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by wat10000 4mo ago
Cryptocurrencies never did this because they were never popular. They were a big deal in tech spaces but the average person never really worked out what a bitcoin was or how they'd get one. AI, on the other hand, is seeing widespread u
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The base model 13" MacBook Air released in 2020 was $1,299. Today, Apple raised the price of the current base model to... $1,299. The base model 14" MacBook Pro released in 2021 was $1,999. Today, Apple raised the price of the cur
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Everything in the process has to agree on how big the pointers are, or you need code to convert between the formats at the boundary. That means you either need 32-bit versions of all OS libraries, or you need a complicated shim layer. Apple
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I said it repeatedly. Nearly every comment of mine in this chain contains a disclaimer about police misbehaving in real life. Not my fault if you managed to miss them all.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Yeah, it is pretty bizarre, seeing as how I’ve been very clear that police will gin up probable cause or just ignore the requirement for it, and you keep acting like I’m a poor naive little soul who thinks cops are nice and friendly.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Meaning it only leads to suppression of evidence and not punishment for the perpetrators? Or that they'll have to come up with some probable cause to make it legal, but they can do that more or less at will? Or something else?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
You got one (college educated). Congrats. I specifically mentioned that police don’t necessarily follow the law here. So I don’t know where you get the idea that I’m naive about how the world works. Police might hassle you, but that doesn’t
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It's trivial. Playing the bagpipes while riding a unicycle. Very weird and unusual but not reasonable suspicion of anything. I'm happy to come up with a dozen more if you lack imagination. Similarly, there's plenty of non-wei
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by wat10000 4mo ago
You've now completely shifted from "unusual behavior is sufficient justification to detain someone and this is necessary for 99% of real traffic stops" to "the police can usually come up with probable cause if they want.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Society broadly agrees, enough that it's illegal in the US to stop someone just for "unusual behavior." You have to have an actual concrete reason to suspect someone of a crime. Not that police always follow the law on this.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Yes, that's why people pay the ridiculous cost of living to live in NYC, because the quality of life is atrocious. At least around where I live (DC suburbs), every dense neighborhood becomes tremendously popular. The limit is that plan
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by wat10000 4mo ago
People freak out about non-car transportation in general. Someone on my Nextdoor has been freaking out over temporary bus lanes, because nobody takes the bus but it's going to cause horrible traffic. They posted about rush hour gridloc
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Is it legally reasonable? Does the local law make "that looks funny, might not be street legal" a primary traffic offense?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Maybe not death camps, but it is inextricably tied to real abuses. I don't see how you ban "driving while black" stops without also banning these.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Whimsy should be consensual and not involve the threat of violence.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The iBook also started at over $3,000 adjusted for inflation ($1,599 in 1999).
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I have a really hard time accepting the idea that the spirit of the memorandum was that the signatories should actively defend Ukraine against non-nuclear attack, when it would have been so easy to write that explicitly. I completely agree
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Don't give a sarcastic reply about finding a single instance, when the request was literally "Please share a single instance." It's just silly.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The Budapest Memorandum only requires going to the Security Council if nuclear weapons are involved. There's no required action at all for non-nuclear attacks. This isn't "weaseling over the exact wording," it's jus
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Chlamydia is easily treated so I don't see that really being related to your idea. Is there any evidence of incurable STDs becoming substantially more prevalent in recent decades to make up for the massive drop in HIV? It's been m
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by wat10000 4mo ago
AIDS was killing over 40,000 people per year in the US at its peak. It’s now almost 10x lower despite a significantly larger population. I don’t think there’s some other STD killing tens of thousands per year to fill that gap.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
That's not the point of disagreement. I completely see why that's a big problem. Where we disagree is the notion that Volvo isn't controlled by an adversary nation or doesn't have dangerous hardware. If you've manag
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Your link says increased modulation adds 1.5-3.75 million euros/year in maintenance costs. That's utterly insignificant for the electricity supply to a nation of 70 million.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I don't understand what you mean. I assumed the scenario was the manufacturer bricking the car, starting it on fire, or making it crash. Bricking is pretty obviously trivial. Starting it on fire would require changes to the battery, mo
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by wat10000 4mo ago
“Give us the signing keys to the software update servers.” “No.” You really think that’s how that conversation would go?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
That's fine, but what stops those Chinese nationals at Geely from messing with their cars now?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Proper burritos for lunch enables Wall Street finance firms to reach new heights of excellence, propelling a feedback loop that leaves SF bereft.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem There's a reason it's called a "problem." Doing the thing on your own is not a solution to it.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
How exactly does the fact that this goes through a subsidiary in Sweden change the things you mentioned?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Parent Geely Holding (78.7%)

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