salawat

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by salawat 9mo ago
That's exactly the opposite of anonymous. You cannot have anonymity & age verification that actually guarantees anything. It's a contradiction. Either the chain exists, or it doesn't.
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by salawat 9mo ago
Reputation working as designed?
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by salawat 9mo ago
>That is what it means to have control over your own computing. Ah, see, there's the problem. The corpo apologists in the room don't want you to have that. The hardware you bought; err, licensed; to them, is their playgroun
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by salawat 9mo ago
This is exactly the end state we'll end up in unless the technology sector starts saying no to implementing the tools of petty tyranny. Hint: Bossware and most things the MBA's drool over. Unfortunately, there's enough people
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by salawat 9mo ago
Did I give the impression that the phenomena was unique to software? Hell, Boeing was a shining example of the principle in action with 737 MAX. Don't get much more "people live and die by us, and we know it (but management set up
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by salawat 9mo ago
Except for the fact that that very accountability sink is relied on by senior management/CxO's the world over. The only difference is that before AI, it was the middle manager's fault. We didn't tell anyone to break the
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by salawat 9mo ago
Above average in tolerance for immoral business models, certainly.
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by salawat 9mo ago
Integrated Circuits.
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by salawat 9mo ago
It does. The judiciary has given the Executive a command that it is now part of Trump's "official duties" to ensure gets carried out. Failure to comply with that order may ultimately turn into a subordinate dismissal; but it
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by salawat 9mo ago
>Hiding doesn't fix the problem. If your problem is that you have no means to control what other people find important enough to talk about on a public forum, in their spare time, or that the means at your disposal to do so are insu
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by salawat 9mo ago
A Federal intervention is generally not called for unless a State pointedly does not get with some Federal mandate or another. See desegregation in the South for another notable historic example. Of the Little Rock 9 in Arkansas: >When i
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by salawat 9mo ago
Ya gotta start somewhere, and just about every IC starts at some point with C.
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by salawat 9mo ago
Do not attribute to fascists/tin pot governments any concern over law/rulemaking with judicious consideration for minimizing blast radius or logistical/legal concerns for the populace. At this point, they are hardcore speed r
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by salawat 9mo ago
Not quite. Religion, when taught properly, can serve as an innoculant against corrupt states, as it ingrains a kernel of understanding that man, and all his works are flawed, falling short of the perfection only attainable by the divine. Th
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by salawat 9mo ago
I'd argue we're too rational and not irrational enough. If we were sufficiently irrational, the first time Musk-rat lied, everyone woulda bailed. It takes a thoroughly motivated rationality to cling to the hopes of promises that
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by salawat 9mo ago
>The sad thing is that there is a nuanced discussion to be had here. If you say there's nuance, then out with it. Stop self censoring and speak your mind. What nuance do you see?
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by salawat 9mo ago
>IANAA: what legal powers does the city/state have to expel ICE agents? Especially as they are operating in, at best, increasingly shady legality. If ICE weren't acting like brown shirts, not much. It'd be Federal tasking
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by salawat 9mo ago
Try these words: Broken arrow. Question is, now that the most dangerous apparatus in the world has been coopted, what are people feeling like doing about it?
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by salawat 9mo ago
Show dead is also your friend.
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by salawat 9mo ago
Evil transcends all borders, mate, and it all looks/sounds the same ultimately.
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by salawat 9mo ago
>This is absurd, because it's basically a generic argument about any sort of feature that vaguely reduces privacy. Sorry guys, we can't have automated backups in windows (even opt in!), because if the feature exists, a random b
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by salawat 9mo ago
It's why tech loves young engineers who just do what their told, of old engineers only as long as they can't say no. Once you dig into the system and see how all the pieces fit together, you can't ethically or morally continu
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by salawat 9mo ago
Indeed. Third Party Doctrine has undermined 4th/5th Amendment protections due to the hair brained power grab that was "if you share info with a third party as art of the only way of doing business, you waive 4th Amendment protecti
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by salawat 9mo ago
What part of "We can't have nice things" do you not understand?
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by salawat 9mo ago
I mean, as a citizen of the U.S., I'm about as confused as you are. Though, if I had to guess, a couple of things really came to a head to make this second term possible: The establishment Democrats really screwed up on presenting a ga
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by salawat 9mo ago
It's been clear for the last decade that we have to wean ourselves off of centralized search indexes if only to innoculate the Net against censorship/politically motivated black holing. I can only weep at this point, as the heroes
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by salawat 9mo ago
>I worry that the fears teachers had of students using AI to submit homework has bled over into all aspects of work. As one does in academia, so to the market, because now we have financial incentive. It ain't going to stop.
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by salawat 9mo ago
My question is, why? This has been obvious to me over the past decade, and I just got into the financial world on the ground floor 2015-ish. Every damn trade agreement has in one way or another been projecting U.S. soft power through financ
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by salawat 9mo ago
Finance is run on two emotions. Greed/avarice and fear. Three if you count confidence/trust. Finance is as rational under the hood as the Vatican's books.
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by salawat 9mo ago
Politician's fallacy. We must do something. This is something. We must do it. Tis a fallacy, but nevertheless, here we are.

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