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slackr
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Comment #48258708
Delightful! While not as authentic as a hand-drawn chart, I find Decker can produce HyperCard-like graphs nicely.
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Comment #47409303
Even GDPR
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Comment #46999895
Spot on. Frankly, I’m unsure if it’s meant to be satire.
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Comment #46430593
Grammarly alternative: LanguageTool. Used by EU institutions
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Comment #46236583
“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.” What a sociopathic way to sell
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Comment #45805727
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind
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Comment #45805723
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.
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Comment #45219335
The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example A…
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Comment #44869617
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 Grok says: My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by IC…
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Comment #44826543
Nice. But what about moderation?
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Comment #44557377
Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk…
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Comment #44123207
Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where…
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Comment #43713558
ICJ judges in The Hague, including Israel’s appointed judge, deemed it necessary to remind Israel to respect the Palestinians’ right to not be genocided away. https://en.m.wikisour…
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Comment #43447307
It was about the data, not ads per se: https://www.awo.agency/files/ocarroll-v-meta-bundle.pdf
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Comment #43075967
I suppose that would be covered in the same way that fraudulent payments on stolen cards are dealt with.
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Comment #43075936
Internet access already requires hardware and an ISP subscription.
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Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in …
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Comment #42807736
https://youtu.be/Hkzreg-m3PY?si=vUMc7mTHEspxIW07 Video includes a tear down
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Comment #42569755
Reminds me—I wish someone would make an anti-LinkedIn, where the norm is to announce only setbacks and mistakes, disappointments etc.
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Comment #40839697
Tried Decker?
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Comment #40556286
Reminds me of a joke where a Jewish kid asks his dad “what’s the holy trinity?” And the dad replies, “there’s only one God and in this house we don’t believe in him.”
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Comment #39066026
Why do they say "nation state actor", isn't "state actor" the correct term? I thought Russia, like the UK and many other states, is a multinational state, including numerous langua…
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Comment #39038726
https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too.
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