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I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned(washingtonexaminer.com)
30 points by dmitrygr 3mo ago|18 comments
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
> with knowledge specialization becoming unnecessary, I will take the other end of this bet
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
Repeated nuisance alarms have the same effect on all humans, not just on pilots - it trains them to ignore the alarms. Eventually this will lead to non-nuisance alarms being ignored and lives being lost.
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
This sort of nonsense is well studied in aeronautical world, and will lead to too many alerts, which, in turn, lead to predictable outcomes: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/normalization-of-devian...
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
I've had now-ex friends send me unsolicited ai-slop catch-up messages summarizing their life "since we last spoke".
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
Prediction: absolutely nothing will happen about resolving this. Ever. And eventually they will find a line in the ToS allowing this and point to it — some paragraph that says they may cut any line of service with no notice at all you you s
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
> Meta’s rate limit is ridiculous. [...] feature [...] doesn’t use Meta’s servers. It runs on-device, using the chips inside the glasses [...] I turned off my internet, and it kept working. BMW heated-seats style move. Classy.
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
yes, compared to the length of time ballpoint pens have existed (88 years -- since 1938), this is very recent - only 9 years ago
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
Material sciences needed for modern jet engine blades are a closely guarded secret, and thanks to not manufacturing them in china, those secrets have managed to remain not stolen. Fun story: it is not just jet engines - it is only recently
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
Nobel prizes? Manned moon landings? Reserve currencies? AC units per capita?
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by dmitrygr 3mo ago
> a big part of the problem is that many people do not have a legal pathway available to them I have no legal pathway to own the moon. That does not mean I get to just take it. Just cause you want something does not mean there must exis
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Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero(telegraph.co.uk)
9 points by dmitrygr 3mo ago|3 comments
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
We are in violent agreement
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
Did you read the opinion? SCOTUS only said a process was broken by a step being missed. Trump can still fire Cook, just has to let Cook have a hearing about it. Nowhere that I see did they say Trump must at all consider what Cook says at sa
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
> The system works when everyone executes the system faithfully, but that isn't meaningfully happening You are entirely right, we really need to prosecute presidents who do not follow SCOTUS rulings, like [1] and [2] [1] https:&#x
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
> can't setup genuinely independent agencies The US constitution lays out three AND ONLY three branches of government. The congress cannot create a fourth without an amendment. If they create an agency in the executive branch, by d
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
> They govern by consent of the other branches, and that's trivial to take away That is entirely not at all what the us constitution says
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
Ah. Nice! Which university is this? (I keep a list of how seriously to take grades from various places, and this is notable info)
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
> It's not reasonable these days to expect people to hand write a 4, 6, 8 page length essay on paper and pen with a finite time limit in a classroom. Say what? Writing by hand is not only useful to write. It helps practice fine moto
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
How would that software stop you from Just googling things on your phone at the same time?
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
I do not think any amount of surveillance can stop a motivated-enough massive-enough group of citizens interested in having more power over what happens to them. But it will get bloody.
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
> Additionally, when a critical package has no one maintaining it, Akrites will stand as the maintainer of last resort so a fix can still reach everyone in a timely fashion. Ambitious and interesting. I wonder how long this will last and
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
The article never does resolve WHY it was slow in linux :(
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
This is a perversion of the most sickening nature. Nicely done!
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
So I have to actively work and expend energy to not be subject to some random whim? curious view.
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
In the days of the internet "operate in a country" == "exist". Eg: [1] UK has tried to enforce its laws even onto organizations who literally exist in USA only. Their argument: you exist, internet exists, so you are stil
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
So you DO want iran controlling what your LLC does if it is internet connected in any way (which everything is now).
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by dmitrygr 4mo ago
You can control what ENTERS your borders, not what happens outside of them. You are free to cut the cables, but not to dictate to those outside your house how to live on the other end of those cables. Else we'll all be living under the

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