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WestLaw and Lexis Nexis provide this for legal search, but quite frankly, these services are subpar. It's amazing that these two companies rake in hundreds of millions but they are both slower than Google, Bing, Yandex, or any LLM service (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) while scouring a universe of text that is orders of magnitude smaller. The user experience is also terrible (you have to login and specify a client each and every time you attempt to use the service and both services log you out after a short -- in my opinion -- period of inactivity, creating friction and needless annoyance to the user). There's an opportunity there.

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Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.

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Federal employees are not permitted to strike. See 5 USC § 7311.

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So commoditize the complement.

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AOE2 is the pinnacle of the RTS genre. With the Definitive Edition released in 2019, it's still extremely popular today. In my opinion, no RTS title has surpassed AOE2 before or since in terms of gameplay (and, in my subjective opinion, graphics -- I LOVE the detailed pixel graphics much more than polygons).

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Agree with this. An insurance requirement would solve this problem. It would also incentivize robust security audits by the insurance companies and the data collectors.

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Do T-Mobile and Sprint next. T-Mobile just announced it's jacking rates up. It's a direct result of the merger.

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Big news for Ted Williams

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Yes, if your information is stored with a third-party, it can be subject to disclosure with a lawful subpoena.

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Windows 11 is awful. It ruined the calendar view on the taskbar, which is a huge pet peeve for me.

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We have a say in how the government spends our tax dollars? This is news to me. I would prefer that much less be spent on war and military, among other things.

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We have an under-incarceration problem. See the recent results from El Salvador. I don't lose a second of sleep over the cruel treatment of murderers and violent criminals.

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Yes, I remember Dr. Sbaitso very, very well. I spent many hours with it as a kid and thought it was tons of fun. To be frank, Dr. Sbaitso is why I was underwhelmed when chatbots were hyped in the early 2010s. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited about 90s tech.

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I came here to write precisely this! You're not alone in your thoughts.

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The prequels were awful and Jar Jar Binks was a horrible, no good character. That said, I had no idea tripod still existed! What a blast from the past.

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Yeah, I've wondered if Amazon is using Twitch's AWS fees as paper losses to lower taxes. I.e., Twitch is actually making profits but Amazon wants the AWS fees on its books so that Twitch isn't recording profits (and therefore taxes) and Amazon profits off the AWS fees.

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Charlie Crockett is great!

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The industry made a fortune off CDs. If memory serves, peak revenue for the music industry was in the early 2000s right when boy bands, Limp Bizkit, Britney Spears, and Eminem were the big things and Napster was about to blow things up.

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Some people are indeed much better. Anyone who played sports as a kid understands this. Huge differences are immediately apparent in small children. But generally, I agree that, for most life tasks, the differences between people are not enormous. Humanity could do a much better job eliminating poverty. In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.

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And although there hasn't been any evidence of top-level fraud, a Coinbase product manager was sentenced to two years in prison for an insider trading scam: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/09/former-coinbase-employ...