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by zzzeek 2y ago
now that was a crazy rabbit hole
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Dynamically-typed scripting languages like Ruby and Python are well suited to a lot of the kinds of patterns used by the "easy" web frameworks. Once you get into a statically typed, compiled language, the language itself is or
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Here's my post from April 2023 flagged as "misinformation" where I state exactly the premise shown to be true by this study, followed by repeated badgering and threats that I was "spreading misinformation" breaking
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by zzzeek 2y ago
skip the musk stuff and go to the effective altruism / longtermism stuff. I sorta wished the article didn't really include much w/ Musk
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by zzzeek 2y ago
yah but HN is where the community discussed originates.
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Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back(disconnect.blog)
13 points by zzzeek 2y ago|5 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
it's almost like an individual user of Bluesky posting a link is not in the slightest bit comparable to an official US Government website sending citizens to a crap propaganda site owned by a fascist
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With Attack on Consumer Bureau, Musk Removes Obstacle to His 'X Money' Vision(nytimes.com)
10 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
My two favorite things to talk about on the internet, how awful Elon Musk is, and SQL, have come together for this tweet, so dammit HN you're not going to flag this one a week before my birthday
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by zzzeek 2y ago
yes, same thread
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Elon Musk implies the US Government does not use SQL(twitter.com)
8 points by zzzeek 2y ago|6 comments
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately(washingtonpost.com)
18 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
He doesn't have clearance. They march into the offices, demand access, whoever is there says "no", then that person gets fired (placed "on leave") ten minutes later. Rinse and repeat.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> Can Congress constitutionally force the President to spend money the President doesn’t want to spend? Congress holds the power of the purse, so they aren't "forcing" the President, the President has no say in the matter
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> Musk talked Trump and Rubio into doing and they did. which is illegal. USAID can only be "shut down" by an act of Congress
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by zzzeek 2y ago
have them audited by the Office of the Inspector General. Which is not very easy right now as Trump illegally fired many of them across 17 different offices. The illegality and unconsitutionalism of the actions being taken to dismantle agen
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by zzzeek 2y ago
neither have happened and virtually all employees of USAID have been put on leave at the orders of the acting deputy administrator. (via CNN) - It is not legal for the president to unilaterally “abolish, move, or consolidate USAID”. He need
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by zzzeek 2y ago
as an American I'd be sad to see science move out of my country at the same time I'd be happy and relieved that science continues to flourish and treated with the respect it deserves in other countries (hoping these would be democ
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by zzzeek 2y ago
yes he actually blocked me the other day on Bluesky as well, however I seem to be unblocked, so I edited my message to not mention that part.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
He's regularly tweeting that he's cutting off funds that were congressionally approved by simply pressing "delete" on checks that are to be sent, which would be an extreme violation of federal law. It also contradicts
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by zzzeek 2y ago
it's not a conspiracy theory, it's an actual conspiracy. it's all out in the open for reading / download.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Fortunately we have an enemy this time, Elon Musk. He's it. He's also really bad at hiding what he's doing.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
here's Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan on X: "Whoever made the original graphic (of these kids that Musk told to hack into the machines) doesn’t understand the scale and speed of smart high IQ people who can program, and what they can
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by zzzeek 2y ago
the plan is more specifically this right wing crypto idea called "the network state" - using technological means to bring down the Democratic state and replace it with a crypto-based oligarchy that serves big tech interests only:
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by zzzeek 2y ago
you care extremely deeply about politics such that they align so closely with your personal comfort that you need not have to notice it
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by zzzeek 2y ago
if you are looking for init scripts / systemd / kernel modules / etc in a container, that's not how you should be using a container.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
The US pandemic response team that Trump fired included a significant presence working onsite in China https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-c...
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> I prefer to use virtual machines...They also behave more like a real Linux system running on bare metal hardware than containers do. People don't seem to be noting this here yet but if this is why you "prefer" a VM to a
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by zzzeek 2y ago
pretty sure based on this blog post if the app required you to run a VM, that would be much more evil
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by zzzeek 2y ago
yeah and it's not copyright infringement if we steal and redistribute the content using an "AI" https://flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-and-aaron-swartz-saw-the...

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