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by toss1 11d ago
Reality and certainty of consequences, not evasion and insuring of liability I specified it in the last sentence: >>If they can not handle properly the risks of their business, they should be in another business. The same way it is ha
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by toss1 11d ago
Where are you located? In the Northeast US, we're finding getting a contractor who is both good and has availability is quite an ordeal, involving significant delays.
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by toss1 11d ago
And when the hacked information is used to cause a national-level disaster, the costs of which are greater than the assets of the insurer, and their re-insurance funds, bankrupting them, what then? Insurance is not a solution for everything
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by toss1 12d ago
Indeed, although now we are assured by the thing occupying the President's chair that we need nothing but "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" (as if we had one) to handle the problem, so I should believe that, right?... A
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by toss1 12d ago
No wonder this account is such a font of idiocy and backwards takes — it considers "Joe Rogan" to be a serious mainstream source of information. If "mainstream" counts as having lots of viewers, fine. But no one who is s
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by toss1 12d ago
But again, the reality is: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped
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by toss1 12d ago
You still insist on overlooking the fundamental truths: 1) If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. 2) If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased
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by toss1 13d ago
Wow, clueless. You entirely miss the point of the war. Putin sees the mere existence of a successful Ukraine's as an existential threat. Putin initially got elected on promises that included becoming an advanced Western-style economy.
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by toss1 13d ago
Your "realism" is [unprintable here]. Worse, it is not reality at all, but believing a false promise from Putin. The ACTUAL realism is to recognize Putin's Russia for what it is: a relentless aggressor who will respect no p
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by toss1 13d ago
I was trying to avoid that topic on HN, but DS' takes on the Ukraine ware were the MOST atrocious, amoral, and just plain wrong, basically suggesting Ukraine should just give up because Russia would win anyway. Nevermind that any dec
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by toss1 13d ago
Yup. Sacks has been so consistently catastrophically wrong about everything else (especially geopolitics), this prompts me to reconsider my opinion on this. [edit: +consistently]
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by toss1 13d ago
On the topic of regulatory capture, there is this rumor that Google has achieved Recursive Self Improvement, and the other three (OpenAI/Anthropic/X) are just trying to get the regulators to slow down Google so they can catch up.
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by toss1 13d ago
Sure, that'd be more "cost efficient", and for a small one-off, probably better. But law enforcement and justice is not a profit center. Merely making the threats like you specify and even having it restored encourages more c
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by toss1 15d ago
Yes, your comment on smoothness and speed prompted me to also wonder at what level the remote control could be happening. The obvious level is the monitor just takes over driving like a remote FPV driver/pilot. But I wonder if the soft
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by toss1 15d ago
Not today. The Iranian-backed Houthis also struck the Saudi East-West oil pipeline [0], pumping stations and refining capability. Reductions in export output initially estimated around 700,000 barrels per day now missing from the market. [0
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by toss1 16d ago
Corollary to that is the then-newish services had less content now. A higher price alone for the same "tier" does not necessarily mean less value. I'd want to also estimate the overall quantity and quality offered for the hig
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by toss1 16d ago
As a former Notes developer/VAR/user, the core platform absolutely had a combination of key functions available nowhere else — distributed, replicated rich-text/object database, DOD-level security, seldom-connected communicat
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by toss1 16d ago
Do you know how much of the drive and handling those complications was actually fully autonomous vs how much (or what key points) were handled from the remote control room by a human? I'm not sure how you would tell, but that is a crit
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by toss1 17d ago
Stop with the strawman arguments; am not equating internet words and meaningless upvotes with real action. I am also not even close to claiming such disobedience is sufficient. It is not. But it is a necessary first step. And failing to tak
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by toss1 18d ago
Even "symbolic" resistance is not merely symbolic — it is actually costly and meaningful. A core principle of authoritarianism is to get people, corporations, and institutions to yield to the despot's — comply in advance, ret
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by toss1 18d ago
That is not helpful. That makes them only useful as windsocks, and there are other far better ways to see which way the wind is blowing.
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by toss1 18d ago
When it gets to the end of the design loops, can it run simulations and tests, or is that out of scope i.e., for another product? (I didn't notice testing on a very quick peruse, but that doesn't mean I didn't simply miss it)
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by toss1 19d ago
It will be when enough people elect enough politicians who take action against this weaponized incompetence and strip-mining of the peoples' assets. Or, if that does not happen, when enough people rise up in revolution and take the com
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by toss1 21d ago
They are likely expecting the same kind of war we are already in with Russia; in which Russia tries to keep its attacks just below the threshold of open war and its rhetoric and "negotiations" about "seeking peace". Ru
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by toss1 21d ago
Wouldn't that depend a lot on what and how much were targeted? Seems a sufficient number of satellites in a particular orbital altitude and inclination would be required to create a self-sustaining cascade. Even then, the Delta-V of te
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by toss1 24d ago
YUP. >> you need to test the thing you're in there for. At some point, refusing to test an untested belief is just protecting a fantasy. "One test is worth a thousand opinions" Indeed, if the opinions are about yourself
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by toss1 25d ago
Ha!! Yup. 'Tho it seems a ~5w laser rapidly scanning would be enough to fry optics without igniting furniture or draperies?
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by toss1 25d ago
The overall article and discussion here is detection, and all the weaknesses of detection. At some point, the only solution will be active destruction. Someone will build something like a multi-wavelength high powered laser device to sweep
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by toss1 28d ago
Ah, yes, improvements both — the awesomeness of internet strangers! "Evokes Curiosity" and "Does not yet compute" seem much better and more useful.
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by toss1 29d ago
In an otherwise idle moment some time ago, I for some reason started pondering what we really meant when we said/wrote something was "weird", as it seemed an odd word and not really as defined as it seemed. The closest soluti

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