DennisP

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by DennisP 2mo ago
Dude everybody here is smart enough not to rely on internet comments for their legal advice. You don't have to be the gatekeeper. The guidelines say what's on topic here is "anything that good hackers would find interesting,&
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Good point. But if that were their only purpose, there'd be no need to share it with anybody. In fact, they'd get the best results by not mentioning it.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Of course there was no precedent set. They were using a precedent that had already been set. We'll never know how it would have turned out, but the previous comment implied that corporations always comply rather than going to court on
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by DennisP 2mo ago
If you're in the sixth circuit you're even safer because of Junger vs Daley.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
On the contrary, civil disobedience involves openly thumbing your nose at the state, and it has a long history of successes. Going to the courts instead of the legislature is another strategy that often wins. This is how Bernstein ended exp
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by DennisP 2mo ago
And in fact, Apple in 2016 went to court rather than comply with the government's order to put a backdoor in the iPhone, and they argued their case in part on free speech grounds. Whether other companies do the same depends on what the
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by DennisP 2mo ago
I didn't claim it's a magic unassailable defense. I claimed, contrary to the previous comment, that it's a valid defense. Maybe the courts will carve out a new exception for some particular type of code, maybe they won't
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Yes, I mentioned that Bernstein made his own software. But that was in the context of a huge public controversy over encryption regulations, mostly focused on PGP, and after the Bernstein decision, the Clinton administration eased up on exp
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Maybe try google before making statements like that. The decision was Bernstein vs. US. Prior to that, export controls prevented PGP source code from being exported from the US. Advocates printed it in books and exported those, which helped
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Unless the PGP decision has been overturned, code as free speech is in fact a valid defense. If the government couldn't stop code they claimed were "munitions" from getting distributed, then it seems unlikely that they'l
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by DennisP 2mo ago
For stuff like that you can just use a golf cart. The point of Aptera is extreme efficiency at highway speeds, which is why it has three wheels and looks like an airplane. For their smallest battery they claim a 400 mile range, and it goes
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by DennisP 2mo ago
That seems to be what they're doing this time around.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
One simple trick that's proven to work is to just leave biometrics disabled and refrain from giving your password. There are all sorts of situations where people go free despite the wistful desires of prosecutors, due to the details of
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Also the only EV I know of with a 400 mile range but the weight of a Miata. It might be reasonably fun to drive.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Aptera manages 3 square meters of solar panel on a 2200 pound vehicle with a drag coefficient of 0.13, which seems pretty decent to me.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
That overstates it a bit. The original Aptera attempted a gasoline-powered vehicle, and went bankrupt in 2011. The current Aptera is a new company founded in 2019, so there's an eight-year gap where the company didn't exist. In th
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Of course you're correct. Here's a 2019 simulation of escalating full-scale war between the US and Russia, done at Princeton based on what's publicly known about actual force postures. Immediate effects would be 34 million de
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by DennisP 2mo ago
I didn't say we'd choose wisely. But since there is still a range of possibilities, I'm not giving up on the whole thing.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Yes, but there's still a range of possible outcomes, depending on what we do next.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
You asked what I meant and I told you.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Are you not aware of the protective effects of melanin from higher levels of UV?
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by DennisP 2mo ago
I assumed that was what the commenter above was talking about, but perhaps I'm wrong. From the little I know about it, most of the immigrants that right-wing Europeans complain about are from places to the south. In case my understatem
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by DennisP 2mo ago
AWS is heavily used worldwide, not just in the US. The same goes for the big AI companies. Timeframe is accounted for if you look at levelized cost per kWh. The levelized cost of natural gas is 5 to 11 cents/kWh. In the sunniest spots,
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by DennisP 2mo ago
The nasty stuff, yes. Regarding greenhouse gases, natural gas has turned out to be about as bad as coal once you account for methane leaks, and the industry has strenuously resisted any decent mitigation for that.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
It's possible to have more than one existential risk at a time. We even have a third, since nuclear war doesn't seem completely impossible these days. We probably shouldn't ignore any of them.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
The US has been the foundation of European security since the beginning of NATO. Now Europe has good reason to think that American security guarantees are no longer reliable, and the US president keeps threatening to invade a European count
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by DennisP 2mo ago
They make less money, but they also notice lower conversion rates on ads, which might make them rethink their strategy. (IP reputation keeps me from doing it though.)
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by DennisP 2mo ago
The "it" in that title is an AI smarter than humans. Nobody has built that. GPT-4 never did "scale and learn in uncontrolled ways," it got trained by OpenAI and had fixed weights and size after that. AI dumber than human
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Not for anything scheduled on a server. But if I could turn a 30-minute task into a local button press, sure, I'd often keep it to myself. You have to decide whether your time is your own, or your employer's. The latter is a road
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Your friend could have still done the woman a favor, if he shared the automation with her privately, instead of with their employer. Doing things like this for yourself is how you make automation work for you instead of against you. Then yo

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