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by Zigurd 2mo ago
That's meant to sound like hard reality, but it is just glib. Poll results show that progressive issues are popular, but don't get enacted in law because we are more of an oligarchy than a democracy. Calling the US an oligarchy so
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
This is how it should be done. But police departments strongly resist even administrative discipline by independent bodies.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
That's a very good point. Redactions and denial of public records requests make the Axon cameras mostly useless for bringing police misconduct to light. They might help once a case has become notorious. But they rarely start the proces
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
To which shock gloves says "hold my beer." And then "stop resisting!" And "You dropped my beer! That's interference with law-enforcement!"
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
The simplest reason the indictment failed is that a felony charge amounts to overcharging in this case. Go one layer deeper and you find that cops and prosecutors assume the public likes a "tough on crime" approach, even when a lo
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Yes but it's only a viable alternative if they do better at supporting the open source community.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
> Deterministic beats model wherever you can get away with it. Both Apple and Google appeared to be making the contrary bet: define an MCP-like API layer (AppIntents and Appfunctions) that apps can implement so that the platform's
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
If you are like Google or Apple and you are delivering AI to a mass market unwilling to pay a lot for it, you are absolutely going to drive AI processing to endpoint devices. You are also going to spend what it takes in R&D make a hybri
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
HarmonyOS?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
It means Google is making it harder than it needs to be to obtain source code. It's a dick move, and the only plausible interpretations are that it will get harder still, and it's intended to slow down projects like GrapheneOS. Ev
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Patents are a deal made between innovators and governments. I especially dislike this term "intellectual property" because it tries to turn that deal into a right. That feels benign because the little guy innovator depends on righ
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Yarrrr!
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
The relative manpower advantage Russia appears to have is smaller than the raw numbers indicate. Russia can't abandon the far east and China has a lot of motivation to mess around. Russia's border with NATO dramatically expanded s
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
A mad king, and the ballroom is his Neuschwanstein where he will watch MMA fights while we're rolling around in a golf cart in the basement.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
And still the tech industry will kowtow. Some of these accelerationist and/or effective altruism weirdos will even think it's smart to do so,
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
There was some specific thing about which ID number, not ISBN as I recall, your book had to have to be part of the settlement. Some of my books qualify some don't.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I've been lead author and co-author on several books on programming. My first book sold tens of thousands of copies even though the writing was not just trash but a crime against humanity against anyone who had to read it. This was bac
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
We've done a hell of a job keeping the oil flowing haven't we?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
This is the truest and most impactful point so far on this thread. Rescinding the Trump I tax cut (IIRC technically the permanent extension of a temporary tax cut) would fix a lot of problems. That and not being belligerent to our creditors
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Our creditors will be reliable because of American soft power. Do you think we could lose that in single presidential term, much less a year? Wait...
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Have you seen American cops?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Poor people commute on e-bikes. Think twice before making laws that raise the cost and give cops a reason to hassle people.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
A couple other people here mentioned that theft is an issue. That's yet another reason why folding bikes seemed like the best use case for this. Not as good as a folding bike that's made for being an E bike, but if you've alr
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
If only it was just an ego trip. Trump has been fooled by both adversaries and allies with their own agendas into doing things that are vandalizing American institutions, alliances, and both hard and soft power.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
If you make that list comprehensive, there's probably a Nobel prize in it for you.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
There are plenty of high value endeavors where being a superhuman knowledge remixer is right on target. But even capturing all of the knowledge is proving elusive. I use coding agents. I think they're pretty good overall. They save me
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
As the author of several comprehensively obsolete books on programming, I'd be honored to have the spine cut off and to have them digitized, as if there were still some value in the words and code my co-authors and I created those year
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I don't know about globally but in the US anything that isn't sure to be a mass market item is going to be print on demand. While there's some perfectly good print on demand out there, it's often of lower quality than co
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Yes it is probably due to AI training. The clue is that it's bulk orders driving the increase. The annoying thing about the article is the hand wringing. If anything this is the least dubious way to acquire training material. They are
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Cursor are the biggest winners in AI this year. They were on a trajectory toward irrelevance. Even if their SpaceX shares turn out to be worth a fifth of what they are today, they win.

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