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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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