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purututuon Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies

How is "Microsoft" as a company now different from the US as a "government"?

This is what "technocracy" is, right? And "corporatism"?

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

Valid reasons! What alternative however could they consider to NATO? So to protect their own interests, Sweden's and Finland's, they need to join a, to my eyes, warmongering organization.

purututuon WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

Software programming rule #1: "Never fix bugs at their root cause." (joking, of course!!)

purututuon WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

Me as a European software engineer, understanding tech stuff well, but not American politics, what's the problem with the Republicans? Why would you prefer the other party, Democrats (right?) do the origin research instead?

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

I'd love to know the reason why they want to join! I would assume through some sort of pressure, but I am only guessing now.

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

you are putting NATO in a very nice light, which to my eyes it doesn't deserve. there are many example for it of breaking international laws, i.e. in Cosovo.

it helps breaking down the world in black and white to understand complex matters, but I wouldn't exactly paint the NATO white.

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

For me it does make tones of sense as I, as a European, have understood that NATO is not a peace bringing organization. They _are_ interested and motivated by war. NATO is not my friend.

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

That wasn't the point of my message.

purututuon President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset

In these days of civilization which country and which cross-country organizations are _not_ running "special military operations"??

purututuon NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree

Where does NSA get the money from to hire thousands (=multiple 1000s) of big tech workers? How comes big tech is laying them off but NSA can afford to hiring them, in the thousands?

purututuon Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

> It doesn’t need any New World Order conspiracy either.

NWO is not a conspiracy theory any longer. This exact terminology is openly used by many politicians now, demanding for a NWO. Depending which bubble you live in, you have not seen any or only too little such speeches.

purututuon Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

Believing main-stream media when they would say "conspiracy theory".

purututuon ASK HN: Is using GraphQL a good option for building an MVP?

If your main data source is a relational data model, that is tables with relations to each other, I give a strong yes: GraphQL is a very good option. Alternatively consider supabase which provides similar time savers when mainly dealing with relational data.

purututuon Lisa Source Code Release

And there's also a `.DS_Store` in every folder of that 40 years old software code. How futuristic!