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Jensen Huang might return to Nvidia as CEO (reuters.com)
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The Altman shuffle?
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Consequences are for other people.
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It would be the worst of all signs if Huang returns to Nvidia. Apparently, having an affair with a subordinate and a customer would just be an "ooopsie - anyways, let’s get back to business!". Looks like Silicon Valley is scared to lose their rockstar. As a gamer, I really do not want him to come back to Nvidia. He's done nothing good for consumers in the past few years.
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It's not even an "ooopsie", it's tabloid level nonsense. Huang and his subordinate and customer are grown ass adults and their sexual lives do not concern anyone but themselves. I am astonished someone even deemed this nonsense notable enough to make public.
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The affairs are irrelevant. The real problem is knowingly circumventing export controls.
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The US Treasury Secretary said today that the board needs to select an external hire for CEO, as the entire company faces scrutiny for violating export control laws. https://www.reuters.com/world/bessent-says-nvidia-must-go-outside-company-find-new-ceo-2026-11-15/ That makes it seem extremely unlikely that Jensen can return.
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Who fucking cares? Sooner that guy is in jail the better.
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The boss of the Treasury Secretary said that Jensen should return, which makes it unlikely that the Treasury Secretary's statement is so likely to stick.
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Maybe he was just dissolving government and calling an snap election. It isn't like they fired him, he quit.
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This isn't OpenAI in 2023. Nvidia is a public company facing serious regulatory questions. Powerful Silicon Valley friends likely can't make those go away. If the board reverses its decision so quickly because of pressure from Silicon Valley executives, it'll raise serious questions about the board's competence and independence. Personally I'd be happy if Jensen Huang comes and things go normal for him and he doesn't face more challenges.
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He is also staying as CEO of htmx
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What a coincidence, so am I! I won't let someone else's scandal force me out
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Ugh, he's obviously sleeping his way to the top.
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Nah, only women and gays can do that. Jensen hasn't been having sex with powerful men in order to persuade them to advance his career - he's been having sex with attractive women less powerful than him (in some cases his literal subordinates), in ways that have cost him significantly, because his raw desire for sex was just that high. He would've been better off if he had no sex drive.
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The farce continues to write itself.
Chemical spills into drainage ditch at SpaceXAI in Southaven (wreg.com)
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https://www.chemicalbook.com/msds/Propylene-glycol.htm Apparently in rats it didn't hurt them to pour it in their eyes. The safety instructions for most of the exposures boil down to "rinse it off you." Also: "After swallowing: make victim drink water (two glasses at most). Consult doctor if feeling unwell."
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Btw fyi it's spacexsi now
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Propylene glycol. Bad, but not the worst thing in the world
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It's propylene glycol. A generally recognized as safe, chemical. Nothing dangerous happened...
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Isn’t that notorious for poisoning wildlife because they mistake it for sweet?
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That's ethylene glycol, also used as antifreeze. It is metabolized to oxalic acid, which in quantity destroys the kidneys. Propylene glycol metabolizes into lactic acid. Too much of that causes CNS depression or acidosis. It's often chosen as a safer alternative to ethylene glycol.
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And it's water soluble, biodegradable and not bioaccumulative. If you're planning a chemical spill this is a good choice.
Preserving 30 Years of Salon Journalism (blog.archive.org)
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More like 15 years of journalism and 15 years of horrible Mary Elizabeth Williams slop.
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Closing down discussed the other day: Goodbye from Salon (658 points, 288 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383739 My own reflection was remembering Salon for cavalierly disposing of its brilliant International Issues subforum, then later the whole of TableTalk with no effort to assist preservation.
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Somewhere, however far down, on the list of why people feel socially isolated these days is surely the disappearance of internet fora where one could discuss serious issues in a longform-text format with other identifiable regulars who could become chums or friends (albeit of the long-distance sort). The IMDB boards that brought cinephiles together, the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum that was one of the most informed and unspammed places to discuss travel, the music boards on Amazon prior to about 2010 -- all shut down by corporate owners due to the cost of moderation or the inability to strictly control their brand image. Things like Reddit are a pale substitute and full of pathologies.
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i think you're right, and now with the proliferation of bots it seems like the only spaces where an actual community can be formed are platforms like discord. it's the only place on the modern web i've ever made any friends.
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Thank goodness for Internet Archive!
Old Bitly Links Are Being Hijacked (ransomnews.com)
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Link shorteners that are outsourced are in my humble opinion an order of magnitude worse for the internet than they would be if in-house. The way they accrete URLs over time, and then time passes, and anything can happen (your account gets deactivated, shortener company goes out of business / experiences catastrophic data loss / etc) is just asking for permanently broken links which may be unfixable. Especially when you consider how these services can, unless they're spammy enough to inject gross interstitial ad pages, make 0 revenue from you if you aren't currently paying for a premium service, it's easy to see how they can go under. Note: Clearly with the kind of ephemeral crap these 2011 tweets were, I'm assuming the 'attacker' publicized "Hey guys look at these funny tweets" because obviously who cares about 15 year old McDonalds marketing messages. But in general it's sad to see these still being used. To be fair to bitly, they do offer the ability to use your own domain at least, but sadly, with a service targeted mainly at marketing departments, usually they don't have the ability to work with the in-house tech team(s) to even set up DNS.
