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by wat10000 23d ago
I don’t think it ever made sense. Code reuse improves efficiency when the code can be shared in memory, or when it needs to be updated and you only have to change it in one place. JS packages don’t give you sharing beyond what you’d get fro
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by wat10000 23d ago
I’m not quite sure how to answer that. The situation I have in mind is the one described in the bit you quoted. A company doesn’t pay legally required payroll taxes, then depending on circumstances, corporate officers may be personally liab
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by wat10000 23d ago
How many of us have had coworkers who put something like that into a commit message? And that's a message that's at least notionally supposed to be helpful to you or your coworkers, rather than existing purely for the purposes of
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by wat10000 24d ago
I doubt farmers have enough spare pre-electronics equipment sitting around to run the entire farm at the same scale. I'm sure they could improvise a way to continue farming, but output would be substantially impacted. Humanity managed
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by wat10000 24d ago
That's why you or I would care, but that doesn't answer the question of why they would. Large companies tend to be amoral. Unless it affects them monetarily (possibly indirectly) they're not going to care. Given what they do
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by wat10000 24d ago
The question is, why should they care at all? Will this hurt their business?
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by wat10000 24d ago
They could stick to taking payment in exchange for service like some weird old-fashioned business, but I guess that doesn't get the sort of growth that justifies a trillion-dollar valuation.
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by wat10000 24d ago
Yeah, I can’t imagine why they’d be OK with voluntarily joining an international organization, but not be OK with being conquered and annexed by military force.
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by wat10000 24d ago
I don’t think that’s the sort of thing that’s meant by someone writing about “innovation” in scare quotes and complaining about no more moon landings.
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by wat10000 24d ago
Corporate officers can already be held individually liable for some things. This would just add another one, it wouldn’t be undermining the whole idea of corporations. If individuals can be held personally liable for their company’s failure
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by wat10000 24d ago
What does LAN have to do with my comment about why companies don’t like to let their devices talk directly to my phone/computer when they’re on the same LAN?
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by wat10000 24d ago
A roundabout can be as simple as a circle painted in the middle of an intersection, plus a bit of signage. It doesn’t have to be a big thing.
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by wat10000 24d ago
Isn’t this exactly how AlphaZero was trained? The rules are known and well defined so the training process can generate games without any outside data. The only reason LLMs are this bad at chess is because the labs don’t care about chess pe
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by wat10000 24d ago
I wonder how current models would fare. The ones they tested are fairly old now.
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by wat10000 24d ago
I see no problem with a rule that effectively says no company can exist if it holds such detailed records on millions of people.
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by wat10000 24d ago
That's too pessimistic. But it is a spectrum. You can't guarantee 100% success against 100% of potential attackers, but it still matters how easy it is to get into something. There's a pretty big difference between a Windows
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by wat10000 24d ago
If you had time to plan it, you'd probably want to put the warhead on a satellite launched by a normal satellite launcher. It'll look benign until you detonate it.
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by wat10000 25d ago
Yes, we really went there. There's zero legitimate doubt. If nothing else, consider: the Soviets were locked in a massive propaganda war with the US over the respective countries' space achievements, with the Soviets spending vast
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by wat10000 25d ago
A huge variety of tools and technology that billions of people use daily. What did we ultimately have to show for the money poured into Apollo? I'm a big fan of space exploration but putting twelve people up there for a few days at a t
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by wat10000 25d ago
Phone data requires some actual process to access. It should be more restrictive than it is, but I don’t believe the information is made available to random police officers who can search for whatever they want with no real justification. T
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by wat10000 25d ago
It's not quite as bad as that. Space is big and hitting stuff is really hard. Your hand grenade scenario has effectively been done a few times and it (obviously) didn't make LEO unusable. For example: https://en.wikiped
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by wat10000 25d ago
Your comments consist of two parts. 1) telling me that I’m wrong because you insist on not understanding what I’m saying 2) a bunch of irrelevant stuff based on not understanding. So yeah, I’m replying to part 1 and ignoring part 2.
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by wat10000 25d ago
I was replying to “Manufacturers just need to realize that LANs exist and allow their devices to be used with the Internet turned off.” If it took you this long to figure out what I was talking about, I don’t think it’s really a problem wit
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by wat10000 26d ago
It means that my device at e.g. 192.168.123.45 can be controlled by my phone or computer at 192.168.123.46 on the same LAN without any of the traffic going over the internet. And since none of the traffic goes over the internet, the device
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by wat10000 26d ago
And if everything goes through the manufacturer’s servers then you have to give it internet access for it to work at all. If it works over then LAN then you at least have the option to block it without disabling the functionality.
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by wat10000 26d ago
The question was “foreign nationals,” not “people like this guy.” And it’s a specific choice to consider race as part of “like this guy,” not a law of nature.
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by wat10000 26d ago
We have not made it. We have survived so far but the threat remains. Stockpiles and warheads have shrunk, so it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as in, say, 1983, but we’re still one mistake or misunderstanding away from the worst day in human e
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by wat10000 26d ago
You’re the one who can’t fathom that a general answer to a very broad question must be a lie (not merely incomplete, not merely wrong, but a lie ) because you think the answer to a broad, general question must include “although our imm
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by wat10000 26d ago
US nationals are a tiny corner case that applies to people born in certain US territories. They’re functionally equivalent to citizens aside from not having the right to vote in federal elections. As far as I can tell, “those who owe allegi
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by wat10000 26d ago
Your statement is far too broad to be correct in any case. Thousands of Chinese and other non-white people immigrated long before 1965. Ironically, some of the earliest Chinese people employed by the federal government were employed by Cust

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