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by xvector 3y ago
Absolutely, yes. Theft should not be behavior we encourage as a society.
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by xvector 3y ago
At least when I used to work at Apple ~4 years ago, our internal clouds were nowhere near the robustness needed to open up to the public. Poor security/isolation controls, outages, clunky usage, etc. Apple's cloud software enginee
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by xvector 3y ago
Food delivery is so absurdly expensive that automation can help the consumer.
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by xvector 3y ago
On a side note, I find it interesting that JetBlue is considered "low cost" but has the absolute best domestic business class by a long shot.
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by xvector 3y ago
> if a private company is going to r&d for the benefits of their shareholders What if the R&D is open-sourced? Or what if the R&D would be for a product genuinely beneficial to people? Think a new drug, or infrastructure like
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by xvector 3y ago
Section 174 is a harebrained law aimed solely at "punishing" successful engineering companies. It is a Trump-era law designed to appease voters mad at what they view as successful big tech "intelligentsia." It will destr
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by xvector 3y ago
Tech journalists mostly just suck. They barely understand what they are writing about. I think their industry resents us taking away revenue from them, so they write these ridiculous articles to stoke FUD against tech. I absolutely can&#x27
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by xvector 3y ago
People in the EU can consent to doing hard drugs, but somehow they can't consent to giving their data away?
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by xvector 3y ago
> You can still serve ads in the EU. Irrelevant. Normal ads are barely profitable. Your company will not be able to provide services to users if it had to depend on just normal ads. > This is a lie. And GDPR should be interpreted exac
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by xvector 3y ago
How many "successful tech companies" have we seen out of the US in the past 20 years? Now out of the EU? The entire modern world relies on US tech and the EU has no muscle or understanding for what it takes to run these companie
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by xvector 3y ago
Who cares? No one is making you use Facebook. It is totally okay to walk away and say "nah, I don't want to be tracked." You can consume alcohol and various drugs in the EU but can't say yes to consenting to tracking. Ab
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by xvector 3y ago
Just because you don't like it does not make it "social infrastructure." The world runs on WhatsApp and billions use Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends. Instagram is also a huge part of the social compone
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by xvector 3y ago
The "reasonable interpretation of GDPR" would kill nearly every tech company that offers services to the general public for free. You can say good bye to Maps, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc. The EU fundamentally does not understand what
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by xvector 3y ago
There is a massive difference between freezing someone's funds, and having them simply pay a fine
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by xvector 3y ago
This may just be the shittiest product website I've ever seen. It conveys absolutely nothing of value about the product. What problem does it solve? It's just "ooh, pretty pictures, buttons and camera." Seriously? I&#x27
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by xvector 3y ago
I certainly wouldn't call being Canadian an "edge case." Protesting ought to be something you can do in any Western democracy without fear of losing access to your accounts.
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by xvector 3y ago
Tomorrow your bank could cut you off from your own money because you protested the government[1], and what could you possibly do? Having the freedom to truly own your own money and investments is valuable in and of itself, no matter how m
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by xvector 3y ago
Right, but that's very specific, and frankly Discord makes terrible public forums. HN excels as a general purpose forum for technical discussions relating to computer science.
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by xvector 3y ago
It's just newer
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by xvector 3y ago
Some other local LLM iOS apps: - MLC Chat: https://llm.mlc.ai - LLM Farm: https://llmfarm.site - Enchanted (not local, just a frontend): https://github.com/AugustDev/enchanted But I don't t
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by xvector 3y ago
> if employees you never heard of 5 reporting lines below you screw up badly enough? Sounds like a good way to encourage execs to prioritize safety systemically. In either case, of course negligent decisions on part of the C-suite would
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by xvector 3y ago
Whoa, way to twist the argument. No one is arguing for a lower salary and the death penalty. Exorbitant pay is fine if you're willing to put your life on the line for that kind of money. Plenty of people are.
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by xvector 3y ago
> Maintenance isn't the issue here, clearly. It is. Maintenance was aware of the pressurization warnings on this plane. They did nothing.
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by xvector 3y ago
Prison and even the death penalty should absolutely be considered for the bean-counting Boeing execs that deliberately drove safety into the ground for profit. The blood of innocents is on their hands, and yet they get to cheerfully cash in
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by xvector 3y ago
This is such a huge yikes but points to the dev for apologizing I guess. It's good technical work no matter how you cut it.
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by xvector 3y ago
A death penalty for grossly negligent execs is also necessary. They'd get their shit together so fast if they faced meaningful consequences to their fuckups.
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by xvector 3y ago
I find non-mulberry-silk ones quite bothersome texture wise, as opposed to pleasant.
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by xvector 3y ago
It is thought that our bodies compensate to regain calories expended via exercise in other mechanisms (through hunger, metabolism adjustments, and other mechanisms.)
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by xvector 3y ago
I just travel with a mulberry silk eye mask. Seems to do the trick.
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by xvector 3y ago
> Exercising the willpower to not eat when you're hungry is only a Herculean effort if you've stopped exercising it regularly for a long time. Addiction mechanics play a role here. It's not just willpower, it's will

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