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Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:11PM (#50237797)
I am not from Brazil, nor am I closely following its politics, but I would like to pose a genuine question: in a modern liberal democracy, doesn’t a four-term presidency represent too much power concentrated in one person?
Re:Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:26PM (#49825864)
Edge has a built-in function to read websites.
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:06PM (#49823888)
People involved in Anthropic will be catapulted to a new level of wealth for sure. The problem is the regular Joe investing his savings in Anthropic, thinking he is going to be catapulted as well ...
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:10PM (#49720979)
I do the same for improving my English skills. It's amazing!
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:34AM (#46476423)
Colombian here. Maduro wasn't the leader of a country; he lost the elections and became a cruel dictator. He led a regime that murdered, tortured, and disappeared thousands of people, turning Venezuela into a narco-state run by the ELN and other paramilitary groups. It may not have worked in other areas, but the US intervention in Panama, which resulted in the capture of another dictator, Noriega, transformed Panama into the fastest-growing economy in Latin America (6% average annual growth). Poverty fell by 60%, and today it's a very prosperous country. I can assure that there will be massive celebrations today by all our Venezuelan brothers and sisters living in Latin America.

Edit: I just discovered that Noriega was also captured on January 3rd.

Interesting, do you have a source to get more information about this?
Re:Ask HN: What can LLMs not do? on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:35AM (#42523547)
They can't draw vector illustrations.
Thanks for the suggestion, Initially I had the texts of the quotes below the designs but removed them in favor of a clean layout. But thinking about readability is better to add them again.
Oh you are right! We are going to fix it today for sure! Thanks for let me know.

Tell HN: Freepik doesn't refund your money

Last year, I bought an annual subscription to Freepik, which was automatically renewed a few days ago. Since I won't be using the service, I contacted Freepik to request a refund.However, they told me that since I had made downloads in the last few days, they couldn't issue a refund. It doesn't matter if you made one or a hundred downloads, if you made at least one download, they won't refund...

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Re:MFJ is ceasing its on-site production on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:24PM (#40165345)
It's a bit sad to make such a decision when you're almost 80. Realizing the importance of time with your family so late gives you so little time.

A few years ago, I read about the regrets of dying people, and many of them related to spending more time with their families... That was one of the reasons I decided to close my company last year (after 20 years; I'm 45 now) and start over, working with just a few customers, making less money but having more time. Now, I only work part-time to have the chance to spend more time with my loved ones.

Re:Things I tried to improve sleep on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:19AM (#37260848)
Twitter or FB are not the best channel, but it's not easy to gain traction in any medium without a well stablished community, haven't tried other social networks yet, which one do you think could be better ?
Re:Things I tried to improve sleep on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:09AM (#37260338)
In addition to what you mention:

- If you have sleep apnea that might explain why you wake up in the middle of the night, and there are treatments you could try.

- Wearing ear plugs (the ones that look like a screw) has helped me a lot, but I have to cut them to be able to sleep with them, since they do protrude from the ear and are uncomfortable.

- There's a simple trick to fall sleep again in the middle of the night: Set a specific time in the morning to write down the thoughts that worried you the most, with possible solutions. When you wake up in the night, think that you will attend your thoughts only the morning at the time you have specified, with some time you will see how you can fall sleep easier. (This is part of the solutions to attend the rumination thoughts)

- I highly recommend you watching this podcast with Matthew Walker, which is one of the most important scientist in this matter: https://youtu.be/gbQFSMayJxk

- As I have suffered insomnia for 20 years, but have improved a lot in the latest years, this thread is based in my own research: https://twitter.com/JuanPabloSarmi/status/168856844920991744...

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