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> If it is then I have a 5th amendment right not to.

No, you don't. You have a 5th amendment right not to incriminate yourself. That means:

1. You must have committed a crime, which is not a given in a traffic accident.

2. You may not be coerced by the government into incriminating yourself. You are not protected from your property incriminating you. Imagine how absurd a world that would be: the government couldn't use a bloody knife as evidence of a knife attack because the knife was owned by the attacker.

Importantly, you'll also note that if you try not to provide evidence against yourself in civil discovery, you'll end up in a world of shit involving contempt of court.

> Taking something without paying for it is theft.

You keep using the word "theft". Let's grab the definition of "theft" from a legal dictionary:

> Theft is the taking of another person's personal property with the intent of depriving that person of the use of their property. Also referred to as larceny.

The intent of depriving another of their property is a key element of theft. When one receives a copy of data, no one is deprived of their property. It's substantially similar to how I can not steal your car by taking a photo of it.

Not only that, but the typical intellectual property industry nonsense of referring to unauthorized copying as "theft" does not apply. Google, who have acquired a right to distribute this data, are serving it to you.

> You can get into whatever legalize [sic] you want but that doesn’t change the fact that you are doing what the vast majority of people recognize as the common definition of theft.

The legalese matters because it's the best way we've come up with to consistently reason about topics like this regardless of shared values.

There is no theft happening in the case of blocking ads.

Your claim about "the vast majority of people" is patently absurd -- because you have not provided and almost certainly do not possess any evidence to substantiate it -- and lacks a basis in fact. Regardless, we do not reason about these things based on the fluctuating opinion of the masses. There is no case in which blocking ads meets "the common definition of theft".

Oh wow. I seriously considered working at comma (the company I believe George Hotz is referencing in that post) once. After reading "[Elon Musk] […] had all the same ideas as me", I feel like I dodged a bullet.

Here's the command it sounds like you're looking for:

`journalctl --grep="search string"`

You can limit it by time period like this:

`journalctl --since=-6h --grep="search string"`

Note that there's a separate user journal (such as for things that show up with an indication in the systray), accessible like this when in a shell as that user:

`journalctl --user --since=-6h --grep="search string"`

Also, if you really want, SysV still exists and works. You can setup a system with SysV and syslog-ng and have the good ol' service run system and flat log files back.

Do you think autistic 17 year olds should be restricted in their ability to access the world's knowledge, as compared to their allistic peers? How do you envision that working the next year, when they're 18 years old? More broadly, how do you justify blaming the parents? Do you figure companies should be allowed to market a service to teenagers (or the general populous) which suggests they harm or kill themselves?

What do you think these parents should have done differently in parenting their 17 year old, autistic son?

I'm not aware of an instance of DMCA bullying resulting in the claimant being held responsible. Do you know of any?

Have you found a better alternative?

I'm trying to center around MQTT, myself, but looking for a way to use many of the wonderful integrations created by the Home Assistant community. I'm also trying to find a good solution to "react to state changes".

> and there is literally no way of fixing that.

This is obviously incorrect from a quick glance at history.

Long distance travel in the US used to occur primarily by train. Short distance travel used to occur by walking and streetcar.

Now, with suburban sprawl (a relatively recent phenomen), we have something we could call medium distance that is filled in some areas by light rail.

We now also have other options for very long distance travel: aircraft.

I played several dozen hours of HELLION with a friend. I wish that game had made it to completion.

I'm autistic and, despite being aware of their perverse use, am still perplexed by the reality. That said, I've had a few shitty managers now and have used these systems and processes. It has surprised me how effective they've been at getting those managers off of my back, at the least.

That is incorrect. This is not the only legal way to design this.

I own a Volkswagen ID.4, also an EV with electronic door handles. The door handles also function as the mechanical emergency release. When the handle is only slightly pulled, the electronic release opens the door. When the handle is fully pulled twice, the mechanical release opens the door. The car also has (electronic) child safety locks, and is legally sold in the US.

D'oh. In my tiredness, I misread it as freezing them receiving data, but now I see it's like the other firms, where they continue to receive and store data but stop honoring requests to share it.

I wish I could opt out. Unfortunately, my company refuses to provide such information except through The Work Number. So, the next time I apply to rent a home, I'd be out of luck with income or employment verification.

> Values such as the ones the US was founded on: things like individual liberty and deep distrust of governments,

While I can relate to the deep distrust of governments and have a strong belief in individual liberty, I don't understand the connection to homeschooling. Could you elaborate?

> particularly governments wanting to indoctrinate children. And governments have done plenty to earn such distrust.

Do you have any evidence of US public schools indoctrinating children en masse? I find this a rather extreme claim that I am unaware of convincing evidence of. Thus, I'm a position where, as a rational person, I must assume that the two most probable situations are that the claim is either false or I am woefully ignorant, and that I am ill equipped to engage with this without further exposition.

> > the parents' "values" are almost always some crackpot nonsense > > "Almost always" is way, way too broad. Yes, some parents' values are crackpot nonsense, but many are not. One does not have to be a crackpot to prefer homeschooling to US public schools.

What are some examples of values that would lead one to prefer to homeschool their child, and are not "crackpot values"?

> The open-source community will continue adopting "next-gen" "encryption" even though it has back doors, just like they didn't question elliptic curve encryption even after the NSA got caught putting out a compromised algorithm.

The NSA put out a known compromised elliptic curve encryption algorithm? Or are you referring to Dual_EC_DRBG, a probably compromised random number generator?

The unlimited “freedom of contract” is an idea that the US Supreme Court reversed position on in the 1930s – merely 30 years after it was invented – and for good reason. For those wondering, “freedom of contract” as a term of art is essentially the idea that a government cannot regulate the behavior of parties to a contract, because the involved parties have some unlimited power of contract. The US Supreme Court found this in Lochner v. New York (1905), and reversed it in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937).

You seem to have implied a business’ right to exist, and operate at the expense of others free from regulation. As demonstrated, the earlier part of your comment was rather light on factually correct information, but could you cite the jurisprudence backing this idea of yours?

What typically happens around me seems to be that someone installs aftermarket headlights — often obnoxiously bright — and then fail to actually adjust them correctly. And we (in this American state) don’t have those types of safety inspections.

Or they just drive around with their high beams on all the time. That happens, too.

The former half of your comment is misleading: All large standards organizations work with anyone willing to contribute, as far as I’m aware.

The latter half of your comment is factually incorrect: I’ve been a member of both IETF and ISO cryptography-related working groups and seeing people who work for NIST or NSA is not uncommon.

I own an ID.4 and live in the US. In my opinion, the ID.4 is enormous and handles like a barge. For perspective, I used to drive a Corolla as my commuting car. In hindsight, I kinda wish I would’ve just waited for a current-year Nissan Leaf to be in stock. But, I had burned out on looking for Leafs between dealerships blatantly lying to me and trying to sell me 5+ year old Leafs for roughly the MSRP of a brand new one.

Thanks for the reply!

I think I may be less exposed to the risk of losing my job to an RIF due to belonging to an especially small but necessary niche (cryptography).

That perspective is an interesting one that I’ll need to devote more thought to. It seems particularly interesting in the light that the most lucrative and numerous employment in my field (large financial institutions) tend not to provide significant raises or internal mobility. The oft-stated workaround is to leave the company for 6 months.

Out of ignorant curiosity: I’ve heard that an anticipated problem of renewables is overproduction. i.e.: generators produce too much electricity, causing the grid frequency to exceed tolerance.

How does one throttle a geothermal plant? