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plagiarist··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
You don't need to pretend any longer, you can openly embrace expressing your political opinions with your salutes. With the masked federal agents kidnapping and murdering citizens, even people who weren't paying attention previously have realized what MAGAs want for society.
plagiarist··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
There is so much you are hiding behind "not perfect" and I think you know that.
plagiarist··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
N64 graphics vehicle.
plagiarist··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
If the Nazi salute wasn't political enough. Children going through WWII in their history classes might dislike Cybertrucks independently of their parents.

It's always an excuse and everyone else's fault that things are politicized. The same people telling us to leave every social problem to the Invisible Hand get fussy when it actually manifests.

plagiarist··on Everything is an AI scam now
I keep getting a weird video telling me to never begin a conversation with a stranger by giving them my name, as if corporate environments are full of fae.
plagiarist··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
Does economic growth look like companies firing hundreds or thousands of employees in batches because they are replacing them with AI? Because that's what people are seeing in headlines. That and mass surveillance.
plagiarist··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
The reason is that a majority of the voters wanted to regulate it.
plagiarist··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
Cryptocurrency is like finding out why financial regulations exist speedrun
plagiarist··on Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
That happened to individuals, so it is fine. This crime is happening against a company, that is wrong and bad.
plagiarist··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Unsurprising. I loved the tool but it was obviously time to drop it when they began pushing for logins.
plagiarist··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
We're worried about it connecting to a neighbor's unsecured network or some sort of unpublished mesh capability for exfiltrating your data and downloading ads.
plagiarist··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
A smart company would A/B test changes and choose based on lifetime value vs. average session value. The compaction is going to happen anyway, does idle compaction increase the length of a session or the amount of sessions per user?
plagiarist··on Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Can something be both true and unprovable without being a self-referential Godel sentence? I assume most statements that aren't self-referential are independent, like the continuum hypothesis with ZFC.
plagiarist··on Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats
I would never buy an appliance that requires a third-party server. Google cannot remove the value from a Zigbee or Z-Wave thermostat like this.
plagiarist··on Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out
The average human post on reddit is a carbon-copied comment from 2011
plagiarist··on YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit
No justification is required. Police visiting this person over completely legal public photography is an egregious violation of First Amendment rights.
plagiarist··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
I wish the ads were restricted to ad-supported media instead of arriving in the mail. I don't know what better evidence I need to avoid them than by how fucking aggressive they are about finding new suckers and offering money to help grease the slide into gambling addiction.
plagiarist··on Meta VR Glasses
This is one of the reasons I would never purchase hardware from Meta. If I need a subscription or account to use my own hardware that will be a hard no.
plagiarist··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Are we holding it wrong? Mine does the same godawful external library tests. When it is having a particularly stupid day it also tests language features. For example, checking that using a callback executes the code supplied in the callback (it does).
plagiarist··on Spymarks, not Watermarks
Google is probably unironically working on remote attestation for eye implants right now
plagiarist··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
I would also love for ubiquitous surveillance to be used for good, but what would happen in your scenario is ICE using the footage to hunt and kidnap people who "look" like undocumented immigrants.
plagiarist··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
What isn't? It is increasingly impossible to do anything without being monitored and tracked, and that data is aggregated more and more. Cars, TVs, random appliances...
plagiarist··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
At what age will you put the glasses away?
plagiarist··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
You say suspicion is warranted, you're still not only charging forward with this but also complaining about other people's perception of you doing so. You're not being left out, you're included in the narrative. You just don't like it.

I hope, for the kids' sake, in addition to normalizing the idea that it's okay for dad to be recording them without their awareness, you teach them that most people find the idea of strangers doing this to be creepy and distasteful (for good reason), so they need to be wary around Meta glasses despite seeing them as a quotidian thing.

plagiarist··on Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
I am not an expert but I am pretty sure changing a job is a "qualified life event" that allows an out-of-band change. I hate privatized insurance but I didn't think this thing in particular was a problem.
plagiarist··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
Two companies stole trillions of tokens worth of IP from Americans so of course the US government will step in and protect "their IP" from competitors
plagiarist··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
That's the point isn't it? You overpay a wealthy dude with connections to gain a node on nepotism graph.
plagiarist··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Oh, SCOTUS doesn't radically reinterpret the Constitution in that direction. Or, perhaps maybe it does, but nobody's bought Clarence the right RV yet.
plagiarist··on My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
Well that one is the classic far-right talking point that overpaying to be denied healthcare is preferable to the bogeyman of "wait times." Their other popular talking point is that with private insurance you can choose which doctor explains that your coverage was denied.
plagiarist··on My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
Catastrophic events seem to wipe people out financially regardless of insurance status. I keep hearing of people divorcing so their former spouse can keep some assets while they are battling cancer. There's just no winning unless you never need care.
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