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Re:Microsoft Teams is a red flag on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:01PM (#50136422)
How many times has Gitlab deleted their production databases and had irrecoverable data loss? I remember twice.
Re:Super Intelligence on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:56AM (#50130711)
Remember there's only one side that says "I don't want to be judged for my vote". And it's because they know they're voting for abhorrent shit.
This a classic story from Aesop's Fables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Pitcher It's been passed down for a few thousand years.
Who needs to wait for the 5xxs return to normal when you can just press end incident and pad your stats!
Re:Integer multiplication below n log n on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:50PM (#49986439)
We can just wait for whomever they stole THIS proof from to come forward with threatening emails sent by OpenAI.
> if you really know what to do

The so called "load-bearing gap" you pay experts for.

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:24AM (#49813931)
China couldn't even allocate resources to major medical problems like COVID-19. All sinovax types are significantly less effective than the western counterparts. And the sinovax therapies were a lot less sophisticated (no mRNA) because they couldn't swiftly allocate capital like the free market can. Yes, this is including the "sinovax is more well tuned to Asians" lie.
> I can say that we absolutely pay tariffs to the US government in place of our customers who should be paying it

To be ultra pedantic, you're paying American import tariffs to the American shipping carrier or American broker not CBP itself.

> refunds for it like Americans supposedly did

No one's getting those refunds, if they do get a portion back and not at the rate at which they increased prices on American consumers.

But more to your point, you can certainly pay American import tariffs on behalf of Americans, but your response is to raise prices on American consumers commensurate to the tariffs you're paying. Your margins are necessarily lower to sell to Americans, so you must raise prices for American consumers.

If your margins were high enough that you can absorb American import tariffs, then you're lucky the market hadn't provided a relevant market substitute.

> I don’t know what you’re saying

And that's the problem. It doesn't get much more simple than "Canadians pay Canadian import taxes" and "Americans pay American import taxes". Can you at least recognize that reality? For any country, its own people pay its tariffs.

> required consumers to pay new duties.

Required American consumers to pay new American levied duties.

Your comment is nonsense.

Canadian pharmacies pay Canadian tariffs. Americans pay American tariffs. American importers are no longer exempted from paying American tariffs applied by the US government for goods de minimis goods they import from Canada.

This post is about American importers no longer having exemption on tariffs they would have otherwise paid to the US government.

At no point has Canadian pharmacies ever paid American tariffs. This is fiction you invented.

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:48AM (#49622823)
It's not only Hollywood, these anarcho-capitalists that want to abolish private ownership will destroy pharmaceutical innovation. (This is where people's brains will turn off)

Why would a firm invest in research improving Super-Rare-Disease therapies if I don't get exclusive rights to the monetary benefit?

And to the inevitable room temperature IQ DSA crowd, why would the AnCap government with state research firms ever direct public resources to improving Super-Rare-Disease? Something that affects 1-in-10000 people doesn't deserve public resources like common diseases.

Re:True Rate of Unemployment on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:19AM (#49532044)
There is no revelation. The authors are intentionally misleading you by comparing 2 different metrics to pretend their formula is meaningfully different than what BLS provides.

"Headline" unemployment rate is U-3 unemployment. If they compared "TRU" to it's analogous match U-6 the graph would be less striking as it's a 1:1 match.

This is where the concern-trolls barge in with "what about non native English speakers using AI to blogslop everything is actually a good tool!"
Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:32AM (#49416326)
I always wonder why this comment chain exists in every thread about LLMs uniquely harming our sphere of information.

Yes, <bad code, fake pictures, security vulnerabilities, malicious actors> existed before LLMs. No one is saying otherwise.

> but like to have a subjective reason not to do something

You're asking a lot from extremely fancy auto complete...

> why put in effort doing something people don't expect or ask for?

True! Why did we bother with devcontainers anyway? Who asked for permissions on tool calls? Only those weird security people care about putting whats effectively a CNC rootkit inside a sandbox. Its not about seriously protecting the user against our AI slop inevitably typing `rm -rf work /` and deleting their entire drive.

If any AI company was doing serious engineering isolated containers would have been a prerequisite to using their tools.
Re:Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:44PM (#49199910)
No. You didn't address in other replies. This is a lie. Just don't lie.
No. The problem is crap states with uneducated populace. The "small government" argument falls apart quicker than the ultra libertarian arguments.

Or actually you're right I should as an American citizen have to be versed in all the random arcane laws each individual state..no. Each individual COUNTY has instead of a common shared American values. God forbid someone play dominoes on Sunday in Alabama.

The problem is the fragmented states where they can hide their corruption.

Re:Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:24AM (#49182565)
So OP asked you for one example and you can't give one? You just fall back to the generic statement slop, you must be a bot right?

Again, what's ONE (1) real world example of "SSN/PII" being illegally exposed that wasn't investigated or prosecuted.

Re:Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:21AM (#49182521)
> there are WAY worse cases than these models breaking out that have nothing to do with AI.

And? Welcome to the big boy world. This isn't playground rules where you can complain "But Bobby was doing bad things too why isn't he in trouble?"

But you know this already. You're just pretending not to. Why?

Reminder that at every level of government your vote is less powerful than someone in some crappy flyover backwater Kansas.

They get more per Capita representation in the House, and electoral college.

Re:What does GitHub's security team even do? on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:21PM (#49064516)
> in the form of negative revenue pressure

Is this happening? GitHub status page is a Christmas tree for 3 quarters and comically had an incident 10 minutes after the "we're working hard on fixing stability!" blog post published.

The free market has responded by buying GitHub Enterprise to avoid the incidents. So we've effectively rewarded GitHub's lack of serious engineering with more money. Doesn't seem like they have any real pressure to improve.

Well, yes. That's exactly what Disney did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Energy_Services
Re:Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 on Friday July 17, 2026 @07:56AM (#48946250)
I don't know why HN is obsessed with whatever this product is (literally never heard of it) but I'm getting strong juicero vibes. Is this all botted up votes hoping for more VC slop or...?
This has to just be an IQ gap or something. Is it actually impossible for you to view agreements from different perspectives?

From the individuals' perspective, overusing uncollateralized debt to be discharged is a good deal. That loss is offset by the creditor by issuing higher interest to unsecured credit lines because people can default on their debts. From the creditor's perspective, it's risk adjusted for people who default.

It just logically follows. I can't help you understand past this.

Ok. And the interest on unsecured debts like credit cards are like 25%. Sounds like the risk is properly priced in. What's your point?
Why doesn't Amazon buy a county similar to what Walt Disney did in Florida.
Re:The bottleneck might be the air in the room on Saturday July 04, 2026 @05:56AM (#48784194)
CO2 and all other air quality indexers have to be very carefully calibrated regularly. It's not some slop you can just throw into a consoomer cheap iot device.

Article author completely ignores this for the obvious reasons.

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