Amezarak

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Ask HN: Do open WiFi security cameras exist?
4 points by Amezarak 4y ago|3 comments
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The average was decreasing before the pandemic.
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People working in the system don't have the same faith. From the article: > In October 2020, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a report stating that MAiD would cut healthcare costs by over $66 million. In 2017, A
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by Amezarak 4y ago
People misunderstand the US bail system. You can pay your bail yourself. Say a judge gives you a $5k bail. You give the government 5k and they hold it until your case is complete. Then they either return it or they deduct your fines etc fro
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The article is not about topics being censored because of potential controversy. It is about GPT offering a consistent party line on certain subjects, which it did not get from the dataset organically but which were specifically trained int
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Is there some reason to believe auto makers will be totally unable to shift to EV? Particularly when most of them already have EVs? I also checked the stats, and it doesn't seem like the market cap of other auto makers have dropped bec
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I am perfectly willing to believe it’s possible that Tesla will be the dominant auto manufacturer someday. I doubt it, but I could believe it. But Tesla’s market cap of 1.2 trillion was that of a company that would have a near-monopoly in t
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The interesting thing to me about this is it's a very recent phenomenon. English from 1900 has much more in common with 1600s English than 2020s English. There's been a massive shrinking in vocabulary, a reduction in the sense of
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Yeah, the stock market is one of those things I've convinced myself there isn't much point in trying to understand. I believe I could pick out different facts and construct narratives, but they would probably all be wrong. Legions
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I am not a Republican, and have voted straight-D for multiple decades, with two single candidate exceptions. This isn’t a partisan thing for me. That is why I was careful to say exactly what I said without making broader claims or citing th
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by Amezarak 4y ago
In one of my other comments I linked directly to a quote where they described being pressured. https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16048884298162094... I don’t have time to read your second link, but the fi
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I saw the video of the woman being shot. She was unarmed. Nor did any of the protesters in the video appear to have firearms. If they intended to use deadly force this is a strange failure to plan, particularly for people that fetishize gun
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I don’t think it’s useful to look at the FBI through a racial lens. It has consistently murdered and oppressed people of all races and creeds from its very beginning. It’s not even altogether clear the FBI was founded legally. We’re talking
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I don’t think it’s that surprising, but what degree of FBI involvement in suppressing political stories do you think is newsworthy? Certainly regardless of the Hunter angle, it’s a clear 1A violation for the government to pressure private c
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The main takeaways are: - Contrary to the defense usually propounded so far, Twitter did feel coerced by the FBI. They felt there was imminent Congressional action coming if they did not comply with FBI requests. https://twitter.
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Twitter Files: Part 7(twitter.com)
6 points by Amezarak 4y ago|9 comments
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I guess it's too late for you to see this, but the latest Twitter Files show that Twitter did, in fact, feel pressured and coerced. https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16048884298162094... In fact, mos
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Libraries are pulping old books en mass. Your donations might go to a sale. If they don’t sell they will be destroyed.
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Websites don’t create extremists. Broken social structures and fabrics create extremists. No amount of 4chan posts will cause a healthy person to become a violent extremist. And no amount of censorship can stop the rise of extremism. It can
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Twitter and tech companies are regularly threatened with additional regulation and their executives called before Congress. This is the pressure. It’s already taken place and it’s ongoing. Sure, they could sue. They might or might not win.
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I never said I was shocked about it. The government and particularly agencies like the FBI have long engaged in illegal abuses of their power, ranging from illegal speech restrictions like this to the knowing legal persecution of innocent p
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by Amezarak 4y ago
You're right, this isn't unexplored. The ACLU says this specific example is unconstitutional. There's also been legal cases about this in the past. It's illegal for the government to do this. "They could sue if they
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by Amezarak 4y ago
He’s probably talking about the Gilead reference. This is the peril of reading fiction - you get some version of the author’s weird fantasies and dreams rattling around in your head. What you have is Atwood in your head. Indeed I originally
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Adding onto the other comments here, this is not my experience at all. If a "spinning rust" harddrive makes it past a year or two, it seems to go on basically indefinitely. I have a drive from 2009 in active use, plus six (out of
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The ACLU disagrees. https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1587198479608303622 The government pressuring private companies to censor is a First Amendment violation.
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The alternative is well-funded and well-connected institutions like the Cato Institute and other think-tanks being treated as authorities that the media and government can launder "the truth" through, and anonymous Internet commen
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This is particularly ironic since Adams famously was responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts and had people imprisoned for criticizing him.
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Thanks, I will remove that part of the comment. Assuming good faith from someone who appears to be extremely active in this area, perhaps this was an A/B tested feature and she didn't have it. What I find more concerning about thi
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At least some activists are saying that since the takeover, the moderation of CSAM has been dramatically improved after complaints had been falling on deaf ears for years. There are complaints that the old moderation team was ignoring clear
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> Boil water notices occur when your water treatment has entirely failed. I don't know how it is where you live, but here, boil water notices generally happen because of mundane things well downstream of water treatment. Water deman

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