NotYourLawyer

valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it

It’s more than he paid. There’s 12 billion of debt you’re not accounting for.

Windows 7 was legitimately pretty good. It’s been downhill ever since.

An 800 page lawsuit full of conspiracy theories? Sounds legit.

Middle out?

They don’t on streaming. I’m always having to google it.

Civil asset forfeiture needs to go.

Puts on Masa.

I hadn’t heard that he died, sad.

I’m kidding. Slightly.

You can’t buy them in the US though. They might as well not exist.

It’s useful only to let big tech companies listen in to everything that happens in your home.

Ehhh but I just bought one of the M4 Mac minis. And it’s pretty nice.

It’s almost enough to make me try Linux on the desktop again.

Throw your wiretap in the garbage where it belongs.

I bet it would burn just fine. Lots of blubber.

I can’t really explain why (there’s no L!) but the name struck me the same way for some reason.

Ok.

Look, I’m not saying the cranks should be dragged out back and shot, just that they are a net negative.

Sending them manuscripts, publishing nonsense on the arxiv, reducing the overall SNR of research.

It matters because they waste the time of serious researchers.

There’s some truth to that. But there are also a LOT of “self-taught” cranks out there who think they’ve discovered an amazing new theoretical framework… but if they’d done any background reading, they’d know it’s been tried and didn’t work.

I was able to disable the "telematics" in the same vehicle

This is only sufficient if you trust software, which you shouldn’t. Hardware disconnects are reliable. Cut the power.

This is a laughably bad take.

YouTube. I think in most cars it’s gonna be a discrete component that can just be unplugged. The big question is what functionality you lose, and whether you can live with that tradeoff.

Exactly my point! They wouldn’t, and shouldn’t.

Just get a receiver and some standalone speakers. It doesn’t need an OS, and there’s no reason for it to talk to the internet.

Before I bought my most recent vehicle, I did my research and figured out how to physically disconnect the modem / telemetry unit.

Why are these things connected to the internet at all?

Linux users should just switch to Windows too.

Mickens always cracks me up. His writing style is a little overdone though.

Maybe. But longer term, new uses for ammonia might well lead to more efficient and widespread production.