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NordStreamYacht··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Old boys club.
NordStreamYacht··on California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
The specific age will always be controversial because laws require specificity but social norms are varied. (Quantum levels vs continuous functions.)

In some societies it's okay to marry 6-year-old girls.

Slightly more rational societies link it to puberty in the female. Indeed, their leaders have written entire books to justify such behaviour.

NordStreamYacht··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
To the oilygarchy.
NordStreamYacht··on Best of British Design
Easier to buy a classic mini and drive it around than a spitfire.

mini FTW

NordStreamYacht··on TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14
True.

Why "Every number is a measured one" and not "every parameter is measured?"

Stopped reading at that point.

LLMs are like autotune. Imagine the Rolling Stones auto-tuned.

NordStreamYacht··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
Windows
NordStreamYacht··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
I have no idea why a fridge would need to be connected to anything but a power source.

I can understand some people would like their heating/cooling systems to be available online as a convenience, but a fridge?

NordStreamYacht··on Pentagon Investigating How F-35 Fighter Jet Parts Bound for US Were Diverted
"We take X issue very seriously."

> Lockheed said in a statement: "Our teams handle every shipment with the utmost diligence and safeguards to ensure the integrity of the F-35 program and the security of our allied partners.”

Pre-AI slop.

NordStreamYacht··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
Sweden was compromised years ago, Assange's case is proof.
NordStreamYacht··on [dead]
AI;DR
NordStreamYacht··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS.

Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.

NordStreamYacht··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
So this is how "AI" is going to kill us all, by starting a world war with nukes?
NordStreamYacht··on Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech 'Oligarchs' and Demand A.I. Reforms
When these two are aligned, you know something is up.
NordStreamYacht··on Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
Why not publish the methodology in detail and leave it at that?
NordStreamYacht··on Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia
Canada too. Have heard similar stories from Ireland and the UK.

Social problems increase to occupy the social workers available.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-mom-cfs-bac...

NordStreamYacht··on How I turned Granola action items into to-do list
I clicked the link to find out how a granola bar became an action item.
NordStreamYacht··on 'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This
They're not stupid, they're greedy and shameless.
NordStreamYacht··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
So that's a post-banana?
NordStreamYacht··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Modern art is weird.

https://smarthistory.org/andres-serrano-piss-christ/

NordStreamYacht··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
More likely it was a money laundering operation disguised as a psyop.
NordStreamYacht··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
I like bananas.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5199568/a-duct-taped-ba...

NordStreamYacht··on Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas
Some degree? They're all criminals and therefore all of them do this.
NordStreamYacht··on Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days
What goes around, comes around. What was the name of the SCADA hack dropped via USB drives in Iranian parking lots which brought down their centrifuges?

Stuxnet.

NordStreamYacht··on Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
Picasso managed it all without these meds.
NordStreamYacht··on Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
RSS
NordStreamYacht··on Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
My favourite from that era was the million pixel page where you paid $1 for a pixel which would link back to your own website.
NordStreamYacht··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
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NordStreamYacht··on Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age
I have paid for Redhat just once. Since then ubuntu FTW
NordStreamYacht··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
Macs are fun.
NordStreamYacht··on The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
Who is Jim Davidson when he's at home?
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