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by encomiast 9mo ago
I would be curious about the logic that allows you to call intellectual property a nonsense term while still allowing other property to make sense. Both are social constructs.
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by encomiast 10mo ago
May you have a perfectly balanced Christmas h _____|______ / \ r t / \ / \ e . i a / \ /
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by encomiast 10mo ago
I’m not sure what ‘successfully’ means in this context. If it means training a model that is noticeably better than previous models, it’s not hard to see how that is challenging.
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by encomiast 10mo ago
Who said anything about parties? And who said anything about it being okay to fire IGs (especially illegally). Which IG did anyone say it was okay to fire? The article you posted to support this idea wasn’t even fired! He’s still in the job
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by encomiast 11mo ago
The article you posted is about a truly damning investigation into Joseph Cuffari. Cuffari is STILL the IG at DHS. He was not fired -- sheesh: https://www.oig.dhs.gov/about/MeetTheIG
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by encomiast 11mo ago
Here’s a small example. There are more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U.S._inspec...
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by encomiast 11mo ago
I'm hoping "degoogle" is the 2026 word of the year.
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by encomiast 11mo ago
It was mind-boggling to see SQL solutions last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577736
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by encomiast 11mo ago
A little sad that there are fewer puzzles. But also a glad that I'll see my wife and maybe even go outside during the second half of December this year.
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by encomiast 11mo ago
Maybe you can explain why the Netflix deal is corruption? The deal was signed after he was out of office (2018). Did he or people in his administration create policy that benefited Netflix in exchange for this deal? Was there any sort of qu
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by encomiast 11mo ago
Safeguards only matter when there are people and institutions to enforce them. Remember all those people they fired? All part of the plan.
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by encomiast 11mo ago
You must see the difference between making money from books/speaking fees and using the full power of the US government to create policy that directly benefits your investments (possibly at the detriment to your competitor).
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism's AI Era(thelocal.to)
3 points by encomiast 11mo ago|0 comments
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by encomiast 11mo ago
You are right — I shouldn't have been dismissive about the age, but rather the complete lack of experience around governance, why some of these rules exist, and why some of the technology is the way it is.
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by encomiast 11mo ago
What I saw was that DOGE spent all their time chasing non-existent (or at most minor) problems imagined from the conspiracy theories they heard about in the media (e.g. woke contracts). They drank their own kool-aid and when they were actua
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by encomiast 11mo ago
This is coming out the same day two DOJ cases led by a US attorney with no previous prosecutorial experience were unceremoniously tossed out. DOGE sent in a bunch of 20 somethings to "fix" the technology while cutting entire group
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by encomiast 1y ago
The program started from ignorance of the functions of the federal government and the people who work in it. People who don’t know anything drank and believed the koolaid. Their actions might make sense if the propaganda was true. But it i
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by encomiast 1y ago
Another totally arbitrary narrative you could build from history is one of reducing size and increasing efficiency. We gone from room filling monsters to the raspberry pi zero. It’s hard to make giant datacenters that require their own powe
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by encomiast 1y ago
I'm curious how we can distinguish between someone lobbying hard for the homebuilding industry and someone lobbying hard for people who need homes?
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by encomiast 1y ago
Interesting…both the linkedIn profile and the website appear to be gone.
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by encomiast 1y ago
The whole site is sketchy. A PhD and a JD. All these high level positions at well-known places. A website with very vague claims about heroically saving things. Almost no google presence other than this site. And 4 LinkedIn connections. May
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by encomiast 1y ago
> I am not sure why AWS Support was unable to communicate this OP. Maybe we should be asking why the OP was not able to hear what AWS was telling them. I think there is a fairly troublesome cognitive bias that gets flipped on when people
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by encomiast 1y ago
I wonder if this applies to Amazon Pharmacy — seems like maybe this might have a bit more governance.
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by encomiast 2y ago
It seems like we've spent the past 25 years trying to solve the big headache this creates: you have 100 blog posts, which means 100 html files. Any structural change you need to make to the site involves touching all 100 files. CSS cam
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by encomiast 2y ago
I also deeply respect this decision and I wish it was not such a taboo. Having said that, I am also deeply suspicious of easy banalities like "you ought to go when things are at their best". This because we are not great, especial
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by encomiast 2y ago
Private companies don't always just fail and get replaced. They find other ways of making profits, like selling user data, externalizing risk, or your run-of-the-mill enshitification.
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by encomiast 2y ago
They don't actually know who the bureaucrats are that they want to traumatize. Anyone calling a product manager, UX designer, or software developer at 18F a "bureaucrat" simply has no idea what they actually do. They are just
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by encomiast 2y ago
This is so true. I recently listened to Lex Fridman's Marc Andreessen interview and all I could think was, this guy doesn't actually know how government, laws, and regulations work. Like _totally_ clueless and he's pontificat
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by encomiast 2y ago
There's been a lot of stupid things over the last few weeks, but this one is close to the top. 18F did really important, good work. But they also stood for equality and diversity, they were proud of their inclusive culture, and outspok
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AWS Boto3 asyncio tracking issue turns 10(github.com)
2 points by encomiast 2y ago|0 comments

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