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by wat10000 2mo ago
It's true, not everything he does is to stuff his pockets, a lot of it is just to fluff his ego or avenge perceived slights.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Destruction of evidence as a crime goes back a long, long way. There's no precedent for making it illegal to install some OS or protocol the feds don't like. I don't particularly like what's being done to this guy, but w
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'm sure a big group of people want that, but I wouldn't call it "the people" when the president has a ~38% approval rating. That's low enough to lose an election but still way too high for me to be comfortable with
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'll take that risk. It's pretty unlikely, and if it happens, having to buy a new phone is not the worst thing in the world.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Before First Unlock with recent hardware and an up to date OS is probably sufficiently infallible for an average person. I wouldn't want to rely on it if I was engaged in espionage, but for someone who won't get the NSA pulled int
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by wat10000 2mo ago
On a long enough timeline, nothing is permanent. The question is how long it lasts and how bad it gets before it gets better. In terms of the ending, East Germany was nearly an ideal case. The state just sort of gently fell over. The countr
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Perfect, said it better than I did.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
In retrospect, all the angst around the AI-Box experiment was hilarious. If a superintelligent AI is confined in a box and can only communicate through text, could it talk its way to freedom? Not only is the answer clearly "yes" b
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I’m sure some retries are helpful there too (TCP is doing them, at the very least) but yeah, different approaches for different situations. Maybe you retry but you don’t spend many seconds hoping for it to work.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I have the exact opposite view. Way too often, I’ll be presented with an error to the effect of, “something went wrong, please try again” and often the retry works. And I’m left wondering why this machine whose sole purpose is to automate t
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The whole point of exponential backoff is that the first retry can be quick.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Test coverage varies a lot, but error paths seem almost universally untested.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
They’ve become a lot more reliable. It would be strange if that progress stopped now. It’s possible. My main point is that they won’t get worse , as the other commenter suggested.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It's very difficult for this sort of thing to change for the worse. It's basically impossible on the software side. If next year's model is worse then keep using this year's model. Hardware technology can potentially go
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Totally the opposite for me. I suppose we’re both getting small, biased samples of the population.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Yeah, I guess 100% certainty is not achievable. But it should be to the point where the thought is “hell yeah, let’s do this” rather than “I’m not so sure.”
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I don’t think that’s relevant to the “genetic legacy” crap. Non-international adoption fails just as much in that respect.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Yes. Probably since my teens although diagnosed much later.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'd like to object to this hopefully unintentional suggestion that failing to understand it means you're a terrible person. I don't think I'm a terrible person. My kids are healthy, mostly happy, seem to be well adjusted
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by wat10000 2mo ago
You'd never hear me say it in person, but I'll admit it here. I'm sure it's great for most people, but it's not for me. I agree with your assessment of society at large. The prevailing attitude is, having children i
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by wat10000 2mo ago
To offer a contrasting opinion, I was on the fence, went for it, and it was a big mistake. Unfortunately, it's impossible to be sure what it'll be like until you try it. And there's no undo button. I would strongly recommend
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Sounds like you accept that the choice must be made, you've just accepted yours. And nothing wrong with that, of course.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'd offer a contrasting view, as a father of many fewer. If I'd had children young it would have been an utter disaster. It's difficult enough when you're financially and romantically stable and have more emotional matur
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by wat10000 2mo ago
What nuisance laws are you referring to and how would this argument potentially apply?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I forget the precise nature of what the guy said, but it wasn’t just “people want to have kids who came from them.”
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It’s funny. Normally saying that something is wrong because it got downvoted and flagged would be a fallacy. You’ve managed to make it a valid argument.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
This is terrible behavior and it should be condemned, but I see no reason it should be illegal. There’s no deception in any of this. It’s like going to a store and asking an employee where the Widgets are, and they show you the Doodads inst
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Nah, creepy weirdos care about “genetic legacy.” Normal people have no problem with adoption or stepkids or whatever.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Who gives a crap about "genetic legacy"? How about mind your own business.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I don't imagine doing time in a 1940s mental institution did his brain much good either.

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