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This is a lesson for any entry point including usernames , subdomains, url slugs. Anything of value will be abused.
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There's a lot of abandoned url ownership things on the internet. We need something like a bureau that keeps track of what it was for. We do have archive.is or .org to save the content at a url (side note - are these archivers legal or in some country that allows this?). I do often come across an article occasionally where someone is writing about a narrow topic that I'm interesting in, but I can't find them any more - maybe they had a vauge user name that isn't resolvable. You have sites trying to block spammers, but you have over-active groups like Reddit that seem to delete accounts aggressively with no information about what you did wrong. I want a meta id that I own, that people can check I'm the real "foo-bar1418", and that can't be deleted or taken over. It feels like there's still room for a super-crosssite-ID. But there are also spammers, haters etc that sites have to deal with.
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archive.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit run publicly and generally follows the law. archive.is run anonymously, has engaged in ddos campaigns in violation of criminal laws just about everywhere, and has used visitors computers in those campaigns making even visiting the site (when you know of their conduct) a way to violate criminal hacking statutes in most countries.
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The convenience of link shorteners is one thing, running them on your own domain seems to still make the most sense.
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What is the convenience, really? In 2026, we're rarely speaking/reading URL's. Anything on a print ad can be a QR code. Where that doesn't work, you can say, "go to <company> dot com and search for <product>", like how people used to advertise AOL keywords. Or they can put a link to their active promotions above the fold on their home page. The main convenience seems to be for pranks, plus it's just another vulnerability as described in the article. At best, they're just something else that has to be maintained forever.
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And, actually, if your long url uses mostly meaningful words, it's often easier to remember and type that than a gibberish shortened url
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Ya. I could see random individuals using them on twitter, but McDonalds couldn’t figure out a way to create shortened links on their own domain?
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Seriously, I built a link shortener on nothing but Cloudfront in about 30 minutes zero to live.
>"and is disabling the affected links." Wouldn't it make more sense to restore the original destination URL?
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if the original people had kept their accounts active they would still be the original URL. That's on BK, Trump, etc. Obviously, them's the breaks though when you voluntarily rent URLs from random companies. Bitly could sell their whole domain to (insert whatever organization you trust the least) and every URL you've ever made either breaks or is redirected to whatever that entity wants.
Is there a version of this "article" not written by AI? Feels like this was just an AI scraping twitter and writing an article.
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It really took ages to get anywhere. Even the section explaining how the hack happened left me non the wiser.
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Basically, bit-rot-ly missed up by deleting old link names when deleting accounts; people now register old links and redirect them to wherever they want.
What aspects make it so quintessentially "gen z"?
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I'm guessing some combo of dark humor, and the fact that they don't remember 9/11 so they don't mind joking about it, plus ironically trolling big corporations.
What's the value proposition of link shorteners? I mean, why do companies, or customers, use them?
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I don't need shorter links per-se but I need a way to track the effectivness of the links I send out to the public for marketing purposes. I could put tracking ids and such but it doesn't look as good. I also have links to my Google reviews, Google Maps etc and it's better show bitly.com/business-google-reviews and bitly.com/business-google/map than https://maps.app.goo.gl/sGa1KAU2131212cqU7
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You want a way, and I can assure you that normal links look better, especially if the tracking part is easier to spot and can be removed by those who want to (who will be a minority, so your statistics won't be affected too much).
Can’t you just run that internally on a one character subdomain?
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You certainly can, I'd happily set one up for my company if they'd let me, but the marketing organizations that generally use these things are 99% of the time only distant cousins from people like me in the orgchart family tree. They just go sign up accounts, use a marketing credit card, and do whatever, and they only talk to people in the tech side of the company after some mess or disaster is made (e.g. "Oh no, we used a URL shortener that went out of business/sold to a porn site/etc")
Weird tangent. curl|bash doesn't work with link shorteners anyway because you need an extra flag to handle redirects.
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Obviously should probably never use this in the |bash situation, but it's `-L` -- in general a good one to use by default unless you're only using curl to inspect redirect headers or something.
We used to worry about link shorteners. We still do, but we used to, too.
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URL Temporarily Short
this is why i have always been against link shorteners :)
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These days you can buy a short domain easily and create your own short links. Right now there are around 540 TLDs that anyone can use (not brands or country restrictions) and most are really cheap and haven't been bought out yet.
Same. It's been marketing and other departments that have claimed to need them for ease of use, but then also that same department wants to shove a lot of long text in the url for SEO... I've warned several times over the years that these links will rot and our going to be out of our control, but... that's what they want!
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To be fair, the way some companies use single use / campaign specific domain names, they will rot too once it doesn't make sense to renew them.
Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites (reuters.com)
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SpaceX has received more than $22B in subsidies from taxpayer money. They were built off of public funding as much as NASA was. At this point, they are not entitled to keep rocket designs and experiment results secret (except where national security is a concern) from other U.S. competitors. Any company that can obtain a security clearance and demonstrate ability to build should be able to receive these designs from the Federal Government. It's extremely inefficient to keep destroying rockets all so one man can keep his circular financing scheme going. Armchair scientists who come along and say "Look what they did that NASA couldn't do" don't understand A) SpaceX wouldn't exist at all if not for 6 decades of innovations from NASA & JPL and B) NASA ACTUALLY does space exploration unlike SpaceX, and their budget has to support rovers on other planets, launches, the ISS, astronaut training, weather and climate research (which SpaceX and Blue Origin also benefit from).
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Your comment won't appeal to the capitalism-oriented audience of HN but you're right; so right in fact I believe a lot of this is already done. Usually there is sharing between NASA and all private launch companies when it comes to failures, because they have a vested interest in the outcome of the rockets due to flying payloads on them. I don't disagree that I think the information sharing could be amped up little, though.
> Every time I have to wait a long time to get a doctor's appointment Privately funded and thus unrelated. Maybe lobby for increasing the number of residency slots, which is the only government backed filter. > police won't arrive in time when crime is reported Vote for a different DA, also the police are paid with property taxes, which Amazon does pay, but only if they are local.
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Ironically, if it’s available in your area and you’re willing to pay a relatively trivial sum, Amazon’s One Medical primary care offering will get you a doctor’s visit right quick.
> Privately funded and thus unrelated Very US-centric response. And even then, US government funding is a determinant of how many doctors are trained.
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Doctors decide how many residencies there are. They keep it low to maintain their high salaries. Easy fix - we should let every foreign doctor take a simple test to qualify for US license to practice medicine. We should be importing doctors by the thousands.
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> Doctors decide how many residencies there are. They keep it low to maintain their high salaries. Doctors don’t even have high salaries in the US anymore. I have plenty of family members in the ROAD specialties (read: easy $$) and they think their $400-500k/year salaries weren’t worth it. Especially since they don’t start working until after fellowship at age 32+. Then you have internal medicine or family doctors in California earning $200k/year because all the doctors want “a high quality of life” after med school. In other words, too much supply of doctors in California, not enough jobs.
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It's not just residencies, governments also actively restrict how many hospitals can be built. I'd rather have the government break up the doctor's modern equivalent of a guild and encourage more private practices rather than just shoving more cheap foreign labor into the existing PE firms and continuing to gatekeep young students out of the industry.
Who pays for a residency slot?
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Patients and their insurance companies, presumably.
Vulcan rocket fails during return-to-flight launch, 40 Amazon satellites lost (space.com)
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Just read the wiki on Vulcan, and it's not encouraging, 3 different fuels and types of engines, a lot of ancient technology and production equipment used to build the same part numbers from 1972,and by random sub contractors, the best of which may be wanting out now, and most of the rest will be mainly focused on stuff thats supposed to explode every time, not every second time. snark asside, there are too many moving pieces here to compete with spacex where everything is verticly integrated, like yesterday where the cute chick doing part of the naration for the Starship landing, is also the chief engineer for doing the flaps construction and clearly if anyone there has a question about integration, they just walk over and say , hey! got a minute? and if there is a problem it gets bumped up now! solved, now!, and they build more stuff,now! but look the fuck out because they have terrifying overachiving women running around who can do a convincing to the unwarry, imitations of big hair!, the atrition for under achivers and drop outs must be brutal, but awsome for those that thrive on doing. still hyped from watching them bring it home! vulcan aint got ANY of that vibe and no way to get it.
“An anomaly”? What actually happened, did it explode? Crash? Burn up in the atmosphere?
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The first stage seems to have some sort of problem which resulted in it being lower and slower than it needed to be when the second stage separated. The second stage and payload would have fallen back into the atmosphere and burned up
I’ve been a huge SpaceX fan since back when they were failing to reach orbit with Falcon 1. That said, we (the US, the planet) need more than one successful launch provider. Even Elon (of whom I’m not such a fan) has said things along these lines. ULA went conservative with the Vulcan design before it was entirely obvious how good Falcon 9 would end up being. And then they’re having awful teething problems anyway. I also wonder if we’re seeing the beginning of the end for them. It’s clear imho that Boeing & Lockheed don’t want to make the kind of investment that would put them back in the front row. If this is a BE-4 issue, ouch. Really hoping it’s something else in the system if it does turn out to be a booster stage issue.
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The real question is how do you build an enduring organization doing complex technical work “at the front row” while not being a cult of personality?
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I am not sure if you do, tbh. I’d like to think it’s possible. Having a charismatic focal point sure seems to make it easier, based on observation of the world around us.
This is my suspicion right now. Booster engine cut off was 40 seconds late relative to timelines and stage separate happened lower and at a slower speed than expected.
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I think you mean 40 seconds late :-). 40 minutes late would be very impressive!
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Oops--you're right, of course. Fixed!
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The timeline was identical to that of the last LEO flight on Atlas Centaur. Which while possible seems suspicious to me. So I would take the timeline with a grain of salt.
