Zigurd

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by Zigurd 4d ago
Currently nobody knows when the first big financial crisis is fully locked in. For example, if OpenAI can't close another round, and they default on their contracts with Oracle, there's your sign. Until then it looks like everybod
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Half of university graduates in India and China are women now. The percentage is higher in GCC nations.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
One reason is that the CEO comes off as a raving lunatic. I saw a video snippet of him ranting about how anti-flock activists are terrorists. That's going to become a classic in how not to do crisis communication.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
What most people think of as Motorola is now owned by a Chinese company, while the US kept the surveillance technologies.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Shortening the yellow light duration killed people. So far, misuse of flock data has only resulted in people having undertrained cops draw down on them. But somebody's going to pull a trigger soon enough.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
The same thing is going to happen at the app level on Google and Apple platforms. Android tried to have modular cooperating software, but both the early dominance of iPhone in the developer community, and developer interests in having monol
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Making workstations even in the dominant market position that Sun had, was a cottage industry compared to technology today, and it was managed that way. I wouldn't blame management for Sun being irrelevant now. What everybody except St
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by Zigurd 5d ago
> From an evolutionary perspective it makes a lot more sense to, at least prima facie, prefer an established and longstanding custom than to embrace the brand new. Americans are particularly susceptible to taking comfort in this idea,
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Idaho has had an in-migration of retired cops and neonazis (insert Venn diagram here). There are other places in the country that have a reputation for being hostile to non-white, non-straight, non-authoritarians. Some of them like to larp
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by Zigurd 7d ago
It's astounding that Elon could take an accomplishment as huge as starting and building a viable car manufacturer and screw it up. Ever since cyber truck became the worst flop in automotive history, Elon has been flooding the zone with
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by Zigurd 7d ago
Or random spastic zone flooding. At this point the odds of a motivation being normal or rational are way below 50%.
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by Zigurd 7d ago
Macintosh was a thing at the time, and Steve Jobs was preaching desktop metaphor orthodoxy in his church. Most apps at least tried.
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by Zigurd 7d ago
Lotus Notes was too big, too self-contained, and too weird to be "Something bigger than a weird email client." One facet of being too self-contained was that it had its own user interface paradigm, which was different from the ope
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by Zigurd 7d ago
Because flock is the kleenex of surveillance. I have seen Axon mentioned nevertheless.
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by Zigurd 8d ago
You're not totally wrong but you do underestimate the power of an organized Europe with freedom of movement and commerce. I'm not saying you're getting this wrong but many people reading these comments take seriously that nom
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Waymo is open about their remote monitoring and support. Waymo aren't remotely driven. A remote monitor might be called upon to pick from a set of choices if the vehicle can't make the decision by itself. If that can't clear
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Thinking that no sane person would do it doesn't seem like standing on the solid ground that it used to be.
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Most people have a really bad sense of risk. Specifically on the topic of AI, most people don't know how to critique AI scaremongering. Most people have no appreciation of the hidden agendas. Most people aren't keeping track of ho
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Chip fabs are a red herring. They haven't been controlled by the US, and give the US no leverage over nations that used to be unequivocal allies. Those places are where technology sovereignty is a hot button issue. They can't coun
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by Zigurd 9d ago
I don't see the connection. No matter where US chips are manufactured, it's not the location of the fab that causes technology sovereignty concerns. Those concerns come from questions about the stability and rationality of our lea
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by Zigurd 9d ago
The US administration created at least 90% of what we now call technology sovereignty concerns. Technology sovereignty is front and center in this announcement. Before the president started making wildly inappropriate remarks about grabbing
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Indeed. Juniper had this over 20 years ago.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Harm reduction. In the US, state lotteries have reduced illegal gambling. Illegal gambling would increase under a total ban. Some markets fail. If the government can step in and provide a service that doesn't end in a failed market, th
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by Zigurd 10d ago
There are some obvious improvements that can be made to the US system of democracy: Ban large donations, or publicly fund candidacies the demonstrate they have a competitive chance. Ranked choice voting. Make voting day a holiday. Promote v
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by Zigurd 10d ago
The gross amount doesn't tell you how much money is being lost to gambling. I'm not going to soften that wording, it really is lost, but such a shocking gross amount means the average loss is in the thousands per year. Gambling is
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by Zigurd 10d ago
Russia's urban centers being mostly located on the European continent doesn't make Russia European. They are, deservingly for starting a war in Europe, excluded from treaties enabling free trade and free movement. That's not
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by Zigurd 10d ago
Many, maybe even most Russians would like to be part of Europe, even if they would complain about the terms that would enable them to join pan European organizations. For now they are just potential Europeans.
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by Zigurd 10d ago
Nostalgia and white guys have a fraught relationship. The good old days weren't even that good for them, killing them off with cigarettes and booze in their replica colonial and Cape Cod homes. There isn't just "some" ra
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by Zigurd 11d ago
You don't have to return to the 1950s to find racism and segregation in present day America. There's a lot of work yet to do. Get on it or get out of the way.
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by Zigurd 11d ago
I'm kind of counting on normal being in the minority here.

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