salawat

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541.
by salawat 11mo ago
Reporting to tax authorities by banks/financial institutions was bumped down to any receiving of an amount in excess of $600 during the Biden admin.
542.
by salawat 11mo ago
You could stop renting someone else's computer and run your own clusters til you have all the surprises figured out you know. This is the danger of metered compute. Your ignorance is their profit opportunity.
543.
by salawat 11mo ago
Solidarity with the users of the systems you make. Collective bargaining is useful for more than salary and perk setting. It also gives you a front to push back against unethical project requests by management. Without a Union, you just get
544.
by salawat 11mo ago
None of the above. Intended effect is to manufacture a more compliant populace through a new Great Depression.
545.
by salawat 11mo ago
Cryptographic signature may as well be a foreign key. It's a super database. Just admit it. You aren't fooling anyone with extra layers of indirection. If it can be interrogated in the manner of a super database, has business requ
546.
by salawat 11mo ago
AI does not erase uncertainty. It's non-deterministic/probabilistic, it's internal state can't be meaningfully scrutinized, and the ability to falsify or convincingly mislead has never been easier. AI promulgates uncerta
547.
by salawat 11mo ago
Petrochemical, Dow & Industrial Big Chem, Pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, finance companies, Monsanto, mining companies. I mean, let's be real. That's really isn't a big company that achieves scale t
548.
by salawat 11mo ago
It was time to worry long before now.
549.
by salawat 11mo ago
Cryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.
550.
by salawat 11mo ago
No one ineligible for the Presidency can run for the Vice Presidency. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-12/
551.
by salawat 11mo ago
Correct, but FOPA prohibits those records from entering the custody of BATFE/DoJ, and even if handed off, no funding can be provided to digitize them.
552.
by salawat 11mo ago
No, no, no. >just like I don't really care about a firearms db existing) You might not care, but even before computers were a big thing, and people thought "Computer" and IBM mainframes were synonymous, it was put forth in
553.
by salawat 11mo ago
It is a matter of law that no digital database of firearms data can be made. The friction is a feature. I'd propose something surrounding license plates, phone info, SIM's and VIN's may be needed. Of course, LE and tax author
554.
by salawat 11mo ago
This was an inevitable outcome once the political class realized there may be a technical primitive to even desire this sort of thing. This is why shit like device based attestation should never have been pursued. It should have been treate
555.
by salawat 11mo ago
Out of court settlement is the opposite of that due to lack of precedent setting. Everytime you hear about a settlement, you should be thinking "rich bastards paying their way out of future accountability".
556.
by salawat 11mo ago
>If this is in Texas, absolutely. Doing 75 in an 80 is suspicious AF. Oh, please. Half the damn signage in Texas hasn't been updated from 75, and if you weren't a Texas resident to read when the State updated the daytime speed
557.
by salawat 11mo ago
Been there, done that, hombre. Did the math, and at the last place I was at, our test data, if transcribed line by line into composition notebooks (our seed files were basically JSON), we'd be tossing 137 or so notebooks worth through
558.
by salawat 11mo ago
Note: Insurers like United Healthcare have been caught creating incentive programs whereby elder care facilities are essentially rewarded for minimizing referrals of seniors to medical care. If you don't think that there are perverse f
559.
by salawat 11mo ago
Yes and no. You can't escape at least one "pet" environment, and unless your profit margins are so disgusting that you can rent out dedicated environments for every team, "cattle" tends to be aspirational. If realiz
560.
by salawat 11mo ago
Wouldn't be a problem if everyone wasn't probing every bit of the User's system for their own ends, but given the incentives we've put in place, that ship has sailed.
561.
by salawat 1y ago
Can I raise that to no LLMs or SEO?
562.
by salawat 1y ago
You weren't the target audience. The target audience was manager types tired of being told no by engineers. Always listen to the quiet parts left unspoken/unacknoeledged.
563.
by salawat 1y ago
places soapbox
564.
by salawat 1y ago
>the high ticket prices incentivise the creation of new venues and the entrant of new artists into the market. Always amuses me that the wannabe market experts ascribe theory of mind to markets. Personal risk tolerance and ability to exe
565.
by salawat 1y ago
How convenient for the investor class to have such a scapegoat to always fall back on. It's the consumer's fault! Not ours! Truly! Nevermind that the bounds of what consumers have to buy/consume are entirely drawn and selecte
566.
by salawat 1y ago
Even if you aren't malignant, or evil, then stupid is the only option left, because you've observed the structure of the problem space, understood the new problems and vulnerabilities and points of abuse introduced, accepted their
567.
by salawat 1y ago
I strongly disagree that financial institutions being a de facto extension of law enforcement is "non-controversial". It may be the way things are ; it may be a pre-req of making financial crime tractable; but that does not detra
568.
by salawat 1y ago
I mean, DNS has always kinda been a layer of communication control in the sense that every website is a statement, and if you cut off the ability for a group of people to congregate around a nominative handle, you've basically societal
569.
by salawat 1y ago
>Not allowing regular folks to run unsigned apps is something I also agree with -though I would love if Apple allowed us to trust third-party root certs so that apps would be both signed and free of Apple's control. Rolling up the l
570.
by salawat 1y ago
Difference is in scale, not in kind. BBS's, Chan honeypots, chat control, dark network infiltration, MSM/FAANG & governmental manipulation are all just different ways of trying to coerce and orient different maturities and sca

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