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by mmooss 1mo ago
The GP said "stated agenda", which is true and important. Reagan openly talked about 'Morning in America', freedom around the world ('Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall.'), etc. You're right that Reagan di
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by mmooss 1mo ago
The opening paragraph of the (preprint) paper is much more inspired than the abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266 "We're getting the language into its final shape- the shape it's going to have whe
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> At the 18th anniversary reunion of Shanda Innovation Institute, he publicly declared "eight non-consensus views for the AI era," ... The "eight non-consensus views" matches a pattern in public communication in China
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Some on HN defend everything GOS does (maybe not you, but there are some). Those people are hurting GOS. Good security engineering isn't sufficient: GOS could accomplish the security engineering by making an OS for themselves on a priv
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> How much can this mayor — or any mayor — do to actually drive down inequality and reverse decades of worsening affordability? The NYC government can't change the national economy. But it can make contributions to the general welfa
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by mmooss 1mo ago
My strong instinct is that GrapheneOS's plan could be problematic: Generally, do not to invest in features that the upstream vendor isn't fully committed to. It might work today, but tomorrow or next year, etc., it might not. They
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> prices have changed considerably I'm not doubting it, but I wonder what costs have changed for them?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
I'm sure you can think of alternatives.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> it's not the amount of money that matters I think that matters quite a bit. Otherwise, if you've got a spare $1,000, build us a browser. Maybe vibe code it?
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> Pages forever load, when the issue does not happen in Chrome. A bit tangential, but that's not a meaningful analysis (depending on how you tested): FF CHR Site 1 n Y Site 2 Y n Imagine a Fire
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> An energy loss of 42 to 67.5 percent of naturally means that it takes 42 to 67.5 percent more effort or time to power a device (say, a blender) via electricity compared to powering the same device mechanically. Nope. If input is 100W,
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by mmooss 1mo ago
Hmmm ... lots of NY Post stuff. > Bay Area high school grad rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google -- Zhong had a 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT's How does that relate to Berkeley? > Ba
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by mmooss 1mo ago
It doesn't matter what I believe or you believe or "most people" believe. Toleration is regardless of your own beliefs; that's the point.
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If you redefine intolerant, I guess that makes sense.
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> It's easy for a company to build privacy-related features, if those features help sell products. As I said in the GP, Apple's engineering investment in privacy is far beyond what customers understand and what helps sales. Lot
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Required amorality is a widely told story (by the amoral), but it's disinformation.
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by mmooss 1mo ago
> You have the power, and should exercise it, to rate limit bad actors It's well known, and it was the point of the OP, that we don't have that power. If you know a solution, please share it - the world would love to hear it.
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by mmooss 2mo ago
Indeed. The solution isn't technical but legal. It's clearly abusive of - really stealing - other people's resources; there's no question about it. For some reason, like with fraud via email, text, and phone, we don&#x27
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> there is no general obligation for companies to behave morally, but there is a general obligation to behave profitably What is that based on? I'd say there are certainly obligations for both. The fact that some ignore those obliga
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> Not sure what this means That's quite a statement. > I think you meant to write "fiduciary duty" No, our responsibilities go far beyond fiduciary duties. You can see what Google did in this case, for example, or Apple
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by mmooss 2mo ago
The OP contradicts your theory: "In Fort’s case, Google did not comply with the summons for any of the accounts. The company responded to the DHS by saying it had not offered evidence of how it was related to a customs investigation.&q
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by mmooss 2mo ago
Debian - and others - could take the opportunity to raise their standards (not that they were relatively low). A new technology, AI, greatly reduces costs in software development. When a new technology makes inputs cheaper, there's a c
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That's a descriptive approach; I'm talking about why .
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If that's true, the opposition should make them pay a political price for it. That's how a competitive political system should work. Yet almost always I hear nothing or almost nothing from the Democrats, not about Taylor Farms eit
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People need to come up with their own ideas or there's nothing anyone can do for them. They need to get in a different mode than powerlessness, victimhood ('I'm powerless so I am justified in being irresponsible'), and w
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Possibly the most famous poem ever begins, If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting
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> it is unreasonable to expect everyone else to do the same. There is nothing unreasonable about it. It's not hard and people change things all the time; they change names, phone numbers, job titles, etc., and other peope remember.
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At least some traditional link shorterners let you choose the string.
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The contempt seems like a pattern - toward homeless people, toward me, toward facts and anything and everyone else that don't fit what you want. It's not persuasive or interesting, and contempt seems pretty strongly correlated wit
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What are the pain points?

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