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New comment by toader in "Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts"

toader — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:13:01 +0000

How should the search box respond to a search of Las Vegas, NV or San Antonio, TX? I'm not getting any response.

New comment by toader in "Mass Surveillance Is Powering a New Era of Pretextual Traffic Stops"

toader — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:22:51 +0000

If you're curious where many of the Automated License Plate Readers are located, this site is interesting. The collection is certainly not limited to areas near the southern border.

https://deflock.me/map

New comment by toader in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

toader — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:04:42 +0000

Who are you responding to?

New comment by toader in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

toader — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:03:21 +0000

Is it a fair accusation that the "NYTimes is lying"? That seems to imply they are complicit in a propaganda campaign with the government, which seems unlikely.

New comment by toader in "OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart"

toader — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:57:24 +0000

Wouldn't the language / frameworks documentation be sufficient?

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:35:57 +0000

> "It's debatable in every aspect" -- A business creates a product. They offer the product to consumers for a price. If you take the product without paying, you are stealing. Seems straightforward to me.

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:02:58 +0000

Sure, if you hear or see something in a public space, but don't you agree that deliberately bypassing their means of protecting their IP is theft?

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:01:45 +0000

Then just say you're a thief, no need to pretend there is any other issue than you are OK with stealing when you deem a companies practices to be disagreeable to your own.

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:17:30 +0000

So you value their content but plan to continue stealing it and jeopardize their ability to remain financially solvent?

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:09:59 +0000

I don't have the context to comment on the interpersonal skills of the media outlet. If the price is $30 after the introductory price, then the price is $30. You disagreeing with the price or their sales tactic doesn't entitle you to steal their content.

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:58:40 +0000

If you created software and sold a license for it, and I pirated it, would that be acceptable? They create a product, set the price, you choose to pay or not.

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:44:49 +0000

Exactly. Why this is such a difficult concept to grasp? They create a product, set a price, you choose to subscribe or not. If you created licensed software and someone pirated it, are you agreeable to that?

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:17:17 +0000

Do you think they have to raise their subscription prices because many people are stealing the content?

New comment by toader in "12ft.io Taken Down"

toader — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:15:19 +0000

You're painting 'media' with a broad brush. I have multiple local sources that report on local issues and are critical of the local establishment. A lack of funding is causing local news sources to go out of business.

New comment by toader in "How to live an intellectually rich life"

toader — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:10:48 +0000

Do you consider Werner Sombart, and Ernest Mandel to be 'half wits' and unserious?

New comment by toader in "Show HN: Turn Photos into Studio Ghibli Art with AI"

toader — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Your link doesn't take users to the 'Ghibli-style' tool but rather your homepage with multiple tools. If you are a 'huge Ghibli fan' why build a tool that rips off the artists that create the art you admire?

New comment by toader in "Data centers contain 90% crap data"

toader — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:16:34 +0000

In this book 'World Wide Waste' he states 'Every time I download an email I contribute to global warming.' Is this true? Aren't some data centers, Google for example carbon neutral?

New comment by toader in "Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, Python teams before dev conference"

toader — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:49:00 +0000

In the US there seems to be a focus on the southern border and immigrants taking mostly low paying labor jobs. Is there a focus on foreign labor, outsourcing, taking high paying jobs?

New comment by toader in "23andMe's Fall"

toader — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:29:38 +0000

Not encrypting user data and then being hacked resulting in compromised user DNA details certainly isn't a positive for PR. Can someone tell me why more companies don't encrypt data at rest and if that would have prevented the leak?

New comment by toader in "A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide"

toader — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:59:55 +0000

Either you are a far outlier with confidence abounds, or you don't remember what life as a teenager is like for most.