jMyles

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by jMyles 8mo ago
With a bunch of specific exceptions, violence is handled by the states, so it depends on the state in which it occurred. My best guess is that it's some kind of criminal offense in all 50.
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by jMyles 8mo ago
> I'm surprised to see so little coverage of AI legislation news here tbh. I think the reason is that most people don't believe, at least on sufficiently long times scales, that legacy states are likely to be able to shape AI (
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by jMyles 9mo ago
In terms of the silliness / uselessness, you're right that they're similar - nobody compares "The alt-right" to the Red Cross, as if they had an office and an accountant on staff. But plenty of people will say that
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by jMyles 9mo ago
Wikipedia doesn't use the phrase "group of people", and cites a symposium as a source for the assessment that "it is a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups in the United States," so, I'm not sure thi
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by jMyles 9mo ago
If this is true, it seems like a much more serious vulnerability than I was expecting when I clicked the link. And it's obviously an oversight; there is no reason to intentionally opt for http over https in this situation.
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by jMyles 9mo ago
I can't tell if you are disputing or agreeing? Obviously, in the scenario you describe, people will continue describe themselves as "anti-rapist" and everybody will understand that they mean that they are opposed to rape. The
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by jMyles 9mo ago
I've read your comment twice, and I can't make heads or tails of what you're trying to say. > If some CEO spoke unflatteringly of The Red Cross or Habitat For Humanity, Those are organizations. "Antifa" is a de
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by jMyles 9mo ago
But that's really the height of silliness. I can say that all people who describe themselves as 'anticapitalist' are actually capitalists, but that doesn't change anything about those people, the ideology in question, o
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by jMyles 9mo ago
The difference is that North Korea is a place, with an organization that claims to be its government. You can point to it on a map. Antifa is an adjective that people with no connection to one another self-apply. I'm antifa, and I im
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by jMyles 9mo ago
> The behavior of these auditors is not speech in any meaningful sense; I didn't suggest it was speech; it's press, no? Again, I don't have enough context to cast judgment about them being assholes or violating some other
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by jMyles 9mo ago
To be honest, I watch very little of that content, so I had no idea. If they're unkind, then obviously that sucks. But walking around with cameras maintaining the unequivocal right to record what happens in the commons seems like a ve
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by jMyles 9mo ago
> I consider myself a pretty strong First Amendment supporter, but if I routinely found strange men filming me as I walked down the street, I would support basically any legal change required to make them stop. It strikes me that the fi
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by jMyles 9mo ago
It appeared there like 5 minutes ago; it was down for at least 20 before that. That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system
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by jMyles 9mo ago
To me it's just a vote against the profiteers who make those machines. Also I kinda like the process better; the pat-down is nothin', and you can a full table to yourself to recombobulate. > First-Amendment-auditor thinking. Uh
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by jMyles 9mo ago
...of course not. But dramatically less chargeable conduct, dramatically more robust protections against search and seizure, and the complete removal of the slave labor incentive inherent in prisons might just remove it without further ado
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by jMyles 9mo ago
> The majority of cases don’t go to trial because the majority of cases are hopeless for the defendants. ...but are the lion's share of these hopeless on the basis of the evidence, combined with a fair process and a just, civically-
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by jMyles 9mo ago
> Do we really, really, fully understand the implication of allowing private contracts that trump criminal law? ...it's not that at all. We don't want private contracts to enshrine the same imbalances of power; we want those i
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by jMyles 9mo ago
...the primary effect of which is that fewer than 4% of criminal cases go to trial, and our prison, parole, and probation systems are full of people who pled to crimes they did not commit, and poison trees of evidence are intentionally and
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by jMyles 9mo ago
...I thought that the typical practice (I don't see it in the guidelines) is the put the year next to an article based its _date of publication_, rather than the event about which the article refers. This article was published today, a
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Colorado Authorities Confirm Suicide by Hunter S. Thompson(nytimes.com)
2 points by jMyles 9mo ago|3 comments
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by jMyles 9mo ago
I'm normally very reluctant to cheer most comparisons us the US political situation to nazi germany, or to fascism in general. But events like this (and the Intel stake) seem like an exact implementation of what has come to be called T
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by jMyles 9mo ago
Sure, but then they need to send a physical person, which is expensive and impossible to scale. Making it extremely expensive is probably good enough. (Feels like we have this same discussion over and over on HN.)
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by jMyles 9mo ago
Signed up to help. On PickiPedia (bluegrass wiki - pickipedia.xyz), we've developed a mediawiki extension / middleware that works as an MCP server, and causes all of the contributions from the AI in question to appear as partially
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by jMyles 9mo ago
I had a need to describe all musicians as having the nickname / stage name "rambutan", and I was surprised to find that no mediawiki extension existed for this purpose. I hope this is useful to others. You can see it in acti
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RambutanMode: A mediawiki extension to add the nickname "rambutan" to all people(github.com)
2 points by jMyles 9mo ago|1 comments
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by jMyles 9mo ago
> hardly exist before modern technology Do rights only exist to protect the human condition as we suppose it was "before modern technology"?
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by jMyles 9mo ago
A society in which ubiquitous, diversely-owned and operated, unlicensed drones watch the every move of police and criminals - even though that means they watch the every move of the rest of us as well - is a society in which I want to live.
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by jMyles 9mo ago
Any notions of how this differs from Vibium?
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by jMyles 10mo ago
My first bluegrass record: https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/album/vowel-sounds Second record in progress: https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/album/4masks
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by jMyles 10mo ago
> The joint at the base of my thumb started telling me it's 60 years old This is my biggest apprehension. I've become quite a good guitarist, and I know that can't last forever. Getting my accomplishments in while I can.

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