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I'd rather have OpenAI steal from Apple, the most valuable company in the world than to steal from everyone else: published books, StackOverflow users, Reddit comments I made 15 ye…

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> Microsoft stole my copy of Minecraft. Microsoft stole two of my accounts. I bought Minecraft in the alpha days when all you needed was a username and password. At some point they…

> We are not in the business of mass massacres. Ridiculous take. Defense is not a massacre. They are almost all fighting age men, and they outnumber the fighting age men of Ceuta. …

> What's with big tech companies changing all searches to be fuzzy? Probably because it maximizes usage time, so more ads are served. If the user gets what he's looking for as the …

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No it's not. Americans call it that and they don't even like football.

Also Reddit-style humorous replies were frowned upon because they ruin serious discussion and encourage karma chasing as opposed to providing valuable insight.

People don't remember now, but in the old HN comments like "this is so true honestly" would have been downvoted. If a comment just agrees with the parent, people would have said th…

> Who said it was evidence? Did a judge authorize or issue a warrant to collect said evidence? Absent that, it's just your property, and you can do with it as you please. Why do pe…

How is that in any way equivalent? The American government/legislature doesn't force you to adopt any particular view of the 2020 election. You can say Biden won or you can say it …

If you're not an English speaker, it's even more aggravating when speakers of your language replace common words with English ones to sound more sophisticated/corporate. So instead…

Wow, I didn't expect to see transsexual steps in front of a church.

Their priorities are all messed up. There are 12 emojis for pregnant non-women: 6 shades of pregnant men and 6 shades of pregnant non-binaries. But there's no emoji for things you …

> Considering YC invests in AI I doubt you’ll get anything of the sort. Conspiracy minded responses are low value, and yours is especially so considering HN bans AI comments.

What's even worse is when you go though such PRs and your comments are handled in minutes, with replies explaining the change with perfect spelling and em dashes. At which point yo…

A country is not a contract, it's a culture. It's quite audacious to want to be part of a country, but also to be so quarantined from them as to not even want to learn their langua…

> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet…

It's all about what you actually care. Piracy helps people who can't afford to pay or have no way of acquiring legally. LLM training helps megacorps replace people. If you side wit…

> And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization". It is.[1] Perhaps you mean it's not a statutory Foreign Terrorist Organization, like Al-Qaida or Hamas. That is a ha…

Why the scare quotes? Are you denying he was a cop?

> A sentence of 30 years in prison for obstructing an investigation is excessive Being excessive is the point. It's to deter others from trying to copy their actions.

> Brown people existing doesn't hurt you. BBC: About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swe…

Biden. His policies led to a huge increase in illegal immigration. Look at the huge jump due to his policies: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20240127_EPC... The sa…

> To me too, then I got to the leaders quote on TV: "We must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." Firstly, you should probably cite that. Searching for it …