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Well of course, that’s the point - it gives the French government the cover to investigate while sending Israel a soft warning. “Israel, thank you for your cooperation, my gosh, we…

Ah, see, you didn’t recreate it just because of the interface; you recreated because it’s currently a high-trust social environment, because your friends and family are using it, b…

The “featured on scrolllaunch” banner covers the keyboard.

Is it just me or is it a huge letdown that the text is all AI-generated? Or at least, in the same kind of saccharine style? Are people not able to detect this?

Yes, because drawing is a way of thinking. There’s a distinction between technical drawing in plan and section, vs perspective. When you draw at scale, the size of your pen and its…

The truth is the truth, whether or not it might align with a narrative or stereotype. For example: NSA wiretapping was a truth that happened to align with pre-existing conspiracy t…

sigh; this argument is the new Chinese Room; easily described, utterly wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEUclZdj_Sc

BTW, the OG demo from Johnny Lee is from 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Unfortunately it smells of ChatGPT at points.

If fighting X requires you to inflict war crimes, perhaps you should question the premise of why you are fighting in the first place.

This isn't true; no reverse engineering or firmware modification is necessary.

> For load bearing elements in buildings, we don't have anything substantially better today than 100 years ago What about post-tensioned concrete slabs? Cross-laminated timber? Str…

Here's an idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166038#39173769

This either 1) assumes a homeomorphism between rationality and ethics, or 2) is technically true but missing the point. Akin to saying: "Human deaths via a tsunami isn't a 'bad thi…

I looove this site. This helped me plan a Trans-Siberian/Mongolian train trip almost 15 years ago. So many people I met on the trains used Seat 61, too. An absolute classic.

> Minimum height in the stairway isn't part of the specification Uh, yes it is? It's in most building codes, as well as in the IBC (International Building Code). Architects don't d…

Good point! Then: 2036: Due to increasing amounts of deepfake CSAM, the US's Congress passes a law against unconsensual deepfake porn, requiring "websites of sexual nature" to be P…

Here's a scenario: It's 2030 and deepfakes run rampant. This is a problem creating political deepfakes, celebrity fake porn, CSAM, fake revenge porn, etc. Apple builds on their Spa…

Doesn’t work on a Kindle Scribe - maybe the user agent string is different?

Knowing little about this - a genuine suspicion is - is this a feature, not a bug? As in - doesn’t this arise out of an incentive for health insurance companies NOT to cover proced…

I agree, but this has nothing to do with rights, which are a legal construct. This has to do with power.

All of what you're saying is true, but it doesn't make assault okay.

Very interesting! The one-minute videos are really clear, and the interface simple and brilliant, and I went from someone knowing very little about the system to someone thinking "…

Very glad this is mentioned. Form follows function, sure, but it follows capital and construction methods and labor practices. The author would best wonder why this is global, and …

It’s called a name, and names have real meaning, because they’re created with social agreements. Paper money, too, is valuable only because we agree to do so. Ergo, Saying “all thi…