Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and might itself have been a corruption of…
Isn't military work mostly done by private contractors? It's not like the USAF actually owns and operates its own plane factories. Some companies do approximate market operations internally, any company that has a…
No, why do pro-EU people lie about this so frequently? The rules say that to join you must adopt the euro. The EU has chosen not to enforce this rule on legacy members for now, but certainly would enforce it on Britain…
Those rates don't include all the "economically inactive" people who are on long term benefits. Around 5 million at last count.
There are a lot of people who don't believe in local control or the concept of an independent nation state. They imagine that in their preferred future all governments are merged into one, and regional differences are…
Has there ever been a non Oop GUI toolkit in those days? Even Win32 was kinda "c with objects".
It doesn't? It says judges openly advertise things like "I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist" along with many other positions. It also says they routinely award wins simply…
They weren't doing that before EME either, were they?
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> a category of ineffective, bitter malcontents and that’s not what we are There are enough top voted people demanding harassment in this and other threads to say that well, maybe that's what HN is, actually.
Isn't the big win of superconductors that you can build batteries with them? Like, you just pump them full of power that goes round and round forever with no or trivial losses. I always heard that this was why they were…
Yes, fully agree. There are a lot of unstated but unintuitive assumptions and intuitions going on in the AI risk/ethics community. It's useful to surface those.
Google do that all the time simply because they dislike your opinions or even your fact based arguments.
Lol yep sure, almost every website out there uses Recaptcha, Cloudflare and similar services, but they all totally hate the guys who work on stuff like that. The bubblethink here is out of control. A clear majority of…
Maybe that approach to licensing is why Sun ran out of money and had to sell itself?
It's not that Germany is uniquely bad at software. It's that the USA is uniquely good. A culture in which software people are considered to be really low status is pretty much the global default and is still common…
It does lead to real customer facing problems. A jungle of different systems won't have transactionality between them at all, it's all a mess of rec scripts, so customers will see a lot of weirdness like the bank being…
Not the same poster but as airlines have come up, this German IT dysfunction appears there too. At some point Lufthansa bought Swiss. Swiss previously had a pretty competent website. It worked fine, so of course, they…
The red scare occurred because there actually were a lot of Soviet infiltrators in the USA, despite denials at the time. In 1996 after the Soviet archives were opened, the Washington Post carried an op-ed that talked…
Why does that make no sense? Sounds a lot like how Google and Facebook were both born along with many other businesses. Rearden is never said to run the whole business himself after all, just do the experiments to…
So many levels of meta-irony in this thread. You're laughing at a non-existent strawman you've been fed by the media. The people saying Let's Go Brandon are perfectly happy to say Fuck Joe Biden. That's how the whole…
Very. All laws start with good intentions (as perceived by the lawmaker). Yet, the world is full of bad law.
Making a fork of ChromiumOS is easy, the hard part is getting laptop makers to use it. If you fork Chrome you lose all the integrations with Google services and those are valuable to users. Think auto translation,…
Maybe it's the answer containing the phrase "equal to themselves" that triggers it. The transcripts people are showing in this thread are reaching some sort of woke Darwin Award level. Have Meta really spent tens of…
Is it possible you ran out of context window so it couldn't make a longer answer?
Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and might itself have been a corruption of…
Isn't military work mostly done by private contractors? It's not like the USAF actually owns and operates its own plane factories. Some companies do approximate market operations internally, any company that has a…
No, why do pro-EU people lie about this so frequently? The rules say that to join you must adopt the euro. The EU has chosen not to enforce this rule on legacy members for now, but certainly would enforce it on Britain…
Those rates don't include all the "economically inactive" people who are on long term benefits. Around 5 million at last count.
There are a lot of people who don't believe in local control or the concept of an independent nation state. They imagine that in their preferred future all governments are merged into one, and regional differences are…
Has there ever been a non Oop GUI toolkit in those days? Even Win32 was kinda "c with objects".
It doesn't? It says judges openly advertise things like "I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist" along with many other positions. It also says they routinely award wins simply…
They weren't doing that before EME either, were they?
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> a category of ineffective, bitter malcontents and that’s not what we are There are enough top voted people demanding harassment in this and other threads to say that well, maybe that's what HN is, actually.
Isn't the big win of superconductors that you can build batteries with them? Like, you just pump them full of power that goes round and round forever with no or trivial losses. I always heard that this was why they were…
Yes, fully agree. There are a lot of unstated but unintuitive assumptions and intuitions going on in the AI risk/ethics community. It's useful to surface those.
Google do that all the time simply because they dislike your opinions or even your fact based arguments.
Lol yep sure, almost every website out there uses Recaptcha, Cloudflare and similar services, but they all totally hate the guys who work on stuff like that. The bubblethink here is out of control. A clear majority of…
Maybe that approach to licensing is why Sun ran out of money and had to sell itself?
It's not that Germany is uniquely bad at software. It's that the USA is uniquely good. A culture in which software people are considered to be really low status is pretty much the global default and is still common…
It does lead to real customer facing problems. A jungle of different systems won't have transactionality between them at all, it's all a mess of rec scripts, so customers will see a lot of weirdness like the bank being…
Not the same poster but as airlines have come up, this German IT dysfunction appears there too. At some point Lufthansa bought Swiss. Swiss previously had a pretty competent website. It worked fine, so of course, they…
The red scare occurred because there actually were a lot of Soviet infiltrators in the USA, despite denials at the time. In 1996 after the Soviet archives were opened, the Washington Post carried an op-ed that talked…
Why does that make no sense? Sounds a lot like how Google and Facebook were both born along with many other businesses. Rearden is never said to run the whole business himself after all, just do the experiments to…
So many levels of meta-irony in this thread. You're laughing at a non-existent strawman you've been fed by the media. The people saying Let's Go Brandon are perfectly happy to say Fuck Joe Biden. That's how the whole…
Very. All laws start with good intentions (as perceived by the lawmaker). Yet, the world is full of bad law.
Making a fork of ChromiumOS is easy, the hard part is getting laptop makers to use it. If you fork Chrome you lose all the integrations with Google services and those are valuable to users. Think auto translation,…
Maybe it's the answer containing the phrase "equal to themselves" that triggers it. The transcripts people are showing in this thread are reaching some sort of woke Darwin Award level. Have Meta really spent tens of…
Is it possible you ran out of context window so it couldn't make a longer answer?