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smallnix··on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
So a system that enables thousand if not millions of "pubs" would be HN worthy? From what I understand that is mastodon and this article is a success story of a single instance/"pub".
smallnix··on If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
> we divided the total number of sales we had from all sources by the total number of unique IPs in our database, and came up with about 0.1. that’s how we came up with 90%

Did they account for dynamic IPs? If not that number is way off.

smallnix··on [dead]
Is it about the movies "being woke" or just that these are not not entertaining stories and characters. Often as the n-th unoriginal repackaging.

Seems like the authors of the article have a political agenda of their own to me.

smallnix··on The Bond villain compliance strategy
> And also Binance gleefully and knowingly banked [...] child pornographers. That’s not an allegation; that has been confessed to.

I would like to learn more about that. Does anyone have a source?

smallnix··on There is a new version of GPT-4 Turbo now live in ChatGPT
How can I check which version is serving me?
smallnix··on Unearthing Gems in an Archive of Rock Star Interviews
Under what license are these available. The website only refers to the original website, as far as I understand. But I don't know which website that would be.
smallnix··on No Man's Sky just keeps getting better
For those who enjoy a humorous video essay about this topic: https://youtu.be/O5BJVO3PDeQ?si=3BMt0QPkx9DYqzEl
smallnix··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
The king of Belgium has anything to do with Canada?
smallnix··on Calculated misery: why airlines want you to be uncomfortable
https://archive.ph/sabDi
smallnix··on Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization
> That’s okay. I have a lot of respect for my colleagues who don’t see things the same way as I do. I was in the same place a year ago.

Also OPs comment. Sounds too cultish for me.

smallnix··on The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
But TCP is way more complex
smallnix··on Clearview AI: secretive company that might end privacy as we know it (2020)
> goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government

I believe that is not true

smallnix··on FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
Steve gave examples for the different kind of fees and that it's hard to track them and why. I wanted to ask you for examples for AWS. Would be good to know concrete pitfalls and traps.
smallnix··on Project Valhalla, Simple as it can be, but not simpler
No. It does not trigger in Chrome. After 5 min of messing with chrome experimental flags I gave up and kept zooming in and out.
smallnix··on Project Valhalla, Simple as it can be, but not simpler
I understand it's in jest but I don't think Einsteins version "blew it". The simplified (and definitely catchier) aphorism misses to explain what the criterion for enough or not enough is.
smallnix··on Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
Is this about more than letting my company disable 2G on my phone?
smallnix··on We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
*intelligent
smallnix··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
Except, most likely, in exactly this story with the second paper from the original Korean authors (if things can be proven to be true).
smallnix··on Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)
"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances."
smallnix··on Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
The token prefix is a nice hack, but users will find it out and then it becomes part of the informal API.
smallnix··on Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations
> Don’t order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.

Did they also employ these sabotage techniques in Japan?

smallnix··on Google Play adds NFTs
I think now that the noise died down, maybe some fun can be had with them. I think NFTs should not exist in a vacuum. The context (e.g. game or on-going comic series) give them the actual character of a collectible.
smallnix··on Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (2013)
I perceive it as rude to get messages in the middle of the night.
smallnix··on Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]
Feels like Twitter is leaking from your brain into HN
smallnix··on Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
> CodeWhisperer is a generative AI service powered by a foundation model trained on various data sources, including Amazon and open-source code.
smallnix··on Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)
Yes, both of you only contributed anecdotes and no data. (Neither did I)
smallnix··on Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
His website is also very interesting: https://porterrobinson.com/
smallnix··on Real-time messaging
And even that depends very much on the type of interaction. E.g. Tactile Feedback vs visual.
smallnix··on SETI scientists to devise plan for lunar listening station
It's also about curiosity and fun. The public can fund something they find interesting for the sake of it.
smallnix··on MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism
> There's no virtue inherent to giving anonymously.

Maimonides has a different viewpoint: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzedakah

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