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> they just add a tiny markup to their prices to pay the eventual fine instead Ironically, this counter-argument applies perfectly to the "US solution". On the contrary, EU's huge …

I just tried asking ChatGPT #5 and it answered this: I'm sorry, but the term "optimystic" does not have a widely recognized or established meaning. It appears to be a combination o…

Relevant paragraph IMO: > First, it includes an appeal to trust, which is a line of reasoning with which I don't agree. You can't trust your colleagues, just like you can't trust y…

To "disable" the Dock — not really: it will pop up sometimes, e.g. when some icon bounces, but anyway — you can defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide -bool true defaults write com…

> but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq I wouldn't even know where to start. This is such an obviously illogical argument. I mean, man, c'mon.

> it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters. That seems counterproductive to me. I mean, ads would still be annoying. And that’s why we block them.

> 6. Copy files to/from a flash drive. It's possible (but yeah, it's been a problem for long). Anyway: > 4. Switch between front and back cameras while recording a video. This is t…

> My father for example always used Android. [...] > [H]e got an iPhone and he find it more difficult to use [...] I guess that's precisely because he is used to Android, not becau…

We may agree that piracy is theft, but 'ALittleLight has a point. From Novembrer 2011 — when it was published — to September 2012 — when the author believes it's been "pirated" — t…

Except the emacs sequence will get you tendinitis in the long run, won't it?

> The argument for censorship against stupidity assumes exactly that, that the majority of people are stupid which they are not. It's not censorship against stupidity. It's censors…

The original game in Let's Make a Deal went exactly like you described. Monty Hall opened the remaining doors; no option to switch. Then there is the ambiguity as whether the host …

Google could have given its users the same advantages of AMP without AMP just by saying: we'll penalize slow and cluttered websites in web searches, in favour of fast and clean one…

> Focus on the things people are saying and not nitpicking their delivery and you will absorb more information. I agree. Form is not so important.

Those are typographic eccentricities, to be pedant :) And they're not even that uncommon on the Internet and amongst tech people. (See the Jargon file[1], for example.) But I get y…

Pure Saul Goodman style.

A better description would be “I know what people that happened to share your current IP address downloaded on BitTorrent”. Given that providers either implement dynamic addressing…

I meant that it's dubious whether we can reproduce a brain-like machine until we'll understand the matter well enough to either prove it possible or impossible. Anyway, I feel like…

We don’t understand something. It’s a complicated phenomenon. So it’s impossible to replicate? I think the “argument” is so silly it doesn’t need to be disproved. If one wants to p…

So do they feed such information only when training the system?

Actually, it’s 1/998001 :)

> ... we have a small favour to ask. Millions are flocking to the Guardian for quality news every day.

I'm perplexed: > Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. It's a list, but it's not intended to be consumed th…

The use of check marks and "no entry" symbols throughout the article is purposefully misleading. Chrome gets check marks even for bad features, like tracking; Firefox gets gray mar…