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This is on a similar scale to complaining about there being too many tennis balls on the surface of the earth.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Dead on arrival.

China will sell you fully kitted hilux equivalents with japanese engines for 10k. Even toyota is making 10k trucks in thailand.

US manufacturers are just not ready to face free market competition these days. They're entirely reliant on tariffs protecting them.

That is absolutely not what they meant. Do you really, honestly think they're that stupid?

So, here's a thought...

If FSD is going to be a subscription and you will never own our fancy autopilot feature. Why should the user pay for insurance?

The user is paying for a service that they do not control and which workings are completely opaque. How can responsibility ever lie with the user in such a situation?

Another thing that I think would help is to start introducing some ethics into our profession as programmers.

Most other professions have you take ethics classes, have ethics boards and even ethics legislation. We're severely lacking in this area as a community. It really shows when every year there's a new company building the Maximum Oppression Orb from the book Dont Build the Maximum Oppression Orb. Its like we're dealing with the moral equivalent of a mentally challenged person all the time

Every election would have to be fake. Every government database would have to be full of fake names. And all for what? To get one over on the dumb Westerners?

While I agree that the claim that world population is under 1 billion is bonkers, I also think he grossly underestimates how frequent and large the fraud is.

Take Venezuela for example, the UN and several NGO's have confirmed a diaspora caused by chavismo of well over 7 million people. This is not recognized by the venezuelan government and is not reflected in any of the stats pages you can find.

That's a 20-30% difference in the real vs reported population of the country.

And yes. They do fake the elections.

Study. Not studies. And with very limited methodology.

Poor guy. I've seen this in my own family. I doubt they can work it out and it will only get worse with age. She will definitely not take kindly to him wanting to take any of the kids either.

You know the answer to this but I'll just say it: Its different in that it requires no skill and can be done by anyone instantaneously at scale.

You know this but somehow are rationalizing this game changing fact away.

Yes, people can draw and photoshop things. But it takes time, skill, dedication, etc. This time cost is load bearing in the way society needs to deal with the tools it has for the same reason at the extreme that kitchen knives have different regulations than nuclear weapons.

It is also trivially easy for grok to censor this usage for the vast majority of offenders by using the same LLM technology they already have to classify content created by their own tools. Yes, it could get jailbroken but that requires skill, time, dedication, etc; And it can be rapidly patched, greatly mitigating the scale of abuse.

Ironically, instead of Linux eventually closing this usability gap, what we have is windows developing its own sharp edges and annoyances.

For many users, linux is already easier to use.

The thing is that literature, and art in general, should be more than just entertainment. It should edify the reader, communicate some concept, moral lesson or keen insight about the world.

Remember when you were taught to extract the "moral of the story" in school? That was the whole point. That form of communication is what makes art valuable and it definitely is what makes some art more valuable than others.

We do get a say on whether we like it or not. You CAN just decide to uphold privacy rights. We make the laws

Large marketplace platforms need to be regulated to have due process.

When hundreds or thousands of companies live and die by your platform, you can't just close accounts arbitrarily.

Either that or you get split up for monopoly. Take your pick, but this shit doesn't work

That has happened like 4 times with AMD already since I've been buying PCs

I've come to accept that, at least in latam, shirt sizes no longer have any real meaning.

Every manufacturer in the world has a different opinion as to what those letters mean.

Massive, shiny and slow

This has also been my experience. Curriculum standards really put a stop to any radical changes in the way we structure the learning process.

I guess that IS the point of standards, but we really should be experimenting more on the fringes.

They expect AI bureaucracy to be more effective than human bureaucracy.

I expect this to be entirely true in some cases.

Yeah, totally nonexistent product for most of the world

So, obvious question, is there a database of IMDB reviews?

I am, in fact, suggesting you do this.

Be careful with this default position.

If we start from first principles: - Any one individual is not trained or experienced in the vast majority of scientific disciplines, regardless of his/her expertise in any one field - Even if half the studies published have flaws (where did you get that stat? was that study flawed?), their body of references is filtered by decades of replication and paper ranking of importance - The people doing the studies have decades of study in the particular field they're publishing about

Concluding from first principles: Its more likely that a random individual's opinion about a random niche of scientific study will be wrong than that of an individual trained on that niche

And then also starting from "received wisdom": Joe Schmuck on the street doesn't know more than scientists about their thing

For sure. I hate excessive regulation, but if companies keep poisoning the well, action has to be taken

Not sure about the US but in some countries this is regulated for cars. Companies are required to provide parts for a certain amount of years after discontinuation of the product.

It seems abundantly reasonable that a similar requirement be imposed for prosthesis. And it would also be very reasonable for the required period to be longer than that of cars.

So yeah, not forever, but definitely not a a short period either.

I definiteely understand your frustration. I have the same emotional reaction when looking for alternative devices. But really, a cheap phone is the best solution

I recommend using a custom rom with a funky UI (lots to explore!) so it'll feel different from your phone!

This is becoming a problem in latin america as well and you see people importing culture wars issues that are not really relevant to their local politics and further muddying the waters and distracting from the actual issues facing them

Yeah thats the original point but I think he means aside from that, the order itself also drops a suggestion to the judge as to the nature of the case before hearing it.

The order itself might be injecting a subconscious bias to the judge.

I remember a cuban buddy I worked with told me about how you had to be careful with pizza in Cuba cause sometimes they used molten condoms mixed in to save on cheese

Probably an urban legend but thats the level of shortages you get in these regimes. Similar things happened to us in Venezuela. There was a scandal in my town because people were mixing in cardboard with a typical shredded fish dish. In Maracaibo, women we're being assaulted in the streets to cut off their hair and sell it to make hair extensions.

It gets really crazy.

Exactly. A travel agent works for the client, not the airline. Its their job to advice the traveler of any hidden fees.

Ignoring the reasons why this happens is just as bad as ignoring the consequences.

The need for security is just as much a force of nature as the need for innovation. Unless you provide a solution for both, the cycle will keep repeating.