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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:14AM (#49192350)
What do you think this link is proving actually? Its absolutely irrelevant to heat deaths, so nothing from either you or stratom lying.
Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:04AM (#49179121)
> With similar statistics, US numbers are several times higher. And as Europe has an older population, rates are likely higher, but the real difference is much smaller.

Cool, so if you have the numbers or graphs, paste a link

I of course believe you're lying. Probably out of the standard xenophobia.

It wouldn't make sense considering average US household infrastructure vs average EU household infrastructure so I sincerely doubt you're able to prove it, or whoever you're going to cite as proof.

How do they fit the definition? What specific fascist goals?

I don't have a strong bill into who you are or your expertise on the matter, so I have to question it, especially no credentials on the matter extending a "definitive answer" to the people involved.

Re:Turn And Face The Strange on Saturday July 25, 2026 @06:20PM (#49052261)
It's right in the point it brings up that modern LLMs are serious engineering and quite a bit capable at many tasks. It's not correct on the rest where Ptacek appears dismissive because 'he doesn't wanna hear' about copyright and other things, maybe we chalk it up to an upset guy at people he believes and maybe knows are wrong and ignore the rest of the spiel, but I won't.
If only their definition matters then their only purpose in this thread is to derail the conversation, or in other words railroad everyone else out because only they can be right.

People responding reject that, because if you're not being specific, you're not making an argument, you're just here to be an asshole.

> Go on, take that theory just the tiniest little step further logically.

So you take that step, is that illegal immigrant a citizen now because they killed someone?

> If every potential mate and employer was able to review everything you've ever posted online, we'd all be much more careful with what we say, much better able to screen out bad actors, and the wold would be a better place for it.

This is stalking and is illegal. Are there any other crimes you want to claim as righteous?

Presuming you want stalking to be repealed and permissible, you have quite a few bars to pass through.

And in that society, are you willing to have me as your enemy who is very willing to push society to its utter limits? I know I'd be good at it, and I know thousands if not millions of people who share this interest. Because, as you say, its any potential mate/employer.

You can ask dang specifically or another moderator to prove if you are being trafficked down to irrelevancy by bots. I'm very certain you're wrong either way.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:52PM (#48693987)
Amazon, NSA, apparently a few other 3 letter agencies around the world, but the lattermost probably did not expect access to their agencies would be limited but appreciate that they aren't going to be exposed as security frauds by just anyone
Re: on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:56PM (#48623003)
Can attest to this. The door going into the secure area is the most secure part of a SCIF and always has been. Some companies do the LAN inside the SCIF a bit better than others, but generally its not significantly any different from what is otherwise corpnet on the outside, and tends to be weaker because there (not so rare to find) isn't a corpnet on the inside.

As the article mentions, no new attack vectors were found, but just the scale of it is the concerning part.

> As you helpfully noted in your second half of your comment, high wealth, deliberately low income[0] means they are not in the top tax bracket[1] on the basis of their carefully calculated, tax-optimized income.

There is no optimization for anything actually, its just income. There's lots of different forms of taxes that the US government takes part in as you know. Quitting your day job removes the income part until distribution/settlement for any owned assets.

You can argue for a wealth tax, but conflating two separate concepts is not how you do it.

This reads like a tired response not even engaging with the point. What amount of detail would relay to you "human energy"?

You don't even engage with the original argument, you skip past it and claim "we all, collectively" without understanding the meaning of the words, and absolutely they matter.

You do it again with me with the lame "McDonald's". My advice to you is to stop railroading a conversation. It never works. Unless you only want to speak to people like cassianoleal or hgoel.

Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:18PM (#48530690)
Hey, if it's irrelevant noise then why are you crying about it?

Anyway, to make it the UK's problem even more, I will be doing what I can to eliminate the UK's traffic to as many services as possible. I have no interest in supporting the small island or it's people or their great red coat firewall.

Enjoy your wall.

"we all" is wrong, always.

You do not agree with me. You can't claim to have my interests or my will if you are against it.

Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:02PM (#48518538)
We also know that this premise is simply wrong, Census is statistical survey, no party in the world is legally allowed to inspect the contents of the individual form via Title 13.

Counting illegals is not possible under the Census currently or in any point in the future most likely

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/9

https://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born/about/...

Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:52AM (#48518448)
Counting illegals on a poorly defined framework of which is largely self attestation?
> On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work.

Why is it hard? Can't find a pick from the ~3% unemployment rate? That's approx 100-200k people, are you sure you can't find a person in that selection?

Maybe you're asking a bit much for standards that you are weakly attempting at a defense or justification.

