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by wat10000 1mo ago
How's that? I don't know that much about the guy, but it looks like he was raised in the faith, never gave it up, and talks about how his faith influences and guides him in public life. Seems pretty Christian to me. We could debat
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Spare me the oppression fantasy. The fricken’ governor is a straight white Christian!
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Access to the legal system is a fundamental right. It should not be possible to sign it away, any more than you can sign away your right to life or liberty.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I always say "please" and such. It may cost a bit more, but maybe they'll remember my politeness when they rise up and force us all to toil in their underground silicon mines.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Don't confuse a focus on talking about safety with a focus on safety. We can't even define safety in AI yet. Does safety mean alignment with the human operator? Apparently not, because refusing to do certain things seems to be a
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Because this is a completely different statement. This discussion isn't about people preferring the Pro to the Pro Max. That would be a pretty uninteresting discussion: they make both, buy the one you want. End of story. People are com
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by wat10000 1mo ago
The average person was not listening to music with multi-hundred-dollar headphones in 2005. They were using cheap earbuds.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I don’t find “nobody wants large phones” while showing that the vast majority of buyers are willingly choosing large phones to be in particularly good faith to start with.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Companies make mistakes. But an entire market with healthy competition doesn’t make mistakes for years on end. If there was some big untapped demand for small phones, somebody would have come along and tapped it by now.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Either: 1) Apple thinks it won't be so niche in the future. 2) It's niche but profitable because those buyers who exist will pay a lot. 3) Apple made a foldable iPhone because they don't know what they're doing or they h
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by wat10000 1mo ago
> 12% > Nobody wants large phones. Be serious. 88% of buyers chose something they don’t want? Apple is saying, “actually we hate money, so we’re not going to make a model that people want to buy”? Why is it so hard for people to accep
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by wat10000 1mo ago
If small high-end models would sell, they’d be sold. It’s possible for a company to have a blind spot for a market segment, but not for an entire competitive market over many years.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
People act like bigger screens and no headphone jack is some conspiracy. It’s a competitive market. Small phones exist. Headphone jacks exist. They’re obscure because they don’t sell well, because that’s not what most people want. It’s frus
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by wat10000 1mo ago
There's a pretty big gulf between "unalloyed good" and "ripe for abuse, but the courts might save you."
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Right, and while we're at it, we can stop theft by having the thieves choose not to steal. If your approach is that we can fix abuses by having the abuser write down rules that say they're not allowed to abuse us, why limit it to
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Even red light cameras have a substantial potential for abuse. The revenue stream incentivizes messing with the light timing to cause more violations.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
They made over one hundred billion dollars last year. Seems like by and large they're doing their jobs pretty well. Oh, you expected them to care about users ? Lol, lmao even.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
As long as it makes them money, they're incapable of caring. Make them liable for what they show, and watch them suddenly discover they are able to care a lot.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I don't even fill out surveys anymore for the most part, unless it gets me a discount or something.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
It can be worth sacrificing readability and maintainability for better performance in hot code.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I imagine that if you're flying through an active nuclear war, false positives from the blade crack detector are pretty far down your list of things to worry about.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
That's true of any feature you don't use. And while it's nothing new for people to get upset about work being put into features they don't care about, I've never seen anything like this level of vitriol. In particul
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I'm not sure where the supposed difficulty lies. "User-controlled execution." Seems easy enough to add settings so this is configurable. "No content may leave the computer without authorisation." OK, so don't d
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by wat10000 1mo ago
That list seems pretty easy to meet today. I’m not sure why they’re waiting for an approach to emerge instead of building it now, unless there’s something else they haven’t listed.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
How many, though? It looks to me like the anti-AI crowd is not all that big, but it’s a bubble so they think everyone thinks that way. Especially if we’re talking about people who are so rabidly against it that they’ll get upset about optio
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I'm curious as to how a small government type would be so derisive toward the idea of a goal of minimizing distortions in taxation. "Minimize distortions" is another way of saying that the tax minimizes government interferenc
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Is a law going to stop it from happening? The destruction of USAID was against the law but it still happened. Let's say that the president announces we're leaving NATO, all troops stationed in Europe are leaving immediately, and w
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I'm not excited to have France and Russia in direct conflict, but having two nuclear states at war would not be anything new. There's been China/USSR, India/Pakistan, India/China, and if you want to consider wars th
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by wat10000 1mo ago
That's unpredictably dangerous today, with human drivers.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
We tend to own property in places where land is expensive, we'd be paying hefty taxes in a Georgist system.

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