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heywintermute

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About heywintermute

it depends on the size of the chair

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45782693

    The circular financing of AI spend isn't exactly a new story. Pretty sure even Altman has publicly said it's bubble

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    Comment #45725070

    roughly 10% of their corporate workforce wow

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    Comment #44596494

    Mods have a way of boosting posts to refresh them back into the algorithm hence why you see some posts weeks ago showing back up

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    Comment #38118904

    Repo has be archived - "NOTE: This proposal is no longer pursued." https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

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    Comment #33211503

    Apparently this[0] is a possible way of opting out by phone but can't speak to it personally as I haven't tried it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27703091#27705428

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    Comment #30154453

    >A candidate who was caught lip syncing to someone talking in the room behind them For those who haven't seen this before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg

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    Comment #29923919

    >As long as California does, and most other places allow them, we're going to continue to see surprisingly high levels of startup formation and company success in California, despi…

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    Comment #29796014

    >"And yet, most young men in the country argue that it is men, not women, in South Korea who feel threatened and marginalized. Among South Korean men in their 20s, nearly 79 percen…

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    Comment #29777337

    >If you've seen the question/answer before just say so! In reality no one will do this though. There is way to much of an incentive on the candidate side to lie and work through as…

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    Comment #29516668

    >It seems like the model is to have a slick UI and hire contractors from India with second rate English skills handle the grunt work Seems more and more common unfortunately

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    Comment #29128102

    YT link doesn't work

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    Comment #28816308

    >every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. Felt like that with articles about Rust as well

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    Comment #28494492

    It's even more frustrating when it some programming related blog and you can't copy and paste the code snippet

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    Comment #28189862

    It's a free game that heavily revolves around buying lootboxes to unlock characters/items and is known as a gacha game[0] They are often intentionally designed to make it really di…

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    Comment #28161190

    >Or is there something intrinsic to Reddit traffic that makes it difficult to monetize? Reddit is also home to an enormous amount of porn and nsfw content in general which probably…

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    Comment #27895547

    Except it literally does? >Cornett, off work for a few weeks, realized he received enough money through unemployment benefits to start saving — for the first time. He wondered if t…

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    Comment #27624994

    >5k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. It's almost comedic how out of touch this comment is. Reminds me of this[0] https:…

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    Comment #27238523

    Was gonna say I feel like I've seen this posted on HN a few times now

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    Comment #26649889

    >It's easy to steal. >It only takes one 0-day wipe you out, irreversibly, and completely. My bank could get hacked, but we, as a society, can just decide that I still have the asse…

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    Comment #26413505

    The link is to a post on a Facebook group. The contents of the post has nothing to do with Facebook the company...

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    Comment #25887392

    Except it's even worse for crypto because many tokens don't nearly have the same liquidity as traditional stocks so market manipulation is even easier with crypto.