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by ajross 2mo ago
That does nothing but start an arms race. Fine, audio "works" but do you get noise? Can you read back the sounds you play? No, right? It doesn't work, QED. Now the platform needs to fake the noise. Likewise for any other
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by ajross 2mo ago
What you want is basically how it works. On both phone platforms and PWAs, all permissions are visible to the user explicitly. All of them can be revoked at any time. Apps are disallowed from requesting an already-denied permission. Obvi
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by ajross 2mo ago
To clarify given the subject at hand: German courts are 100% not going to find a Google Drive link to be disallowed by the GPLv2. That's literally about physical coins.
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by ajross 2mo ago
People are getting way too bent out of shape over that "medium customarily used for software interchange" bit. It doesn't mean github. It doesn't mean "the medium I use most commonly". Basically, if you think
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by ajross 2mo ago
It's not even that. Downstream projects host their own mirrors already, this is an annoying hoop to jump through for the maintainers (basically suck down a bunch of tarballs for every release, analogous to grabbing stuff from FTP site
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by ajross 2mo ago
> “In violation of GPL” is a stretch. The originally envisioned distribution method, in fact, was "Send FSF a blank 9-track tape and they'll fill it and mail it back". Nor, obviously, does anything prevent someone who dow
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by ajross 2mo ago
> Joe Biden said he would veto Medicare for all Oh for... Joe Biden was literally the tiebreaker vote in the senate when the public option was still part of Obamacare and was stumping for it like crazy. MfA is one particular proposal
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by ajross 2mo ago
Oh, come on. That edit was a clarification added like 40 seconds after the post. Really, it seems like you're the one getting bent out of shape. Again, I thought (and still think) you agree with me on the partisan nature of the issu
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by ajross 2mo ago
Please don't tone police on HN. If you agree with me but think I'm an asshole, the polite thing to do is just to keep quiet and not troll a discussion by convincing me you disagree. But I'm very happy you agree that health c
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by ajross 2mo ago
> Who said any of this? "I" said nothing of the sort You quite clearly came in to defend someone who did, though. This is the second time you've tried this end-around strawman. Please engage with the discussion as it is.
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by ajross 2mo ago
> That's a lot of words they didn't say. It is a true statement that Congress did not give the USA single-payer healthcare But that is what they didn't say! They said it wasn't "votable", in the sense I
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by ajross 2mo ago
> there are many people who would prefer that healthcare is run by a private industry, The grammar is a little ambiguous around this, but you seem to be claiming that this is a majority position. It isn't. Single payer polls over
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by ajross 2mo ago
> The issue is that the people in Washington won’t make it a “votable” decision. Sorry, that's ridiculous. Universal Health Care policies are an almost 100% partisan issue. I can literally count on one hand the number of federal l
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by ajross 2mo ago
I'm not sure I follow your argument. The privacy abuse already happened . The data is already there. And it was the airline that did it, not a tech giant who just wants to train a bunch of MLs. Surely if this is the scenario you&#x
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by ajross 2mo ago
That's... sort of wildly spun. There was no funding fight, it was just an executive order. It didn't apply to public grants, only some federal agencies. It was largely unenforced. Do DEI statements (which amount to "Our s
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by ajross 2mo ago
> The ecological effects of this, though, seem so disastrous. If the Colorado river dries up, what then? The whole of the Southwest just like, dies? The lakes behind the Hoover dam are are the ecological catastrophe. Releasing the dam
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by ajross 2mo ago
What's the counterexample of significant funding withdrawn by democratic administrations because of "possibly conservative" language in the output? "Tone deaf" seems not to be capturing the essence of the malfeasanc
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by ajross 2mo ago
This article is repeating a transparently false framing as the truth. This wasn't a law about cartel money laundering, which doesn't happen near the border anyway. Money laundering at scale happens in the global market and alway
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by ajross 2mo ago
This is going to sound like I'm flipping sides in this thread: but yeah, absolutely. Otherwise people in Gilroy would have hated datacenters when the planning started and Amazon would have built in Fresno or wherever. Really both side
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by ajross 2mo ago
Two things can be true: the construction can be technically legal and at clear odds with community opinion. I mean, yes. Amazon can likely do this. But is this strategy really in keeping with its long term interests? I mean, look at th
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by ajross 2mo ago
But... does Amazon say things in their free tier are "always" free? I don't think they do. This was an Oracle lie. If you take a service that you told someone was "always free" and start charging them for that,
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by ajross 2mo ago
Expecting someone to lie doesn't mean rolling over and refusing to acknowledge it. Not unlike people making the expected reactionary cynical commentary on internet forums still demands a response. I mean, you're very perceptive!
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by ajross 2mo ago
> Were you expecting a massive evil corporation to keep spending $50 every month on you forever? When they offer something "always"... yes? Are "always" and "forever" not synonyms? I'm not arguing abou
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by ajross 2mo ago
So... what did "Always" mean, exactly?
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by ajross 2mo ago
> Why are you assuming that the other kinds of testing aren’t happening? Rather, I'm assuming that the "Is there protection in place for when the AI tries to backdoor github projects?" test was, if it was done at all, insu
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by ajross 2mo ago
> Because the agents aren’t going to run airgapped in real life. Exactly. This logic is precisely why aircraft engineering doesn't bother with component testing or envelope limitation during testing and just full-sends the first as
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by ajross 2mo ago
Oooph. I'm going to be charitable and make a (horrifying) steelman point for you: Eugenics can be understood as a subset of the ideas of plant and animal breeding that have been practiced for centuries. Those are scientifically sound
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by ajross 2mo ago
Ew. At what point do we just decide that this whole community has eaten itself? Remember when a "YC founder" was a diligent nerd just trying to make something people want and get to ramen-profitable before the runway from their
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by ajross 3mo ago
You're still misunderstanding what a "vote" is in your laser focus on "taxes". Take "taxes" out of the mix. What's the point of voting at all, in your view? Why bother with it as a concept vs. what
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by ajross 3mo ago
Why are you not against this? A vote isn't a payment in exchange for taxes. It's the mechanism by which the government represents the will of the people. How do you arrange things such that the government acts in the interests

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