joshuamorton

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by joshuamorton 5mo ago
I mean I guess anything is possible, but the Pixel 6 and 7 also are receiving 5+ years of updates, and those sure seem real so far.
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by joshuamorton 5mo ago
Yes, they've since more than doubled the support lifetimes to seven years.
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by joshuamorton 5mo ago
> aren't motivated to do crime due to suffering Good thing I never said that! > Oh, and the only solution is more welfare Nor that! I said that for many people crime is a rational approach to more prosperity. That doesn't me
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by joshuamorton 5mo ago
There is a reason that crime goes up a ton when existing tools for survival disappear (e.g. disaster scenarios). When people have paths to prosperity, the need to do crime goes down. When the marginal value of crime is low, people don&#
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by joshuamorton 5mo ago
While it doesn't explain 100% of crime, this is just true. You change people's circumstances such that crime isn't rational, and they're less likely to do it.
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by joshuamorton 6mo ago
I want to be clear, I agree. I have no objection to unique government contracts. I'm specifically curious about GPs position that a government contractor should be (ethically?) bound from putting contractual obligations on government u
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by joshuamorton 6mo ago
> they shouldn't have some sneaky way to exert control over decision making using their products. why not, many companies have all sorts of rules you agree to when using their products, including many legal ("lawful") thi
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by joshuamorton 6mo ago
I think it's because it's easy to make annoying mistakes (still easy to fix with undo) with edit. And it gains relatively little over new+squash. Edit is a useful power-feature, but I think for a novice, "never use it, only u
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
This also does not change th code. It is an advertisement to a linter-loke tool to take some action on the source code. Its most similar to linter directives which usually are comments.
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
> The reason it feels like a kludge is that "comments" are normally understood to be non-impactful. Is a source transformation that removes all comments valid? If comments have no impact per the spec, yes. But that's not t
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
And in fact the law at issue doesn't even assign points.
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
Having read the order, it doesn't really justify the central claim, that these are criminal, and in my opinion a lot of the context cuts against that (the liability being only a fine and some other things).
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
Can someone link the order, I've searched heavily for it and it's not linked by an of the articles or findable easily.
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
The mentioned fines are $1-200, which is in the same range as parking tickets. I think the best argument is that license points are criminal in nature, but I don't really buy that.
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
Everything you've said applies to parking tickets too. You can't prove that the owner parked the vehicle. Tha owner is ultimately civily liable if the vehicle is parked in a way that it shouldn't be. Extending that same civi
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
> In some ways the government bringing civil charges against you is rather bullshitty I think there are circumstances where this is true, but I don't think it's true in the general sense. And I really don't think red light
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
> It is enough to say absolutely nothing, and request the government to prove its case. Only in criminal contexts. In civil contexts your silence can absolutely be an adverse inference. Usually these red-light cameras are civil penalties
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by joshuamorton 7mo ago
How does this work if, for example, you persist the data in a database?
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
I mean, this is true and also not true. The management ladder does start higher and arguably does end higher with C-suite titles (though even that may not be the case, e.g. Google now has a Chief Technologist or two, who are SVP/C-suit
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
The question to ask of course is do you see how your manager interacts with their management? Do the things that get done stay consistent, or are your priorities constantly changing? Do you and your team control your priorities or are the
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> Imagine if a gun manufacturer sold a gun that you couldn't use against X or Y country. The point here, of course, being that Anthropic is very specifically claiming to not be a gun manufacturer, and Hegseth's response is th
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> My custom youtube clients would never be approved by google. My (free) apps for watching anime and reading manga would never get approved by Google. Google isn't approving apps though. A developer provides identity verification an
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> Laundering millions is a huge amount of work already. You need to hide your criminal activity from banks investigating fraud. Presuming the banks are doing their jobs right, at least, but if they don't, then that'd be the pla
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> You could also pay randos a $30 gift card to sign up for a developer account and share access. Enough people will do it. This could work, but the issue here is that a lot of these scams rely on the "zero cost"-ness of turnup
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
You now need to have a variety of fake addresses you can use, since scammed addresses will get banned. You also need fake IDs. So again, the bar has now been raised from "run a bot to make fake Facebook accounts" to "I have a
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
But the proposal here, requiring developers to register their identities, doesn't actually impact consumers at all. They still have the ability to make the decision about whether or not to trust someone.
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> Someone will manufacture and sell bulk identities How? You've now moved the level of sophistication required from "someone runs some bots on the facebook website" to "someone is now committing complex fraud against
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> Now they'll need to pay off a local mailman to give them all of Google's letters with an address in an area they control so they can register a town's worth of addresses, big whoop. It'll cost them a bit more than t
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
should I be confident that thunderbird.net is the real one, or could it be hosted at thunderbird.org, thunderbird.com, or thunderbird.mozilla.org?
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by joshuamorton 8mo ago
> This all revolves around implied ability... Google should not have this capability The entire "ability" here is, as far as I can tell, is that it's possible to connect accounts to IP addresses. This is something that pra

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