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The box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get...

It's nationalism mixed up with marketing. Nationalism works for domestic markets. The association with quality manufacturing and precision helps abroad. Very similar thing happens …

Or maybe it's you who sees agents everywhere... could it be?

mamma mia...

Judges and juries are expressions of society and accountable to it. They're not a black box. Late-stage capitalist tech products left unchecked exploit human problems for profit. I…

I wonder how many HN users asked their AI of choice for a quick summary...

No, your reasoning is flawed: a judge or a jury is voted, appointed or selected through a process which is the result of centuries civilization, norms and legislation. As corrupt i…

Better than Boeing, I guess...

zero. It is a manifestation of the commoditization of Cloud Computing Interfaces. Every provider offers a blob storage, kubernetes clusters, queues and what not. I'd argue that cov…

It is definitely also about public opinion and it is going to be translated into laws soon enough (i.e. governments mandate data sovereignty). Recent erratic policies are having a …

I just came here to say that is ackchyually GNU/Linux.

> disrupting the seamless way Apple products work together this defense argument seems really counter productive as it feels exactly the point of antitrust laws. Just like disrupti…

That's exactly what a superintelligent AI would say...

Right, down with the Romans, really bad civilization, let's all make fun of them. I am glad they're all dead or turned into stone (I think?), am I right? Too bad the comment wasn't…

I will never understand why in this day and age Italian is the only accent or culture left in the USA that's still ok to make fun of...

Clearly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_methods_aga...

> just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile. I can confidently assure you that right about now there are a bunch of Europeans reading your message multiple t…

Maybe if you do notice a significant difference in your life with or without alcohol then it is a sign of a somewhat problematic relationship with it. I drink sometimes, most times…

Probably a 'something.google.com'... But you could have teams with DNS zone delegation who can.create.anything.like.this.google.com

> I commissioned a professional voice actor to give a full dramatic reading of that blog post. The absence of this comment would've been a rebuke to the original article: the oh-so…

I guess the duty of mentioning Neko befell on me this time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

I think this comment encapsulates quite exactly the point of the article: reading as a gamified chore that puts you "well ahead of the crowd" and somehow measures (or influences, e…

I am kind of appalled that the article and a lot of people in the comments seem to take the Bidet as an _alternative_ to toilet paper. That is absolutely not the case in countries …