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by ang_cire 1mo ago
This is already common. Go try to export firmware for a fighter jet. Any software that the US govt designates as a military or weapon system is just as regulated as the fighter jet itself. And as the poster below pointed out, they have prev
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by ang_cire 1mo ago
You will never convince me that these "our AI hacks people on its own, they're so dangerous in the wrong hands" press releases from the big AI companies are not them trying to create a government enforced moat by framing it a
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
As an American, it's incredibly sad to watch literally every aspect of life be subsumed by Capitalism. No knowledge for knowledge's sake, you've got to generate PROFIT , or it's a waste of time!
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Yes, it's a word.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
What are you taking about? Literally every restaurant and retail worker has had to do this. I was cleaning toilets in high school. You think restaurant restrooms are clean before the workers go in to clean them? You think people aren&#x27
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I was mostly just being cheeky :P I don't have anything against mongo in particular, the real nosql problem imo is people overusing it.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Good read. I do think it's giving too much credit to our evolutionary instincts, though, and not enough to personal and political choices. Unless there's something lacking in the brain of climate change deniers (which as nice as i
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
So now use whatever political power you have to push for changes to mitigate, respond, or prevent as much of it as possible?
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
An intro article on syslog servers in the year of our Lord 2026? Did you know you can replace your noSQL db with VSAM too (honestly better than mongo).
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
As someone who works in risk management, I think I have a hard time understanding how anyone can be so blase about climate change. Like, it truly takes a level of willful ignorance to have something so dire happening, and just choosing to e
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
It's hard to fly an airplane in the office.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
When a charity *worker* embezzles money, they're more like to be charged with a felony. When a CEO who *owns* a charity embezzles money, they're more likely to be charged with a misdemeanor, or not at all.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
No, it's a white patriarchal system. If you think that patriarchy means "men can do whatever they want without consequence", rather than, "men are in control of the power hierarchy", you don't understand patria
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Nonviolent felonies are tools of oppression. Edit: since this is apparently somewhat controversial, perhaps some explanation is in order. "Felony" has no set definition of which crimes it must apply to, it is entirely based on the
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Qualitative assessment is the overall process of using qualitative metrics to evaluate something.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Qualitative metrics are also metrics. You have to have a spectrum in order to weigh things against each other qualitatively, even if the spectrum is just a 2-point binary.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Unfortunately, imo this is one issue masquerading as another: the real barrier to much of the US' societal progress is that we're an incredibly low trust society. When you talk to e.g. Republicans about policies like universal hea
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Apologies for the necro, but I wanted to reply here before it got too far past the thread's life. First off, thank you for weighing in here, you were I think a lot more persuasive than me in responding to the assertions of innocence he
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I have always loved long books, or better yet long series, but it's because I just don't want a story I love to end.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
> with a much higher chance of dying in 1975 Cessna 182 Tell me you're not a pilot without telling me...
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
He grew up very wealthy. People act like "grew up wealthy" means "was given millions of dollars as a child", to disprove my point, when in fact growing up wealthy means your parents have the money to prevent your mistake
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Am I misreading something, or was it not in fact the corporate leaders who torpedoed the reorg suggestions they knew were coming, who were at fault? This is a classic hierarchy-brain/ bureaucracy problem, where "leaders" thin
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I mean, Russia's currency is in the toilet, and if even just 10% of their nukes are actually functional they probably kill a significant percentage of the world pop.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Nearly there... Now ask yourself which government is currently bombing another country over one man's ego (or due to blackmail by an "ally"), and whether they're on that list, and whether the literal thousands of people
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Lawsuits are how regulations are enforced...
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I have bad news for you... https://www.hejlfoundation.org/from-gas-tanks-to-gummy-bears...
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Tragedy of the Commons was specifically the idea that cooperation would fail due to selfish competition, so some force was needed to administer it. Economists used it to argue both for privatization and against, but always for top-down, aut
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Except the author did choose, which is my point. They specifically chose to only represent it one specific way, that omitted the most common or famous incarnations, because those run counter to their narrative.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Since we now have to vote with things other than our actual votes, apparently, here's some more things you can vote with: 3D printers Torrent clients Unlicensed radios DJI drones Custom firmware (FOSS in general)
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Being and especially growing up rich tends to shield you from seeing the consequences of bad decisions, and I think that results in a lot of these rich tech bros being unable to properly analyze not just risk, but any negative externalities

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