Don’t worry, AST Space Mobile will have reusable rockets in only two years.
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Warning: Sarcasm Detected.
Rocket lab will have a new medium sized rocket by end of year / early 2027 fwiw
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RL can't even successfully make a first stage tank yet for Neutron, and they've already said first launch is now in "2027" without specifying a quarter. It's definitely not going to be ready by the end of the year, that's for sure.
Ask HN: Stripe closed us after one $1,500 invoice and never asked for evidence
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I'll be first to say that Stripe is a shit company and I cannot wait to see a competitor detroy them. Now onto main problem. Issue is the $1 followed by large payment. A lot of banks will flag this as suspicious, in some cases block the payment, or even proceed with investigation. There is nothing telling Stripe that this is a potentially legitimate payment so they blocked it. The fact they are shit company and don't explain this to you is another issue.
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Sounds like Stripe is on the same road as Paypal.
I had stripe fleece me for 4.5k - tried to complain about them on HN - they nerfed the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50398646 The sad part is I was one of their first customers - I helped onboard over a 70 clients for them over the years. And my top project generated them $1.6m in pure fees revenue. I even tried emailing Patrick and John - they don't care one bit. Its sad - they used to have a soul - became a ruthless/soulless company. Sorry you are dealing with this...
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Are you still using stripe today, or have you found something else?
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yes, unfortunately i have a lot of projects with them and don't know of a better alternative.
So you allowed people to do card testing on your platform and never recognized it was happening? You have to keep on top of things like that especially if using Stripe Connect where users can withdraw money since you are facilitating theft and money laundering > there was very little negligence on our side Lol > they nerfed the post Nobody nerfed the post. It just isn't interesting since it's your fault. Lesson learned, hopefully!
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It's very interesting actually, and there is no evidence that they 'allowed card testing on your platform'. Not to mention it would be stripe that would be the main facilitator of card testing in this scenario, so it would be on them to detect and alert the user if that was happening.
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No evidence? They said that's exactly what happened in that thread, I guess you missed that Card testing is the merchant's responsibility because whether it gets through or not largely depends on settings the merchant controls . I guess you've never used Stripe, otherwise how would you not know that? And yes even if you use Stripe Radar and the recommended integrations which will prevent most card testing you still have to have a process to manually review transactions from time to time. Again, merchant's responsibility. If you don't like that, don't take credit card payments....
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So the corporation doesn't care about a guy who generated 1.6 million dollars in fees and onboarded additional clients? Even when they post about their problem publicly on HN? I suppose it's hopeless for the rest of us.
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He misused their platform by failing to do proper verification of marketplace users and transactions and allowed criminals to extract several thousand dollars from victims of credit card theft. He's the one at fault here and his unverified claims about fees sounds like it's from a different project anyways so what exactly do you expect support to do? Roll out the red carpet and help him out with these fees related to the funds he helped launder? If he was negligent and didn't do the proper verifications of the buyers and sellers on his platform then he shouldn't have set it up in the first place. It's basic common sense and if he's really used Stripe so much he would know that. Instead of immediately blaming Stripe why don't you ask him if he followed all of the best practices for using Stripe Connect It's a relatively risky thing to implement so you should only do it if you have all the checks in place and can accept a certain level of risk: https://docs.stripe.com/connect/risk-management
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You're trying hard to make it sound that this user and not Stripe is at fault here, without saying anything concrete/specific at all. If it was the user's fault - what specifically did they do wrong and what should have they done differently (doing ID checks on all users/buyers is obviously not a real solution for many reasons)? Stripe is the one actually facilitating the payments, verifying the cards, enabling card testing, etc.
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> doing ID checks on all users/buyers is obviously not a real solution for many reasons I have a feeling you really don't understand how this works or what even happened. The problem is the sellers pretending to be buyers using fake credit cards to buy their own stuff and then getting money transferred to them. So while you say it's impossible yes you absolutely need to do verification of all of these sellers before you start sending them stolen money. You've never even used Stripe have you?
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he should becomes stripe's public defender/lawyer
Stripe stresses written authorization when you capture intent to pay.
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What? You mean have them write on paper and upload a photo of it?
I have no knowledge specific to Stripe or your case, but do I know that the pattern you just described - a small 1 dollar payment followed by a large payment - is the exact pattern that criminals use to test stolen credit cards numbers. My bank will automatically reject anything following that pattern, put a hold on my card, and call me to confirm whether or not I have my card. So yeah, if your business model calls for pattern matching with how stolen cards are used, that could very well be unacceptable risk to Stripe.
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I don't get it... I've had plenty of actual corporations test my credit card in that exact manner. PayPal for example literally turned this into second factor authentication mechanism: they charged me some random amount and demanded to know the value they charged me. Apparently this is proof that I have access to the associated bank account.
Criminals? I think AWS (or something similarly large) used to hold a dollar to make sure the card works, it's a pattern that is used
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Amazon does a small precharge on all of my grocery deliveries. This pattern is universal. I suppose it's easier for "engineers" to come up with pants-on-head idiotic solutions and special-case exemptions for large partners than it is to use their noggin and implement any kind of system capable of actually working.
