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It's easy to say these anti-capitalistic platitudes, but do you really want to live in a society where the concept of private ownership is not supported by the state?

There is a country that allows police to just take your stuff and then demands you to prove it wasn't illegal. Also such property can be used/sold/spent by police force it was stolen by. Does it sound like private ownership is supported by the state? BTW. It's called civil forfeiture and country is named USA.

I don't get it. > Qualcomm has almost no products in the high-end inference/training market. The industry standard is the NVIDIA Hopper H100/H200. > What could they possibly get from acquiring Modular?

Don't ask what they will gain from owning it, ask what they will gain from others not owning it...

Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibility of doing "die" part and we have lots of examples of them doing so.

Also Theranos was do-or-die and we know how it ended.

Easy way is not doing charter schools. Why are they bad? Charter school can choose what children they will teach when public schools don't have that choice, then people point at charter schools as having higher outcomes. In essence charter schools are a tool to discriminate students from poor families.

And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with?

Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw wads of money at random. What important is how many people weren't saved because he decided to be a middle man in all of it?

His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds while forgetting what he actually did or doing right now.

They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard.

It's only hard if you don't want to help anyone and your only goal is to push charter schools(by any other name) by any means necessary.

Their work to clean water and cure diseases has saved millions of lives. They know what they are good at and they've decided to double down on that.

They helped so many people by not allowing them getting covid vaccine or by fighting generics? Also their "good" deeds weren't without negative consequences that could be avoided if someone actually listened to people they were "helping".

He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better.

At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help" worse. Like his actions have a ulterior motives...

The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity?

So he is no longer a billionaire? And donating to what charity, The Gates Foundation? The one that he controls? The one that he uses to push his ideological stances and repeatedly fails to help anyone? Just look how successful his work on improving education system in America was. What a sacrifice it was for him...

Language or the way we use it is often used to exclude "undesired", so there is a point in using them. Not a very nice point, but a point nevertheless.

I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. > It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep!

It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail.

You mean free speech zones...

Proper term for it is Computer Assisted Plagiarism, CAP for short. Also, I really hope that Google doesn't claim it created sites it crawl for search their engine.

Point of friction is to have it as a filter against people who really need your help.

Helping people necessitates taking some action, spending resources, potentially making some errors that can be taken against you.

But on the other hand, refusing to help people without any reason or flimsy reason is also frowned upon.

Adding friction is a perfect solution, now you want to help everyone but this stupid/pesky/lazy people just aren't able to follow simple(they ain't) instructions how to properly follow process of acquiring etc.

Now it's their fault, so no action is needed on you behalf.

Google doesn't provide "entire operating system source code", it provides some parts, while other they keep closed. Also they are continuously removing parts that are essential from AOSP (that are either open or closed).

Removing support for Pixel devices makes AOSP even less useful for developers, because belief that VM will be a good replacement for real hardware test environment is a fairy tale next to sleeping beauty.

So no, they don't provide "entire operating system source code", what they provide is a caricature of open source project. So maybe they should call it COSP.

Licence also prevent you from modifying generated code.

First you can download specifications in either PDF or doc(x). Second doc(x) are simple enough that simple doc(x) to ASCII/text is good enough to produce working ASN.1 definition. Copy&paste is also an option.

A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog, DNS, mail.

I always felt like you are painting target on your homelab when you allow outside access.

If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/left alone they wouldn't.

Especially if one party have incentive to discredit/destroy such person, so court/jury won't take their testimony seriously(or there will be no testimony at all). After all it's almost impossible to connect such actions with subsequent suicide.

While suicide is by definition action of individual, what leads to it isn't always the same.

How about government is paying for treatment of people too poor to pay themselves and everyone is paying their share to finance that spending? And as a bonus everyone else will also get their medical treatment financed this way?

Why non-LTS out of curiosity?

Based on my experience, more recent kernel versions have more fixes/better support for recent hardware(or sometimes not so recent). LTS doesn't backport everything from later releases for obvious reasons.

Qualcomm showed Linux working in October 2023 yet here in October 2024 Linux does not work. I don't get it.

Curse of Android, Qualcomm lived for so long with permanently forked kernel, that there is no pressure on code quality, only thing they know is how to sling minimally viable platform code at their unfortunate customers. No one cares about maintainability of it, because even before code has a chance to stabilise, there is already new model to be released, new hardware to be supported. At this point no one cares about old hardware.

It really is a werid feeling remembering the internet of my youth and even my 20s and knowing that it will never exist again.

User facing ability to whitelist and blacklist websites in search results, ability to set weights for websites you want to see higher in search results.

Spamlists for search results, so even if you don't have knowledge/experience to do it yourself, you can still protect them from spam.

It's recreation of e-mail situation, not because it's good, but because www is getting even worse than e-mail.

One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.

Not everything, for example I read somewhere that chess "fight" in Tween Peaks was random and didn't adhere to chess rules because no one really paid attention to record or follow moves.

The question is, does cops in civilized countries have them. Because them being a thing in USA is something to be expected.

Just for visibility of your comment, do you have transparent tattoos?

Okay? I'm not surprised that a conservative judge is part of a conservative ideological legal organization. That doesn't mean the same thing as saying they're a politician who is funded by someone.

Doesn't it make it looks like he is a ideologue supported by ideological organisation that happens to be a judge and uses this occupation to further his ideology instead of basing judgements on law?

And that organisation conspire to promote judges that are ideologues first?

Good point. But the audit seems useless now. It's supposed to prevent the carelessness from causing... this thing that happened anyway.

Sure, maybe it prevented even more events like this from happening. But still.

Because the point of audit is not to prevent hacks, it's to prove that you did your due diligence to not get hacked, so fact that hack happened is not your fault.

You can hide under umbrella of "sometimes hacks happen no matter what you do".

It depends on what your position is. Are you there to actually provide security to your org or to tick a in an audit. If both which is more important. Because failing an audit have real consequences, while having breaches in security have almost none. Just look at credit score companies.