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jules-jules··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Makes sense. OP is leaning I to conspiracional adhoc reasoning. I’m sure Pierre would rather keep his Hawaiian island than to field questions from the agencies
jules-jules··on Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust
Big fan of Larry Summers here. He seems to be part of everything, Harvard, Epstein, etc.
jules-jules··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
Considering that we're already approaching a Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum analog at up to ten times faster than the onset of the PETM (one of the largest mass extinction events) [1], I’d say it’s pretty much game over.

[1] "Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane's Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations" (Nisbet, Manning et al. 2023)

jules-jules··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
It was a joke. Dang is the site-wide moderator
jules-jules··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
Sounds like it was written by someone with a health condition. Hope Bostrom is alright.

Quite puzzling also he wouldn't even refer to his earlier work to refute it, given that he wrote THE book on the risk of superintelligence.

jules-jules··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Some Kantons are more easy going than others but overall the police are not to fuck around with.
jules-jules··on EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal
According to this source, 77% of soy production is used for animal feed. That only a small percentage of it goes to cattle is irrelevant in terms of the damage caused.
jules-jules··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
It’s not absurd, it’s deception.
jules-jules··on Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain
So, one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too?
jules-jules··on Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking
This is so chatGpt it hurts. Can we petition hn to ban ai generated comments? I see more Reddit communities actively putting a ban on ai, hn should follow if it can be done with the available resources.
jules-jules··on [dead]
Any accessible online space with real hacker culture? Mastodon?
jules-jules··on I became an anarchist while working for the Nevada state democratic party
Yet, most of the destructive policies have not been replaced by the new government eg abortion issues.
jules-jules··on Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Please, please please make it happen.
jules-jules··on Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
If you build this I will come.

Something like feeding your Reddit username to

https://redditmetis.com/

And suggest other users to chat to based on the analysis

jules-jules··on The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent
Thank you for speaking out. There are so many who are too afraid sadly.
jules-jules··on When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
At what point does it become easier to just do the task yourself? I’ve pondered this question often and came to the conclusion that it’s not worth at the current level of output for me to tinker with it until I get sensible responses.
jules-jules··on Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
Very good points. My understanding from talking to a research assistant, the research groups doing lsd/mdma/psilocybin studies based in Basel and Zürich are led by drug experienced researchers.
jules-jules··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
Thank you dang. Doing the lords work.
jules-jules··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
No it’s gone. We would need admin support to get it unflagged again, most likely.
jules-jules··on Boeing's largest plant in 'panic mode' amid safety crisis, say workers and union
You can fly an all airbus carrier to avoid this scenario. JetBlue for instance in the US.
jules-jules··on Revealed: Israeli spy chief 'threatened' ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
Getting the HN customary flagged status. Like clock work.
jules-jules··on Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo
Absolute rubbish in my case. Tried three locations with distinct landmarks, like mountains, lakes and buildings from Germany and Poland. In one case it got the country correct, in the others it guessed France.
jules-jules··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Dang has to rescue pretty much every single Israel post as they are getting mass flagged to oblivion.
jules-jules··on Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks
I locked myself out of the room on several occastions, and at the very least they ask for your name and double check in the system. It's not as easy as you describe.
jules-jules··on Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain
I'd be careful with strenuous exercise, it may cause PEM. See comments below.
jules-jules··on Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
ISIS is very much a creation and result of the US invasion of Iraq, John Kerry admitted to that. The CIA funding link is also relatively well established.
jules-jules··on Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
I'd see the innovatio is there but you have to search carefully amid the graft.
jules-jules··on A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
Another little discussed feature is that the 'active' list shows flagged submissions. For this reason I almost exclusively use this list.
jules-jules··on Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
Geoengineering most likely as it’s the path of least resistance.
jules-jules··on What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism
It’s only paranoia as long as you’re on the side of the guys behind the camera, this can quickly change say if for example you are attending a rally that condemns the ongoing Genozide in Gaza [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37997246

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