Do House members' stock trades beat the market? A test of 8,900 trades (arkanumdata.com)
Median performance? That's not a correct calculation. To calculate proper stock returns you need weighted mean. Often in stocks you have a few outliers that give the vast majority of your profit. I don't know if this is ignorance, but from a methodological standpoint this seems like an attempt to deceive or hide data.
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Confirmed that if you look at weighted mean, congressmen beat the s&p500. (Since the source link is clearly slop, I think it’s fair game to post a slop rebuttal, otherwise impossible to combat bullshit.) https://micjm.com/blog/house-trades-mean-returns/
Why should "politician" be a career? Maybe that's what we should filter for.
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We should select politicians the way we select jurors.
Not really, but draconian laws won't fix the problem either. All insider trading will just happen via proxies. Friends and relatives.
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That's still insider trading. I work in finance/payments processing and I'm certainly not allowed to tell any one my friends or family which trades to make if I have non-public information about companies, I see no reason why we can't treat politicians to the same exact standards plenty of regular folk already are held to.
Yeah, I've looked at the net worth of various congressmen recently, and most of the wealthy members were wealthy from before politics. Americans complain about their politicians only getting into the career to get rich, but that doesn't seem to be true. In fact, it's kind of shocking how little they get paid, considering they run one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is even more true at the state level.
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They earn 3x the median wage, how is that shockingly little?
Handwriting, as a Font (ductus.sorenblank.com)
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it's perfect on mobile. don't change anything. I said to myself let's try a few letters.. then I could not stop till I finished all the letters. it took 10 min using my finger
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Awesome. Gonna troll everyone at work this week with screenshots of some code snippets with my new font!
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This is really nice. Unfortunately it doesn't have accented characters. Thus I can't write my name using that font, which is a key thing I'd use "my" font for. I understand they don't want to go through all of Unicode, but a way to add custom letters would be nice.
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Any ability to add custom symbols? I'd like to type out £ and € as I use them often as a European.
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i agree!! also ligatures for common combinations would be nice, because handwriting is very "dynamic"
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This is so cool! IMO, every personal blog should be written in the individual's handwriting.
It needs samples, I'm not going to get out my wacom to do all that without seeing what the results will look like.
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How can it provide samples when everyone 's handwriting is totally different? This is one of those things where you're gonna get out what you put into it. So you're not getting anything
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Show real outputs applied to various text. Obviously it won’t be my handwriting, but it would show what it’s capable of.
Jensen Huang discusses comeback as Nvidia CEO with allies (ft.com)
„Everyone that matters in tech outside the frontier labs loves Jensen,” So it was really Anthropic the source of this hit job on Huang. I hope they do badly with their IPO for wanting to kill open-weight and Chinese competition. I wish them bankruptcy. I already cancelled my Claude Code subscription.
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I think that he made a lot of powerful enemies by coming out basically in favor of prop 40 in California.
There's a lot of muddying the waters in this discussion where people don't distinguish between smuggling into mainland China, which he may or may not have been aware of, and the perfectly legal mechanism building data centers in South East Asia for China to use for training. Just because Jensen doesn't share the neocon anti-China spirit doesn't make it illegal.
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If the person he was bedding leveraged her closeness to pull off the illegal export, then he's at least unfit to be in any significant position of power. Maybe an unpopular opinion, but not having sex with everyone who offers is one of the hard parts of being a responsible adult.
Two firings of extremely different nature. The U.S. government and/or it's trade policies wasn't involved in the Altman ordeal, for starters. Jensen will be investigated for a very long time; none of this is getting washed away any time soon. Cabinet members are involved.
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> Two firings of extremely different nature. Well that is certainly true. Altman was fired in an internal tumult. Huang was taken down in a fake, scripted event with manufactured consensus and media outlets like NYT and WSJ shamelessly hyping unverified facts that turned out to be false.
Protomaps: Self-hosting map tiles has gotten cheap and easy (bruceroettgers.eu)
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I deployed self-hosted protomaps on geocode.xyz and it works like a charm. I wish it had more customization options though ( https://geocode.xyz/415%20C'WEALTH%20AVE%20WEST%20Singapore )
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I was very grateful to find protomaps recently for a project where I want to allow people to download custom regional subsections of the global map for offline usage. After evaluating maplibre vs the somewhat-abandonned protomaps-leaflet library, I decided to go with the latter as I don't really need the fancy 3d gpu and custom layers functionality of maplibre. Plus leaflet is releasing a long-awaited v2 right now.
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Deploying this as I am typing this. The problem I have with Mapbox is that there is no way to limit spending. When the public key gets abused, it's a potentially enormous bill.
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OpenFreeMap is a similar project: https://openfreemap.org/ > What is OpenFreeMap? > OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free. > Using our public instance is completely free: there are no limits on the number of map views or requests. There’s no registration, no user database, no API keys, and no cookies. We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations. > What is the tech stack? > There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files. This was my idea; I haven’t read about anyone else doing this in production, but it works really well.
