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by pyuser583 6mo ago
No other use for the registry. Informally, it's put forward as one of the most successful government programs in history: it succeeds at all it's objective, comes in at or under budget, employs few people, and avoids the scope cre
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
Does quantum have any money making prospects? Breaking encryption is illegal. Making encryption is difficult to profit from. Other than that, what’s the value add?
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
Frankly this is true about Earth too. Not enough effort is spent wisely managing human waste, and many people die as a result.
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
No that doesn’t work - tried it. Google is basically its own private internet. It caches content so you can access all sorts of terrible stuff just from Google.com (and its related domains). But if you cut Google you cut Google Classroom -
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
Privacy (from state surveillance) and freedoms of speech are very different issues. But they are both issues where Americans have greater protections than Europeans.
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
I’m so sorry, I confused the Clipper Chip with the V-Chip. The 1990s were interesting times.
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
That’s just not how the system works. Each school brews its own system more or less.
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
I was reading an essay by Kant called “what is Enlightenment?” It argues that people should be permitted to say whatever they wanted, provided they obey the laws. He bases it on the idea that we should not be subject to be “lifelong tuteled
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
Freedom of speech is not a European value.
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
How is the Clipper chip different from what online platforms claim have: a curated kids only section?
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by pyuser583 6mo ago
It’s very hard to control kids internet access. Impossible really. Even if you do it fine at home, once they go to school it’s whatever policies the school has. Most require laptops and provide internet access.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
There was a time when WINE was iffy. At best. It’s gotten good and reliable. Commendations to contributors!
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Finland comes to mind.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
They are fake in the sense individual items are listed as having costs that are not accurate. But really the defense deals are very complicated, and not based around buying x number of items. You’re making a not well-formed query. How much
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
It’s terrible at that. Rich people are very good at passing down wealth, even in high tax environments. They just move abroad for a bit. They also pay for education and use networks and names to get their kids jobs and status.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
In America everything is a shady shell company so it doesn’t matter ;P
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Why aren’t European countries competing on better corporate law?
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Press made it pretty clear one of the EU’s goals was to ensure nobody did this again. That fits the word “punishment.”
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
It sounds like a system with little democratic buy-in.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
True but you do have to register with the state of Ohio, and jump through some hoops. It’s possible to be registered in a state you’ve never been to - how many people have actually been to Delaware or Wyoming - and employ nobody at. Some co
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Yes, but you can incorporate in any state you want (provided the state allows that). That means there’s no barrier to movement. It’d also possible to reincorporate relatively easily.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
There is still one country that uses leaded gasoline for personal cars. For automobiles, the future comes very slowly.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Here’s another take: passing LLM output as human makes it harder to train future LLM on the text. It makes the human generated text much less valuable.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
The Soviet Atomic Project was helped by starting early and capturing massive amounts of fissile material at the end of WWII. British scientists helped some. But the spies at Los Alamos were giving updates on US progress, not delivering secr
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Even now his Oxford bio lists him as alive, by his Royal Society bio lists him as deceased.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
This would not help with gerrymandering. Extremely small districts are much more likely to be homogeneous, ideologically and otherwise. It might make it harder to get disproportionate percentages, but the politicians themselves are extremel
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Oh wow - I did not suspect there were BBS’s still running!
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
Wikipedia is reporting him as deceased, but there’s a bit of an editing war going on. No source is cited for his death, and and it’s going back and forth.
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
What really makes me mad is one of the plaintiffs was accessing the service - but only to make sure she wasn’t using the service (any other way). They then said: “you are accessing the service, so you consent to the TOS!” That should not co
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by pyuser583 7mo ago
The distinction between author and their estates is fascinating: the stereotype is estates mismanaging the art, but that usually happens because the estates want to be “artistic” themselves. Most artists are terrible at business. They do du

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