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by blagie 2y ago
I would definitely buy one, assuming there was some guarantee on parts availability "for the lifespan of the company up to X decades" or some similarly long time. I would doubly do so if the design were open-source. I would triply
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by blagie 2y ago
I can see the board! It's a huge improvement. One more improvement. There needs to be some way to see the move the computer made. If you blink, a piece is somewhere else, and you have no idea what happened. I like the concept of overla
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by blagie 2y ago
> I think China has a lot of traits in common with fascist states. it might not tick all the boxes in a definition, but it ticks far more than the typical dictatorship. It's very hard for me to see how. Even taking everything you sa
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by blagie 2y ago
All of those apply to Ancient Egypt too, only more so. I did not give a definition for fascism. You can look ones up yourself. However, critically: 1. China is not right-wing. That's prerequisite. 2. China has very little fascist-style
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by blagie 2y ago
As a point of fact, China is not, in fact, a fascist dictatorship. North Korea is not a fascist dictatorship either. Neither is or was Cuba, or medieval kingdoms with actual kings and warlords. Fascism is a right-wing ideology was widesprea
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by blagie 2y ago
Most of them are horrible. I'd love to have a good Google Docs alternative. No one has made one. Nextcloud is the closest we've got, and I use it sometimes, but it's pretty bad. It's a lot less hard to build in 2025, and
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by blagie 2y ago
I mean, isn't the US saying that taxing imports is an ideal source of revenue? But at the end of the day, there was never any real incentive to make an EU-native alternative. Now, there is. The US is in an uncertain state. Will America
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by blagie 2y ago
It's a problem that solves itself: - If more people buy something, in the short term, you have shortages. - In the long term, you have better economies of scale and prices go down. These things should be available for maybe $15 at most
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by blagie 2y ago
Please read my posts more carefully. Virtually every response is non-responsive to what I wrote: I wrote: "unless you're dumb enough to ask questions about whom your selling to and have active knowledge you're assisting someo
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by blagie 2y ago
I am very much advocating for new statutes. That's precisely what my post was doing. Companies should not be allowed to externalize costs of bad security on users. I disagree with the claim that "only companies like Google will be
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by blagie 2y ago
"I saw it on the internet, so it must be true!"
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by blagie 2y ago
Unless you can stumble on Google vulnerabilities casually, it's showing quite the opposite -- how unprofitable it is to work from bug bounties.
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by blagie 2y ago
> not getting caught in the process is work Caught for what? If someone sells information about a vulnerability, what law are they breaking? In most jurisdictions, unless you're dumb enough to ask questions about whom your selling t
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by blagie 2y ago
My commentary was precisely about the state-of-the-practice. That $10k is "an extraordinarily high sum for" what was likely weeks of work on this bug, and probably months of work poking in other places, reflects the very, very low
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by blagie 2y ago
$10k is not a decent sum. The compensation reflects roughly 0.25-3 weeks of SWE costs in payout. Industry-wide SWE compensation is somewhere in the $100k-$200k range. Typical Google SWE compensation is $350k. Top Google SWE salary is north
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by blagie 2y ago
They don't. The complication -- in both directions -- is "record of hand or face geometry" If I take a photo of you, that's a record of face geometry. The Meta FAIR demos turned on my webcam because I didn't notice
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by blagie 2y ago
Texas sounds reasonable in general. I've written license terms which exclude Texas. That's home of the patent trolls. Heartland v. Kraft Foods is worth a read.
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by blagie 2y ago
No. I am not. I am arguing about the importance of accurately understanding everyone in a discussion and avoiding strawman attacks like the ones you're making over and over. If you'd like to understand the importance of that, I&#x
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by blagie 2y ago
Please reread what I wrote. You should correct your statement to: "The NRA is absolutely in favor of A LEGAL RIGHT TO constitutional carry and permitless carry." I have a legal right to spend all of my money on Pokemon, (in my jur
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by blagie 2y ago
I don't log all comedy shows I see, so I can't provide a citation off-hand, but I've heard it plenty of times. However, to see consequences, I might start by reading executive orders: https://www.whitehouse.gov&#x2
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by blagie 2y ago
So the problem with a survey like this is that it does not break out among the scenarios I listed: 1) Rural, minimal police, minimal government, large plots, no collective security. 2) Dense, urban, heavy policy, significant government, rig
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by blagie 2y ago
The extreme scenario: I live in a home surrounded by miles of fields. There is no one within miles to hear me scream. Without a gun, anyone could come by my home, kill me, rob my home, and be gone before the police would even show up, if I
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by blagie 2y ago
> Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns. That's not what the NRA is pushing for, any more than there are Democrats pushing for mandatory sex changes for all kids (
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by blagie 2y ago
> It reminded me of the time Roy Wood Jr visited a pro-gun rally where they argued guns make people safe, while simultaneously asking people to not carry guns because they were worried about safety. The cognitive dissonance is worth poin
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by blagie 2y ago
You can accept what you like. I am describing where I live. If you don't accept that a place like this might exist, without so much as a follow-up question, says more about you than anything else.
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by blagie 2y ago
> Has the average homeowner added more ceiling lights or lamps because of different bulbs? As much as I appreciate the snark and sarcasm, at least where I live, the equivalent is happening. Old home and commercial construction would typi
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by blagie 2y ago
Your math is wrong: > This felt false to me, LED bulbs are generally 10x more efficient, so the average number of lights would have had to increase 10 fold, and this is ignoring the savings from not having AC cool those other 50 watts a
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by blagie 2y ago
Or HEPA filters in every room. I've felt better ever since covid made these omnipresent where I live.
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by blagie 2y ago
The distrust is well-warranted, but the solution is unclear. You can't fight the invisible hand of the free market. Without AI, you're obsolete now. With AI, humanity is obsolete soon.
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by blagie 2y ago
We seem to have no mechanisms to "rethink." Market dynamics + personal ambitions are driving change. At the same time, we have no means of popular revolution. Drones are automating war, and LLMs can monitor literally all conversat

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