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by kyboren 3y ago
Yes, the state has two "rainy day" funds: The Budget Stabilization Account (BSA) for the general fund and a separate reserve fund for Proposition 98 (i.e. school funding). The BSA currently has roughly $21B[0] and the Prop. 98 Res
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by kyboren 3y ago
Get rid of Prop. 98 and cut the education budget ($108B)[0] budget back to 2011 levels ($47B)[1]. Boom, I just saved $61B and nearly balanced the budget. It's not like that money actually improved outcomes, anyway. [0]: https:/&#
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by kyboren 3y ago
> show ads based on preferences and never reveal or sell those preferences to a third party That's not how modern ad markets work. Those preferences are indeed revealed to third parties, specifically ad exchanges and DSPs, as part o
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by kyboren 3y ago
Ass, gas, or grass; nobody rides for free. In this case you're paying with your ass. You're turning tricks for Zuck. Meta pimps your mind out to anybody who wants to take a crack at you, to manipulate your political views or extra
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by kyboren 3y ago
Google's business model is basically a fully-automated digital pimp: Step 1: Surveil the ever-loving shit out of everyone and everything you can Step 2: Pimp out (via RTB) anyone wandering by to advertisers who want to take a crack at
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by kyboren 3y ago
Yes, it can and will, unless very special care is taken to ensure it does not. See also TEMPEST[0] and NSTISSAM[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29 [1]: https://web.elastic.org&#x2F
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by kyboren 3y ago
Bring on the Canadian Khrushchyovka! Or is it Trudovka? Ebyovka?
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by kyboren 3y ago
> So once we have a full adder, all we need to do for multiple bits is to chain a whole bunch of them together! Heh. I'm not sure if this is a joke or an intentional oversimplification, but the design space for adders is pretty larg
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by kyboren 3y ago
Seconded. Parhami and Ercegovac ( https://web.cs.ucla.edu/digital_arithmetic/ ) are my personal go-to digital arithmetic references.
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by kyboren 3y ago
The Government Surveillance Reform Act looks to be a great bill, and the stars finally seem to be aligning for real reform. I'm hopeful for the first time in over a decade. However, GSRA doesn't go far enough. GSRA still allows US
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by kyboren 3y ago
> - Satya brings NVidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage This should be ringing alarm bells at FTC and DoJ. You know what's even better than trust busting and breaking up cartels? Preventing the formation of cartels and trusts in the first
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by kyboren 3y ago
I don't really understand all the fuss about license agreements in this space. Just ignore their stupid license and obtain the model weights via alternative means. Both LLaMA and LLaMA v2 are readily available on BitTorrent[0]. It&#x27
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by kyboren 3y ago
Agreed. The Hawaiian islands occupy an incredibly strategic position. If Hawaii did somehow secede, they would be utterly unable to defend their sovereignty over the long term. Some sort of suzerain power arrangement with the US, where the
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by kyboren 3y ago
I think it's difficult for a lot of Russians to understand that the tried and true political strategy, "keep out of politics and they'll leave you alone" has been taken off the table. It turns out that letting a criminal
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by kyboren 3y ago
The Western electorate is indifferent about you. But it's only fair, because you are indifferent--at best--about them. If there were a strong domestic Russian opposition movement there would be much more sympathy. But the Russian popul
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by kyboren 3y ago
Tech journalists when a company makes breaking API changes: "OMG what's wrong with you don't you know how many wasted man-hours you just caused??" Tech journalists when a company makes breaking UI changes: "OMG fina
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by kyboren 3y ago
Because without these repeated fig leaves, trans-Atlantic data transfers will be totally prohibited. This carries the risk of losing the entire EU market, and further, the rise of actual competitors in the EU. Can't have that. Gotta ke
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by kyboren 3y ago
> The interface won’t randomly be changed from under you every couple of years? You mean like Thunderbird is doing here?
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by kyboren 3y ago
As someone with a brain, anytime someone uses an appeal to authority as a blithe dismissal of a substantial article, it's a gigantic red flag that their argument is unserious.
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by kyboren 3y ago
Because the people with purchasing authority know nothing about security, they are unable to distinguish real, good security practices and products from defective, over-hyped, and/or pointless "security" products constantly s
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by kyboren 3y ago
You can download and read the declassified official history of the program, called Project Oxcart: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/project-oxcart... I read the 2013 release a few years ago and recall that
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by kyboren 3y ago
That's not accurate. They "acquire" it all, then "collect" it later from their databases upon request. So-called "incidental collection" is totally fair game for exploitation, defrauding courts, and perver
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by kyboren 3y ago
That's not accurate. FBI/NSA interpret FAA 702 to acquire "one end foreign" communications, i.e. the communications of Americans with other parties abroad. There are millions of American citizens who reside abroad, and m
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by kyboren 3y ago
No, but it's not far from the truth.
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by kyboren 3y ago
According to EPFL, hosting that enemy of liberty ex-NSA Technical Director Brian Snow in June 2014 was totally fine, but hosting RMS is just a bridge too far. "Values".
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by kyboren 3y ago
> it can be disabled when your device is off If you trust Apple's software, and the firmware of every discrete SoC/IP core to be truthful and bug-free. And obviously this does not require cellular tracking, which is frankly unl
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by kyboren 3y ago
One issue without E2EE is that even WITHOUT a lawful warrant, USGOV can (and does en masse) access/seize data not (or not yet) pertaining to a criminal or counterintelligence investigation.
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by kyboren 3y ago
So we're back to, "carry a tracking device if you don't want to get tracked." Even if I had a phone, or could afford one, then I will still be carrying a tracking device. Do you really think airplane mode will prevent tr
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by kyboren 3y ago
I don't want to carry any phone, among other reasons because I do not want to be tracked 24/7. Now Apple has made it trivial for anyone to buy persistent, highly accurate dystopian stalker gear that could easily be surreptitiously
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by kyboren 4y ago
> Really does feel like a pre-9/11 world. Says the person opting into a biometric surveillance dystopia. Are you for real?

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