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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I'm not assuming anything. I'm saying that's what you do in order to solve the issue. You have to actually try , and you have to do actual engineering. If the local planning commission submits a call for proposals for a brid
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Having a guy write lyrics about a killing is one thing. Having enough evidence to take to a grand jury, get an indictment, and convince a petit jury beyond a reasonable doubt, and survive appeals is another.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
That someone can be brought into an office and shown a small diagram of the approved network topology. Then they can be shown a small diagram of the current network topology. Next, they can be asked if they're the same. If they're
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> In all fairness, the people who are experts in the field of Siemens PLC programming are usually mechanical-ish engineers and security is not in their skill set or on their mind. Stuxnet was over a decade ago. There should be a simple r
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
No, that's for generating the hot air used to help inflate their egos. Heating is a very separate line item on the budget.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Aye, but what does Pluto orbit, and what does the Moon orbit?
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> Plain old US tort law should do the trick. Difficulty: these companies are run by people (many of whom also read Milton Friedman) and who have participated in the regulatory capture of the justice system. They've convinced lawmake
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
That's basically the question I'm trying to answer. If you're paying Anthropic or OpenAI to use their models, harness, governance, etc., I could see the local inference potentially coming out ahead. They're already sta
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I think there were some reforms to the process not too long ago that may have done something like you describe. The problem comes from the fact that a lot of Millennials were told by their parents that having a degree was what mattered, n
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
How was it dumb? You have a generation of Americans who were told repeatedly and often in their teenage years that if they wanted to be able to compete in the global job marketplace, they'd need, at the very least, a bachelor's de
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Of course it does. For those trying to hold the administration to account, there's all sorts of laws. Can't indict the President for unlawful acts during his term. Can't post pictures online about the President. Can't la
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
There's a doctrine in the legal world called the "attractive nuisance" doctrine. The proverbial example is a landowner has a pool on their property. A child, maybe just one in the neighborhood, sees it and wants to go swimmin
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> How the hell Zuckerberg, Meta management and shareholders sleep at night is beyond me. Well, for Zuck, it's because he likely has a severe personality disorder. For management, it's money. For shareholders, it's the comb
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Of course it did. It let them off the hook for a small fraction of the cost they would have incurred should the jury have come back with a verdict assigning liability to Meta, and Zuckerberg didn't have to take the stand. In the words
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> The US is able to afford a trader imbalance because the USD is the world's reserve currency. Other countries are subsidizing our trade imbalance. It's a huge win for the US. The geopolitical calculations regarding China and t
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I'd say that the cultural links are so strong that any actual accounting for trade imbalance is just not worth thinking about. Some things are bigger than money. ... which, come to think of it, is something that the current administrat
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I'm trying to think of the number of people I (an American) know who considered trade with Canada to be a real issue. The answer I keep coming back to is I know zero people who considered that. Does the US have a trade imbalance that c
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
File more suits, then. $17 billion is nothing. Should have been more like $500 billion.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I don't think we're working against trillionaires here. I don't think there's anyone in this situation with that sort of net worth. We're working against the desire to get the basic needs of life (in this case, food
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Well, they don't have all of the second one.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but I think it's time to stop giving any sort of traffic to the CSAM generator website operated by the guy who quotes the Turner Diaries, agrees with antisemitic tweets, and throws Nazi salutes at the inaugur
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
The first three are starting to get more closely associated with privacy. Convenience: if I want information from a chatbot, I don't want to have to hear how I can save on my car insurance by switching to another insurance company. Tha
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Of course. People are valuing privacy now, and it's almost inevitable that humans will seek to have more agency over a social contact, even if it's an artificial one.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
The UK is arguably worse than the US in this regard. The US has mainly stayed with a system that sticks to one measurement across use cases. If I burn fuel at a rate of x miles per y gallons, I purchase it at the pump in gallons . If Tommy
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I knew she had been sick recently but always assumed she'd bounce back. We're worse off.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
My brother in Christ, they don't finish their degrees. If you have some VC throwing hackathons in NorCal where they find people in their early/mid-20s, tell them they're the most brilliant people in the history of the human r
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Local AI is the future, and a lot of people want the first mover advantage or to toy around with it. I know a guy with a small rack of Nvidia Spark machines that he uses for that purpose; it's as much as a decent used car.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> When you mark the scoresheet according to actual number of invasions, our capitalist liberal democracy has performed much worse than their mixed-economy authoritarian technocracy. And how many of those invasions have been of other coun
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
It's only confusing if you take a buffoon's attitude at face value, which is rather hard to do in a country where half of the people actively work to thwart what he does. Which brings me back to my point about totalitarianism.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
You're going to find China's history as wanting as the US's in that regard. Plenty of Chinese arms found their way to theaters of war in all corners of the globe during the latter half of the 20th century, and continue to do

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