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> Perplexity is increasingly looking like what Silicon Valley dreads most a wrapper.

That is only uneducated people. The ‘wrapper’ is the product people pay for. The ‘wrapper’ gets all the revenue.


Wrappers are simple to copy, no moat.

> Like you don't have to agree with their methods but expecting them to do nothing while Israel murders them

But Israel's not murdering them. The war has a very low civilian to combatant death ratio.


According to the UN 70% of the dead are women and children

There are children with sniper bullets in their bodies.

This is not war, this is ethnic cleansing.


The UN pays for schools for children to be brainwashed into suicide to kill as many Israelis as possible via UNRWA - it is not a reliable source of information.

>80% of the dead are civilians. What world are you living in?

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc...

(Journalist from Israel)


Do you have a source for "very low"? It seems liks a hard thing to measure well but as far as I can see it looks very average.

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


Lecun has also consistently tried to redefine open source away from the open source definition.

It did make sense though. ePlants could have cornered the online nursery market. That is a valuable market. I think people were just too early. Payment and logistics hasn’t been figured out yet.

I own an iPhone 16 pro, but I’m constantly thinking about switching to an iPhone 13 mini with an aftermarket battery conversion to make it last all day. The only thing that holds me back is that I can’t easily convert it to USBC.

My battery is on its last legs, and I was going to pick up an iFixit one at some point and do the swap, but I believe theirs is the OEM configuration/capacity. Is there another option for an actual higher capacity battery?


Yes okay, I confirm that the part iFixit is offering is just the standard capacity (9.34Wh / 2.4Ah):

https://www.ifixit.com/en-ca/products/iphone-13-mini-battery

It doesn't seem like Repart do direct to consumer sales; I'll look around and see if I can find somewhere reputable to buy that in Canada.

Based on this reddit thread, it doesn't seem that there's really a consensus around whether these purported supersized after market batteries are the real deal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhone13Mini/comments/1gap4yc/share...


How? As a migrant to the US I have generally found the rules quite reasonable, the UX of the websites is poorer than say the UK but the rules seem fine.

> your silly hypothetical too.

The stats for Southwest Land Border Encounters are available at https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc... and the HN guidelines are available at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Hey cool neat; I can throw links around, too!

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/rising...

Ooh, another one:

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/changing-border-policie...

PS - quite the HN submissions page you got there: "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way". You sure about that?

If you're sure, I'm sure we'd love to hear your thoughts on American immigration. Please, add some of your UK context to that US CBP link!


It's not acceptable to post in this inflammatory style on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're here for curious conversation, not battle. It's also not acceptable on HN to scour through someone's past activity (whether on HN or elsewhere) in order to attack them, and that kind of belittling language is never OK here. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


It's strange to me that you chose to not cite the guidelines to elsewhere such as:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

Are anti-immigrant sentiments acceptable if they are simply well-articulated?

And if not, then why do you feel it necessary to be more critical of the language I or lalaithion use for explicit dismissals of racists and xenophobes than the actual racism or xenophobia itself?


People continually try on this “gotcha” that we moderate more for tone than substance and that HN freely allows hateful rhetoric as long as it is smuggled in a Trojan Horse of “civility”.

This is of course a non-starter and nothing in the guidelines allows it. The first words in the “In Comments“ section of the guidelines are Be kind, and there is nothing “kind” about xenophobia or other hateful ideas, by definition.

But as longtime forum moderators we can't be so naïve as to succumb to an attempt to characterize any discussion about immigration laws and their enforcement as “anti-immigration” and ”hateful”. From what I can see this is discussion is not one of “pro” or “anti” immigration but about how laws should be interpreted and enforced, which is always something that should be able to be discussed in a spirit of curiosity. The guidelines cover this too:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Nailer is a user who has crossed the line before and we've appealed to him multiple times to observe the guidelines, and will certainly do so again if and when it is warranted. In this case I don't see how he is the one who has crossed the line, but even if he was, that doesn't excuse you from doing so.

If you see guidelines-breaking comments on HN, just flag them or if they're especially egregious, email us ([email protected]). If you escalate, then you become the one in the wrong, by making a bad situation even worse.



... page doesn’t exist

Also if the UK investor says "we'd love to invest, can do the whole round, want you to send us your current cap table, we need to get the deal done before April because we have capital to deploy before end of the current financial year" don't actually expect the funds.

Could you explain this?

Sure: UK VCs ('Haatch' specifically in this example) will give an enthusiastic 'yes' and then not deliver funds.

Aren't they afraid of the reputation risk? If they behave so treacherously, future startups may go to the US without even asking them.

I assume too good to be true.

I had the misfortune to be pitching to VCs in the UK, the money was so expensive that it’s just not worth it, much better off moving to the US if you can.


Was trying to remember where I recognised this name, Raph Levien is the Ghostscript and Advogato creator and helped legalize crypto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Levien

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