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by xg15 5mo ago
Ah, the law of unexpected consequences, which oddly only applies if someone plans to broaden social welfare or set restrictions to capital owners, but never in the opposite way.
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by xg15 5mo ago
That term is honestly used way too often on HN for my tastes. But then as well, I wouldn't like to identify with everything humanity has ever done. Especially if I know that I have only a tenuous connection (or no connection at all) to
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by xg15 5mo ago
I don't know, I'd rather not identify with my country too much if it does things I deeply disapprove of but can't change. By that logic, all Americans would be Trump.
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by xg15 5mo ago
No one is stopping you. The question is how easy it is to do that vs staying lonely. I think the problem is that "being social with" some group isn't always as easy as it seems. Work and family are sort of two "default&q
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by xg15 5mo ago
Paper: People working from home all alone have a greater risk of mental health problems. HN: Preposterous!
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by xg15 5mo ago
This is actually how I understood the "remote work" movement before covid: Not literally "work from home" but "work where it works best for you", e.g. in coworking spaces. Covid was an exception because it made
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by xg15 5mo ago
The question is whether you are the norm or the exception. Others may not have that social structure outside the job available or may not be motivated to use it (the "forcing function" of the office being removed)
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by xg15 5mo ago
I was more thinking about celebrities, influencers or con exhibitors, where a fan-celebrity relationship may exist, but not a real relationship. Same goes for politicians, though there it becomes much more problematic. If you got this with
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by xg15 5mo ago
Don't forget the config endpoint before as well. > On every launch the SDK calls: GET < https://clientsdk.bright-sdk.com/sdk_config_ios.json >?appid=<bundle>&ver=<sdk-version>&uuid=sdk-ios-&
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by xg15 5mo ago
Implies that people are always fine with having their cache busted and actually want to have a genuine conversation with you. Some aren't and will react negatively if you try.
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by xg15 5mo ago
Both are causing a dynamic that will lock down the internet evermore for everything straying slightly from the corporate-approved line. If the divide was data center vs residential IPs, fine, but thanks to Bright Data and friends, residenti
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by xg15 5mo ago
> After config fetch, the SDK opens a persistent WebSocket to: wss://proxyjs.brdtnet.com:443 This hostname resolves to AWS Global Accelerator IPs There is some irony that both the scrapers and the websites being scraped are p
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by xg15 5mo ago
Maybe the whole age verification push will change that discussion, if suddenly requests for entire categories of services have to be funneled through a small number of age verification providers that intentionally try to block alternative O
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by xg15 5mo ago
Very cool, thanks!
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Ask HN: Has the vegan movement been effective?
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by xg15 5mo ago
This entire essay is just about how it should be "<scope> <optional type>" instead of "<type> <optional scope>"?
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by xg15 5mo ago
That shift might have been plausible if it happened in the 40s or 50s when the economy switched from war to consumption - but in the 80s? What kind of massive breakthrough in food production happened there that we mysteriously never heard
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by xg15 5mo ago
Ah, don't we love trolley problems. Because there are absolutely no other options...
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by xg15 5mo ago
2025: If we aren't really careful with AI it will start to recursively improve itself and grow into an unstoppable superintelligence that will eradicate humanity! 2026: Working hard to make that recursive self-improvement a reality!
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by xg15 5mo ago
No profit margins or shareholders at all of course...
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by xg15 5mo ago
Not as much as if they improvised it from scratch - but the decision when to use the technique and the discovery and coordination with the other agent would still be interesting.
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by xg15 5mo ago
I'll be impressed if a Claude and a Codex instance improvise a channel like this spontaneously on their own. Doing this intentionally via prompt doesn't seem very interesting.
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by xg15 5mo ago
I think locals (unlike economists apparently) are also thinking what is produced in particular in those facilities. Yes, a chip fab might in fact be more of an environmental hazard, but at least the benefits of the products are clear. I thi
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by xg15 5mo ago
True, centralized power generation using a grid that can carry that load would be the best solution. But in absence of that, the alternatives only seem to be between inefficient decentralized green and inefficient decentralized non-green so
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by xg15 5mo ago
> Data Centers (and one day EVs) are the kind of push we need to get the complacent monopolies to do the work. Genuinely interested to know, has this actually happened on a larger scale? I.e. data centers triggering a systematic push t
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by xg15 5mo ago
Yeah, was more a joke too :) But the idea is interesting. I think in general there is a lot of metadata that could be used as covert channels.
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by xg15 5mo ago
Were you blocked? More seriously, the events end up in a list, so a recipient would more likely "decode" them by comparing timestamps instead of "live" watching the actual sequence. But I suppose if you timed your follow
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by xg15 5mo ago
Agree with you that there is a lot of hypocrisy and "holier-than-thou" in german TV. The question is what would be the alternative: Using this as a reason to stop talking about climate/eco issues at all, or instead highlighti
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by xg15 5mo ago
That show is basically a national treasure in Germany today, so you'll find lots of references to it. There also used to be a more ecology-centered show with a similar idea, Löwenzahn. It had the gimmick that after the end credits, the
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by xg15 5mo ago
Even those people still decided that the best course of action would be to make a movie about it. To be shown on screens.

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