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Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:22PM (#50059674)
wild that it requires children to be permanently maimed before the cops stop shooting at them, but there you go.

then again, it's wild that it took such large scale protests for Lecornu to commit to filling long-vacant teaching posts, ensuring school buildings are fit for human occupation with functioning sanitary facilities, and implementing basic reforms to the notoriously bad university application system. my expectations from Matignon were always low but,

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:49PM (#50059153)
it's hard to make yourself heard when your opponents have trillions of dollars hinging on you not being heard and also control the biggest communication channels.
just because you can see the mark in your poker game doesn't mean you're not also a mark :-)
-- ancient Sumerian proverb
Re:I guess I'm using WebP now? on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:42AM (#50057133)
sure, but we don't hand-code everything.
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:45AM (#50056405)
> put soap on the ground to make it slipely

they dropped a piano on a CRS's head and all his teeth turned to piano keys. does their perfidy know no bounds?

Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:43AM (#50056373)
last i saw they were mostly interested in firing stun grenades at children
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:39AM (#50056314)
it's the item of furniture that everyone is sitting round. the fact that people might put other things on it is about as relevant as asking why one particular person is called the Chair when everyone is seated, or why it's a conference room when the cleaners happen to also do hoovering in there.
They don't have to, but have you considered that they really like money?
These days you can't even call for ethnic purity laws without being called far-right. These days,
Well sure but have you considered that Der Stürmer's list of Jewish criminals shows a very disturbing pattern of behaviour by a certain ethnic group? Much to ponder.
Re:Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:15PM (#49733136)
If I'm booking a restaurant I'll probably be discussing the date/time options with the people I'm going with, and I can't see how adding a chatbot to the mix is meant to help?
Re:Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory on Thursday August 13, 2026 @04:38PM (#49291528)
131 lines and about 10% of them are the title/copyright banner. Genuinely impressive in it's terseness
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:24PM (#49025992)
You might be out of luck: I believe they expire unused after a fairly short time.
100% of anything is a bad idea if you're going to have to draw on them any time soon. Bonds are less volatile than equity, but they're still subject to drops in value.
Re:Grok Build is open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:00PM (#48938768)
Well quite. But that means that to the extent that most people know anything about grok, it's as "that twitter AI that called itself Hitler and made naked pictures of children".
Re:Grok Build is open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:57PM (#48938705)
All it really shows is that the British court system will sell you all the justice that money can buy.
Re:Grok Build is open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:52PM (#48938639)
> There's a popular hundred+ million view, often reposted and requoted, tweet about this

Retweet it all you want, but it won't make it any more true.

Re:US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:34AM (#48731823)
It reduces risk for employers by piling it onto employees, who are also probably in a worse position to bear it.
Re:One Million Passports Leaked Online on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:19AM (#48730636)
The original post (and correct link) is here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725917>
Re:One Million Passports Leaked Online on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:02AM (#48730537)
So you're so utterly convinced they're lying about this because....
Re:Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:43PM (#48721559)
The same way you monitor your staff's work in general? Do they not have goals and deadlines and some way to discuss their progress with their manager?
Not sure it's ever been particularly difficult to be a criminal. If anything, the tricky part has always been establishing who you can and can't trust.
The past few years have seen attempts to get The Diary of Anne Frank pulled from libraries, along with any mention of LGBT or Black people. What makes you think that this will be used to protect kids from racial, sexual and misogynistic abuse, let alone predatory businesses?
I reckon if you applied an airport level of surveillance to go out for a drink, you'd destroy the hospitality industry in under a week.
Reddit and Twitter can buy their way out of those problems (hell, they can buy their way out of trouble for literally generating sexual abuse content). What makes you think they'll be affected more than the operator of a little Mastodon server do the same?
In theory the King can veto any law he wants. In practice he couldn't without causing a monumental constitutional crisis that would probably end his reign. His unofficial ability to influence government policy is the real issue, but one that is definitely not limited to that one guy with the special blood.
Re:Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:59AM (#48718107)
Have you considered using a more scientific metric, like the number of bugs being closed or the number of typewriter ribbons being used up?
Re:Libre Barcode Project on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:31AM (#48685402)
Homographs are tricky :-)
It's worth noting that even more staid distributions like Debian provide you with the means to do this. It's arguably bit more complicated, but saves you a lot of time and hassle on the happy path.

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