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bburnett44

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    Comment #44404084

    Fully don't like elon but is it possible you need to touch grass and log off reddit/twitter

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    Comment #43971571

    I’m sure this group is good but jeez this is a lot of praise for a company whose security record is … uh … less than stellar

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    Comment #43219088

    This is such a lame comment. He's looking at publicly available geospatial data, not trying to build a bomb.

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    Comment #43218679

    Yeah the "sensitive geospatial data" is just open data. He also created the geospatial gists before trump was in office so he definitely didn't have access to critical data then ht…

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    Comment #42673296

    This is a pretty crazy comment

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    Comment #42573968

    I think you're missing the heavy sarcasm there

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    Comment #42457667

    It feels like there should be a user option to allow (default deny) this. Like it doesn’t have to be that the minute you install WhatsApp it gets access to all of your texts or cal…

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    Comment #41747369

    Oh boy, having worked w government/elected officials a lot, I can tell you that this is just for sure not true. Sometimes bad behavior really is just incompetence

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    Comment #41679802

    I think we can pretty safely say bitcoin was a dead end other than for buying drugs, enabling ransomware payments, or financial speculation. Show me an average person who has bough…

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    Comment #41644100

    > universally appreciated by most 60% of the time, it works every time

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    Comment #41540464

    Isn’t the idea that the money and resources have to come from somewhere? Raise taxes or debt for the monetary side. Divert workers and other resources on the implementation side. B…

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    Comment #41500158

    Yeah but the website literally says “zero code changes”. It’s the long tail that’s dangerous since most people don’t understand it as well as a the core functions

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    Comment #41480651

    Is a bank deposit box not insured against those things? I've never really thought about it but always assumed they would be

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    Comment #40890126

    I’m not disagreeing with you that it’s predatory but I think the point is that by not charging up front, you get more people in the door. And even if each of those people spend les…

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    Comment #40318074

    My guess is Californias percentage is on the left and Texas is right. So california went from 20.5ish to 16ish

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    Comment #40192873

    lol I initially read this as remote people workers and was super confused

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    Comment #39901690

    Somebody came to a conference that my company hosts and complained it was self promotion. Like yeah no shit. Feels like kinda the same thing here

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    Comment #39606184

    There’s no way fb uses gcp

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    Comment #39570820

    lol excel isn't the only data analysis tool

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    Comment #37937248

    But isn't that after wages went up by like 50%? Sure in the past 6 months we're down but if you look at the past 5 years we're up a ton

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    Comment #35823645

    The problem is that the llms are better at search (for an open ended question) than Google is and that’s where most of googles revenue comes from. So it actually gives a new compan…

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    Comment #35642783

    Yeah it's truly incredible w scripts

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    Comment #35299615

    Yeah but there’s all sorts of weird business dynamics w china. For the most part, government exists to enforce business/personal rights in the us versus the reversed in china. Like…

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    Ask HN: Platforms That Avoid the Enshittening?

    What are some good examples of consumer platforms that have avoided the enshittening? Companies w subscription models are pretty good about avoiding this but it seems like being ad…