kepler1

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Have you especially found that the latest era of increasing freedom of expression has led to better outcomes for countries? I have not come to that conclusion.
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If common sense ruled us, we wouldn't need any laws. Maybe you're not thinking about how laws and regulations work, but they usually require specific wording and criteria to be laid out so that companies/people/governm
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So, no technology that others own the patent/license to is allowed to be incorporated into any product?
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So, that's one part out of thousands. You're going to write up the 100 page list of all the considerations for how it has to be done, just for the iPhone? And that's going to be enacted into law/regulation?
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So what would you have them do? Send you a kit with some janky aluminum foil, tools bought off Ebay, and instructions on how to scrounge around your kitchen for stuff that can be used to pry off the screen? For fucks sake, it's like t
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That's a pretty bold claim, to say that a company had the motivation to purposely make it difficult to repair. What support do you have for that statement? And what support do you have on your claim that any EU rule has mandated an ap
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by kepler1 4y ago
No specialized equipment? So an iPhone / Mac has to be repairable with a consumer Phillips head screwdriver? Full size? Or is a T6 screw allowed? How about glue? Who is to make the call about what specialized equipment and level o
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Tried to help my elderly relatives set up a simple HP inkjet printer/scanner/all-in-one. I discovered that they have to create a login and administer the printer through the HP Windows app just to be able to scan a document. Fuck
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It's funny how BART (and most California agencies) put very quantifiable costs on people who obey the rules in a way that you've foreseen, but in the meantime completely ignore farehoppers, freeriders, etc. who simply hop over tur
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I guess it's just another test in the grand experiment of whether our country's firmware is the most successful choice over time. Do people's expressed self-interests (or those guided by some aspect of human nature) being al
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Hey, I'm so glad you recognize this principle! I'm of the belief that Hawaii belongs to the native Hawaiian people who the islands were stolen from by the US one hundred years ago, and whose descendants have been advocating that i
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I just want to say, one great democratizing thing about the internet is that is lets every one spout off their mouth and be discovered, even the supremely rich. In an age where people can hire shills to act for them, create fake companies,
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by kepler1 4y ago
I just want to say, one great democratizing thing about the internet is that is lets every one spout off their mouth and be discovered, even the supremely rich. In an age where people can hire shills to act for them, create fake companies,
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I am certainly not at the level of needing or desiring this level of protection, but I point out / ask one question: I understand iPhones (and maybe iPads) actually do not fully turn themselves off any more even when "powered off&
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Are we listening to the same person? I find Lex Fridman to be wooden, robotic, non-sequitur, not smooth or charismatic, and (I admit, shallowly) not a pleasing speaking voice to listen to, and not that articulate actually. The main reason
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Out of idle daydreaming (because I had bought a ticket), I started wondering what I would do right after discovering I won (and yes, I've seen that Reddit post with all the financial, legal advice). I don't mean who I would give
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by kepler1 4y ago
Two major problems with academic freedom right now (which you find yourself wondering, were the liberal-claiming professorate only respecting academic freedom when they were opinions they agreed with?): 1. There is an increasing belief in &
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How unprogressive of you to focus on male/female, while neglecting people with facial deformities or people who have excessive hair growth in non-traditional facial areas. You oppressor. I'm glad you're injecting these consi
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Yeah there was a time when I thought my speed of typing was the thing slowing down my thesis writing. So I spent a week training Dragon Naturally Speaking to be able to transcribe my voice. Turns out that really wasn't the bottleneck,
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When an AI learns to turn minor beliefs into a personal quest for notoriety and attention, I'll believe it has achieved sentience just like Blake Lemoine.
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Also conducting fraud, if it ever touches a piece of US mail, opens up the channel to be investigated and prosecuted via the US Postal Inspection service. Which I have heard, they are no joke.
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Yeah, maybe book a flight for 1 hour from now and hope they don't find out in time...
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If you have something concrete and unique to offer people in a blog, then yes. Otherwise generally no, unless you're perhaps trying to give people a library of your technical work that they can refer to when you're applying for a
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Not to take away credit from Greg Robinson (or other many people involved in the project management), but to say that he fixed it as if a miracle happened is exaggerating. The project had to be delayed, cost-overrun, de-scoped in some small
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So much more important that we make the best of the time we have, for each other, while we can make a difference for ourselves.
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Related to the story's underlying topic, as an immigrant I find significant attitudinal/philosophical differences in how I regard saving money and spending money versus, for example, my American coworkers and friends, especially y
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Let's play it forward where in some alternate reality we were able to reset the current "inequity" and give lots more people from non-elite backgrounds a good shot at proving their capabilities. Or even have that as an ongo
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No one's talking about stopping people's right to record. And if standing 8 feet makes a difference then we've got other problems. I'm talking about reasonable restrictions to stop people from getting up in the police&
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I'm not solving for loud noises that the police have to hear. You took my literal words, lost the point, and turned it into ready outrage. There are legitimate reasons for the police to have bystanders stay a distance away from them w

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