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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   Apples and oranges. The claim being refuted was an absolute negative that claimed no universal moral standards exist, a binary statement. Difficulty is a spectrum. This matters because if there's a single counterexample to an absolute,
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   1. Do people necessarily need to agree on the justification for a standard to agree on the standard itself? Does everyone agree on the reasoning / justification for every single point of every NIST standard? 2. What separates a standar
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700219 Criticizing the current administration? That sounds like something an enemy of the state would do! Prepare yourself for the 3am FBI raid, evildoer! You're an enemy of the s
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   >That's probably because we have yet to discover any universal moral standards. Really? We can't agree that shooting babies in the head with firearms using live ammunition is wrong?
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   A growing number of people literate with technology will never use Discord under any circumstances.
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   Make a Matrix server, tell the stragglers on Discord to migrate.
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   You didn't see any graphite because it's not there!
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   Dark mode on all LED screens, with blue light filter, at low brightness. Dark mode at high brightness and light mode at any brightness on LED screens both give me migraines. That said, light mode on non-emissive (e-ink, actual paper) is fin
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   by anonym29 9mo ago

   There aren't really alcohol or cannabis junkies like heroin either. That didn't make prohibition or the war on drugs successful.
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    You paying a nonzero cost for creating a negative externality is an improvement compared to the status quo, in the context of this economic philosophy of discouraging production of negative externalities by aligning economic incentives.
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    Yeah, I'm being a little generous/conservative here, but also, that 2030 estimate is more along the lines of the "everyone unambiguously understands AI is better than the experts in their respective domains", not for the
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    I don't mind weighing in as someone who could fairly be categorized as both an LLM evangelist and "not an experienced dev". It's a lot like why I've been bullish on Tesla's approach to FSD even as someone who o
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    >March 5, 2025
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    Additional reporting: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/us/video/ebof-state-departmen... Very recent announcement (hours old). Related: "Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran" ( h
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    >Claude code runs into use limitations for everyone at every tier What do you mean by this? I know plenty of people who never hit the upgraded Opus 4.5 limits anymore even on the $100 plan, even those who used to hit the limits on the $2
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    by anonym29 9mo ago

    Military grade: mass produced by the lowest bidder
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    >a venomous creature that bites you will release its venom into your bloodstream unless it's a bee, wasp, hornet, scorpion, stingray, jellyfish, man-of-war, platypus, lionfish, stonefish, sea urchin, or catfish, which all have venom
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    IANAL, but from my understanding, the primary law used to prosecute hacking is the CFAA's broad "without authorization" and "exceeding authorized access" clauses. That said, authorization implies an entity with owne
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    I'm not refuting that the binary is the source of truth about behavior, I never stated it wasn't, and I don't know where you even got the idea that I wasn't. It's been very frustrating to have to repeatedly do this
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    This assumption about me is not accurate at all, I've done static analysis professionally on CIL, on compiled bytecode, and on source code. Instead of being condescending and patronizing to someone you don't know that you've
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Never once anywhere in this thread have I claimed that source code alone is sufficient by itself to establish a chain of trust, merely that it is a necessary prerequisite to establish a chain of trust. That said, you seem to be refuting eve
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    I think we've both made our positions clear. From my perspective, you're continuing to heavily cite user statistics that are irrelevant to the properties of verifiability or trustworthiness of the applications themselves, the goal
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Great, then it sounds like we agree: your original equivalence of Signal and WhatsApp was misguided, since one offers a verifiable chain of trust that starts with source availability and the other doesn't, to say nothing of the lengthy
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Source availability is what makes a chain of trust possible that simply isn't meaningfully possible with closed source software, even with dynamic analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, runtime network analysis with TLS decrypti
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Whether or not other people build from source code has zero relevance to a discussion about the trustworthiness of security promises coming from former PRISM data providers about the closed-source software they distribute. Source availabili
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Could you please link the source code for the WhatsApp client, so that we can see the cryptographic keys aren't being stored and later uploaded to Meta's servers, completely defeating the entire point of Signal's E2EE impleme
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Are you sure you don't have single-threaded and multi-threaded backwards? Why would the A720 at 2.8 GHz run circles around the N150 that boosts up to 3.6 GHz in single-threaded workloads, while the 12-core chip would wouldn't beat
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    Unpopular idea: the personal automobile segment will shrink so rapidly when autonomous, ubiquitous, low-cost EV robotaxis reach widespread proliferation, that many of the existing automotive manufacturers today will become increasingly comm
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

    I can't speak for anyone else, but if you were to leak weights for OpenAI's frontier models, I'd offer to hug you and donate money to you. Information wants to be free.
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    by anonym29 10mo ago

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