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Yep. This is the thing that Microsoft is not mentioning in their watery response there.

That's the thing: they do bear responsibility in allowing the situation to get to this point and are very pointedly not connecting the dots with their response. Microsoft which own…

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Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations. ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access f…

This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it. IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.

Price of four plane tickets for your family? I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely. 4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom …

This is, with no intended disespect, both absolutely false and dangerously blithely ignorant. Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly …

Gotta love you supportive people. This is what makes HN a great community.

Hey! Could you give any insights as to what would make it easier (from your perspective as an engineering manager) to work with AS employees? Social skills aren't the issue here, j…

This was the question I jumped on today to ask. Not aspergers/autistic, but neurodivergent, and the thought of working in an office, which my next position is likely to entail, is …

Does anyone else have trouble looking at these patterns? Does that mean something? When viewing these repeating patterns, I get a kind of very uncomfortable visual disorientation, …

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Astute comment.

Love it <3

This headline is misleading by omission, to (nearly) the point of being false. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident tl;dr: - The primary reason for their…

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident

Just did a quick test with task "finish laundry". Was impressed with the quality of the result. It broke it down into a list of logical and concrete smaller steps. That's extremely…

One (admittedly far fetched) theory: Device compromised by advanced existing spyware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101029

Most interesting unanswered question for me: How do these companies transport the (waste heat) via heated mineral oil to the recipient? Presumably not every server farm could have …

That's okay, ChatGPT probably can pass it for us.

I know this is the prominent question here, but isn't virtually all water on earth more or less the same age? I think the title here is failing to be an accurate description, unles…

Might suggest learning up some on stocks and trading. Depending on your interest, aptitude, and spare income for trading/investment, you could potentially make a reasonable side in…

congrats. That's a brave admission, and it took some hard work. Thanks for sharing :-)