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Palantir vs. Republik [Swiss News Magazine]

republik.ch
2 points·by Arodex·10일 전·1 comments

Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up

youtube.com
2 points·by Arodex·16일 전·0 comments

Section 702 lapsed for the first time since 2008

axios.com
4 points·by Arodex·26일 전·1 comments

Bullshit Machines

thebullshitmachines.com
53 points·by Arodex·2개월 전·23 comments

SCOTUS: Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now

theatlantic.com
4 points·by Arodex·2개월 전·1 comments

Ask HN: Thought experiment: AGI giving us answers we don't like?

3 points·by Arodex·3개월 전·1 comments

AI is making the workplace lonelier

axios.com
1 points·by Arodex·7개월 전·0 comments

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Arodex
·19시간 전·discuss
Then maybe publish the results, but don't publish the "how to".
Arodex
·3일 전·discuss
It run its course the minute you "honestly" thought the Belgians were whining and the Americans weren't. You have no argument remaining, especially now that Olise's yellow card has been left in place. Wouldn't the game be more interesting if he played without it? Isn't it controversial too?
Arodex
·4일 전·discuss
>The Belgians now need to man up and play the game with a full squad rather than whine about not getting an easy fixture

Oh the irony. Why don't the US man up and play within the rules? You president whined and whined and whined, he does nothing but whining every single day.

You are completely morally corrupt. The Americans are cheaters, and nobody will respect them even if they win. "Pathetic" doesn't even start to describe how feckless people who defend this decision are.

>You're entitled to believe it was a red, but it is objectively controversial.

Who won the US presidential election in 2020?
Arodex
·8일 전·discuss
I completely accept that human audition has limits that are easy to determine by playing a pure sound. But is it the same with music, where multiple frequencies are played and interfere with each other? Aren't some harmonics or effects created by these "inaudible" frequencies?

To try to imagine something similar: the human eye is unable to see UV light, yet fluorescent paint has a visible quality of its own compared to "normal" pigments.
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
Here is what Palantir tried to snuff out:

“For seven years, Palantir attempted to win over the Swiss federal authorities as customers with a major sales campaign. They were immediately rejected at least nine times.” And: “In total, we submitted 59 applications for information under the Federal Act on the Protection of Consumer Rights (BGÖ). The result was dozens of successful applications, demonstrating how persistently Palantir had tried for years to gain a foothold with Swiss authorities.”
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
>The reason is that genetics/evolution don't yet seem to fully explain how humans exist. A computer genetic algorithm run for a billion generations doesn't lead to anything anywhere near the the complexity of a human.

I didn't have "creationism" as the top answer to a HN post in 2026, yet here we are...
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
Every court before the Supreme Court completely dismissed the attempt to kill the 14th amendment.

The Supreme Court is more and more packed with dishonest, racist Republican political hacks who try to twist words to overturn centuries of precedent.
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
It is totally obvious: every single court told the Trump administration to go f* themselves, and Trump appealed and appealed again until it reached the Supreme Court.
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
>https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/sep/ucl-demographers-wor...

>For example, despite vegetables and sweet potatoes being promoted as key components of the Okinawan ‘Blue Zone’ diets, according to the Japanese government, Okinawans eat the least vegetables and sweet potatoes in Japan and have the highest body mass index.

What a dishonest argument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet

>Specifically, the Okinawans circa 1950 ate sweet potatoes for 849 grams of the total 1262 grams of food that they consumed, which constituted 69% of their total daily calories.[2]

>The traditional Okinawan diet as described above was widely practiced on the islands until about the 1960s.[2] Since then, dietary practices shifted towards Western and mainland Japanese patterns, with fat intake rising from about 6% to 27% of total caloric intake and the sweet potato being supplanted with rice and bread.[8]

>Okinawans ate three grams total of meat – including pork and poultry – per day, substantially less than the 11-gram average of Japanese as a whole in 1950.[2] The pig's feet, ears, and stomach were considered as everyday foodstuffs.[1] In 1979 after many years of Westernization, the quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa was 7.9 kg (17 lb), exceeding by about 50% that of the Japanese national average.[9]

>Since the early 2000s, the difference in life expectancy between Okinawan and mainland Japanese decreased, possibly due to Westernization and erosion of the traditional diet.[3][4] The spread of primarily American fast-food chains was linked with an increase in cardiovascular diseases, much like the ones noted in Japanese migrants to the United States.[3][4]
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
Nope, European, from a country that did the most to oppose Israel, despite the fact it is very difficult for any continental European country to do so as we are tainted by the Shoah...

And America is electing more and more anti-israel politicians.

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/28/republican-party-israel-net...

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/iran-war-israel-democrats-c...
Arodex
·10일 전·discuss
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Arodex
·11일 전·discuss
So American, is Bill White a trustworthy ambassador or a political donor looking for clout?
Arodex
·12일 전·discuss
Note that as the trial is described, the blinding was only related to the presence or not of caffeine. There wasn't any "non-coffee" placebo (something with the taste but none of the components of coffee). (Of course it is certainly difficult to make something taste like coffee while being as neutral as water. I don't even think it is possible.)

As such, the improvement seen when they start drinking coffee could simply be a placebo effect. Coffee making is a nice daily ritual that helps being grounded in the present, as do sents, tastes and the feeling of a warm beverage.

The study is also fairly low power, as you have 62 people in four groups: coffee drinker with caffeine, coffee drinker with decaffeinated, non-coffee drinker with caffeine, non-coffee drinker with decaffeinated.

(Again, a big problem in many human studies is that it is very hard to recruit enough people, both for financial and organization reasons, so don't read this as a knock against the research team).
Arodex
·12일 전·discuss
You don't need much calculation power to manage a 30-min ballistic trajectory.

The inertial navigation system is the very crazy part, along with the nuclear fusion warhead design itself.

https://youtu.be/AazmxNs5kmE?is=2LE2q3rBSWDyTs7j
Arodex
·12일 전·discuss
That's just another type of randomness (who was online during the short time the posting was opened).
Arodex
·13일 전·discuss
"Biden was horrible, terrible, very not good and I complain a lot about how he was the worst ever.

Trump is worse and I just "whatabout Biden" and leave it at that."
Arodex
·14일 전·discuss
You should read "The nice house on the lake" comic. You'll find it interesting.
Arodex
·14일 전·discuss
>Then we give up our control to them, and in return we are given lives of leisure, luxury, with minimal suffering, the end of disease, etc. Is this such a horrible scenario?

Until the AI overlords need to reclaim space to built another paperclip factory.

Pets also live lives of leisure, in theory. Do all of them do? Are they never abandoned, beaten, tortured for fun, overfed, left alone in hot cars?
Arodex
·15일 전·discuss
They are so ineffective that the Army is reinstating flu vaccination. /s
Arodex
·15일 전·discuss
>And don't try to say it was an objective public health measure - if that was the case they would've made natural immunity as acceptable as vaccination)

It was an objective public health measure, because it is well-known from actual examples that opening such option would lead people to try to get infected instead of being vaccinated, breeding even more variants and hospital saturation.

Note also that "previous contamination" has never been an acceptable derogation in any public health system for any of the compulsory vaccinations.