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Re:We Must Pace the Frontier
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:32PM (#49686387)
100%, rules for thee not for me
Re:US Cities Are Paying Too Much for New Transit Buses
on Friday September 26, 2025 @01:47PM (#45389136)
China is neither an open or free market. Opening the door to China and their industrial policy is exactly what distorts traditionally free and open markets.
Re:370-mile hydrogen-electric seaplane set to clean up island hopping
on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:47AM (#41035764)
The fuel cell tech isn’t the problem, it’s that there is no hydrogen gas infrastructure. And there’s certainly no robust H supply that doesn’t include fossil fuel to create the H gas.
Hydrogen fuel cells are just this constant pie in the sky thing. Stop making them and go solve the H infra problem, that’s the barrier.
Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:17AM (#40536275)
Years ago I used to really thumb my nose at the National Park permit system, now I love it.
Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:15AM (#40536250)
If it’s popular on the gram or someone has mentioned it to me, I will not go.
The best stuff is not popular yet.
Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:13AM (#40536230)
What’s your age?
Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:12AM (#40536210)
For sure some locals love it, cash walking into town. If you own a shop or one of the two little hotels, minting money
Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:10AM (#40536185)
Instagram is the worst thing that happened to travel.
Re:Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?
on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:57AM (#39493042)
What country do you live in if you don’t mind me asking?
Re:Sora: Creating video from text
on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:35PM (#39388400)
Pixar is computer generated motion, no?
Re:Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted ...
on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:51PM (#38859724)
Why would the CCP allow this to get out of China? There's a huge competitive advantage to keeping this type of discovery to yourself.
Re:Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB ...
on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:13PM (#38584174)
“Shipping the org chart” refers to a phenomenon in product development where the structure of an organization is reflected in its products. This concept suggests that the design and functionality of a product can inadvertently mirror the internal structure of the company that created it.
Re:Show HN: We Built the Largest Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure
on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:04PM (#38503098)
Internet Computer, should come up on Google
Re:Show HN: We Built the Largest Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure
on Saturday December 02, 2023 @05:28PM (#38502777)
Same thing. Came to comment “we are so back”
No offense to the creators, I appreciate anyone shipping something new, but this has been tried many times without success. HNT being the largest example.
Also, isn’t ICP be the same concept?
Re:X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle next to pro-Na...
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:35PM (#38372832)
Better but still not quite right. Paxton was acquitted of all counts in the Texas Senate and remains in his post.
The suing of a presidential admin by a state AG says very little about the merits of the lawsuit. Pointing it out as a reason to dismiss the legitimacy of a suit stains your reply with obvious bias against conservative policy.
There are plenty of reasons to not like Paxton. Suing POTUS is not high on the list.
Re:X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle next to pro-Na...
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:11PM (#38372570)
CNN is not relevant for anything
Re:X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle next to pro-Na...
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:05PM (#38371836)
Didn't the AG of Texas just open an investigation into Media Matters for this, citing fraud? And X sued them on Monday.
Re:Why I will always prefer to work from home
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:35PM (#38335137)
I’ll admit that I do miss when everyone else wasn’t remote. Once Covid handed everyone remote on a silver platter it diminished some of the perks.
Everything used to be completely empty during normal work hours. This is was one of my big life lessons that it’s better to not advertise things that are truly great in order to help prevent the utility of it from being crowded away.
Case in point are “day in the life” TikTok’s about an awesome lifestyle. These egotistically blatant brags end up bringing attention that threatens it.
Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @05:20AM (#37809031)
I can’t imagine the infosec, security department puts a moment of thought into the lived experience of dealing with all the security. And I get it, it is important, but I often think to myself that it seems like they don’t want me to get any work done and that must be why they put all these security hoops in front of me. I must spend an hour+ a day logging in and out of things, and then another hour waiting for security checks on a deploys.
Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @05:12AM (#37808999)
This is my thinking, people hate change. It explains so much of human behavior.
Natural selection would say that those that can handle change well are the ones whose genes will likely carry on. But that does not mean that they want to handle change.
Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @05:08AM (#37808976)
Hadn’t considered Pirates of the Caribbean as a loss in the Depp-Heard fight until just now, kinda sad.
Also like your use of tent-pole.
Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:56AM (#37808917)
David Graeber, the author of Debt, is a moron?
Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make you happy
on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:53PM (#37732700)
Sweden
Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & ext...
on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:18PM (#37457295)
Society would grind to an abrupt halt if you cut oil production by even 20%. Of course, if you did that red meat and cheap air fare would go away on their own.
That this is the most upvoted comment shows just how far most people wander from reality.
Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & ext...
on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:05AM (#37456490)
The amount of doom and gloom and tribal alliance in this thread is classic internet.
The climate is changing, always has been, always will be. Maybe it’s humans, maybe it’s not, I haven’t seen convincing evidence either way.
But I am convinced that fear sells better than anything else so I will remain skeptical that those pushing a climate change fear narrative have incentive beyond, and far more pedestrian than, “saving humanity”.
Re:Now Everyone Can Be a Math Person (Thanks to Covid)
on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:27PM (#36836848)
Care to elaborate?
Re:Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its so...
on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:18AM (#33918929)
Agreed.
This post sums up the other issues outside of copyright that these types of services are certain to run into…
1. DeepMind 2. Infrastructure 3. Trust 4. Freshness 5. Habit Breaking
Re:Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its so...
on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:10AM (#33918884)
Yes, thank you. I’m neither confused nor disagree with you. I simply cited the most recent, easily found examples where Google ran afoul for rich results.
There are plenty of examples out there, as mentioned the ones prior to the recent shopping ones. Feel free to dig.
Re:Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its so...
on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:05PM (#33912566)
"it might be damaging the site money of income"
Which is one of the key factors of determining Fair Use and Fair Use falls under copyright.