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Comment · 14 hours ago
And now too Diwali, the festival of light, is very popular in many parts of the UK - the only constant is change!
Comment · 18 hours ago
Oh right, now they want government to get involved with their make believe 'currency'...
Comment · 18 hours ago
76 (already a good age) with an existing heart condition and increases HIIT exercise frequency by 25%.

I wonder if they consulted their physician before doing that, and what they recommended?

Comment · 1 day ago
ish. the 'we don't need no gubmint interference in our currency' crew certainly seem happy to have gubmint help in sorting this mess out.
Comment · 1 day ago
Headline is still "Binance hacked for $6BN". Too late to control the narrative.
Comment · 1 day ago
It's 10 months of revenue, but 10 years of reputation.
Comment · 4 days ago
They conform to EU and UK safety standards (there are enough of them on the roads here to demonstrate that).

Are US safety standards that much higher - seems like a regulatory nightmare over there?

/s

Comment · 5 days ago
They don't! They may appear to make untruthful statements, but they're making them without any reference to a concept of truth.

"make no mistakes"

Comment · 5 days ago
"explicitly stated that zero tools would be triggered"

When are people going to stop anthropomorhizing these things and accept that they're bullshit machines?

Often useful, sometimes wrong, the words exist outside of any notion of ethics, or truth.

Comment · 6 days ago
Potential PII nightmare. You're now potentially circumventing access controls from sensitive data.
Comment · 6 days ago
A faster postgres/regex is literally the faster horse metaphor.

That software is a means to an end can be quite unfashionable on HN, but it's more ambitious thinking we need, and maybe software will be the answer.

(and no, the wet dreams of a teenager's interplanetary conquest fetish is centuries old rehash, not original thinking)

Comment · 7 days ago
typescript is a linter, not a language.
Comment · 7 days ago
It's mainly used by profitable and/or public sector orgs, so unlikely to have much intersection with the HN crowd.
Comment · 9 days ago
Ask a psychopath.

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