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Non-native English speaker so if it sounded bad maybe I just failed to express it
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soco··on Do We Need Billionaires?
I know you meant it as a joke, but a regional mayor of Bucharest, Romania is currently pushing to have a Trump park.
soco··on Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy
No true Scostsman, aye me lad. Now really, because big bang doesn't work, means nothing else should be even tried? Are you even from the EU to actually know, or just feel bothered by the anti-US sentiment oozing from those initiatives? If that helps, my feeling is that it's not anti-US, just a normal reaction to the acts and thoughts of the beloved best-leader-ever ruling the US right now, and his faithful elite. It's trying to protect oneselves, maybe a bit of rallying under the (blue) flag, and defeatism has no place in it.
soco··on Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
It's a matter of time until the web for machines will be crawling with ads and everything else, and worse.
soco··on Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
A trick helping momentarily is introducing them to another person. Then I pick up their name from the conversation and can use it myself - at least for 10 minutes until I forget it again.
soco··on Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
> This naming-proposal couldn't possibly cause any problems down the line...

Your worries are a bit late, there's already a huge amount of new age conspiracy bull about quantum healing with wave function collapse, microtubule alignment and biophotons - quality all-you-can-eat word salad buffet.

soco··on Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
I'm not the OP neither have their problem, but I can't remember names. I know who the person in front of me is, we can talk pleasantly about everything - I have a good memory otherwise - but I can't remember their name to save my life. Luckily they very seldom notice that, if ever. And I won't tell, obviously.
soco··on How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.
This is the first use case for firearms I can understand. I hate it, I hate even that we have to have this discussion in a so-called civilized world, but here we are, and I understand it.
soco··on How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.
Is this theory working in the US? Do we see the social people with weapons suppressing the antisocial gangs with weapons? If you see proof for this, good. But I don't see it. Also, one downside of firearms is collateral victims.
soco··on Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
I'm both Windows and Linux, so either would work for me.
soco··on Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
Makes sense, but I haven't seen in the comments the signs of research having been done. Or maybe you were hoping that I am doing the research for you, while you brainstorm how it can't work? I am an union member, albeit not in the US, and for me it looks fine. Sample size of 1, but a sample which says it does work. Take this information as you wish.
soco··on Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
It feels somehow weird to see a cloud tool usable only from Macs. Oh well.
soco··on Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
The question as I took it was "I can't imagine how this can work". Interpreting it as anything else is defeatism and I won't entertain that.
soco··on Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
Simple idea: look how other unions work, and in other countries as well. The wheel has already been invented.
soco··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
Unless the drones take out your air bases, and the AA rockets are biting at the low altitude flights. Sorry it's never that simple.
soco··on 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time
Then there's this theory that legalese was created to enforce the need for legalese, to justify it and feed it forward.
soco··on Sweden is now America's most valuable tech ally. Most Americans haven't noticed
I see your point, and totally agree it applies on art of any kind. But in news reporting? Here I am rather interested in the updates, in the information being brought to me. The packaging is less important - to me at least, so I wouldn't complain in this case. And let me underline again the difference: I don't even care to listen to AI music, but would read news brought by AI (those not hallucinated).
soco··on Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Alas, a GoFundMe campaign would never gain enough traction to make fun of this fine.
soco··on Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Also: "Don't do evil" (Google, ca 2004)
soco··on EV Stupidity Checklist
I never needed to clean the reversing camera lens so far, in over a decade. It doesn't matter if it's a rear view or reversing, either would get the same amount of mud right? So probably some makers are just better at choosing a placement for the optics.
soco··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
A quick and broken test.
soco··on Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
I don't think this is what the OP claimed up here. Anyway, you're absolutely right, and also I don't see any message on this page claiming we should take Wikipedia without skepticism.
soco··on Objective metrics that change the most as we age
The user groups of an iPhone app will be overwhelmingly iPhone users, I reckon.
soco··on Internet traffic in Iran increasing
I think you just implicitly agreed that what I said is true - that it would be enough for Russia to go back home and everybody would be at peace.
soco··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
> from the man who designed iPhone

How about this: techbros got their hands everywhere nowadays, so even an iconic car brand is forced to use their brainfarts? Forced by market pressure, forced by export conditions, you name it, but I cannot fathom why otherwise getting a tech guy design a car. I actually like the design, but I must agree it doesn't look Ferrari at all. Did they fire Manzoni or what?

soco··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
That goes the other way as well: who spends 640k on a car won't care much about the opinion of influencer X on platform Y.
soco··on On Labubu and the Hyperreal
I know a few proud Labubu wearers and they are all trendy adults 40+. Focus on "trendy": they liked the surprise of it, the signaling of it, and above all the exclusivity. That was 1-2 years ago. Only nowadays it migrated to younger and kids, and said adults are past their phase while their children asked for Labubu presents (the younger would accept knockoffs as well). So in my experience it was totally a fashion fad. Maybe every group/region/society lived it differently?
soco··on Can we have the day off?
By the amount of money thrown out the AI window nowadays, a day off, or hiring a few more folks to cover for those days off and more, seems like the much cheaper option. But that's only my naive impression right?
soco··on Internet traffic in Iran increasing
On the other hand, this doesn't explain why Poland, which was even wiped off the maps for a few times, has a GDP per capita almost twice of Russia, which wasn't really invaded much throughout more-or-less-recent history (au contrary).
soco··on Internet traffic in Iran increasing
Then said Russia could withdraw their multinational troops, stop their international drones, and enjoy peace for the first time in their history.

Because Russian drones have European parts as well (and Chinese and and), and the army recruits are not only Russian either.

soco··on Objective metrics that change the most as we age
Also only works with iPhones, oops.
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