thephyber

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by thephyber 5mo ago
If you are worried about this incident, just wait until you hear about crude-by-rail! Crude is transported through LOTS of residential neighborhoods and zoning doesn’t matter. Additionally, railroads are governed by federal law so states &#
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by thephyber 5mo ago
To zoom out, there’s a HUGE percentage of the US who uses “common sense” as a catch-all excuse to end all discussion. In the debates I watch, they typically don’t have the mental capacity to steel man the opposition’s position so they can’t
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by thephyber 5mo ago
For those who don’t know, for a ~$400 terminal, UA can C&C a medium-long range drone/ plane or cruise missile which has low latency, massive global coverage, and which is resilient against EM jamming (apparently the terminal handof
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Arguably Ukraine is still alive because of StarLink. Granted, Russia is trying hard to make every mistake in the book, but StarLink’s benefits for UA and cutting off RU units from StarLink was very advantageous this year.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
It’s so big that it’s going to swing the markets when insiders start to liquidate after it is listed and on some indexes.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
We can thank Nasdaq for lowering the standards to fast track SpaceX into an index with only having 5% float. Soon after it lists on the major indexes, we are gonna have some turbulence.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Equally bad take in your response. Iran never attempted to develop a nuclear weapon. Literally 30 years of Netanyahu threatening it is just “weeks away” and Trump was the only US president to get suckered into that argument. They have alway
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by thephyber 5mo ago
When Musk signed on to help OpenAI initially, he claimed it was to set up guardrails so AI would be aligned with the best interests of humans. After OpenAI went for-profit and China became a significant AI powerhouse, he no longer cares abo
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by thephyber 5mo ago
> The Strait of Hormuz is, basically not a big deal unless you're driving your big ole' truck. Worst take I’ve ever seen on this website. > Americans are price sensitive and so some companies will have to absorb pricing incr
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by thephyber 5mo ago
You are pretending like the oil crisis of 26 has already run its course. In the 70 crisis, we have the hindsight of several years of how it played out. We don’t even have 1 week of data after the last ship leaving the Strait docked in the U
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Facebook “allowed” Cambridge-Analytica to Hoover up a massive amount of psychometric data on US voters before the 2016 election (ins care quotes because they “allowed” it in the sense they prevented it by policy but did nothing significant
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Signal responds to warrants with all the the data they keep. ProtonMail / ProtonVPN responds to the vast majority of warrants with the data they keep. Apple iCloud always responded to iCloud warrants with whatever data they had (eg. If
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Your links say that Apple complies with the laws of major countries. Which companies don’t do that?
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by thephyber 5mo ago
I’m less impressed with Zuck every time I hear something new about him. Apple has made incredible progress in the last 20 years, but almost none of that has been a brand new product. It has all been evolving the existing products and on bui
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Marketing and finance are also very large components of cost and value, respectively. It was a short pithy sentence, but it does have a kernel of truth to it.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
(1) Capability is not the same as action. Every police officer in my city COULD murder me with their department issued gun at pretty much any time, but they haven’t. There are multiple reasons why, not the least of which is that _actions ha
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by thephyber 5mo ago
The example in the article is more likely. Changing the name of a DB table from the default helps because any low quality probe script will break as soon as this assumption of default errors. It means that low effort, low tech, low talent a
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by thephyber 5mo ago
That’s what they said about Enron. Skepticism is an incredibly useful tool, even in excess.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
> Security ONLY through obscurity is bad (Kerckhoffs's Principle). This is the crux of the article. (1) Kerckhoffs's Principle doesn’t say that. It says to design the system AS IF the adversary has all of the info about it exce
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Never underestimate the capabilities of a desperate human.
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by thephyber 5mo ago
US megatechs stole copyrighted data to train their. Hyper expensive models. Chinese megatechs stole copyrighted data AND trained their models on derivative / synthetic data that came from the US foundation models. I’m happy Chinese fou
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Do not track WHEN? This flag is sent by my browser when I connect to SOMEONE ELSE’s SERVER. The internet only took off because the primary business model which ran on ads and derivative information that servers do to their users. It’s not f
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Who is investing in NFTs today? Who is building their company using permission-less blockchain as the database? The average person still uses a bank checking account, not replacing it with a crypto account. I haven’t heard of any progress o
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Scary = “if I have no future prospects for work” It’s the combination of AI changing the workplace, the large techs shedding double digit headcount, recruiting / hiring departments being so broken by the AI arms race hitting job applic
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Not all AI companies are the same. Some are piling on masses of debt to built capacity (eg. Oracle). Others are just reinvesting the profits from the rest of their company (eg. Google, Meta). Anthropic’s moat is their best tool, Claude Code
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by thephyber 5mo ago
There will always be jobs for private security, firefighters, and utility repairmen to protect / restore the data centers when people inevitably attack them. There will be a period of rapid change. If we are lucky, the political class
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Gasoline is absolutely rationed when it becomes scarce after having been plentiful. When hurricanes come to South Florida, the well off migrate North to wait out the storm while the poor suffer the dangerous conditions. Part of this is due
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by thephyber 5mo ago
Better revenue model? Pushing some data to the server, serving ads to the app, reselling demographic data, etc all allow for more revenue than just the price of installation. There are almost certainly other apps in the space that don’t nee
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by thephyber 6mo ago
> the A10 is *unkillable
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by thephyber 6mo ago
It goes a little further than “money for basic necessities”. It’s about being able to provide the necessities AND having income security. I remember reading about a study that said poor people who have to scramble to deal with all of the ex

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