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I didn't know they just served it straight from disk, that's pretty cool!
Have you check Mapterhorn's next project ? Funded by Nlnet.
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yeah, I heard about them for the first time a few weeks ago. they have a fantastic data set just judging with my bare eyes. I built my topo map from terrain tiles on aws + gebco et al for the bathymetry data which is just personal preference (I love me an old globe with the tactile mountains and seafloor)
Checkout the new PRs submitted to Tilemaker. It appears building the planet could soon take less than 5 minutes.
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Any in particular? That’s pretty cool. I switched my own workflow to Planetiler because Tilemaker had too many bugs and quirks for my liking, but I might be tempted to switch back if it’s that much faster.
We're doing something like this behind Cloudflare R2, same concept of owning the map infra (for privacy and access-control) and reducing load on public infrastructure. If you are into this stuff, you can view PMTiles from the CLI with "gloss", or try to drag-and-drop on its web interface [1]. It seems large tiles (>128M) and some raster formats are failing; plus it would be nice to load from URL there. Will fix that... (AI warning). ntmaps [2] is a Golang library that lets you use different tile providers, deployable in terminal or browser. ntplaygrounds [3] uses that and nt3d and ntactor to make a city simulation. Data is pulled from OpenStreetMap in those. [1] https://nimbleterminal.com/gloss/app.html [2] https://nimbleterminal.com/ntmaps [3] https://nimbleterminal.com/ntplaygrounds
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same, we use pmtiles on R2 for landstats.com parcel map. it's very easy to set up and cheap to serve and we have a CF worker than turns them into rasters on the fly if that's how people want to get them
Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests (www1.wdr.de)
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Therac ‘26
Ironically, if the US wanted to completely shut down the German economy, they'd just have to disable Excel - everything would grind to a halt.
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Ironically that wouldn't completely do it. You would need to knock out faxes too. Just shutting down Excel would probably work for the Netherlands though.
The law is smarter than this, thankfully. Your second sentence is 100% correct. Your first is questionable; Microsoft, a kabillion dollar company has, for years, held itself out to be reliable and safe. And it repeatedly has shown that it is not. That opens them up to some liability here; and frankly deserves to be better held to the standards it (either directly or indirectly) claims. And see e.g. "Implied warranty of merchantability" as a refuation of the possibility that you can wave this away with a Terms of Service.
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Well, notwithstanding the fact that this incident happened in Germany... > And see e.g. "Implied warranty of merchantability" as a refuation of the possibility that you can wave this away with a Terms of Service. "Implied warranty of merchantability" is a term of art in United States law, and it applies only to tangible goods, not to services.
A short explainer on how El Niño works [video] (youtube.com)
It's because carbon reduction has not been disconnected from material impoverishment. We need more stuff moving; we need more housing, we need more transport, we need more food, we need more energy, we need more children. Carbon reduction's story is one of denying/reducing these things in the name of saving planet earth. The answer needs to be doing both: reducing carbon and making more houses and food and energy and babies. Nobody really wants to be DINK pod-people who have little optionality in life activities, and that's what climate change warriors are selling them.
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Imagine that ... people warring against an existential threat to human civilization.
The idea of "unbounded capitalism", leading to incessant growth, while painting reductions as "impoverishment", is a capital error. Reality doesn't allow for any such thing and wishing for it doesn't make it so. Consequently, ignoring that reality will see you running into a wall head-on. With wildly devastating consequences: El Niño is just one immediate symptom, look at the AMOC. It collapsing will see about 70% or more of Earth's population wiped out. Along with the corresponding capacity for crop growth. What you need to do is actually preventing foreseeable calamities, not complaining about people pointing you at them.
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rustcleaner didn't say that his or her suggested solution is capitalism, though it might be. People in communism, or nearly any other socioeconomic system, also want more housing, transport, food, energy, and children. Reality includes public opinion, which even authoritarian systems have to account for to some extent. So even if the reality is that climate change will be so devastating that it needs to be addressed by any means necessary (I don't know if that is the reality, but let's say for the sake of argument that it is), that necessity has to be sold to people somehow. And it's difficult to convince people to accept impoverishment if the truly major negative consequences of not acting on climate change are ones that will not happen for decades, as seems to be the case at least in temperate regions. I know very little about AMOC, but it seems the science about AMOC collapse timelines is not settled enough to convince the average person that something must be done immediately. To get public buy-in in such a situation, it may be more advantageous to figure out how to be able to sell the necessary changes in a way that is not accompanied by impoverishment. That or ignore public buy-in, but then one still has to figure out how to do that. Voters punish economic decline. And I doubt that there is a realistic path to replacing Western democracy with an authoritarian system that has climate change as a top priority, at least in the near future.
