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Such a weird argument. I've never met anybody with a sledgehammer threatening votes. Feels like a willfully absurd excuse to avoid having an audit trail in elections.

On the one hand he does some things that seem very smart, on the other he does many that are very stupid (cave divers ordeal). So it’s a bit more nuanced than that.

Absolutely, when I worked at (semi-well-known unicorn) a half-dozen years ago on the data-engineering team the manager told me "Hey we want to use spark next quarter, that's a huge initiativ…

"I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, ... it failed." I'm so sick of this nonsense. "Devops" isn't failing, isn't an issue, you can rename it whatever yo…

I've spent 20+ years in the industry seeking to understand first, and my conclusions have pretty consistently been that the systems are broken and inefficient as people already talk about. The ca…

Just having visited Japan, another thing that's immediately apparent though is that there are other well-intentioned laws that prevent this from happening. My favorite breakfast was like $8 (whic…

In my opinion, it's entirely possible to build a social network or social media that doesn't incentivize rage but one that leads to actual friendships. I don't think internet itself is …

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Sure, but the fact that he's willing to do create false/inappropriate charges against the FED chairman is itself a signal to foreign investors how far the US is willing to go to increase the…

> Altshuler’s complaint said that he was concerned the chemicals caused two women in the customer support office to have miscarriages and another man to have a liver transplant. It seems multiple g…

A bit of a messy situation, since there is both documented precedent for undisclosed chemical use to cause severe population illness (e.g. numerous times in "cancer alley"), however there is…

I don't think this article provides any evidence of anything to be scared of. That said, based on what we know already, there is no reason to take everything is this article at face value necessa…

@dang I don’t know if this is a bug… but how is this not on the front pages? (I checked 2. 74 upvotes / 34 comments 2h old) This is the type of thing that I sort of rely on HN to inform me about.…

This is just the time that we caught. Who knows how many more times it happened and wasn't caught? > I guess the thing that I most don't get is it's now been 10 years since then, and…

Trump comes up over 1,500 times in the Epstein files in what's currently unredacted. [1] Given that birthday note I'm sure there are more records somewhere. 1 - https://www.google…

Crazy how far down I had to scroll to see this. Yeah, the timing of it is an Epstein thing. He knows he's gonna get impeached again and files will be released in 2026 when he loses midterms, and …

If it wasn't a man suspected of being impeached over a looming child-sex trafficking scheme so deep that it makes watergate look like a game then maybe we'd pretend drugs has anything to do …

I hate to attack HN and especially any particular moderator. But I agree in the abstract that this is an unacceptable performance. When you have Larry Ellison's son appoint a political figure ove…

Seems shocking and appalling to me. In sure an AI could explain how corrupt this is to you if you feed it the article.

So if you have a billion in the bank, you can collect 5% return and never touch the money. So you get $50m a year to pay enough engineers to make a browser. That's plenty of money if they recogni…

Because of its high toxicity, the European Union withdrew paraquat from its market in July 2007 [1] So it's clearly poisonous to humans in high doses, I guess the argument is that perhaps the sma…

Maybe there's a 3rd option... like encrypt the footage in a way that it can't be accessed en-masse without passwords? Like imagine if the US government gave a warrant to apple and said "…

So assessments of safety of a chemical aren't hard science. They are statistical judgment calls (often based on things like giving a much, much higher dose to a rodent and looking for short-term …

Reminds me of "cancer alley" [1]. As somebody who's looked in to this a bit, the deeper I dug the more I ultimately moved toward the conclusion (reluctantly) that indeed big corporation…

I dunno seems like a nothingburger to me. There are plenty of real things to worry about these days... somebody dubbing something so I can watch it isn't an issue for me. Presumably the viewers c…

I don't get it -- software performs at human levels for translation. Do you (and should you) need permissions to do a translation of a show for the audience?

I mean my immediate reaction is it's probably not reasonable what happened to your classmate. One wrong doesn't justify another...

Actually it's not super easy to explain to the layman, since it uses cryptography. But if you'd like to learn more ChatGPT is very knowledgeable. But it sounds like your wish is to keep your…