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by burkaman 2y ago
Often they didn't.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Fair enough. This is not a lake in the mountains though, it's right outside Oslo next to a bunch of farmland. Maybe things are different in Europe, in most of the US the highest quality water is from the tap. Bottled water is at best j
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by burkaman 2y ago
This lake is surrounded on almost all sides by farmland: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FyZoCWM1YwAvWcCi9
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's not even a good story. "You are drinking unfiltered lake water" is not appetizing.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Look under Department of Transportation. There are two, 'Require the FAA to "operate more like a business"' and 'Separate the Air Traffic Organization from the FAA.'
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by burkaman 2y ago
I live in DC, I could be wrong but this looks like some random person just pulled up Zillow today and made up a story about it. There are 700,000 people here, there are always a lot of homes for sale. Also, 80-90% of federal workers do not
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by burkaman 2y ago
The document says the service will be required to monitor StumbleUpon and Vine (both of which shut down like 8 years ago), and also Bitly which they seem to think is a social media site.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Apparently not, according to their quarterly earnings reports: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1092227/facebook-product...
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by burkaman 2y ago
Obviously the people developing AI and spending all of their money on it ( https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-invest-up-65-bln-cap... ) are going to say this. It's not a useful signal unless people with no dire
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by burkaman 2y ago
In order to get those TS clearances they have to go through extremely thorough background checks.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Krebs has written other articles about it: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/the-dark-nexus-between-h...
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by burkaman 2y ago
His political views don't matter, actions are what matter. As long as you know he isn't using your money to buy the United States government and remove the EPA, you can feel confident that your purchase will not be counterproducti
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by burkaman 2y ago
Even a Democratic majority in Congress will not help, these people have already demonstrated they do not care about Congress. The only thing that would help is a large enough majority to impeach and remove the president, which is obviously
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by burkaman 2y ago
Not true at all. There are several profitable Chinese EV companies, and if you're only talking about cars available in the US for some reason, Stellantis and GM are making money on their EVs. And obviously Ford, Hyundai, Chevrolet, etc
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by burkaman 2y ago
Musk is currently fighting to further global warming. Sitting Congress members are, as we speak, being denied access to EPA headquarters as he dismantles the organization. I live in Washington DC, every government employee who works on anyt
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by burkaman 2y ago
Why can't this work continue while that review happens, and then simply accelerate once the roadblocks are removed?
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by burkaman 2y ago
I work for a small company trying to reduce emissions so none of my colleagues need convincing. I am still organizing action on climate change outside of work, I just don't feel particularly hopeful about it right now.
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by burkaman 2y ago
I have time to protest but I don't really see the point right now. I participated in the largest protests I've ever seen in 2017 and they accomplished nothing. Everybody with the power to do something about this at the moment blat
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by burkaman 2y ago
The meaning I took from that comment is that the NSA should always keep any 0-day it finds indefinitely until it uses them. That's what I think "hoard" and "disclose only after they burn" means. It's a mindset
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by burkaman 2y ago
Right, I think we agree?
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by burkaman 2y ago
Any 0-day found by an NSA employee can and will be found by someone else, and then sold or used.
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by burkaman 2y ago
They are not: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-fires... Also, not a joke, this program contains the word "equity" ("the Director of National Intelligence is required to an
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by burkaman 2y ago
A decrease of about 0.6% of the subscriber base after a much larger than 0.6% price increase, so I'm guessing they consider this a success.
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by burkaman 2y ago
No ads, no forced "AI summary", doesn't sell my data to anyone. There are many other quality of life features, I don't consider any of them personally indispensable except for the ability to permanently remove a site fro
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by burkaman 2y ago
The justification is irrelevant. You can think it's as dumb as you want to, it still isn't censorship if nobody is being forced to do anything.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Voluntarily choosing not to say something is preference, not self-censorship. For example, some people choose not to swear because they don't like swears. That is just a preference, self-censorship is when you want to swear but don&#x2
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by burkaman 2y ago
When you say they were "banned", do you mean a handful of companies voluntarily decided to stop using those words internally and published blog posts about it? I don't recall it going any further than that.
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by burkaman 2y ago
There is a hotel in Adams Morgan called the LINE that was up for auction and he allegedly wanted it, but did not win the auction. He could still buy it from the auction winner though. The story is that he wants to turn it into some kind of
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by burkaman 2y ago
Obviously the AI version is bland and terrible, but arguably more importantly it has also completely changed the meaning of the message. The AI version: - apologizes - implies the recipient was "promised" this email as a "res
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by burkaman 2y ago
Ironically one of the most popular ones is an article they wrote about why advice doesn't work: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/advice I guess maybe mentoring is different because the mentee is actively seeking o

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