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dathos··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
Violating Hanlon’s razor like it’s some universal always true rule?
dathos··on Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs
I cannot understand this optimism, in my industry the profits of automation only flow upwards.
dathos··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
My grandma always told me when she couldn’t go on her walks anymore she didn’t consider life worth living. When she got dementia she was placed in a closed hospice, to “protect her”. Now she only walks when I visit, and I only see a shell of the woman she was.

Anecdotal of course, but why do people think it’s an ethics question when society is individualistic as can be? There is no choice in being born, why don’t we get a choice in when we leave?

dathos··on The unknowns surrounding the mysterious rise of cancer in young adults
Anyone aware of the possible correlation between this and forever chemicals found in humans increasing? I don’t see it mentioned in the article
dathos··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
I really don't mean to be pedantic, but that would already be interrupting someone right?
dathos··on Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
Such an US comment, the companies are doing something illegal and get the fine for it. They want to do business in the EU they should follow those rules.

Same goes the other way around, or do you think Philips isn't getting fined out of their nose for their mismanagement?

dathos··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
I mean interrupting is one of the harder social actions in my opinion, especially in the workplace. So much of this comes from culture, family and your personality.

I say this as someone who interrupts, and loves to be interrupted. Am I a kid in an adult body, or are my norms different than yours?

dathos··on The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
I live off-grid, power and water wise, and it really irked me that the monitoring coming with my inverter is only available online. Even when there is a network available the app will not work. I fixed this by getting a raspberry pi connected and reading it from there, but if I disconnect the inverter from the internet it will create a new network so now there is always an open network in the middle of nowhere with no option to disable it.

I'm thinking about screwing it open and desoldering the wifi module but honestly I'll replace it in the next couple of years so I'd rather not kill myself by making a mistake.

dathos··on A personal music streaming server that works
Interesting, I wouldn't consider another DB driver for integration tests if that isn't usable in production. Probably a good reason for it but can anyone clarify why that's done?
dathos··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
So this app would not be for regular immigrants or travellers?
dathos··on Starlink's disruption of the space industry
Your last sentence has a typo
dathos··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
I use threadreader app for this.
dathos··on Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner
So you don’t have a birthday calendar?
dathos··on The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
It being removed is good, but the lack of communication about such a major part of the security being this weak erodes the little trust I had for Telegram
dathos··on Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body
Pff, they're sharing their work for free and you complain about a 30s ad?
dathos··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
I think freedom of press is of some significance on a site using news sources as content.
dathos··on El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
That’s 80% of the country you’re describing there. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t do a siesta in summer, and elderly people continue throughout the year
dathos··on Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit
Is it though? Companies thinking about profit over everything else seems to be the status quo
dathos··on Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically
Exactly your first reason, the algorithm is not complex but politics and economics would make it a hard decision for a human.
dathos··on A structured note-taking app for personal use
It’s even worse for me, already the first load is full of UI errors.

- The splash screen asking me to install as PWA or to go to the web app is not hiding the app. Overlapping the text and confusing me - The buttons for the days don’t work - The calendar selector is not working either

dathos··on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
Interesting, I have issues with jaw clenching and a damaged TMJ. I seem to always notice the (incorrect) position of my jaw, and when this is in a worse position the clenching increases and with that my tinnitus.

I always assumed the softer bones around my ears get deformed because of this which in turn causes me to be affected by tinnitus.

Honestly the thing that helped best was meditation. I tried guards, even a specialized one to realign my jaw slowly, but I feel those are just symptom relievers.

dathos··on Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy
I’m not arguing for their suggestion. But if their logic is that this happened because of PE and those PE owning also a big chunk of those public firms, doesn’t your argument proof they are devouring a large part of the economy?
dathos··on Tesla threatens to bring in strikebreakers as Swedish workers strike
I’m not sure if you find that a bad trade, in my opinion having a proper work environment beats buying stock at a good price
dathos··on Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design
I think that requires a lot more pieces and engineering in order to work properly
dathos··on White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border
The UN recognizing a country or not does not change history, Serbia is once again agitating for war but using this as an excuse now
dathos··on White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border
If you write that list of countries and the regions they claim, wouldn’t Ukraine(Donbas) change into Russia(Donbas)?

This is just short sighted regardless of that, that agreement in context is unfair to the people of Kosovo.

dathos··on Dire warnings about Libya dams went unheeded
This is a terrible argument, the human suffering caused by “the West” trying to play police of other countries is insane. Name one time the US has intervened (outside of WW2) that helped the local population without causing a way bigger problem
dathos··on Amazon training video on handling unionizing activity (2018) [video]
Talking about worker rights is dangerous to parasites yes
dathos··on WAPO: Fatal Force DB
I think files like this can never be beautiful
dathos··on Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
That’s what economists do, look at numbers outside the big context that is earth
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