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dafty4 | 3 months ago | on: Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving for drug-trafficking

@pg, can you ask @thiel if he is in favor of this pardon?

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@dang, why was this related post flagged (neither posted nor flagged by me, but of interest since RSS feeds are delayed in posting "live" news updates (e.g., BBC RSS is a delayed version of BBC-Live)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

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dafty4 | 7 months ago | on: US envoy visits Gaza food distribution site as UN says 1,373 killed waiting for

@dang, why was this related post flagged (neither posted nor flagged by me, but of interest since RSS feeds are delayed in posting "live" news updates (e.g., BBC RSS is a delayed version of BBC-Live)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

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dafty4 | 1 year ago | on: Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web

The above marginalia.nu just surfaced the following very nice article for me, which neither Google nor Kagi returned in their top 10 search results for the same terms ('thaad aegis hwasong'):

https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-rol...

(duckduckgo.com returned it as the 5th returned result (not bad)),

Thanks!

dafty4 | 2 years ago | on: The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)

The professor has resigned after being placed on leave, FWIW:

https://www.wuft.org/education/2021-04-23/university-of-flor...

dafty4 | 2 years ago | on: Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk

But, for the Less-Wrong'ers, is it as scary as (gasp) Roko's Basilisk?!?

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months

So, are you thinking more about laying people off recently? :)

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Meta and Google are cutting staff

The stock price dive at Meta is pretty clearly due to the $10B hit from Apple’s Do Not Track Feature.

Meta should make a free Android phone that allows tracking.

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Stanley Druckenmiller warns the stock market will be ‘flat’ for an entire decade

These headlines are such BS. The Russia-Ukraine war and energy crisis won’t be resolved in the next ten years? Give me a break.

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Death by hockey sticks

Don’t plot the amount of wild mammalian biomass, plot the amount of totally mammalian biomass.

Doubt you’ll see a downward hockey stick in that case.

What makes a wild mammal more special than a domestic one?

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: No More “Insight Porn”

TLDR; any mention of Tim Ferriss?

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant

But "to any person", e.g., a CIA asset in the field might be exposed by a gmail user, thus threatening her/his life, thus pre-emptively disclose the gmailer's info to law enforcement?

Or imagine an idle threat is made off-hand in a private gmail, so pre-emptively disclose that threat to law enforcement?

In the sci-fi Minority Report scenario, Google could use AI language models on all gmail to make a judgment call on "emergent danger of serious physical injury". If I plan to go bunjee jumping with an unreliable provider, Google scans my gmail and tells law enforcement?!?

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant

Self-hosted VPN for at least a narrower risk surface, in theory?

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns

And a commissioner appointed by Trump, no less.

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns

Ever heard of Japanese toy franchises? Sometimes foreign stuff sells better than domestic.

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq

Cool! Can I easily post self-hosted photos? :)

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain

Looking to economic growth only without any regard for unemployment is myopic.

dafty4 | 3 years ago | on: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

Thanks for posting the heads-up re: Meta and Netflix; in the latter case I’m not surprised (or maybe they could just reduce the obscenely high salaries they overpay so they can feel superior to other members of FAANG, which doesn’t really fool anyone about their engineering prowess (they’re a content company, not an engineering/product/big-cloud company like the others, and everyone knows it). That would also allow them to get rid of this let-a-person-go-after-a-few-months-but-don’t-worry-there’s-warmth-and-respect BS.

Regarding your 2nd statement: “Other companies are cutting staff”; you mean in big tech already? Who?

dafty4 | 4 years ago | on: Why Kreya isn't open source

TLDR: Money

dafty4 | 4 years ago | on: Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper

Just curious what PDF annotation tool(s)/setup you use?