This argument without any other qualifications reads to me as whinging that you're not getting everything you want. So lower your standards, offer more pay, or just move to a different country.

> In failed states, sure.

If you're describing the US as a failed state then we have nothing to talk about. Notwithstanding the fact the essence of the state at question even being relevant.

Enjoy your day.

> It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.

Guns are a first line defense for millions of people. A lawyer with a briefcase and a judge wearing a gaudy robe+wig is not a defense at all.

Though the imagery of it would be funny of blasting each of those out of a cannon.

Even the government agrees, issuing a firearm to their officers who go out into the field (read: where everyone else is).

Re:State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:22PM (#47027176)
Bad actors like --

William Tong, Anne E. Lopez, Dave Yost, Jonathan Skrmetti, Gwen Tauiliili-Langkilde, Kris Mayes, Tim Griffin, Rob Bonta, Phil Weiser, Kathleen Jennings, Brian Schwalb, Christopher M. Carr, Kwame Raoul, Todd Rokita, Kris Kobach, Russell Coleman, Liz Murrill, Aaron M. Frey, Anthony G. Brown, Andrea Joy Campbell, Dana Nessel, Keith Ellison, Lynn Fitch, Catherine L. Hanaway, Aaron D. Ford, John M. Formella, Jennifer Davenport, Raúl Torrez, Letitia James, Drew H. Wrigley, Gentner Drummond, Dan Rayfield, Dave Sunday, Peter F. Neronha, Alan Wilson, Marty Jackley, Gordon C. Rhea, Derek Brown, Charity Clark, and Keith Kautz

--

Always operate under the assumption that the people serve the state, not the other way around. There are some names in that list that are outwardly infamous of this behavior, and none are surprising considering what type of person looks to be an AG. Maybe fighting fire with fire is appropriate - no such thing as a private life for any of these people, all their communications are open to the public 100% of the time and there are precisely 0 instances where it is not the case. It's only fair considering that is what their goal is for everyone not of the state.

Re:Vouch on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:57PM (#46937323)
What kind of things would you like to hear? The default is you hear nothing. Most black boxes work this way. And you similarly have no say in the matter.
Re:How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:02PM (#46832943)
GP is saying that the LLM of choice is not necessarily able to translate the jargon, or establishes itself to be an expert at the concept(s) to employ the jargon compatible with the user.
This is a reaction to reputation, which is sometimes reasonable. But reasonable people also confirm their suspicions with evidence regardless of the situation.

Go ahead and save your time, but remember your reputation is at risk as well, and I would consider you unreasonable.

> Pretty predictable what happens when you deny coverage for a treatment someone needs

Other poster demonstrated that you have no idea what "need" is. So you also have no idea what a "shortcoming of the present system" is either, because how the hell would you even know?

Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:28AM (#46675358)
Where the hell did you read that
Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:24AM (#46675341)
OK so its much a shallower thought than I anticipated.

Why go through the "prediction market" at all then? The hitman still killed someone, payments are not anonymous in this market, and its certainly not clean. Further, you share the pot with however many are involved, proportional to the allotted bets on each side and presuming binary prediction. And if the winds change on the market for the bet proportional to the "hitman's" side, you lose out on dollars that would otherwise be paid to you (the hitman).

And it'd be so easy to stiff the hitman just by equalizing the positions by timing it.

All that risk for something that's far simpler to just pay directly?

Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:35PM (#46674770)
Why would the opposing side of that exact same bet allow themselves to be fleeced of all that money for free?
Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:43AM (#46597645)
There's a number of people who try and influence elections, money is not nearly as effective as you think it is. Or else a few people that have a few billion in their coffers would run and have won elections in places and other things far more than what they currently do/have done.

The wealthiest entity in the USA is the government itself. It's not even close.

Further, if currency was not able to influence things then that eliminates the main purpose of fiat currency, there is obviously a place for it in any case. Just because you don't like the direction it's being used doesn't mean you have a reasonable position either. Fiat is a benefit to the government in all ways and its in it's best interest to uphold the strength of their currency, not just for the locals to the land in the borders, but if they want to influence the rest of the world.

You should go down the path of "fair elections" because you otherwise lose all points for being vague and imprecise that no one can contest you on because you don't think we are worth the argument.

I look forward to the Great Australian firewall, maybe they can contain themselves without infecting the rest of the world.
> arguments like this ignore the point.

And the point should be ignored even more. Free software is a fairly specific thing, trying to co-opt it into something it isn't makes you the bad actor

Make your own idea instead of stealing and leeching off the success of others. Thats frankly disrespectful to even have the gall to do this. You definitely don't deserve ruining another's image for your idea of how society should work.

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