US has reduced their global carbon emissions over the last 20 years. We were a peak of 55% of global emissions to less than 13% today, and continue to drop (we were 23% in 2000). Even when adjusting for trade, it is down considerably over the last 20 years. Mainly due to dematerialization, basically a free market economy doing more with less (e.g. efficient packaging uses less materials and is cheaper). US and the Western world can continue reducing carbon emissions and it won't make a bit of difference. Try spending 5 minutes on google before you spout uniformed opinions https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/united-states https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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> Try spending 5 minutes on google before you spout uniformed opinions See HN guidelines, and perhaps steelman their claim. By "outsize responsibility" they likely refer to the fact that still today the US as a country has been the source of the largest per country contribution to AGW gases (burnt fossil fuels). They might also refer to 1970s US capitalists (eg: Koch brothers) doubling down hard on climate denial after the papers of 1967 and actively funding think tanks to push civic development towards roads, away from public transport, and make bigger cars sexy. To this day the cumulative total of fossil gases uplifted by the US still exceeds that of China - despite the smaller population of the USS.
Also, China's coal consumption is now larger than... the entire rest of the world's. These people are not arguing in good faith.
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And yet despite that and having a much larger population the cumulative total CO2 uplift of China is still less than that of the US. It'd better to avoid country V country pissing contests and focus on global efforts. In a real sense the cost of going solar, wind, renewable powered is Chinese emissions .. for now.
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Project much?
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It isn't really in "good faith" to retort something the parent didn't say. Try disputing something that was actually claimed.
This statistic completely ignores the fact that the US externalizes its' CO2 emissions by externalizing by sending our manufacturing to other countries. How much of China's CO2 is a result of the products Americans buy that were manufactured in China? If we look at CO2 as a result of consumption it would tell a truer story.
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The general solution to a global market where countries chooses to have different industry regulations is to impose tariffs to compensate for the real cost of production so that external producers has the same conditions as internal ones. On the flip side, we should not take away agency from those who choose to favor increase export industry over increase emissions. That is an active choice. Same if they allow poor employment safety or child labor. The importer of goods has some moral responsibility to buy from someone else (even if its more expensive), but the absolute majority of responsibility is on the country that actively allow such poor practices.
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Is that really true? There are manufacturing processes that use a lot of energy, and the US does a lot of that (maybe more than China) because it has low energy costs.
It's gotten bad all over the western world. Here in Canada, just mentioning climate change and policies to restrict CO2 emissions puts you in the political doghouse and gets you crucified on social media. It's just apparently not a concern now. Carney has eviscerated all regulation, and enabling exponential growth of the oil export sector is now a national emergency justified by tariffs, nationalism, national unity etc. etc. Sorry, great grand-children. Pipelines gotta pump.
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I don't know much about climate change science, so I use epistemological heuristics and reach the conclusion that the spectrum of scientific consensus on the topic is more likely to be correct than denial that there is a problem is likely to be correct. Despite this, I don't have the time or energy to really care much about climate change. I have more immediate problems. I have bills to pay. I barely think about climate change at all. Maybe it would be different if I had children, but I'm not sure. Children make people care more about the non-immediate future, but they also take time and energy. So it's hard to say. I'm probably pretty representative of the average person in this regard.
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I guess I'm not representative of the average person ... I have no children (just a niece) but I care deeply about the future of human civilization.
> in the political doghouse and gets you crucified on social media This is arguably the correct thing, even if you believe the situation is urgent, if you also believe that other things are more urgent. Suppose you think that fixing declining education or economies is absolutely prerequisite , and that until people are smarter or more comfortable or both, even discussing the climate too often weakens your chances of building effective coalitions. Personally, I go back and forth when I weigh this sort of thing, I'm really not sure. We probably need to at least consider that this is a consistent/coherent perspective. Of course, it's not a invitation to make things worse as fast as possible with drill-baby-drill.. but an acknowledgement that there are many other ways to make things worse, such as pissing people off. Aggravating corporations is fine, but for people who are not ready to hear about this, we need real consideration and a real offer. However inconsistently, we have tried forcing an agenda they need to comply with already, so now let's try something else
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Global warming is an existential threat to human civilization. Those other things aren't.
If you "immediately tune out" the truth, you tune out reality. What does that make you? When your child acts in such a way (imagine it trying to kill its pet, which it was tasked with sustaining), what do you do? Entertain its fantasies and accommodate its wishes? The point here is, you enable people to act in such childish ways by inventing justifications for their behavior. Your own prior behavior might well be the cause of their actions in the first place.
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I’m not saying people immediately tune out the truth. I’m saying they will immediately tune out you and that has less to do with what you are saying than how you are saying it. The truthiness of the message is pretty much irrelevant. The oil companies pushed bullshit but they knew how to deliver the message and they were effective. People who want to reduce CO2 emissions have not been effective delivering their message yet they keep trying the same thing over-and-over again.
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Yes, it's a form of Murc's Law ... only those pointing out bad behavior have agency; those behaving badly don't.
'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can (nytimes.com)
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The title is a misnomer. Redarded decisions are usually done fast. So birdbrain is very accurate for someone who does that regularly.
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When you’re lower on the totem pole of life, aren’t your decisions much faster since there are less neurons and pathways to traverse?
Despite the title, humans can react much faster than that. Gamers are commonly around 150 ms in visual response time. Humans can make decisions and an action in less than 125 ms for very fast people.
