friend_and_foe

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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
3. 3 american citizens. He ordered operations that killed both that guys kids also, the latter of which was carried out in the first month of Trump's presidency. They were 12 and 8. Both were supposedly accidents.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
"Withhold funding from the military" it's actually better (or worse) than that. The US doesn't have a standing army technically speaking, it cannot constitutionally. The post war military has been continuously reauthoriz
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
The constitution clearly says that a declaration of war is needed, and only short periods of action that are necessary in the interim can be taken by the president absent that. Congress does not have the authority to simply pass a law inv
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Congress, via impeachment. Look, the president can't do something like start a war without permission from congress. Congress basically delegated that authority to the president. If the president then uses it irresponsibly (as has happ
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
This is factually incorrect, the president can be prosecuted for anything, he doesn't even have to commit a crime, but there's a special process for that called impeachment. This isn't new stuff and it has been understood to
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I'm the opposite. And I live in an opposite world. Cash is the only way I pay in person. I have a prepaid card and amazon gift cards for online purchases. If I'm in a store, I have cash. If you don't take cash you don't
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system. Law as it applies to the conduct of people and organizations works this way in the Anglo common law world, yes. The constitution specifically and clearly states that the federal
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Shame? Shame? People genuinely disagree with living under an administrative state comprised of unelected career bureaucrats coming and going through a revolving door to the corporations they regulate as they please. Isn't a complete
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
This isn't the end of regulation, this is just the end of unelected agencies making up rules as they please. All this changes is that congress has to do their job.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
If there are people there there will be a market there. I do expect that there will be people there within 100 years, probably sooner, if not for any reason, because a really rich guy that runs the most capable space launch company wants to
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
i keep a list of installed packages and the package manager I used to install them. I don't track dependencies that I didn't manually install. This is manual, every time I type "pacman" or "yay" or even "p
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I think Hanlons Razor applies here. Terry Davis said it perfectly.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Seriously. This is just scaremongering. Could it happen? Anything can happen. Will it happen? I dunno, but acting like it is a foregone conclusion as justification for escalation is nothing more than pro war propaganda.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
There was no market for a second global internet either, it already existed. If you build it they will come. I think we see it time and time again, the steam engine, the internet, when you create something that enables radically new possibi
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
How so?
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I remember seeing a 4chan screenshot right before the 2020 election, I'd guess about 2 weeks before election night, the person was claiming to be an "insider" whatever that means, and they were claiming that on election night
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I for one am old enough to remember when this was widely accepted. It seems it's out of fashion now, but I remember progressive people talking about male and female brains and how transgender people are born with the opposite brain, an
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I don't understand the surprise. Corporations are heartless machines. Archival, history, culture, these things are not their priorities. These things are our priorities. If someone else owns your creativity, accept from day 1 that yo
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I think, and this seems obvious to me hut apparently it's not, that what the author is trying to say is that 5G is useless unless it provides a benefit in peoples lives, and so measuring base stations doesn't actually tell you any
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
The problem though is that those marketing this stuff want it to be taken seriously. They have to sell the "I" in AI. They can't tell you "this is a toy and is not intended for real world use for any consequential purpos
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I'm convinced that this guy sees Musk and his outlandish statements and thinks that must be the secret to success and so tries the same thing, but going even further. What he seems to fail to realize, which is strange because what he d
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I tell people, if you know how this stuff works, you'll understand its a fugazi. It produces a statistically likely sequence of tokens (words) that resemble data it was built with. There's nothing intelligent about it, it cannot c
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
If you believe that free people have a right to speak their opinions, which I do, any government action that hinders that is as a matter of fact an injustice. All this language about "amplification" and "platforming" is
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Maybe I am, but I don't think it's reprehensible for someone to have intimate relations with willing people. Doing other things, like firing people for ending relationships, or harassing people because they're unwilling, are
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
You've just described a mechanism for the chilling effect, and why laws like this are to be avoided in free societies. The article is basically saying the same thing, the problem isn't the behaviors of the companies, it is the &qu
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Stalin exiled Trotsky. They were both socialist. Just because people or groups are enemies doesn't mean they disagree on everything.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
If you don't laugh you'll cry.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
I'm beginning to suspect that Spacex and Boeing are in the middle of a PR propaganda war with one another. It seems to me that someone wants a lot of bad press for each of these companies right now, I would guess each other.
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury in front of congress. This type of behavior can be a liability, yes. It seems Musk is attracted to highly intelligent and capable women, and the work he does is in need of as many of them as it can get
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by friend_and_foe 2y ago
When a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric. Someone on HN posited that the models we use for economic performance are overfitted, that they no longer actually gauge the performance of the economy. The economy, after all, i

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