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New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

fakeBeerDrinker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:39:09 +0000

This is great news. New Mullvad subscriber here!

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

fakeBeerDrinker — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:37:09 +0000

0. You are really trying to say that one group of people are “much better humans”…? I think people should fear this type of attitude. It _never_ turns out well for society when we go this route.

1. The federal minimum wage is not the solution to any of your complaints.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

fakeBeerDrinker — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:05:00 +0000

I don’t know, ask the states that have lower wages on the books (even though federal prevails).

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

fakeBeerDrinker — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:01:24 +0000

And how many earn this? Around 1% of hourly employees…if that. Not what I’d be concerned with right now.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

fakeBeerDrinker — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:01:42 +0000

Yes

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

fakeBeerDrinker — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:55:26 +0000

He was last averaging 129K viewers per episode in the 18-49 demographic, I'd say that is a far better "excuse" than a threat from the FCC. As if DIS doesn't have a legion of attorneys. Give me a break.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

fakeBeerDrinker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:54:12 +0000

When I hop on a VPN and enter ingconito mode from a clean browser session, bypassing their paywall, is that stealing? This doesn't meet the definition of stealing that I'm familiar with.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

fakeBeerDrinker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:33:32 +0000

How is it stolen from Business Insider? When I visit businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6 I get the same story. My browser caches the story, and I save it for archival purposes. How is this theft?

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law"

fakeBeerDrinker — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:43:57 +0000

I don’t believe that Switzerland is the oldest democracy in the world, but I could be mistaken. Iceland has had a democratic-ish parliament since the 900s[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

fakeBeerDrinker — Tue, 27 May 2025 15:57:54 +0000

After a short stint as a faculty member at a McU institution, I agree with much of this.

Provide machine problems and homework as exercises for students to learn, but assign a very low weight to these as part of an overall grade. Butt in seat assessments should be the majority of a course assessment for many courses.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?"

fakeBeerDrinker — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:11:49 +0000

I was a faculty member there for a few years and I completely agree.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?"

fakeBeerDrinker — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:33:37 +0000

What was the role? What region was this in? Outside of a PhD student or something similar, I can't imagine this would be in the US, Canada, most of Europe.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea"

fakeBeerDrinker — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:25:38 +0000

After living there for about four years, my mind goes immediately to soju. Not sure if there is a connection, but that’s something I might deep dive with an LLM today.

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea"

fakeBeerDrinker — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:22:24 +0000

I think it’s far fewer, probably under 5,000 if we are really talking about “bars” and not any ole liquor licensed establishment such as a restaurant…

New comment by fakeBeerDrinker in "Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea"

fakeBeerDrinker — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:14:12 +0000

Less than 40,000