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by keernan 1y ago
>>August 19, 2025
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>>if it wants ensured protection against a threatened Chinese invasion If the promised 'ensured protection' of Taiwan was worth anything then why is the security of the United States dependent upon 50% of chip production bei
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by keernan 1y ago
Is it me or has there been a flurry of recent reports of Russia probing adversaries' border defense responses?
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I've been using keyboards since ... well since they replaced electric typewriters which in turn replaced my Royal mechanical typewriter. I never much thought about keyboards until the keyboard on my Lenovo Ideapad. I thought that was t
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The article measures 'economic income' for a group of billionaires and demonstrates that billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of Americans. What is not addressed is how is the burden of paying the societal cost of runni
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My daughter is cancelling a one week Disneyworld vacation for 4 (w+h+2children).
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That saying is absolutely true so long as the consequence isn't imposed by the government which has zero right to become involved in what Americans think, like, or say. And there is something seriously wrong when large corporations hav
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Click bait title. The article itself says theoretically a browser addon can replace the user's public key during passkey setup. There is no hacking of the key itself. Rather it is the insecure world of browser addons that makes using a
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by keernan 1y ago
I just learned there is a bug wherein the timer will complete normally but fail to emit any sound. I have had this happen to me multiple times when using the timer for cooking and it has been driving me nuts. The explanation said this could
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by keernan 1y ago
Lawyers, doctors, accountants etc have legal obligations that regulate how documents containing sensitive information can be stored. Professionals often work on computers away from the office. Microsoft is potentially staring at tons of law
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The argument being made is: "Bad people are doing bad things. By providing privacy, TOR is enabling bad people to do horrible things." The exact same thing is true of the US Government: "Bad people are doing bad things behind
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by keernan 1y ago
>>Sure, but once you reach the point where you have a lot of money in the market you probably won't enjoy watching 50% of it disappear, even if it means your next auto investment is for a nice bargain price. I assume I am investi
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by keernan 1y ago
No. The 'goal' of investing (e.g. regularly buying) means attempting to own as many shares as possible. That is achieved by buying low and selling high. Buyers benefit from lower prices, not higher. So many investors get this conc
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The concentration isn't the 'fault' of indexing per se. There are two styles of indexes used by funds/etfs. 1. Most indexes are market capitalization weighted indexes... which can lead to the high concentrations we curre
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by keernan 1y ago
Who benefits from high stock prices? Certainly not people regularly buying stocks or stock ETFs/Funds.
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by keernan 1y ago
I am now retired but I was a middle manager with three different Fortune 500 companies. What I experienced was the same at all three companies: 1. Senior management had no clue how to hire middle managers. Literally one hundred percent were
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For me, it is a straight forward proposition. There is literally nothing online so far that has ever interested me enough to pay money or with my eyeballs. I either see it without ads or move on without even a moment of thought.
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What is the point of giving AI an IQ test? My expectation is for it to be perfect since it possesses every answer. If the idea is to measure the ability of an LLM to correctly lookup the correct answer in its encyclopedic database, then sur
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by keernan 1y ago
>>That money goes to the company When you purchase stock, your money goes to the seller of that stock. That's what makes a "market". The stock market isn't a bunch of companies selling their stock to the public.
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The article refers to a different case involving Texas in which Clarence Thomas wrote" >>“The statute advances the state’s important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content,” Thomas wrote. “And, it is approp
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by keernan 1y ago
Apparently Trixie needs a larger boot petition than prior versions and therefore I have to do new installs on three of my homelab machines - and probably my proxmox machine too. What a headache.
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by keernan 1y ago
I believe the analogy of a LLM being "a very complex encyclopedia with an interesting search interface" to be spot on. However, I would not be so dismissive of the value. Many of us are reacting to the complete oversell of 't
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by keernan 1y ago
It's interesting that so many Americans currently alive actually believe they have ever lived in a democracy. The news they read every day has been controlled since the day they were born. Their choices in every election they have ever
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by keernan 1y ago
What so many seem to be overlooking is the very, very strong belief by the top 0.01% is that science is about to - or already has - found a way to eliminate natural causes of death. Hence the quote from Peter Thiel: >I stand against conf
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I am more concerned about "big brother" - the increasing use of the internet by the government to "watch" its citizens. The recent efforts by England's demand that Apple provide the English government with a "b
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by keernan 1y ago
>>Ensuring AI reflects “objective truth,” ... is all part of President Donald Trump’s vision for AI policy
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How many 'fealty to your boss' questions were you ever asked?
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I find the subject of plant signaling - internal signaling as well as signaling between plants - even between different plant species - to be absolutely fascinating.
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After reading the actual Order, it appears the defendants filed an application to the Court expressing concern that plaintiff, OpenAI, was potentially destroying evidence and to prevent a spoliation claim (relief due to destruction of evide
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>>You have more freedom to criticize the US Government than to criticize a foreign country. I doubt that. I would honestly be shocked if anyone with anti-Trump posts would 'pass' DHS screening.

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