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by rangestransform 3mo ago
It’s still far too scalable compared to what was accessible back then. The police should be handcuffed to paying for a full ass helicopter if they want to do surveillance
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
There should be no optimization on police resources. When Katz v. USA (no expectation of privacy in public) was decided, surveillance was done by an officer who needed to be paid a middle class salary, maybe armed with a camera and a teleph
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would do well to keep the wo
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Yellow dots doxxing me whenever I print something is equally despicable, client side scanning on my iPhone is equally despicable. Some crimes are not worth it to eliminate, and western liberal society should just accept that the optimal amo
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
I would rather just accept more crime than accept draconian regulation telling me what I can do with a piece of hardware I own Go solve gun crime with boots on the ground instead
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Maybe this would’ve made economic sense 20 or 40 years ago, but nuclear is too expensive now compared with renewables. I can’t help but think this is a covert plan to bcecome an “almost nuclear” state in response to threats from the US.
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Not only are the wages higher, the unions insist on hiring 3x the number of necessary staff ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... )
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Having a single buyer gives the government the ability to force standardization across cities, and squeeze contractors. Knowing the US though, it’ll become a jobs program for bumfuck towns like Plattsburgh NY
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
Everyone should have security robust against nation-state actors by default in the most popular consumer products, so that people who need it can hide in the masses. I hope LLM-assisted “offensive security research” makes insecure software
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by rangestransform 4mo ago
We should not fulfill our imagined moral responsibility to the third world if it has real cost to the people already here
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by rangestransform 4mo ago
I have a (admittedly unevidenced) hypothesis that the US took off from other economies after ‘08 because real estate became a spectacularly shit investment overnight and investors had to invest in productive things for returns. Investors in
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by rangestransform 4mo ago
Forcing developers off of Rosetta 2 is a pro-consumer move because it gives the ultimate incentive for developers to modernize. I don’t want to use Lightroom (replace with whatever app is part of your workflow) through x86 emulation, I want
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by rangestransform 4mo ago
Those countries could keep their own talent through economic policy (i.e. fuck you pay me) That they don’t is entirely their own fault and they deserve to be brain drained. “Talent” are people with agency and not possessions subservient to
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
A123 also owned the IP to lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, which is now BYD’s claim to fame
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
I got an HP50g from Craigslist in high school that - was cheaper than a TI - had a primitive CAS system - teachers had no idea how to put it into test mode It carried me through AP calc BC, I would’ve gotten <4 off of my own knowledge al
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
There were hardware supply issues around launch time that made consoles a much better deal than the equivalent PC
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
Funnily enough, I learned to code “depth first” by putting together enough documentation examples and stackoverflow answers to reach a working Android app, long before I learned to code “breadth first” in school.
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
And I will keep voting to benefit myself, my family, and my country in that order. It’s their own fault that they do not have visionary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew or a dynasty like the CCP that’s willing to sacrifice entire generations for f
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
That’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines
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by rangestransform 5mo ago
It’s an improvement over spending 1b/mi building public transit in HCOL car dependent areas
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
The fact that they need to use gas turbines at all is a tragic condemnation of how the US can’t build shit at all. We should be consuming more (green) energy to make our lives better, and rushing toward diminishing returns on energy consump
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
It’s entirely a self own that the US has to resort to consumer subsidies and fleecing AI companies instead of just building more (green) grid capacity. We are well past the point where green energy is cheaper than fossil energy, yet we are
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
IMO Pokémon go was the trendy app that actually bucked the trend of social media isolation, I talked to so many randoms that summer
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
IIRC this is to do with the phase in of RoHS and bad lead free solder
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
In the talk that the security guy gave, he said it just had to cost more than 10 games for a user to enable piracy
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by rangestransform 6mo ago
Mobileye builds their maps like this
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
Not all the processing needs to be done online, it can be done completely async offline on game logs

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