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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:42AM (#42684643)
For some reason I thought of Comcast telling me when I called in to get the 20 dollar rate on a mailer, that it's only for new customers. I suppose their purpose is transparent with a teaser rate, but still feels unfair.

Regardless of existing US citizens not getting offered 1MM, what does the regular citizen get if Greenland were to join I wonder?

Re:I deleted my social media accounts on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:53AM (#42681109)
I might guess my comment here in a "meta sense" is looked down upon here (for good reason) but that comment you responded to rings a certain way and along with other dialog here and the issue at hand (world scale industry of eyeballs and diversion) i have to politely guess the thought of astroturfing that came to me might be fair.
Re:The Google Willow Thing on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:43AM (#42397750)
Why isn't the "standard pedagogy" always evolving and improving? Isnt that what pedagogy is?
Re:Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:45AM (#42221162)
>Because if you allow it, you'll have hundreds of these everyday. The law is there to "scare" others from doing it not punish the perpetrator. On the other hand, you don't have hundreds of fintech startups raising millions >every day.

Surely the scale of harm caused is the metric here, and not the frequency of potential crimes individually committed

Care to expand on the good faith premise and methodology proposed?
Are you saying there could be radio signals in caves these days?
Re:Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:50AM (#42038887)
I don't believe or value political polling in the same vein
Re:Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @10:32AM (#41995370)
Are you saying the way to contain plasma is the shape of a double helix
Re:Care Doesn't Scale on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:57AM (#41971641)
It's pretty simple no, the model that is reasonable and antifragile is within our grasp, a model that includes degrees of error more than it reifies hewing towards 0 carrying costs. It's more the good will and good faith across the board to use that known simple math, as sneaky monkey minds in our midst see that if they defect they can win some edge in the short term (and again, a better model shows the true utility and total harmed effect) and then it's a race to the bottom and a world of basically the prisoners dilemma. Making that thinking anathema in human culture should be the focus. I don't know that a grass roots effort could out-compete existing networks of power and influence, nor that a total reset of players is possible either.
Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:57AM (#41933568)
There was another post on here where the creator responded, and he had intentionally built a site that had bots endlessly digging further through pages, though I can't recall which. I believe his site was pretty old too, and of simple html.
Yes and if STEM industry is Silicon Valley then that is just advertising ultimately or if not ads, something much more immoral, data collection for social control. Which is advertising's intention as well so I guess all the same work
Or maybe it's all one cycle with different phases? Not saying you did this, but is this a technique one uses to distract or diffuse a critical attack - break a system into parts and claim the parts are unconnected? Anyways to the above, e.g. spider spins it's web, attracts the prey, mummifies, etc.
Can you complete the assertion or cite what you were going to cite (if it was half done)?
Re:Try to fix it one level deeper on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:58PM (#41854651)
Speaking of digging deeper, can you expand on that theory on why focus/man hours spent on maintenance leads to commoditization and why a company wants to avoid that?
Re:My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:01PM (#41780604)
Ignorant question, but I assume that means there is no "browser-facing" or accessibility to the GPU for a web based application in this way (WebAssembled or even otherwise)?
Re:My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:53PM (#41780528)
A question then, I have run some game servers in my time that had quite advanced console options and scripts to run, in Lua, which I then saw as maybe the most common language in this area. But I wondered where and why Lua which is its own full language was kept to a certain part of the game and running instance, and where the other runtime and the games main language differed. How is that division of responsibility separated or chosen I guess?
Re:Hetzner Object Storage on Monday October 07, 2024 @11:09AM (#41766785)
They probably used chatgpt to build the product and copied-pasted
I would agree with the comment you're responding to, too often in tutorials or especially in off hand comments here, I find their usage to assume some common but unindicated convention or subtext and obscure the concept they're trying to convey.
Encirclement and involvement in the 2014 coup, potential and steps toward NATO expansion
Re:The Death of the Minivan on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:09PM (#41716814)
Example that most markets are designed
That logic suffices as truth to you?
Re:Bypassing airport security via SQL injection on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:06PM (#41394247)
Apparently Venmo also has a option to look up an image of any person, we could use that too.
Doesn't Firechat fit in this conversation, possibly some vague event behind the scenes that shuts anything like this down
UDP couldn't work here?