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I think you're misreading the situation. As far as I can tell, Russia has every reason to want to continue engaging in heavy cyber-criminal activities. I don't think this is the virtuous Kremlin turning a blind eye. This is a classic case of deception. Look at my left hand, so you don't see what my right is doing.


They see it as asymmetrical warfare, I know that; but if US would let US cyber criminals steal millions of Russian and Chinese credit cards or some other PII, I would perceive that as distasteful and not as a form of counterintelligence.


Considering that America has allowed hundreds of billions of dollars of money belonging to individuals in Russia to be stolen, I do not see the validity of your argument.

It was caused by unprovoked and illegal invasion of neighbouring country, that's tit for tat. They also seized assets of Nazi Germany when Hitler decided to go full yolo.

These are just words, excuses that hide the fact that they illegally stole funds that did not belong to them.

Can I read more about the seizure of German bank accounts? As far as I know, they (USA) continued to sponsor Germany until 1944. (through various branches.)

Some Swiss banks serviced Nazi accounts until 2020 and did not see any problems in this.

A tit for tat would have been Iraq had seized American assets in response to the US invasion and the theft of Iraq's gold assets.

Remind me, when did Russia invade the USA or the EU?)


I'm inclined to think you're right, but I can't figure out one thing - the command module (apparently) in Apollo 13 got down to 38F without active heating. That's much colder than standard data centre rack temps.

In the example of a data centre, there would be considerably more heat generation than 3 astronauts, but, I would like to understand more. 38F is cold, so heat is clearly lost not as slowly as we might think.


The Apollo passive radiators can dissipate ~2500 Watts into space. With most systems shut down, only ~500 Watts was coming from the remaining systems and the astronauts bodies.


Cool, thank you. So I read this as fundamentally, the heat they dissipated far exceeded the heat they produced. Do you mind opining on what similar figures would be with modest passive radiators and a typical data centre rack heat output?


No idea what the passive radiators might look like (50x the size of Apollo?), but an Nvidia GB300 NVL72 uses 120,000 watts.


Anecdotally, I think you should disregard this. I found out about this issue first via Reddit, roughly 30 minutes after the onset (we had an alarm about control plane connectivity).


One nit, while I think Notion's data model is probably superior to that of Google Docs, I don't think their data model is what allowed them to succeed. Much stronger, I think, is their execution.


I would think their data model choice _is_ part of the execution?


Exactly like Google docs couldn't be Notion because Google tried to build Microsoft Office online, but Notion tried to build lovable without AI and accidentally made a better Google doc.


Sure, like a transmission is part of a car. No car could work without one, and a bad one makes an otherwise good car bad. However, a great one can’t make an otherwise bad car good.


This is an opinion, yet you state it like fact. While I'm hesitant to want any AI features in my browser, what a "browser" does isn't necessarily a settled debate.


> This is an opinion, yet you state it like fact.

No, the market states it like fact. 15 years ago FF was the belle of the ball. Now it has minuscule market share and is looking at an uncertain future.

> While I'm hesitant to want any AI features in my browser, what a "browser" does isn't necessarily a settled debate.

That's a fairly concise definition I gave, unless I'm responding to Diogenes.


I am not affiliated with Spotify, but I pay for their services.

They very infrequently raise their rates, and I feel like I'm paying an acceptable rate.

I have yet to notice AI generated music infiltrating my feeds.

I rarely encounter them removing an artist I can't listen to.

I may be rare, but I just don't see the problems you're raising.


Big chunk of artists don't earn enough to make a living as artists from Spotify or streaming services. You can search this online, it's well known and reported.


This is a poorly titled HN submission. This isn't what's happened, if you read the post - A user asked about being able to do this. Spotify claimed it isn't currently a feature, however they have a feature request that the requester can add their voice to if so inclined.


Sure sure, they haven't refused it at all, the feature request has more than 7 months and they just haven't read it yet, you people I swear.


Also: the answer marked as a solution that says it's not a feature is not even from a Spotify employee.


I think you're being hyperbolic. It wasn't terrible, but I do agree, I had to dig for "What is Chat Control". It read to me like a panicked person, repeatedly saying, "You've gotta hear this..." over and over, before getting to the point.


I'll shout out Clearspace[1]. They're YC W23[2]. I am in no way affiliated with them.

I find the app is very useful. I do find it still takes some discipline, but it adds enough friction into accessing pointless apps, that it makes a real dent in my doom-scrolling. It isn't cheap, but it works well enough that at the current price point, I will pay.

[1] - https://www.getclearspace.com/ [2] - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace


Am I the only one who dislikes off-angle animations?


No, you're not.


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