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Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:18AM (#50271772)
Gonna make a law preventing them from moving away first? Your idea has been tried before. It reduces total tax receipts.
Re:OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:56PM (#49634997)
This pairs interestingly with that piece on how the Anthropic engineer raising the red flag is likely trying to gin up popular support for heavy AI regulation. This looks like more of the same. I'm guessing we'll see a whole PR push of these sorts of articles to build popular support for the government stepping in and regulating the space.
But when anyone causes gps to be degraded, a NOTAM is rapidly released.
The problem here is the assumption that if the US mil weren’t jamming GPS it wouldn’t be getting jammed. GPS is trivially easy to jam for any state actor, and it’s not “macho” to say that pilots always need to be able to safely conduct flights in its absence.
That's not accurate. Navigationally critical VORs are continuing to be maintained, they're just turning off the podunk redundant ones.

VOR Candidate Retention List | Federal Aviation Administration https://www.faa.gov/ato/navigation-programs/vor-retention-li...

Checking NOTAMs is important.
Re:When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:06PM (#48578266)
Definitely pre-Dilbert and Office Space.
Re: on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:54AM (#46576785)
Minneapolis Is Not Even A Close Call --A Lawsplainer On Officer-Involved Shootings
Re:Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:08PM (#46063362)
Nice to see negative results being published
Re:FAA: Integration of Powered Lift – Final Rule on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:14AM (#41944487)
FAA releases the final rule on integration of powered lift aircraft (including EVTOL) into the NAS.
Ditto 1password.
The technology hasn't demonstrated the required level of reliability yet. Several companies are getting close, and and early attempts by the companies listed in this thread have paved the way for the FAA to start rolling out the process for scalable compliance. Up until very recently it's all been "approval by waiver/exception", which is very slow, while the FAA figures out along with everyone else what success looks like.

Currently there's approvals in limited areas in the US for testing, and several companies are approved for significant steps towards our shared dream of 5 minute burrito deliveries to our back patios. Nobody has gotten approved for blanket deliveries yet; the safety levels aren't quite there.

Plug: End State Solutions consults and supports companies in developing the conops, safety case, and approval packages. Reach out once your drone company has a design you're ready to freeze for the approval process and we'll help you out. Our team got Insitu and Matternet the first ever commercial UAS type certificates issued by the FAA.

Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:15PM (#35101176)
I heard elsewhere they were extending loans to startups with pre-IPO shares as collateral, so yeah, that was their best option apparently.
Go office space, and work construction. Maybe you'll get motivated to do something less menial, and who knows, maybe you'll like it.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:09PM (#32934391)
My biggest gripe isn't teams-specific, it's that MS office products still won't support multiple logins. With Google I can be logged into my 4 different work, personal and business accounts simultaneously and switching between the active one is a single button click.

MS won't even support two accounts, so 3 out of 4 times I get invited to a teams meeting I'm in the wrong account, and it's a huge pain to sign out and sign back in; there's no single sign-in (even in Windows!) that works for Outlook, Onedrive, Teams, etc. all at once. Ridiculous.

The "it's a numbers game" thing is a hack to get people out of the trap of not seeing enough new people. You're on the other end of the chart. Commitment is a learnable skill, not something that goes easily once you find the perfect person.
Good point. >1 date a week, when it takes at least a few weeks to set up a quality date, means that you never establish a credible commitment.

What if you tried limiting yourself to 1 new person a month? You'll evaluate them more favorably, and be more selective, and get less burned out

This was uncomfortable but there was a lot of truth in there. I'd end with an adoption plug.
That's worth emphasizing: I'm pretty sure successful marriages are based on people being committed to figuring things out, not to the initial chemistry.

It's trajectory, not starting point.

Coffee can be an artificial/uncomfortable setting. My favorite first dates (depending on how wet met) were bowling, board games with other friends, or the shooting range.

Especially the last one; a little bit of discomfort is a fantastic icebreaker.

As an alternative I suggest just listing out deal breakers and following up with anyone who doesn't violate them.

Second pass is incongruence. The best advice I every got on hiring was to not hire people whose projected persona wasn't congruent; what that means changes from person to person, but it ends up being critical for close relationships.

Check the homeschooling laws in your state; as a homeschooler your can hire whatever tutors you want.

HSLDA.org has the state legal summaries

Boo.
Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:13PM (#31522846)
Excellent turn/reaction based squad tactical combat. Think OG XCOM: UFO defense, only 2+ players. Frozen synapse is about the 70% solution but only abstract and pretty repetitive. More players, more varied units and terrain, asymmetric fights for score, etc.
Read "12 Rules for life" by Jordan Peterson; helping with that is what it's about.

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