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Re:How Automated Content Moderation Works (Even When It Doesn't) on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @01:57PM (#39607759)

exactly. like when Yoel Roth (former safety lead at twitter) worked w/ FBI to ban conservative accounts, critical of Hunter Biden. No one cared, and Yoel and the FBI intuitively understood that.

Re:Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @08:36PM (#38778119)

I'm not taking a side either, but seeing as drug companies are shielded from liability w/ vaccines, if I was a drug company I would be motivated to lobby broadening the definition. it would just be good business.

Re:The Death of a Relic Hunter on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:06PM (#38427273)

Bill would give you the shirt off his back (then steal it from you later that night).

Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to Open... on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:06PM (#38381859)

nothing screams 'protect public interest' more than Wall Streets biggest cheerleader during 2008 financial crisis. who's next, Richard S. Fuld Jr ? Should the Enron guys be included ?

Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predicting Crimes on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:46PM (#37754327)

drug dealers will continue to sell drugs irregardless of financial stability. when law enforcement defers arrest/prosecution the drug dealing doesn't become less harmful to communities, the opposite is true. look at SF/Oakland. organized rings maximizing profits in retail theft and property crimes. if this is the alternative to broken windows theory of policing then good luck w/ that.

Re:Why the Eddie Murphy Rule Is About More Than Orange Juice (2019) on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:20PM (#37500548)

thats a great point. its fair in a 'pursuit of happiness' type of way.

Re:Nostr: A Decentralized Messaging Protocol on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:08PM (#37357437)

nostr being an offshoot of crypto/bitcoin tech influences the protocol in important ways, like everything crypto/bitcoin you need to read documentation to understand the terminology being used and you need to 'invest' in the culture, which is bitcoin evangelist culture w/ all the baggage.

Re:Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:37AM (#37289833)

hey, it's a mistake the admin will never make again, so. be a cup half full person... you don't have to worry about the data any more also.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023) on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:12PM (#36966544)

  Location: Vancouver BC
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Re:Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:44PM (#36727381)

I want to get "the science" tattooed on my knuckles.

Re:How to Befriend Crows on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:14PM (#34142495)

i fed a few blocks of crows for 4 years. mostly dry cat food. each block had a unique family group and they swoop down in succession, hop over and i'd stand there and watch them eat for a bit. I also saw a crow funeral once and I stopped a crow dive bombing run (on other pedestrians).

Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:26PM (#33783342)

I love Beyond Sausages for that very reason. they cook up like a sausage, they even have a sausage like skin. I think its pretty great, although highly processed and not suitable for staple food IMMO.

Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:25PM (#33783331)

I much prefer Beyond Burgers as well, and the sausages. I even invested in the company, and it's surprising to me the negative press and Wall St shorting action.

Re:Twitodon: Finding Twitter Peers on Mastodon on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:58PM (#33399253)

twitter has a social dynamic where opposing interests feed off of each other so you need in-group + out-group. there are psychosocial elements which mastodon does not have as it's more reddit like IMHO. edit: for clarity

Re:Science is political, and that's a bad thing on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:37AM (#32698774)

here's the HN comment chain from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595083

Re:Science is political, and that's a bad thing on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:36AM (#32698767)

Here's the Nature article from last week which was surprising to many inc Hacker News https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

re: hard sciences, the scientific community's refusal to accept the covid lab leak hypothesis stands out IMHO. School shutdowns/mask mandates for pre-k and public schools is another politicalized issue.

Re:Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @04:55PM (#32654934)

If we were able to get to the source of the 'trust science' clique, I bet we would be amazed at how uninteresting it all is. grievances about hurt feelings, mental health issues and moral panic.

Re:ProtonMail Is Down on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:32AM (#32057470)

its like blackhawk down but w/ proton mail.

Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:03PM (#31362420)

I cunningly bought TWTR at the top too and thus was hoisted by mine own petard. basically as a retail investor I have no leverage so all in all I'm happy to just get my money returned.

Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in significa... on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:10PM (#29775147)

the free internet was cancelled w/ Richard Stallman I guess. This is what we get. what a great future we computer folks have provided to our next generation.

Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in significa... on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:06PM (#29775108)

Google should be paying you for using their search engine. There's your solution to affiliate links.

Re:How Basecamp Blew Up on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:19PM (#27044527)

upper middle class people unite !

Re:30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange... on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:49PM (#26364198)

many industries are dependant on Excel also. entire industries. Accounting, finance etc...

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear' on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:06PM (#26306767)

this is common whataboutism. What about the dark ages ? What about burning witches ? If we claim to be a compassionate society we should be anti-censorship and let ideas succeed or fail through the strength of their argument.

Re:Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bi... on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:07PM (#26218731)

I for one am glad Tesla did the right thing and were pro life saving. Thats what makes Elon Musk an of the box thinker.

Re:Coca-Cola Forcing Employees to Complete Training ‘To Be Less White’ on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:51PM (#26206709)

I'm more concerned that comments critical of anti-racism could be cause for censure in future, ala 'social credit system'. That seems to be a possibility with the internet being locked down, increased censorship, calls for de-platforming 'hate'.

Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:18PM (#26161377)

I've read that most mining pools are consolidating now, and if they control a majority of computing power it leaves Bitcoin vulnerable to attack. Or what about the hard fork ? My skepticism is not w/ the tech (which is great) its with Bitcoin adoption by non-tech people who have no protection via regulation.

Re:Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning? on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:56PM (#26150421)

In general M1 is fastastic tho.

Re:Covid may have taken 'convoluted path' to Wuhan, WHO team leader says on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:48PM (#26083532)

All we know is 1.it definitely did not come from a lab 2. it could have been imported from another country's frozen bat industry.

Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:22AM (#26052871)

people should be cautious and imho more importantly, people should be informed and adding processed soy, oils, sodium etc to meat alternatives in hope of reducing price is a horrible solution. If that's the only way we're going to get people offsetting meat consumption its a sad state of affair.