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That's completely untrue. Both the GOP and AfD are openly anti-EV, so their supporters are often anti-EV.

Except for not using LIDAR?

This is the problem with VC culture: it's not funding good, sustainable ideas, it's basically betting.

The economics prize is not an actual Nobel prize, but something "inspired" by the Nobel prize. It's little more than a tool to push neoliberal policies to the public, with 34 of th…

Also, CERN does not have a profit motive. How much good work have the people reading this thread had to trash because it didn't align with Q3 OKRs? How much time and energy did the…

How is this a real submission? Yes, a day job is easier, because a day job has a very real cap on your renumeration. Work for a company, create a product, have that product generat…

It's interesting to watch the arc of Microsoft being the big baddie, transitioning to being a good dude that the open source community has embraced, back to being horrible. Except …

AI? Yes. LLMs pretending to be AI? No.

How long has it been like this though? The meaning of words change surprisingly quickly, but not as quickly as their second-order connotations.

How about we give them an offer: we can bail out your company, but you have to leave the financial services industry for 10 years.

This only makes sense if the engineering teams own the process from end to end, at which point they stop being engineering teams.

The Playstation 4 was launched in 2013 and there is no modern hack for it.

the internet was decades old when http appeared.

I would love to see any rigorously documented causation or even correlation between police budgets and crime rates.

I didn't have it in the US in the 1980s, and my wife didn't have it in Poland in the 1980s/1990s either.

The privatization of profits and socialization of losses.

Coincidences exist because human brains are absolutely amazing at finding patterns, wether they actually exist or not.

It's weird to see this mashup of "sales don't matter" with HN's utterly lapdog approach to capitalism and free markets.

I'd much rather have a door hinge[1] from Bosch, a company that has manufactured a billion door hinges[1], than from a company that's figuring out how to design and manufacture doo…

A lot of modern western capitalism mirrors whatever the hell we had in the eastern bloc, with the caveat that neither the US nor the EU are 20-40 years after the greatest, most des…

What's the name of the dealership? Cause I have no idea, it's just "that dealership with the chatgpt chatbot"

Right now it's integrated with siri so you just hold down your power button and say, "what is this song?" and it tells you.

Web devs do not love to take it away from you. However, designers, product owners and project managers do.

I left Poland in 1983 and came back in 1992. Before we left, I had never had pierogi ruskie . If we had pierogi, they'd either be with fruit (strawberries or wild blueberries), sau…

> Not because doing drugs as an addict is inherently a crime, but because addiction occurs way too late in the cycle to really do anything about. What's your source on this, or are…