salawat

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by salawat 6mo ago
Justice is a moving target mate. Should people who had a few pounds of reefer still be serving 30 year sentences? 90's adults would probably say yes. Today? Not so much. Part of being human is being open to the fact you were wrong. The
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by salawat 6mo ago
The Pardon is a structural check on the legislative and judiciary. It cannot be done away with safely without causing massive problems down the road. If anything, this should be a learning experience for the country not to put criminally in
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by salawat 6mo ago
...Were those judiciary findings or legislative? I don't actually think that the President can Pardon someone incarcerated by the Legislature. Maybe the solution to all this mess is for Congress to finally flex the Sergeant-at-Arms pos
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by salawat 6mo ago
There's a Board involved with deciding these things who has made the active decision that keeping those particular people in that place is worth it. Maybe the next "hot skill" is "corporate governance auditing" to s
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by salawat 6mo ago
No. I assure you. The cost of retaining labor + AI access to augment them further is far less desirable than downsize, then augment cheaper laborers to bring the quality approximately up to the old headcount. This is exec math, and execs ge
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by salawat 6mo ago
Anything built to democratize, will inevitably be centralized, scaled until it's scaler's lack of care to chase maximum profit becomes a massive problem, and regulated until it is de-democratized. Example: Finance, file-sharing, r
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by salawat 6mo ago
Not all models are supportable via OpenWrt, and besides that, I'm a bit confused on what they are trying to actually fix. I sadly seem to have before recently been unfortunate enough to have selected router models from TP-Link implemen
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by salawat 6mo ago
>RERUM NOVARUM ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR Oh hohm. Such a great mouthpiece Pope Leo XIII was for extolling and providing cover for the excesses of the worst breed of capitalist. Whilst my experience with such religi
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by salawat 6mo ago
Also doesn't justify doing the same damn thing again, which is exactly what all the people long on this technology fully expect to be allowed to do. Any further investment they have to do to ensure the outcome will just be chocked up t
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by salawat 6mo ago
It is hard to convince a man of that which his income is dependent on him not understanding. -Upton Sinclair You aren't wrong. There's definitely going to be a need to drag people kicking and screaming to enlightenment unfortunate
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by salawat 6mo ago
But nooooooo. All of us screaming bloody murder about UEFI Secure Boot impl's and code signing, and how they were the fundamental primitives to locking users out of general computation were the "paranoid" ones. The entire Tru
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by salawat 6mo ago
You mean like everything else? There is no simplicity. Just a local minima in the waterbed.
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by salawat 7mo ago
We abandoned any semblance of truth focus the moment we caved to to the copyright lobby in order to completely destroy any semblance of an accurate/representative search index of the web. So as far as the corporate state is concerned,
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by salawat 7mo ago
>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by greed. Not considering greed a blatant demonstration of malice has to be the single dumbest thing our society has normalized.
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by salawat 7mo ago
This. The damage to the agricultural supply chain is already done. Fuel & fertilizer isn't staged where it needs to be for planting, which means the entire capacity to generate harvest is now offset & going to be prohibitively
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by salawat 7mo ago
Mmmhmmm. These are the people we're enabling. Makes ya think, don't it?
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by salawat 7mo ago
>I might pivot to QA or doing something security related. I would not advise. If you're feeling what you are feeling now, the entire job in QA within the software field is to be essentially "controlled opposition". Unless
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by salawat 7mo ago
Most of us did. Then instead of people getting indoc'd by doing, we handed them AI that never asks questions or says no, leading to the script-kiddie effect at massive scale. Everytime we make more complex computing tractable for a wid
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by salawat 7mo ago
Well said. Disregard the Philistines. Clearly not worth the effort to reach anyway. Greatly appreciated the insight. Even the Ameribrain comment was actually warranted. Since the 70's, there's been a concerted effort by employers
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by salawat 7mo ago
Nope. All that does is create a rash of execs/decisionmakers who become sacrificial fixtures who absolutely do not travel to the jurisdiction in question, thusly handily sidestepping the accountability. It has to be fines. At the end o
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by salawat 7mo ago
Will say every benefactor of people not thinking that way. The rest of us, on the other hand, look at the objective results and realize if you want them to change, you have to change the system.
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by salawat 7mo ago
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by salawat 7mo ago
Kill the royal couples, no problem. There is an argument to be made that those that start wars should be sentenced to death for doing so. Particularly frivolous ones of aggression.
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by salawat 7mo ago
I mean... Yes. Not in the in the dark sense, but in the "working as designed, and you weren't around to be asked input from" sense. Jefferson was really big on sunset dates on these sorts of things specifically so each gene
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by salawat 7mo ago
You did register, you just didn't realize you did. Time honored tradition in the U.S.
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by salawat 7mo ago
All fun and games til you realize you lose more servicemen & women to mishaps than you do to enemy combatants. Which is a factual reality the military has to deal with. Safety isn't a joke, and no, your safety officer isn't go
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by salawat 7mo ago
I have terrible news for you. Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. We will torment you with word game playing until such time as you loosen up.
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by salawat 7mo ago
If they wouldn't have shut down the Office of Technology Assessment, legislators may actually have research collated that's more free of bias than whatever it is that the lobbyists vomit all over them, but we can't have nice
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by salawat 7mo ago
They weren't working on the key to break the dependence of the wealthy on the working class.
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by salawat 7mo ago
>You aren't managing the psychological state of a living thinking being. LLMs don't have "psychology." Functionalism, and Identity of Indiscernables says "Hi". Doesn't matter the implementation details,

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