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by lapcat 1y ago
Here's a comment from the author, who is surprised that it's at the top of HN and calls it "a dashed-off blog post about a real blog post": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561201 This submission h
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by lapcat 1y ago
1 day ago, 511 comments This current submission is nothing but a duplicate and should be flagged dead.
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Yes, but Apple tends to be more inscrutable than anyone else.
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by lapcat 1y ago
A "major evolution" would be for Apple to have informative two-way conversations with security researchers and to stop stiffing them for reports. I submitted a few macOS reports to the program, but Apple just sat on them forever,
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by lapcat 1y ago
Don't bother. They'll find an excuse to pay $0. This is all at Apple's inscrutable discretion.
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by lapcat 1y ago
They're both professors at the University of Wisconsin. "As of March 2023, 20 Nobel laureates, 41 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Fields medalists, and 1 Turing Award recipient have been affiliated with UW–Madison as alumni, faculty, or
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Overall, 75% of users engaged with the embedded training materials for a minute or less. One-third immediately closed the embedded training page without engaging with the material at all. To call this "training" is highly mis
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by lapcat 1y ago
Dupe, already posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474346 (100 comments)
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by lapcat 1y ago
> these monopoly/olipolyies actors can amass massive war chests that make them become bigger than the regulator. Bigger than the POTUS? And why wasn't the previous Clinton administration captured? But it's actually quite c
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by lapcat 1y ago
I would say that regulatory capture is merely a consequence of political capture. The politicians write the regulations, supervise the regulators, and in most cases, appoint the judges. How did Microsoft avoid breakup in 2001? Simple: Georg
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by lapcat 1y ago
Agreed. The blog post starts off fairly well, with step 1 to being a good human being, but pivots ironically at the end to a list of ways not be a human being. It feels more like how to do the minimum possible without doing absolutely not
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by lapcat 1y ago
Dupe, submitted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492489
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by lapcat 1y ago
> the software fix just made things look better The software fix made things look worse. The "bug" was that the number of bars was misleadingly high.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's an expression lol I don't like it and don't find it endearing or persuasuve. > which is your crutch for "elections" and "third terms" being protected procedure I'm not sure what you mean
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by lapcat 1y ago
> My brother in Christ I am not your brother in Christ. > the point is that Trump v. United States itself was unconstitutional I wasn't defending the decision. There are plenty of Supreme Court decisions that I consider to be bad
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by lapcat 1y ago
Or: 4. Apple is simply lying. The reality is that Apple has a corrupt financial relationship with the administration, involving both carrots and sticks. Billions of dollars are at stake. Trump can offer Apple exemption from tariffs, protect
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by lapcat 1y ago
By "Democrats" I meant the Democratic Party. Democratic politicans are not a fixed group of people: anyone can run for office. The issue is not so much that money is corrupting otherwise good people. Rather, the issue is that poli
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by lapcat 1y ago
This appears to be a marked change in subject. How are your questions directly responding to my comment? I would say that, if taken literally, resolving the situation today is not possible. We're currently living in a deep hole that wa
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by lapcat 1y ago
I am of course already aware of that case. If you have an argument to make, then make it; a bare link is not an argument. Note that the case is about criminal prosecution. Congress retains the power specified in the Constitution to impeach
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by lapcat 1y ago
The two parties are not the same, but the privately funded electoral system of the US applies to all parties. Democrats cannot escape the corrupting influence of money. Consider, as a revealing example, the Patriot Act of 2001. There was mo
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by lapcat 1y ago
> What's constitutional is what 5 out 9 people believe to be constitutional This is not entirely accurate. If 5 Supreme Court justices declared that Trump is king, or that Christianity is the official religion of the United States,
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It certainly doesn’t feel good to have turned out being correct after warning that this is where we were headed way back in the dubyah years. This has been happening long before W, and the Democrats are complicit too: https:/&#x2
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by lapcat 1y ago
> If they can't amend, they can bypass. Or ignore. Yes, that was my point! Again, the only path to remaining in power is to completely bypass or ignore the Consitution. There is no legal means, not even nominally. > If people g
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by lapcat 1y ago
> One scenario: Trump runs as a Vice President on a ticket with someone else as President. 5 minutes after being inaugurated, the President resigns, making Trump President for a third term. You can conceive of imaginary scenarios, but th
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I have no faith Trump gives a shit about the constitution. I didn't say he does. But again, abolishing the Constitution is the only path to staying in power. > He and his goons can amend No, they can't. Have you studied th
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by lapcat 1y ago
> As long as elections are still a thing over there, even if Trump gets a third term I think you misunderstand. The Presidency is term-limited by the Constitution. Trump cannot run for a third term. The only way he remains in power aft
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by lapcat 1y ago
(2024)
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> That's a quite literal interpretation of the quote, which I did not intend. Yes, but considering the contemporary assault on democracy and the rule of law, it seems apt. > the call to favour pragmatism I believe Adams had inten
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by lapcat 1y ago
Adams may be correct, but isn't the lesson that we need people to study political science right now? The lesson surely isn't to drop all studies that aren't capitalistically profitable. I don't think the current situatio
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by lapcat 1y ago
It's debatable whether critical thinking can be taught sucessfully. In my opinion, the more important question is whether people can think about anything other than work and making money. There's much more to life than that, and a

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