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by wat10000 4mo ago
What makes BYD different from, say, Volvo, which sells EVs freely in the US?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The 1930s stuff was really stupid as well.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I don't think they mean "cannot do" as in "don't have the capability." But rather "cannot do" as in "are not allowed to do." If the government can't (is not allowed to) surveil me witho
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It's funny how this monkey experiment is often trotted out as "people blindly follow the rules without knowing why," when the rule learned by the monkeys is a really good rule (it prevents a malevolent entity beyond your unde
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by wat10000 4mo ago
"Don't talk to police" doesn't include legally required things like identification. What you don't do is volunteer more than you're legally required to provide.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I think pretty much everyone here knows about the October/November thing if only because of The Hunt for Red October .
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Or paying ~300 million virtual slips of paper that the market says are currently worth $60 billion.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I'm sure there's some level of payment that would do it. Tens of thousands sounds like a lot, but it's a bit of a joke for a something that costs 10x more and takes up decades of your life.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I don't have a plan, but we could at least stop being part of the problem by not giving billions of dollars a year in military funding to their oppressors. If you really want to go crazy, we could stop arms sales to their oppressors al
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Those that created the means of production? You mean the people who build industrial robots and roads and trucks?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Perhaps, but I see zero desire from pg to understand the counterparty either. When engaging at such a superficial level, don’t be surprised when that’s what comes back.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The fact that everything is consensual doesn’t mean the rewards are earned. If I find gold on my land and dig it up and sell it, I haven’t done anything wrong, but I haven’t earned most of that money. I just got lucky.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I remember when Facebook, I think it was, was going public. There was a ton of consternation about avoiding a “Google chef” situation. Google had a chef that got paid a bunch of equity as if they were an engineer, and they got filthy rich w
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The post is patronizing as hell, it’s no wonder people respond to it negatively. Patting people on the head and saying “you moron, it’s just two numbers” isn’t a good way to make an argument.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
That's what the ACAB sentiment is about. It's not that all cops beat their wives or make up reasons to pull over minorities. It's that the ones who don't do that still cover for the ones who do.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
You wouldn't go there, and I wouldn't go there, but he's rich, there's no real risk for him.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I totally agree. People who want evergreen classics count too, and the library should do its best to ensure they can get the books they want as well. They shouldn't stock nothing but bestsellers, any more than they should stock no best
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The point of libraries is to help people access the books they want. If someone wants Oprah's book then why should the library not help them access it? If a lot of people want it, then why should the library not stock many copies so th
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Yes, let's pit ordinary people against gigantic companies with teams of highly paid experts who spend all day figuring out how to deceive them.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I'm specifically thinking of the primaries here, where you often have more than two candidates and it's not a 51/49 split. I think it's very likely that the people who currently sit out the primaries would vote different
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I don't think you realize the creativity and variety we humans have put to use when oppressing conquered peoples if you think resisting an invasion with every means available is the incorrect choice because it kills people.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Your used cars are only so cheap because most people don't buy old used cars. If they did as you suggest, then it would no longer be such a good deal.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The problem is that they'll keep advertising it to you. I'm already giving them money, but they'll still push me to subscribe while I'm in the middle of trying to give them my money, because that's not enough for th
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by wat10000 5mo ago
More specifically, it solves the problem of verifying that the data received was not accidentally corrupted somehow. Unlike cryptographic hashes, CRC32 does not do much to defend against deliberate, malicious modification. It's too e
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The lesser of two evils is still lesser.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Voting works fine, people just don't do it very much. People complain about their choices. Meanwhile, there's atrocious turnout in the primaries which determine those choices.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Society's elites have forgotten that civil institutions exist to be an alternative to resolving disputes through violence. If they completely bend those institutions to their will and leave the common people out in the cold, the result
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Right, and add controls to limit the damage they can do where possible. Avoiding prompt injection looks to require superhuman intelligence.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I said "tend to," not "guarantee." You'd expect this to happen with a couple of reasonable assumptions, like stock prices being somewhat based on real value most of the time, no wide-scale long-term economic collaps
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by wat10000 5mo ago
You’re talking about a company that removed the rain sensor and made their automatic wipers use neural nets and cameras instead.

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