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Maybe if the birds were gamers [trained since birth] and they selected very fast birds, could they then beat humans?
I think the only reason we can actually do things like dancing and playing of pianos is because our brains are capable of predicting the future. Maybe not very far but far enough to compensate for the end to end latency. I don't think you train your spine when you learn an instrument. I think you learn a predictive model of the world that allows you to anticipate events far enough in advance to execute correctly.
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> I don't think you train your spine when you learn an instrument. I saw an article about it years ago.
> For example, learning to play a piano is training the spine, not the brain. Because the feedback loop with the spine is shorter. It may train the spine too but good luck trying to play the piano without a brain. More concretely, your eyes read the notes you like to play, your ears provide the feedback loop whether you are playing the right thing (and dynamics and interplay with other musicians in an ensemble), and you need things like planning ahead, sense of form, etc. Twiching fingers from some spine impulse is just part of playing the piano. (Besides, the latency between brain and finger muscels is insubstantial w.r.t. the time scales you need for general music playing, beyond certain nuances.)
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> It may train the spine too but good luck trying to play the piano without a brain. I think you missed the point. The brain is the general, the spine is the sergeant.
Also toothed whales. Like, dolphins have developed culture. Probably many more species are very intelligent. Intelligence doesn’t seem too rare.
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Which just goes to show, imo, how many more tools are necessary to become an advanced civilization. Imagine if we'd just been restricted to water and couldn't make fire, but were otherwise identical? Imagine if we didn't have thumbs, or highly articulate mouths? Imagine if we were solo creatures, or if we were too self-interested to care for the village? Edit but as an aside, we don't even really know what intelligence is, if you ask me. We have an idea, but trying to quantify it or measure it falls short seemingly every time.
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> ...or if we were too self-interested to care for the village? Don't worry. We're getting there.
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didn't they just find a sulfide mineral under the sea that catches fire under water? i guess i misremembered, https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-collected-deep-sea-rocks-they-spontaneously-caught-fire-in-the-lab they oxidized in the lab, maybe they're not shiny or curious enough of an object to be collected? what animals perform collection?
Clice v1.0 Released: Welcome to Modern C++ (ykiko.me)
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Meh, I will stick with the kind of C++ that is useful and readable, basically C++98 or C with classes. There are now ten ways of doing the same thing, the language is a complete mess.
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It's slop, unfortunately.
Why is there a cartoon of a young girl as the header image? Isn't that a bit...weird?
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To distract people on HN. I'd do the same thing
The Atheist Bible (suchanek.name)
As someone who once heavily identified as atheist, I find I can no longer even read things like this. I'm not on-board with religion either. What I've found is that defining yourself as being against something isn't particularly healthy or helpful in your day-to-day life. Perhaps I was doing atheism incorrectly or something. But for sure I was a happier person when I decided that I sure as hell didn't know what was going on so probably no one else did either and walked away from that part of my identity. Its nicer to be uncertain, I think. It certainly is easier!
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I think that is reasonable viewpoint. I am a Christian, but have been an agnostic (or weak atheist if you want to use that definition) and I think that is the natural and rational position for many, maybe most, people. Taking a definite position requires a reason for doing so.
> academic positions of theologians You're going to call me arrogant, but .. what? Theology rests on faith. There is no experimentation, no proof, nothing other than inventing a story and then inventing a theological framework that story fits into, then calling it "academia" because within your invented story, there is a framework you can argue. It isn't real.
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You seem to have read "academic" as "scientific." I think you're forgetting about classics, philosophy, literature, all of which can get very academic (and even rigorous!) without resting on the scientific method.
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> nothing other than inventing a story That is a strawman itself. Have you ever ask why people believe? You are also conflating faith and belief.
It's like disproving Santa Claus. Yeah, you can do it, but maybe it's not as profound as it seems. It is not possible to prove the nonexistence of Santa Claus or any other supernatural being. For all anyone knows, Santa and Jesus are the same being. That is why the burden of proof lies with the people claiming Santa or gods are real.
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It's pretty easy to disprove the existence of a man that is said to dwell in a sprawling toy factory at the North Pole.
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The famously litigious one that makes you sign an NDA when you visit.
I don't understand what this comments brings to the discussion.
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It is always helpful to remind religious people that the burden of proof lies with them.
> If you agree on theism (as opposed to atheism, deism, dualism, pantheism or something else). You have almost certainly agreed on an awful lot. Almost all theists believe in an omniscient, omnipotent loving creator. Of course you might disagree about a lot too, but that is a lot of common ground. Not really. There's no particular reason why a classic argument like a creator implies omniscience or omnipotence, much less loving, and certainly not very specific claims such as trinitarianism. Heck the classic "unmoved mover" argument is Aristotle's -- someone who's definitely not Christian, despite attempts by medieval Scholastics to retcon him into the faith. ETA -- also, why would pantheism not be a theism? See, even here there's already a leap saying "oh, theism is actually this narrower meaning."
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It does not follow from philosophical argument but almost every monotheist believes that. It also a definition of theism. Unfortunately theism does not seem to be a well defined word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism
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