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bbddg··on EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated
I'm usually annoyed by people complaining about scroll hijacking on HN but this site was a new level of bad.
bbddg··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
I think it would be extremely confusing for customers if the steam “Buy” button was renamed to “Rent” or “Lease”.
bbddg··on Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
The US is involved in too many wars to call them all the "US war".
bbddg··on Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran
Yes for sure. It’s not easy to find reporting about the extent of attacks on either side of this war.
bbddg··on Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Comet in moominland is about them learning about a comet heading towards earth that they believe is going to kill them all.
bbddg··on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones
We don't even have to go that far to realize how quickly the democratic establishment would roll over in the face of a civil war. I don't think Chuck Schumer is going to be leading an armed resistance movement anytime soon.
bbddg··on AI's Dial-Up Era
Yeah it’s infuriating to think about.
bbddg··on You Have to Feel It
Kyle Reese?
bbddg··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
They have to accept cash in the US as well. The post you're replying to is just saying that they can't ring anything up or accept any payment without power.
bbddg··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
Thanks for your input "investguy1"
bbddg··on The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia
Don't need a super computer to do that hah
bbddg··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Yeah and it was probably equally craven and opportunistic to bring them in as well.
bbddg··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Imagine doing something with money that isn't investing in a for profit company.
bbddg··on Books I Loved Reading in 2024
Was it intentional that you used the phrase “rolling sentences around her mouth, like toffee” in a post about how it’s better to write plainly?
bbddg··on What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
Care to share your examples?
bbddg··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
A president who is willing to do those things, and has a military willing to carry those orders out, isn't likely to be stopped by the court telling them it's illegal.
bbddg··on Nakatomi Space
Yeah GTA doesn't have much in terms of destructibility. Some of the battlefield games do this pretty well though, particularly Bad Company 2. It was very common in that game to use explosives to make different ways in and out of buildings.
bbddg··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
I think for anyone not working in national security, any thug could just as easily get your password out of you.
bbddg··on Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels
The probability that humans are still driving around in cars, self driving or not, in 1000 years is incredibly unlikely.
bbddg··on More people are getting away with murder
Which cities actually have lowered their police budgets since 2020?
bbddg··on MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse
Yes it is.
bbddg··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
Those books are pretty lame but this ChatGPT book is still pretty far behind those.
bbddg··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
You think the government won't take your Bitcoin?
bbddg··on Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought
Yeah trying to avoid toxic chemicals as a consumer is nearly impossible. We've been doing a home renovation and have been attempting to use zero or low VOC products and it's incredibly difficult and expensive. The effort it requires to do the research and sourcing for every product you use in your life is basically impossible for most people.
bbddg··on "The Social Network" synth sounds
The "Her" soundtrack is a good one.
bbddg··on Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case
HN readers should be perfect jury members then.
bbddg··on Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%
> Yet, when you look at what Norway has actually produced over the past few decades in terms of innovation, companies, etc. the picture is very, very empty.

Do you have anything to back this claim up? Most of what I've searched about the Nordic countries in terms of innovation seems to disagree with this assertion.

https://voxeu.org/article/nordic-innovation-cuddly-capitalis... https://www.ft.com/content/e3c15066-cd77-11e4-9144-00144feab... https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/analysis-indicator

bbddg··on Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%
Yeah it's too bad the US is such a poor country with no natural resources.
bbddg··on Norway to track all supermarket purchases?
I'll take a prison like Norway over the lawless hellhole that the US is becoming.
bbddg··on Norway to track all supermarket purchases?
Well we don't really have a functional democracy in the US. That's really the core problem to fix before you can start trusting the government more.
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