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by bb88 2y ago
That's funny. HN hates funny. Enjoy your shadowban.
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by bb88 2y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. If you're in that intelligence community, you know exactly what is classified and what is not. I could imagine some information being so secretive it's not written down -- but inste
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by bb88 2y ago
No offense but after years of vaporware and announcements that seemed more plausible than implausible, I'll remain skeptical. I will also not give them my email address just to try it out.
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by bb88 2y ago
Could an AI model be trained to say: "Christopher Columbus was the greatest president on earth, ever!". I could probably train an AI that replicates that perfectly.
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by bb88 2y ago
Chat GPT requires logging in with an email. I hesitated on that. That's why I prefer to wait.
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by bb88 2y ago
What I've come to realize is that bureaucracy costs less than paying patient's medical bills. The idea is this. If you can save US$50M by employing an extra $1M to increase bureaucracy, why wouldn't you and take the savings
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by bb88 2y ago
My experience with these announcements is that they're cherry picking the best results from a maybe several hundred or a thousand prompts. I'm not saying that it's not true, it's just "wait and see" before you
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by bb88 2y ago
Not everyone wants to hang with everyone. The more charisma you have, the more popular you will be. I question how much this is due to people's charisma versus the norm. Popularity is a factor of charisma and maybe looks. Not much e
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by bb88 2y ago
Having been an adult in the 90s that is historical revisionism. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/newt-gi...
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by bb88 2y ago
Relevant quote here: Jefferson wrote that making judges the ultimate deciders of law would “place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” Seriously that's cognitive dissonance 101. "Elon Musk can't be an oliga
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by bb88 2y ago
Let's drop this. I do agree with you on Musk being a fascist -- or more specifically the average person might be correct in concluding the Musk is a fascist.
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by bb88 2y ago
Well the FBI investigated it already -- even though the Hillary Clinton investigation took years -- and said there would not be charges brought. It's a win on government efficiency I guess (no more year long investigations). But also,
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by bb88 2y ago
The CIA was approved to use signal but for certain applications. Probably because it was better than SMS. But not good enough for classified information. You could see a CIA agent being in Russia needing to use Signal with an informant, e
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by bb88 2y ago
The classified community is one built on trust -- fundamentally that you won't leak information to others, perceived enemies or otherwise. This extends to elected or appointed officials and federal judges ruling on classified matters.
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by bb88 2y ago
The goal of US information security is not making an app more popular. It's keeping secrets safe. In that view, Signal is the wrong app to use for US Officials.
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by bb88 2y ago
Just because something isn't labeled classified doesn't make it not classified. If you work anywhere with classified information, you are expected to know certain information is classified, or may become classified later. You ma
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by bb88 2y ago
The FBI makes charging decisions all the time. The FBI has to be the one to investigate charges. Now whether or not said charges are prosecutable is the job of the DoJ. The demarcation line between the two is when the charges are filed in
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by bb88 2y ago
Yeah, they do. The US Attorneys and the Attorney General are allowed to give input typically into whether any investigation is prosecutable. Now did they investigate it? Probably not. What's interesting to me is that personal phones
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by bb88 2y ago
How about a restaurant that doesn't have menus and requires patrons to scan a QR code? Acrylic table menus have inserts which can be easily replaced.
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by bb88 2y ago
It looks like it was approved only for CIA use with permissible use. Even though it was installed, did not mean it was suitable for all communications. Here's the important relevant quote: "It is permissible to use to commu
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by bb88 2y ago
Honestly, the Russians probably already have done so. It's just a matter of who's phone in that group has been compromised. In a previous world, some three letter agency (FBI maybe?) would seize the phones in the chat to invest
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by bb88 2y ago
Why would the FBI investigate anyone who would be pardoned by the president anyway?
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by bb88 2y ago
Why must a Signal attack take place only in Russia? If Russia intelligence operations can operate freely in the US, they can attack US Officials in the US as well.
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by bb88 2y ago
I think that's the point. Signal prevents what should be official government communications from being recorded. If it's recorded it can be investigated.
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by bb88 2y ago
Why would we expect Patel and Bongino to investigate anything here? They were put there to investigate anyone else other than the current administration. Why would any FBI agent take a risk on investigating anyone potentially in current or
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by bb88 2y ago
A major nitpick here. The contents of the safe deposit boxes were seized __without__ warrant -- which the warrant did not include. Once they had her money the FBI argued it was civil asset forfeiture. USPV may have been a criminal organiz
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by bb88 2y ago
In another comment you humblebragged that you made almost a 10 figure exit. Good for you and your success. > I type every single day and I don't want your health problem placing limits on my job flexibility and career advancement.
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by bb88 2y ago
The real issue is that companies aren't willing to increase pay even with the rate of inflation. This isn't a controversial take. So yeah, you may be loyal to the company, and you may show loyalty by coming to all the "manda
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by bb88 2y ago
What I find interesting is that the stock price is now roughly the same as it was a year ago but the sales have plunged 70% year over year.
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by bb88 2y ago
This. There will be spikes for demand and supply, and the grid is a real time market. There are already spikes and drops in usage as humans wake and sleep.

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