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by cletus 5y ago
This is a good sensationalist title that could easily be changed to "Will using a VPN become illegal under the CFAA?" and like any such headlines, the answer is "no". Just because one side is making an argument for that
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by cletus 5y ago
There are two big problems with your statement: 1. You ignore the big problem that buying a house shouldn't be the only way of finding somewhere to live. Like, that's just not realistic. You're 18 and you want to move out of
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by cletus 5y ago
I mean if a sufficient number of residents support it, they can forcibly purchase the land or building they're sharing as a cooperative. Of course, they should pay market rates for it. Think of it as a private application of eminent
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by cletus 5y ago
That's true. Typically that property tax rate is higher for out-of-state residents too. I'm suggesting going further than that: owning property in that place makes you a tax resident. That means all your income is subject to state
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by cletus 5y ago
My position: 1. Abolishing landlords is not the answer (I see a lot of people suggest this). Ownership is a barrier. Rental properties are useful. If there are no landlords there are no rentals unless you want the government to be your land
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by cletus 5y ago
Technically those are unrelated to TAO. Those are all part of layers that sit on top of TAO. The TAO part is optional too. For example, you can put the Ent data access layer on top of MySQL directly.
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by cletus 5y ago
> (II) You're establishing GP's point, which is that a special law was needed for extradition in this case. I beg to differ. A law was needed to establish jurisdiction and a crime just like a law is required for every such
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by cletus 5y ago
That's true inside US jurisdictions. Outside of that, it's complicated [1]. [1]: https://inter-american-law-review.law.miami.edu/u-s-constitu...
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by cletus 5y ago
> Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don't get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place. There are tons of examples of this. Examples: - If a US citizen conspires to insider trading wit
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by cletus 5y ago
Thunderbolt 3/4 max out at 40Gbps of bandwidth. PCIe 4.0 x16 (16 lanes) has a bandwidth of 32GB/s, which is 256Gbps. So external GPUs are always going to be inferior. Also, an external case incurs a lot of extra unavoidable costs.
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by cletus 5y ago
There are really two flavours of SFF PC: those with a full-power GPU (typically for gaming or professional use) and those that don't. For the latter, it shouldn't be too hard to build something even passively cooled. You can go ev
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by cletus 5y ago
Before my Ghost some 7-8 years ago I built a SFF PC with a Silverstone case. IIRC it was the SG08. It's old enough that it had a tray and a slot to put a slimline optical drive. It wasn't a bad case and had a decent PSU included b
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm a big fan of this form factor, specifically just big enough to fit a motherboard/CPU/RAM plus a real-size GPU. These all use SFX PSUs and typically just an M2 SSD on the motherboard. They also have only 2 RAM slots. The d
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by cletus 5y ago
NASA is hamstrung by Congress here. Congress mandated the SLS program. It's not meant to be competitive with SpaceX. SLS is a jobs program for key districts, no more, no less. It's welfare for Boeing. I don't know if NASA per
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by cletus 5y ago
> ... a niche that could really use the Apple Bump but hasn't gotten it and probably won't get it: 10 gigabit ethernet 10GbE was a bit of a mistake on several fronts. We had become used to these 10x iterations with Ethernet fro
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by cletus 5y ago
MagSafe isn't just about the convenience of it. It may not help you or have helped you but it's helped many people (including me) and even if it didn't, it provided peace of mind. But the key reason for it is that it's a
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by cletus 5y ago
> how does someone like Steve gain so much respect from so many different types of people? Simple. Steve is undeniably one of the most influential people in the last 50 years. You don't have to agree with him to recognize this. To d
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by cletus 5y ago
Yeah I agree this wasn't a binary switch. Pure speculation: the forcing function for the big changes in the latest models was the M1. That forced a redesign of probably the entire unit anyway (eg different thermals, chipsets, power req
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by cletus 5y ago
Ex-Facebooker here. Hack isn't going away. Ever. It's actually quite pleasant to develop in. The tooling now revolves around VS Code, which I personally don't like. I wish they'd based this on a Jetbrains core. One thing
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by cletus 5y ago
The 2016 wasn't leadership, it was Johnny Ive without Steve Jobs bringing him back to reality. Touch Bar? This was nothing more than adding expense to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macbooks, that had fallen precipitously low
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by cletus 5y ago
I honestly don't understand the obsession some people have with the gold standard. Even when the US had the gold standard, the US never had gold reserves that matched the dollars in circulation. Not once. Ever. Also, the gold standard
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by cletus 5y ago
In Australia at the time I grew up we got a lot of British TV. One I still remember fondly is Yes, Minister (and the follow on Yes, Prime Minister ). This to me was the golden age of British TV. Anyway, any talk of smoking taxes always r
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by cletus 5y ago
I have an issue with this quote: > Individual financial returns to college are the paramount consideration for most students. Almost all students say access to a well-paying job is a primary reason for attending college. First, I don&#x2
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by cletus 5y ago
F Twitter threads. Seriously... just... stop. It's worth noting with all the revelations in the last couple of days, that at least some of them aren't new. For example: - "Jedi Blue: A Scandal That Highlights, Yet Again, The
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by cletus 5y ago
It looks like the legal structure for cooperative housing ("coop") like this originated in Germany and first came to the United States via New York City [1]: > The first housing cooperative in the United States organized under
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by cletus 5y ago
I've had a few people call me a shill for Google on these threads since I'm a Xoogler/Ex-Facebooker (it's literally in my profile) so I'm going to quote myself here [1] from 7 months ago: > Giving advantageous ra
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by cletus 5y ago
> A provider offers a service is responsible to ensure it functions within the law. This is what I like to call "engineer thinking" (and I say this as an engineer). By this I mean it's absolute. The law doesn't work t
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by cletus 5y ago
Tell that to James Robert Liang [1]. This isn't about protecting the company. It's about protecting yourself. You're opening yourself to be a witness in a suit (nobody wants that), thrown to the wolves by the company (who wil
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by cletus 5y ago
I really wish we had less kneejerk cliche-recycling (eg "don't be evil" comments) commenters here just looking for confirmation bias because this is a difficult issue. First, kids use sites and apps when they're below th
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by cletus 5y ago
A big issue with renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, is that the power output is variable and an electric grid needs a base load to operate. Now I firmly believe the future here is ultimately space-based solar power collectors. I

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