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bfuller··on Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?
sounds out there, but I completely agree.
bfuller··on Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in cyberattack
IRS.gov requires facial recognition to log in. I know because I tried yesterday and it wouldn't accept me (presumably because i had no beard in my ID photo)
bfuller··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
I'd like to know also, the community manager returns stuff with like 5 comments.
bfuller··on Google warns staff about chatbots
Not only people, couldn't the LLM itself distribute secrets by being prompted to write similar code or something? I don't know if they end up training the model on the data it has received/generated.
bfuller··on Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
I am extremely skeptical when people say AI will replace all photographers, no one wants AI generated wedding photos. However, it has certainly replaced my use of stock photos.
bfuller··on How Aphex Twin Made Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Sounds like speculation, but the sh-101 (which was re released as a fun little $300 battery powered toy, great gift idea) was at the time one of the most accessible synths at the time. Knowing that, they are probably just extrapolating that he would have had access to it because it was so cheap and widespread.
bfuller··on YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
I advise you to sit down and have a serious conversation with some Pakistani people. I don't entirely disagree with you but there are some glaringly ignorant statements that seem to stem from a lack of experience with the actual cultural experience in Pakistan.
bfuller··on YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
I would argue that it does matter because the will of the masses is an extraordinarily powerful force and provoking them by ousting someone universally loved like Khan (heck I am a huge Khan fan and wish we had politicians like that in the USA!) can cause huge societal waves.

But I do agree with you, having the pleasure to know some upper class Pakistanis, that the military is the basis of the government.

bfuller··on YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
Yeah sadly all the old heads that tell me stories of putting think tanks together so that consumers owned their metadata, all the excitement of activism by those few super nerds end up telling it to me from their mansions bought by creating SaaS services or whatever.

I'd say the 90s hacktivists for the most part took the golden handcuffs and left the rest of humanity out to dry. We need like 1000 more Pavel Durovs,

bfuller··on Google Chrome is getting an RSS feed reader on desktop
RIP google reader
bfuller··on Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
In a corporate structure, yes I would say so. Whether that is the best organizational method is another debate for another thread.
bfuller··on How and why I built Japan Dev
Business can totally be done in a fair and ethical way, that's just not western culture. Here you get promoted for stomping on someones neck with your boot
bfuller··on How and why I built Japan Dev
Well yeah, its to see who has to dip into their money that is supposed to be locked in. If I was in the business of usury I wouldn't want to lend to people who couldn't keep the collateral locked up for 6 months.
bfuller··on How and why I built Japan Dev
isnt it pretty common for people to pay their expenses with their LLC bank # because it doesnt matter what you spend it on if x amount of dollars goes through the account it allows you privilege of credit
bfuller··on Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy
Sears used to take clothing back and replace it if it had any wear on it. In the 90s I bought a couple pairs of jeans at sears and just kept replacing them until they stopped doing that.
bfuller··on Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy
This definitely happens all the time, I get packages whose boxes have obviously been opened before all the time.

People double-dipping amazon products and saying they never got the package (or it was stolen) has been going on forever.

bfuller··on Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global
How much do you make per year? I wonder how good of a mood you would be in if you were working 2+ fast food jobs to support your kids in a tiny apartment.
bfuller··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)
Location: Remote

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Mobile Development, Cloud Scaling, I am adept at soft skills.

Resume/CV: On demand. I just exited the startup I created called Randonautica, so for the past few years I was the CEO of a mobile app company until I exited. Email: joshualengfelder@gmail.com

bfuller··on Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
Of course a human can't outrun a car. This isn't some unprecedented idea, people have retired for this reason before:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573071

bfuller··on Methanol in South Africa Teens Deaths Often Fatal
I definitely think about that possibility and whether the distiller was skilled/wise enough to remove the methanol before i try homemade moonshine
bfuller··on Reckoning with the history of racial marketing of menthol cigarettes
Marketing does cause numerous harms, but there is a great argument to be made that marketing to children specifically is inherently unethical.
bfuller··on Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
No idea their reasoning, but if I were a top football, swimmer, or other athlete and knew that a computer could outperform me even at my highest level would be pretty disconcerting.
bfuller··on How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
A lot of McDonald's are franchised, its probably up to the franchise owner whether or not to build a play area. In the age of covid and monkeypox I doubt many franchisees would shell out the cash.
bfuller··on Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected
Correct me if I'm wrong but that chart shows gas prices on feb 21 being as high as in 2014, that upward trend just looks like a recovery from the $1 gas we had at the begging of the US "stay at home order"
bfuller··on Lock down your 'piss corridor'
Counterintelligence probably runs maintenance and security etc
bfuller··on 700M users and Premium
I had a successful commercial arc completely built on interactions I had on telegram. I built a profitable company and exited all because I decided to download this app 4 years ago.

Needless to say I will be paying for their premium services.

bfuller··on Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
I'd put my money on it. How long did it take for us to go from DARPA experiments to iPhone and 80 year olds on facebook?
bfuller··on Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?
Telegram is really a great organizational app and social platform. I created and sold a startup based solely on telegram interactions.
bfuller··on U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
i was 13 when my public upload folder started getting messed with, sad day
bfuller··on Ask HN: Why don't PCs have better entropy sources?
You can use a cell phone camera as a TRNG, there are plenty of papers ie

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7132901

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