EarlKing

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by EarlKing 11mo ago
....and I don't care because I don't use either of those. All the network effects in the world mean nothing if that network has no value to me.
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by EarlKing 11mo ago
You can thank them properly by submitting a comment on this matter and add your voice to the chorus so the proposed ruling gets shoved right back into the orifice it was pulled from.
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by EarlKing 11mo ago
Facebook is filled with billions of people I have no reason to speak to, ergo its network effects for me are zero, and its value to me is zero. Other services have similar zero or negative value, and hence I don't use them either. As m
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by EarlKing 11mo ago
He shut down the whole fund. There was a press release about it a few days ago.
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by EarlKing 11mo ago
Then how about SoftBank[1]... are they irrational? Or Michael Burry[2] who shorted Nvidia and Palantir before concluding the market is once against being irrational and selling his positions and closing his hedge fund... is he irrational? T
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by EarlKing 1y ago
No archive link, OP? No cookie for you. https://archive.is/xcOwc
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Linux system calls WERE 80h. If your code is still using an interrupt to access kernel functions then you've got problems. Syscall exists for the simple reason that interrupts are expensive.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Please replace link with https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09642-3 so people don't get sent to the supplemental material, kthx.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Is there some reason we can't refuse to import their goods or offset their lower cost of goods due to slavery by imposing tariffs? Seriously, I can do this all day.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Great! If this is so, then you should be able to prove that UK citizens are using crypto to purchase their services and that 4chan is expressly aware of this fact. I'm sure this proof will be forthcoming presently...
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Objection: The Chernobyl containment building generally speaking does its job. /pol/, on the other hand, leaks like an incontinent old man in a retirement home. "Containment" only works if you have jannies that actually
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Generations of wave solder machines and pick-and-place machines beg to differ...
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by EarlKing 1y ago
The first amendment is a natural right, not a civil right, but at any rate the matter of personal jurisdiction is what is at issue, which most definitely does regulate who can and cannot assert authority over a man (fictive or otherwise). O
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Is there some reason that you are bound to do business with literal slavemasters? Are you incapable of resisting doing business with the lowest bidder?
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by EarlKing 1y ago
> The ugly truth is our society is built on top of people doing absolute shit jobs for insulting pay. Perhaps you could try paying them more?
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by EarlKing 1y ago
One no more tames a politician than one tames a dog. When you stop feeding either their slab of meat, you become their next meal.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
> To put it another way, if 4chan blocked the UK, the UK would be fine with this outcome. They really wouldn't, otherwise they would've done that already since it is well within their power to command ISPs to blackhole any offe
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Ofcom attempting to enforce it's laws upon a US-resident corporation that has no business presence in the United Kingdom is the very definition of affecting one's right to free speech in the United States. This is why the US has a
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Yes, good question: When can we start jailing CEOs and their employees for these blatant violations of the CPRA and GDPR?
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Those NN-models are monstrosities that eat cycles (and watts). If your task fits neatly into one of the algorithms presented (such as may be the case in industrial design automation settings) then yes, you are most definitely better off usi
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by EarlKing 1y ago
You're not alone. I saw that FHE paper earlier, so... what's going on?
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Hell, I couldn't even get a "pirated" copy via archive.is, so instead I'll just add this to my mental filter of sites I will never, ever read under any circumstances.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
If you really want to know: Go take a look at what things they think interest you. Go to Settings, Privacy and Safety, Content You See, Interests. You'll find they've probably randomly inserted some interest in there because you e
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by EarlKing 1y ago
No. I'd say their algorithm is just as bad as everyone else's since it's designed to promote ragebait (inasmuch as their goal is to increase the odds of "positive engagement" in the form of likes, retweets, and repl
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by EarlKing 1y ago
I wish Stallman wasn't so silent. For someone who cares so much about software freedom he hasn't said a damn thing about any of what's been going on these past few months with KOSA, the Online Safety Act, etc.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
How does something like CCBill stay in business when the card networks themselves have strict guidelines on chargeback rates that'll get you booted from the network?
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by EarlKing 1y ago
I think you mean UK users... and yes, they could, but they're not required to by law, and why should they do so just because some foreign bureaucrat demands they do it? By contrast, Ofcom could've simply ordered ISPs to null-route
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by EarlKing 1y ago
> This just deepens my confusion: defamation crimes most definitely do exist in the US—have not been abolished by courts. Right now there are laws in Utah, Texas, and Mississippi that require you to identify yourself by government-issued
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by EarlKing 1y ago
And sometimes you just gotta read the complaint... > 61. Section 179 of the Online Safety Act, the “false communications offence,” makes it a criminal offense to send information which the sender knows to be false if, at the time of send
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by EarlKing 1y ago
For the same reason businesses always seek declaratory judgements: So business partners can feel confident that claims made against them are indeed frivolous as far as the court is concerned.

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