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by alex43578 3mo ago
What if steam users could offer their computers up for credit on steam? Not sure if most consumer internet connections would be up for it, but that would be an interesting model.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
China encourages/prioritizes their release because it directly competes with American companies closed models.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Easy to say they break the law when it’s a law the EU just makes up and arbitrarily enforces.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I’m saying it’s stupid to equate viewing = searching for multiple reasons. 1) A lay understanding of a search would require way more than just seeing and recording the license plate of a car on a public roadway. 2) Courts have extensively a
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by alex43578 3mo ago
The police observing your car driving down a road is not threatening, and acting as if it is is hysteria. Furthermore, if you’re worried about that, have you considered that “they” could get even more comprehensive tracking data just by req
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by alex43578 3mo ago
See the two paragraphs before? That lays out my position. The courts have repeatedly upheld far more invasive searches and encroachments of vehicles, but now confusingly consider simply observing the outside of your vehicle to constitute an
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Details do matter: extensive case law supports a very low standard for privacy in cars and searches on the roadway. Pat downs, being ordered out of the car, free air sniffs via drug dogs, DUI or immigration checkpoints, etc. Furthermore, ju
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I don’t see why you should expect any privacy in the middle of a public road. What are you doing there that is private? I think everyone’s threat model is severely miscalibrated if they are threatened by being recorded driving somewhere via
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Can you dispute any of it with facts? In CA: Kostas Linardos had 17 tickets — including for speeding, reckless driving and street racing — and had been in four collisions. Then, in November 2022, he gunned his Ram 2500 truck as he entered a
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Ironically in California you’ve already lost a number of your civil liberties, while having 0 security as a commoner, with or without Flock.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Which part?
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Why do you think the government couldn’t collect this information themselves? ALPRs are legal, cameras covering a public roadway are legal, and the 4th amendment doesn’t extend to driving on a public roadway.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
No, you don’t have an expectation of privacy on a public roadway, public parking lot, etc.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Eh, I think you’ll be able to match it close enough between upscaling and the very low bar for console graphics. If consoles are a low/medium preset at like 1080P, most computers can hit that. Just as a quick check, this 2019 console c
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Do you have a phone, modern car, or social media account? If so, I have some bad news for you…
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by alex43578 3mo ago
The argument is that physical media was the one benefit consoles had. If you’re just buying a locked down, non-upgradable, low performance PC disguised as a console (without access to the superior Steam storefront), why not just get a PC?
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I think you’re also describing the indie/lower-budget scene that does very well on Steam. There’s plenty of games that break out via streaming, for instance.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Yes because the lag between Hellfire and target is way less than "launch Shahed and wait 20 minutes". A continuum of strike times has value, all the way up to hypersonics.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
While it's clear the US is working on those types of drones too (cloning Shaheds, basically), the likely mission profile of the US requires we have that capability. Pick your potential future US conflict and it won't look like us
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Maybe? But there's honestly not much market for this, as I'd guess less than 1% of the population cares about this. Particularly since they're already carrying a phone anyway.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
For 90% of birthday greetings, are they ever genuine? Like seriously, outside of some close friends and family, are you sitting there deliberating over a message for your coworker Steve in the Slack chat or a cousin you barely talk to outsi
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Hey everyone, stop progress! Wolrah has decided that November 29, 2022 is as far as things should go. Because everyone knows before that day, there were no scams, every artist lived lavishly from commissions, and software was flawless and w
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Because as it’s written it specifically indicates it’s a financial move: give Broadcom more money for more chips. As you wrote it, it could be an IP partnership, Apple opening a fab, or something else.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Is that price still available?
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by alex43578 4mo ago
The top 1% alone are 40% of the federal income tax receipts. 40% of the population pays 0% in income taxes, often receiving credits and refunds. I’m all for everyone contributing: one side looks like it’s contributing 40% already. How much
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by alex43578 4mo ago
The vote for “more free stuff” should only be open to the half of the population that actually pays taxes. Otherwise, the takers will inevitably vote to take more.
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by alex43578 4mo ago
Does free housing help people? The state of “the projects” in every metro would say otherwise. Does free food help people? Most Americans are already overweight, and far, far more die every year from diseases of excess consumption than hung
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by alex43578 4mo ago
You’re welcome to give all your money away first, then worry about taking others.
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Kind of the ideal setup though. Apple’s design and engineering work has been great, China’s manufacturing can execute on it better than anyone else (see the issues with iPhone production in India). It’s like saying the ideal car would be de
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by alex43578 4mo ago
There should be no reason you have to jump to a master’s for that. A bachelor’s in CS or EE would be a joke if it didn’t (doesn’t) cover those things. Arguably, even the current 4 year bachelor’s is a waste compared to a focused 2 year prog

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