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I think we can start with just ignoring skin color and just be people, just be Americans.

Saying "uncle tom" is straight up racist by the way.

They can't audit the votes!

Not unexpected but still hit hard.

Personally, and this is just my opinion, but many people are aware of the reporting on CA laws and how it's actually impossible to prove voting irregularities because they separate the voter from the vote. And to have people with the attitude she has, it only makes me lean towards - they know the irregularities are real.

The fix is to do things right every time, and if we're losing money to false alarms, spend more money to make sure the false alarms stop happening. Make it a new persons problem rather than just making someone "used to it" and start ignoring it.

Making it so you don't have to see anyone and eat. (I don't do this personally - just reflecting society)

It's true. The fast food restaurants had all been locked into competition without these services for years. Then they found out people will pay 2x, and not only that, will be a large percentage of their base. So at risk of doordash prices going to 3x, the restaurants raised prices 2x anyway figuring either people will drive in or door dash will split the difference. Which is what happened.

I can't argue with that.

But at the time no one was buying windows because of IE! It was WORD!

I do agree with that. Home Depot has a history of cutting out small lumber yards across the US for charging less for wood. Then when the local lumber yard is out of business, oh suddenly the wood shortage back east is a great reason to raise prices.

But what you're saying is that if a piece of software is popular, free and has no competition, it should be illegal!? And the browser isn't even a great example of that since there are tons of other options! Wireshark is specialty packet sniffing software that has literally no reasonable competition in it's space. It's also free. Should it be banned here?

Isn't that more proof that the consumer won here? Even business consumers? By making IE free, there is no reason to pay Netscape. I'm sorry but this is not an example of a monopoly. Should Wireshark be banned in the United States because it's the best packet sniffer and it's competition is basically 0 right now?

I think the history actually proves the opposite. There was never a version of Windows that I purchased that required me to download Internet Explorer. In fact on the latest copy of Windows - Edge is still pre-installed. Yet Chrome holds a larger share TODAY. There was absolutely no reason for Microsoft to lose that case.

The second most popular browser now is Safari. Should the justice department come after Apple for including it in the Mac?

There is also a skyrocketing chance they are colluding via algorithm.

This needs to be discussed more in the age of AI. RealPage was just the eye-opener. Every industry that should be competing on prices has a cottage industry of "price recommenders" that is de-facto collusion in front of our eyes.

It's kind of obvious if you ever sat a Taco Bell waiting for your food that it's always the red bags coming in.

To this day while I welcome anti-trust legislation, I don't understand how a "free" thing can be anti-consumer. Both Microsoft and Netscape were not "charging" the customer for this product. While it could be argued the product may generated revenue, the purpose of anti-trust in general is to stop something that negatively affects consumers.

Now the food industry would be my best example that needs more anti-trust. All of my organic brands have been bought out by Conagra Brands. There's no competition.

I would also agree that this specific acquisition is not going to be helpful for consumers.

I mean Karen Bass just said there's no need for an Election for the governor, it's Xavier Baccera. He's the governor already according to her. "You don't need an election on November 3. A Republican cannot win in this state."

That's the first thing that comes to mind here too. Very very very few contractors are going to do work without a permit. Maybe Finland needs to investigate their own government offices?

Just stop seeing skin color - We've lost so much progress since Fresh Prince and Family Matters. Race baiters are ruining this country.

Interesting username considering Worf served in the two largest armies of Humans and Klingons. Not all large armies are meant for destroying everything in the world.

Wasn't the disabling of Starlink due to using it to kill people?

I actually think we should maximally punish people for breaking the law if the law exists. And remove or edit the law if it no longer serves the people. The way we go about this stuff is that we let people break laws until it serves some purpose. Instead we should remove or edit the laws.

Otherwise we're creating a system where it is unfair for some people.

I recall seeing some crazy stats like 41+ hours maybe on a snapdragon processor w/windows. I imagine your screen brightness would have to be like 99% dark and not playing videos is my guess.

I'm using the openai decision model mostly because I already have an API key. I use it to categorize which existing topic/location/company/etc is a best match for some new content that comes in.

Yes, but I don't see Law or Engineering as necessarily safe either. AI will take the domains that require informational triage and computation first.

May want to show some examples without signup or a live weather lookup?

Did the US just export it's awful "boomer" word to India?

Predicting more LAN devices come pre-installed with a variety of private VPN options and an option to route all traffic from specific devices through that.

I'm really not worried at all about if my vote is tallied correctly. I'm more worried about mass fraud of the voting system.

It's funny too - 15 years ago on HN people would discuss blockchain voting systems or ways to make it 100% secure. It seems like lately a lot of people carrying water for the potential that one party is associated with 95% of the fraud - and don't wish to discuss the vote being fair.

Which part was being pedant?