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901.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
You are all arguing irrelevant points. Because the premise is false. You can identify the people responsible. I won't bother to explain it all, but at very step of the manufacturing process different workers signed off on the integrity
902.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, those two statements pretty much sum up how things work. What can I say? Just like all others in the world, we don’t want other people spying on us. (And just like all others, we want to spy on everyone else.)
903.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
I was wondering why anyone would go through all that trouble if s/he already had that level of control of the plane? Good to have someone more knowledgeable explain that I'm not necessarily crazy.
904.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Meh, even with change, in the future, we may still have segregation, or slavery, or no women voting. (Most probably, all three.) Change, simply "is". It's not "good" or "bad" in and of itself. We shouldn
905.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
All kinds of thinking are dangerous. If you want a lack of thought danger, I'm afraid you'd need a world filled with people who don't think at all. Consider, your kind of thinking is dangerous... to someone. (Probably milli
906.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't know man? I was working for Halliburton, so I knew there were good reasons to bail Houston/New Orleans out. Just take a cursory look at any map of our energy infrastructure. Conversely, there is little reason to bail out K
907.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just thinking through the liability of tricking an LLM into giving you the personal details of a target. I'm not sure there are many companies out there large enough to shoulder those liabilities? One woman gets killed by some deranged
908.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sometimes I really wonder how cloudflare manages to get away with some of the things that happen on their network? I mean, here and there you have a problem? OK I get that. But like you said, this seems to be almost intentional. It’s just w
909.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
If you look at the average household income in Carmel, IN. Then compare it to, say, Darien, CT. Then consider, Darien's per capita debt load works out to about 2% of the average annual per capita income. Carmel's per capita debt l
910.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Only they aren't rich. Places that are rich don't need the debt. Look up the average household income in Carmel, IN. Then compare it to, say, Darien, CT. Now consider, Darien's per capita debt load works out to about 2% of th
911.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sigh. I’m a fiscal conservative. My bar for ‘prove it out’ is a lot higher than the liberal or Jesus conservative bar for ‘prove it out’. My bar includes retiring the debt. Which has not happened. And if history is any indication, it’s not
912.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Notice how the list of negatives leaves out the 800 pound gorilla in the room? High levels of debt taken on to finance their, uh, ‘competence’. People praising their ‘competence’ seem to ignore it. And the people complaining seem to ignore
913.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Apparently, they don't need benefactors, they can just take on more debt! I’m not sure how this ends well.
914.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Taking on debt loads with the expectation that future generations of your city will pay it off is not, in my opinion, ‘competent local government’. Again, I wish them the best of luck, but philosophically I am an old line conservative. The
915.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yes, Carmel took on a lot of debt And as bonds mature, tax abatements and incentives expire in a way that will enable rapid retirement of the debt. Oh boy. I’m going to go ahead and wish Carmel the best of luck with all that. At the sam
916.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yes. As well as their detractors.
917.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
There are an astounding number of people who never stop for even a second to consider the nuts and bolts implications of the ideas they want to foist onto society.
918.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think the point the commenter was making is, why not just archive those books in that case? Just ignore the books with authors that have released the works for monetary gain. I don't know whether or not such an archive is at all attr
919.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
The problem is that authority would be central, and that authority would know who you are. I think the questioner was looking for solutions that have no authority. Least of all centralized authority.
920.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Except the intel community doesn't need a law. Nice to have maybe. But if you think those are people who let little things like laws stop them from doing what they believe they need to do, you're being a bit naive.
921.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
there’s a different between a 40 year old wanting to serve 20 more years and a 70 year old doing the same No there isn't. Both these people will put your society into a world of hurt. They want to serve 20 years. I can guarantee th
922.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Part of the issue is that you haven't shown the 30 year old to be competent when s/he stood for the first election. (Now I think of it, you haven't shown a 70 year old to be incompetent, but that's another issue.) If you
923.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
That's what's weird to me also. I honestly don't understand? Clearly the problem is incumbency, why are we going after age? It doesn't make much sense. The law is clearly unconstitutional and would be overturned without
924.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Actually, it doesn't work at all. It just allows Westerners with a new "development program" to conduct yet another experiment likely to end in failure. Your comment on theft is spot on. The entire system starts and ends at s
925.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
To be honest, you're not answering a lot of the questions. That's not a criticism. That was the point of the post. That a lot of people read a question, and allow emotion to get the better of them. (I would argue that nearly all p
926.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
As a parent, I can tell you video games and smart phones have a lot to do with this.
927.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
This sort of right is closing the barn door after the horse leaves. In fairness, so is the right to deletion. Once your data is in some of these systems, it's sold on to other systems immediately. (Most of the "sell side" m
928.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
You may have a good point with the opengl thing. But the number of games that run on Vulkan is so vanishingly small that we can't credibly say that not having a Vulkan driver holds Apple back on gaming. I'd bet any money that the
929.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sorry, but this is not a Trump issue. Not Bush. Not Obama. Not any of that political noise. These injuries are largely self inflicted. To the extent that there were political decisions, it was the one fatal decision to get high paying jobs
930.
by bilbo0s 2y ago
It'd be nice if we could get all three of you to stop with the propaganda. This is a step forward for mankind. Jeez, this is why we can't have nice things.

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