praptak
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Comment · 10 days ago
"Unless Ofcom is prepared to sail a British invasion fleet here and land ground troops[...]"
Let's not pretend this is the only way (some) laws are enforced abroad. A US company wants your country to put you in jail for hacking hardware you legally own? No problem, they lobby this in trade deal negotiations and they get their way.
This is economic coercion instead of the fleet, so people don't get as angry about this as they should.
Comment · 19 days ago
If you believe that tech actually does more harm than good, then you don't need the motive of personal credits. The author actually mentions helping bad people in her article.
Comment · 21 days ago
> we were only worried about turning into reddit
I don't think there's "we" anymore. A large population of HN readers got to hate the combination of tech and capitalism that HN stands for because its effects on society are horrible. Techno-optimism is dead.
Comment · 1 month ago
Somehow a powerful state army destroying homes and killing civilians is not "terrorist". It's only "terrorist" if the weak try to respond in kind, using means available to them. It's almost like "terrorist" is a propaganda term used by the strong against the weak who try to resist.
As the saying goes "war is terrorism with a bigger budget".
Comment · 1 month ago
The problem with the tragedy of the commons is that everyone knowing it will happen is not enough to prevent it from happening.
Comment · 1 month ago
The optimal level of cable regrets is non zero.
Comment · 2 months ago
Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Monkey see, monkey do: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-car...
"It's not about utility. It's not even really about the chatbot. It's about visibility, the fear of looking behind. A website without a chatbot in 2026 risks feeling unfinished, like something's missing. Even if what's missing is a half-broken widget that most visitors dismiss in three seconds. The chatbot has become a social signal, not a tool. A way of saying: we're keeping up."
Comment · 3 months ago
Releasing the steriles blindly is not enough, you gotta monitor the pest too. This is prohibitively expensive in rainforests and other areas with poor infrastructure.
Okay, maybe you could release the flies in large enough numbers not to need monitoring but I guess it would also be prohibitively expensive.