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waffleiron

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    Comment #49174600

    Those margins are the cost of Capitalism.

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    Comment #49045370

    Almost all clothing is handmade https://www.litanynyc.com/post/all-clothing-is-hand-made

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    Comment #48823537

    To reduce e-waste? Not everything has to be optimised on time or money spend.

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    Comment #48810613

    > inputs from a deterministic controller. Any claims of "motive" or "behavior" are inappropriate anthropomorphizing of something that will never be more than a mathematical model o…

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    Comment #48729425

    But why does that never work the same why for the individual that does a (supposed) crime?

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    Comment #48483128

    In the Netherlands I visited a nuclear reactor in middle/highschool. Literally something that left such an impression that I still talk about two decades later. Letting kids into p…

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    Comment #48374331

    Not so sure I would want a company that does not see any issues with mass surveillance of my country [1] to have access to critical infrastructure or its source code where I live. …

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    Comment #48283399

    > Sink broke? Call landlord to fix. Roof leaking? Call landlord to fix Most landlords I've dealt with are an absolute pain to deal with when something breaks. It's often not that e…

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    Comment #48062688

    Having studied in the Netherlands it was somewhat difficult finding a job (10 years ago), and my first job was in Poland at a large Pharma company. I started working there for a wa…

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    Comment #48015000

    Data breaches of average people sell for quite a bit of money, often for phishing. I find it hard to believe no one would be interested in this. Or any other dataset with a hyper t…

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    Comment #47660827

    Yes, and HN isn't a place to submit things that require work from the reader. Or at least that seems to be the consensus by reporting it. Quite disappointing tbh.

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    Comment #47632433

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47398658

    ISW confirmed unauthorised edits were made, and fired a staffer over it. Not sure why you feel the need to comment this. Classic lowbrow dismissal https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

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    Comment #47388393

    Are items made, located in, and sold from China covered by ITAR?

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    Comment #47333131

    It seems from the article the LLM also doesn’t understand then commands it uses, as they do things that are not what is described.

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    Comment #47279723

    China and geopolitical enemies of the US doing horrible things regularly gets hundreds of votes. It’s quite clear that this argument is mainly used to defend the US and it’s allies…

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    Comment #47197325

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47187437

    Literally could just have someone working at the embassy roleplay on their lunch break in a cafe to generate this evidence.

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    Comment #47177847

    Thats the same type of thinking conspiracy theorists have, the type you can never disprove.

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    Comment #47163440

    I still think Lavabit did something a lot of tech companies these days would never do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

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    Comment #47080265

    Notably Mark Rutte in the role of Secretary General of NATO, no longer as Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

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    Comment #47059323

    Reminder of the HN guidelines for commenting, as the majority of comments just talks about the design of the page at the moment: In Comments Comments should get more thoughtful and…

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    Comment #46771461

    Why is it not that interesting? Especially when you see big tech align themselves with whomever is in power at the time? To me as a non American, it’s an absolute cope to argue tha…