asadotzler

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1. 1411.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   Courts have bailiffs, judicial marshals, and security officers. They should have no problem transferring convicted criminals to jail. Police aren't required at all.
2. 1412.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   If we demolished the police to spend instead on social services and taking care of more people with mental illness, improving fire and EMT services, and providing a very small number of detectives to handle investigating significant crimes,
3. 1413.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   When the NBA pays its players tens of millions of dollars a year - seems hard to understand why an NBA player would need a union.
4. 1414.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   Nah, the hype cycle for both started a decade ago, long before the pandemic.
5. 1415.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   This is the one. C3 IOT became C3 AI without batting a lash. The radio copy is almost identical, with only the name change to catch your ear or avoid sounding dated.
6. 1416.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   $15K should feed a family of four in the Bay area for a year. How on earth do you spend $25K on food for one person?
7. 1417.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   aka bullshit. it is a bullshitter or a bullshit artist, virtually synonymous with confabulator.
8. 1418.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   This is the correct answer. It's not a hallucination. It's goal is to create something that seems like the truth despite the fact that it has no idea if it's actually being truthful. If a human were doing this we'd call
9. 1419.▲
   by asadotzler 3y ago

   also known as bullshit generators
10. 1420.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    I met the Yandex CEO and CTO in Moscow back in June of 2006 at their headquarters, scouting them out as a Firefox search partner. They had real tech and capable people back then and over the years they got better and better. We eventually s
11. 1421.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    It means that everything about the web, but especially the critical parts like privacy vs surveillance is increasingly and sadly dictated by Google. If you distribute their vision for the web, their literal web platform, Blink, you are harm
12. 1422.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    A little bit of userchrome.css magic fixes this. I use treestyle tabs and for mine I simply added: #TabsToolbar {visibility: collapse;} #sidebar-header {visibility:collapse;}
13. 1423.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Fines that are too small to change behavior are mostly worthless.
14. 1424.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    They aren't really competing if they're just another distribution for Google's web platform. Google doesn't care so much what Chromium browser you use as long as it helps them dictate how the web platform evolves to funn
15. 1425.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    This phone texting support hardware is tiny compared to the size and weight increase the v2 sats took on for their primary mission, broadband capacity, which went from from about 20 Gbps per bird in the v1 config to as much as (estimated)
16. 1426.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    How is 7% of that one year's revenue meaningful? Facebook could pay that every year and still be extremely lucrative. So, no, it has not been addressed.
17. 1427.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    How can people tolerate a watch that's half an inch thick? That's like twice the thickness of my phone.
18. 1428.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    No, no one thinks it's just for death row, only that executions are final and there's no undoing them, and so the expectations among the general public are that we're much more careful in those cases. We can release a falsely
19. 1429.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Gonna guess you weren't online in the early 2000s when we fought like hell to disrupt Microsoft Trident's 95% browser monopoly that it was using to stall the web so .Net and other MS Windows platforms could hopefully catch up and
20. 1430.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    I kicked off Firefox's local translation project last year with my engineering partner Andre (who led Mozilla's efforts with Bergamot and the folks in Europe) and those models are about 30MB per language pair (English is a pivot l
21. 1431.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Or buy one, like Bing, and take it from middling to solid.
22. 1432.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Google today owns most of mobile with Android, most of email with Gmail, most of web browsing with Chrome, pretty much all of search with Google Search, Google News, Google Images, etc., most of maps with Google Maps, and most of office app
23. 1433.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    You're not gonna like how our justice system works if you think the adversarial approach discounts the results.
24. 1434.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Is it any better than second life yet?
25. 1435.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Because some 17 year old kid with his first job in the repair shop is not the same thing as a trained pilot.
26. 1436.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Sue them for trespass.
27. 1437.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    So sue for theft and trespassing. Confiscating my property and holding it hostage before a trial should be illegal.
28. 1438.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    Google wasn't anyone's great hope in 2001.
29. 1439.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    I worked on Mozilla for 6 years before we shipped Firefox 1.0 which had solid product market fit.
30. 1440.▲
    by asadotzler 3y ago

    This year they launch for USSF, OneWeb, Nasa, SES, SDA, Intelsat, ViaSat, Iridium, Axiom, ArabSat, PT Pasifik, ESA, Echostar, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Jared Isaacman, German Intelligence Service, Astranis, Korea Aerospace Indus