<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DaedalusII</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DaedalusII</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:24:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DaedalusII" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DaedalusII in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tolkien largely copied the nibelungsenlied and accidentally inherited western chauvinism and many other ideas from that lore, including especially a great amount of racism</p>
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<p>a more honest way to look at it would be that the government gets 50% of the employees total expense to the company, so it is basically 50% income tax</p>
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<p>the ironic factor is - this is how vw itself started, as did mitsubishi etc<p>this is called: sensible state industrial policy</p>
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<p>perfect IT response<p>regulation are written ambiguously and the specifications do not match the industry<p>I have even seen regulators refuse to specific legislated laws because "thats not what the government meant", giving a company the choice of following the law and being fined, or breaking the law to please the regulatory agency</p>
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<p>you should rewrite this comment with chatgpt if you do not want to be dox<p><a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-can-now-identify-anonymous-internet-users-researchers-say-its-surprisingly-accurate" rel="nofollow">https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-can-now-identify-anonymous-i...</a></p>
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<p>opinions vary, but this was the opinion adopted when formulating this index<p>it probably makes it easier to ship in europe where some private banks and pensions (eg denmark gov) ban defence investment</p>
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<p>There are many valid complaints about public markets undervaluing businesses in comparison to private markets, now that everyone is putting their money on the line we start to see a different view being taken<p>which is exactly why public markets have always been a superior price discovery mechanism in comparison to private markets</p>
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<p>you cant take out life insurance on your spouse without them signing the paperwork in most cases<p>you dont take out cover on your business partner, the company itself does</p>
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<p>some life insurance policies pay out for suicide after an initial exclusion period. this is often six or twelve months. insurers can include it because suicide claims are relatively uncommon.<p>if there is evidence that someone took out the policy with the intention of creating a claim then the insurer may treat it as fraud and decline it.</p>
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<p>yeah its awesome, the only side effect is mental illness and dementia</p>
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<p>it also did not seem to impact lifespan for them<p>dying in your 60s was par for the course until second half of the 20th century.<p>lead petrol, cigs, war, asbestos, lead paint in children bedroom</p>
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<p>absolutely not true<p>they erode your gums<p>and the accelerated rate of nicotine absorbtion probably has side effects we do not yet understand</p>
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<p>think more broadly than 'labor theory'<p>finance today mostly valued on labor value following ideas of marx, hjalmar schact, keynes<p>in future money will be valued as energy derivative. expressed as tokens consumption, KWh, compute, whatever<p>you are right, company extracting surplus value from labor by leveraging compute is a bad model. we saw thi swith car and clothing factories .. turn out if you can get cheaper labor to leverage the compute (factory) you can start race to bottom and end up in the place with the most scaled and cheap labor. japan then korea then china</p>
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<p>you may evaluate the concept of a milk enema, dramatic and rapid defecation ensues in comparison to a saline enema</p>
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<p>you are a real american now, you play outside in your private land that you drive to. there is peace in the universe again<p>now, if your child is too playful for Ms. Karen, they will give them a shit load of adderal as well<p>you may consider paying for a private school to avoid Karens drugging your children</p>
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<p>america is more dangerous than many 3rd world and developing countries on the street<p>once my friend get arrested in LA by police when he jogging. they say they arrest him for his own safety because he shouldnt be out jogging in "this neighborhood"<p>turns out people in america get murdered and attacked in the street all the time for... no reason. yes literally, no motive.</p>
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<p>mercedes and honda interior almost indistinguishable now<p>and mercedes is just like aws in dumb charges. new tires, EUR1000+ for set. replace car keys? EUR1000+</p>
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<p>does anyone else start to wonder about these companys issuing vps/online space with no hardening and no warning<p>you can basically go on hetzner and spin up a vps with linux that is exposed to the open internet with open ports and user security and within a few hours its been hacked, there is no like warning pop up that says "if you do this your server will be pwnd"<p>i especialy wonder with all the ai provisioned vps and postgres dbs what will happen here</p>
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<p>i suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times</p>
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<p>on the one hand if you play with petrol you cant complain about burning down your garage<p>on the other hand hetzner sell ipv4 instance with no security on by default, just raw ubuntu 24.x<p>within 3-4 days of deploying one, it will be hacked and have crypto miners installed unless additional special config is added. i do wonder what % of hetzner vps instances are compromised</p>
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