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by qcnguy 1y ago
The Democrats might "want to govern" but they lost the election, so what they want shouldn't matter.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
What did they do in their power to break the government? They voted to reauthorize spending during Biden's presidency many times, did they not?
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Yes they seem to be discussing it now. It's odd that this mechanism lasted so long.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I don't think there's even a moral aspect to robot uprisings in most stories. Relatively few sci-fi stories go into detail on why the robots rise up. It's just a way to introduce interestingly different antagonists and confli
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by qcnguy 1y ago
They have a majority and campaigned on doing those things. They have a right to do it. The Democrats don't have a majority and it's bizarre/dysfunctional that they can force the entire government to shut down to try and get t
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Whittaker's comments weren't "made in the moment", they were posted in a big thread on Mastodon where she had all the time in the world to write them. But I guess you see that her comments are embarrassing to Signal, oth
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Governments can order the company to push out a new client that turns off decryption for that user, or give them metadata logs (which encryption doesn't help for). Both legal and cryptographic strategies have to be used together.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
We do know better than Signal's CEO because Whittaker's statements are false. She said: > The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Because the leftists flagging and downvoting everything they disagree with in this thread are clearly exemplars of excellent user moderation? Knock it off.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You can tell that Whittaker isn't an engineer. WhatsApp grew to much larger scale than Signal: self hosted, not on cloud. Running Erlang and FreeBSD. Telegram grew to much larger scale than Signal: self hosted, not on cloud (dc IPs her
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by qcnguy 1y ago
But "alienation" is a concept Marx made up and that only he used. Nobody talks about that today and you don't find talk of "alienation" even in very Marxist institutions like unions because it doesn't mean anyt
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It's also worth pointing out that despite this thread being full of ridiculously low quality posts, I haven't flagged any of them. That's the sort of thing DEI leftists do, not everyone.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Wrong fallacy. A strawman argument is where you claim someone else said something that they didn't, you put words in their mouth. hn_shill didn't do that. machomaster says it's reducto ad absurdum. It's not that either.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Sure. Is it doing anything to push people away? Yes, it pushes away people who disagree with far left ideological ideas, like when it purged Tim Peters who worked on Python for 20 years. Stop leftists waging ideological war against long ter
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by qcnguy 1y ago
> I really don’t care if it’s grant fraud or not. Right, academics think they're above the law and that it's OK to lie to conservatives to advance their agendas. So why should anyone believe you, when you say it's all ab
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by qcnguy 1y ago
And maybe they'll get that back eventually, but academia can't complain about rough handling when it steadfastly refused as a bloc to fix its own ways for so long. Outsiders trying to fix them will always create a lot more collate
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I didn't engage with the explanation because nobody has provided one. This whole thread is just people asserting that it's OK to change a few words and continue doing what they were previously doing, because Trump. There's no
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by qcnguy 1y ago
That's definitely not the requirement! The requirement is to avoid doing certain kinds of "research" that the government disagrees is valid research to fund, characterized by the principles underlying it. They may have starte
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The country got a lot richer after Thatcher. Some jobs went away permanently, because they were not trying to be globally competitive, but that wasn't Thatcher's fault. She just stopped them being fake jobs.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Human rights groups have no credibility. They can reliably be found attacking men and all things masculine, like the hard decisions that Milei is taking to create prosperity. If it were up to them Argentina would be in a Peronist dictatorsh
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It is the same path as Britain under Thatcher. Decades of socialist ruin followed by a financial bailout and a libertarian taking over to fix things up. At first there is pain. Inflation goes up, unemployment skyrockets. The economy is bent
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by qcnguy 1y ago
OpenAI have talked about it. The neural architecture needs to let the model handle the case where there's nothing worth attending to, as softmax requires attention to be allocated to all tokens but sometimes there's nothing worth
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It's crashing because investors think the left will get back in. So yes!
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It's crashing because outside investors think Argentinians might be out to boot the libertarian out, not because libertarian policies don't work. The problem in Argentina is cultural and Milei is notable exactly because he's
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Crossing oceans and building planes wasn't done for the sake of it, those goals were clearly useful. The biggest problem of the moon mission isn't SLS, it's that the moon is a big dry ball of rock with nothing of any value or
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Really? I've seen the opposite. They get way too many props for it given that the main reason China was so poor to begin with was their own cultural history. You shouldn't get credit for solving a problem you created for yourselve
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Don't think so. People might say that but they haven't really grappled with what it means. China is neither particularly popular nor unpopular, and most people just don't have strong opinions about it because it's hardly
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The South Sea Bubble would like a word.
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SQL isn't very intuitive. Lots of people claim it is but then lots of people claim Haskell is, market outcomes suggest they are outliers. The big justification for its design is to enable compiler optimizations (query planning) but com
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I don't think the OP was agreeing with this stance, only describing it. It seems they probably disagree with it as this is clearly sarcasm given what was just described: "anyone arguing for an identity based on something so superf

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