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Re:My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:05AM (#44215716)
How come you didn’t just get a cheap car and sleep in that?
Re:My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:03AM (#44215710)
What is the purpose of this comment? Gatekeeping him and telling him he wasn’t _actually_ homeless?
Re: on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:10PM (#41890815)
Doesn’t this just mean it’s improving rapidly which is a good thing?
I assume you could amortize the cost if you made it an apartment complex. Maybe zoning is preventing it though?
I’m not sure using it is illegal.
Re:Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be 'blacklisted', cite OSHA on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:04PM (#41662651)
> However, the three videos published afterward averaged a like-to-dislike ratio of 55.1%.

How are they measuring this?

> The team cultured BMSCs and T cells together, and after 48 hours found that up to a quarter of the T cells had gained extra mitochondria. The researchers dubbed these juiced up immune cells Mito+.

What an incredibly simple idea. Just scale it up.

Any new vulnerability will be sold to the highest bidder and/or exploited instead of being reported for the bug bounty because of this.
Re:EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf] on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:25AM (#41498489)
It seems that Ireland giving aid specific to Apple and not others is the crux of the issue? Not sure how that’s illegal.
I don’t think I can recall memories at will. They pop up when I get cues.
It’s a scam to be able to try experimental treatments for your otherwise fatal disease?
Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:11AM (#41464373)
You’d think they’d use a cheaper hosting service if that’s literally the only thing preventing them from having positive gross profit.
Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:01AM (#41464313)
How are they managing to spend 7.5k a month in server expenses? Are they using AWS?
Re:Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements – again on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:39AM (#41444926)
I assume you mean the FTC Act. Indeed it gives broad authority, but it isn’t unlimited.

FTC says “[..] it is an unfair method of competition—and therefore a violation of section 5” in their rule.

Indeed, the act gives them the ability to regulate unfair practices, but it’s not clear that this is unfair. Is it unfair if I get paid a good salary in return for not working for competitors? If they pay me for the years I can’t work after resigning, I would very much say no. If they don’t pay me for those years, I would say it could be seen as being unfair. But the rule is a blanket ban on all noncompetes essentially, even for senior executives! (Unless I’m reading it wrong.)

I’m for banning noncompetes, but I don’t think you can reasonably argue that the FTC has this ability.

I do think they could ban the subset that are clearly unfair without any issues FWIW, and I do hope they switch to this direction.

Re:Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements – again on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:02AM (#41442391)
FTC can not make laws. It does not matter how much you want this to be law. It must be passed by Congress.

Even then, it wouldn’t hold in intrastate cases since the Commerce clause doesn’t provide for that.

Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky on Saturday August 31, 2024 @11:03AM (#41409386)
They will ban Bluesky too if it gets too popular .
Re:Bypassing airport security via SQL injection on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:33AM (#41398503)
Imagine if you could bring your own water, and drown in it! Horrifying!
The repo doesn’t include the model.
Why not just use a normal camera?
This really doesn’t matter. In 5 years we will have observatories in orbit anyway. Placing them on Earth makes little sense in the first place.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:25AM (#41025766)
If only. The Nordic countries solve the problem with a very easy trick: They’ve lowered the ceiling by a tremendous amount!

There’s a reason people do their startups in the US, there’s a reason the smart Nords move to the US rather than the other way around. There’s a reason Y Combinator is American.

I encourage you to try innovating in Europe (or just the Nordic countries). Please prove me wrong, for the sake of Europe.

To be fair, it’s certainly not _impossible_ to move up, but it’s relatively much harder, which is the point.

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Sunday July 21, 2024 @03:10AM (#41023124)
Crazy to see this being posted on _Y Combinator_’s forum.

Why do you think people move to America? It’s partly because it’s the ~only country where it’s reliably possible to move up if you work hard enough.

Re:Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:39AM (#41004670)
The funny thing is I think they’d have more business if they just made it one (temporarily reversible) click.
Re:Von der Leyen reelected as EU Commission president on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:39PM (#40999523)
Funny that the equivalent of the American president isn’t elected by the people.

In some ways she has even more power! Imagine if Congress couldn’t draft laws. Crazy.

Butter isn’t just hydrocarbons though. An imitation that is literally only hydrocarbons would be unhealthy.
Since when is there not free speech in a prison?
Interestingly this doesn’t see to be a violation of his freedom of speech. The order is simply that he must share it with the government, not that he can’t say it, AFAICT.

But it can affect his supervised release seemingly.

Re:Reining in America's $3.3T Tax-Exempt Economy on Thursday June 20, 2024 @03:00PM (#40742032)
No, a non-profit is by definition a charity _for something_. It’s a public benefit, and thus not taxed.

If it’s not a charity, but uses 501(c)(3), that’s just tax fraud! Tax fraud is already illegal!

You read the law at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501

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