science" sign at a liberal protest. But science is about questions demanding proof and rigor, verification, reproducible results. It's not about blindly saying "Yeah my que
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by woooooo 1y ago
Is it a long time for the vaccine thing? I thought anti-vax was a California vaguely hippie-ish thing in the 90s. It's actually weird that conservatives picked it up. I guess the throughline is being anti-flouride in the 60s?
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by woooooo 1y ago
Especially if you're saving watts in the process. And not utilizing a capital-intensive asset.
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by woooooo 1y ago
It's not as conscious as that, its an emergent outcome of the snake pit. Engineers have to spend an inordinate amount of time on "managing up", which means they have very little time and attention to do what would otherwise b
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by woooooo 1y ago
That could be China's real motivation as well, they have BYD and Xiaomi with a good shot at outcompeting the US globally in EVs.
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by woooooo 1y ago
I did a bunch of perl in the early-00s, then never touched it again until a random engagement in 2014. It came back IMMEDIATELY. Felt like having conversations with an old friend. I don't know what it is, its definitely not mathemat
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by woooooo 1y ago
Do fundamentalist Muslims have a realistic chance of imposing those views on your nation? Because, if not, you Fell For It Again. (Aside, every western Muslim I've personally met has been chill)
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by woooooo 1y ago
Leetcode was always a skill mostly practiced for interviews though, right? Arguably its a better signal now in the era of vibecoding that someone can do it themselves if they have to. It used to be "yeah of course I'm responsibl
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by woooooo 1y ago
Being extremely hasty with setting red lines and enforcing them is what got Israel into this situation. The "mow the lawn" strategy means perpetual conflict and they have to win every single time. What right does Israel have to g
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by woooooo 1y ago
They do already. Heard of SNAP? Buying food for your family is a quintessential market transaction that works great with the government at arm's length. Healthcare.. less so. I'd rather deal with the DMV than a private insurer
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by woooooo 1y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted for a thoughtful comment. I think you're overindexing on a prepared sneak attack with maximum ops velocity from Israel. They threw the best punch they had and it.. disrupted Iran. Di
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by woooooo 1y ago
There was a ceasefire earlier this year, hostages were being released. Netanyahu won't stop the killing until Israelis, or maybe a future American President, make him.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Bro, I get that you care about Israel, but posting sophistry to Hacker News is not going to change the fundamentals. Israel is going to be "the country that committed genocide" unless Israelis find a way to stop it. There's
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by woooooo 1y ago
That's all well argued, but I can't get over the asymmetries of country size and the asymmetry of missile defense vs shooting the missile. Russia wasn't supposed to be economically capable of a war this long and yet here we a

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