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> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Correct. Not more, not less. Question is what the default assumption is. With enough BS thrown around, the public seems to tend to…

Sorry but you are blurring the lines between an actual malicious attack and a badly designed driver. The first is what the original claim was, screaming "Russians!" and "Chinese!" …

I meant relative to a random dude on the street.

I like when people put their thoughts so out in the open. Makes it much easier to know whom to not work for, since the work culture must be terrible, if they even publicly express …

I've lived in sweden for a while, I have family ties. People there care, compared to US. I've seen people pick up some random trash on an otherwise spotless sidewalk. I've seen peo…

A lot of wildlife, like birds, bats, insects etc. are really confused by white light. There are some nordic countries which are experimenting with red street lights in outer distri…

Haha fair enough

When you invite a girl/guy over, do you say "let's meet at my place" or "let's meet at the place I'm renting"? The possessive pronoun does not necessarily express ownership, it can…

> Seems like a pretty standard "free markets/Econ 101" argument to me. Hm I think I see what you mean. It's a free market argument that includes that some regulation is in place wh…

It's sad because the HN crowd is technically maximally (?) literate and should be one of the last communities to even remotely buy the debunked story. It's scary because if even th…

Yeah, for a substantial fraction of people, this case will stick to their minds as "oh the chinese .. again" It's both sad and scary. It was even submitted to HN. Flagged by now, b…

"The chinese" yeah sure. Lmao. Everybody panic, there are two chips inside! Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743033#42743428 for more lulz

Totally agree. And a great example that truth is complicated, expensive and uncomfortable. It's much easier to postulate an evil nation-state entity with a bad plan (without eviden…

In your mind, probably. More seriously, nowhere of course, but if the risk is manageable (a fluffy term to mean predictable and not too high) then you'll find an insurance that cov…

> the narrative of “insurance companies bad” is incredibly prevalent among left-leaning perspectives, Perhaps it is, I don't have enough insight to know. It's obvious (to me) that …

That depends on what you mean with "pull out". Typically you pay a premium and that means you are insured for a certain period. A year or so. Everybody who is insured at the moment…

> The government banned insurance companies from raising prices. They used tax payer money to subsidize this for a while which increase home prices. Eventually insurance companies …

I don't understand the downvote. I think this hit the nail on its head. People whine about insurances pulling out. All they want is for somebody else to pay for their risk. It's th…

The term "uninsurable" is not linked to "too expensive" or (equivalently) "too high risk". It's linked to "unpredictable". The business insurances are in is a business of statistic…

Anyone relating LLMs to school kids cheating hasn't seen programmers be 3x as fast using it and journalists churning out articles 3x as fast by focusing on what they do best (gathe…

"For free" and "collaboration", right. Just like my employer gives me lots of stock options "for free" every quarter, it just happens to be the case that I also do a lot of program…

Oh boy, where to start.. > So why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? > Why indeed. Strategically, Cloudflare offering unlimited bandwidth for small static sites like mine fi…

I believe that Arista has (had?) P4 devices in their lineup, but after Intel's sunsetting of that platform, they probably axed them.

Not gonna happen. "I can't wait for the PC hype train to die" "I can't wait for the internet hype train to die" "I can't wait for the smartphone hype train to die" "I can't wait fo…

This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it. Circumstances can change, but if people do the right thing for the "right reasons", then…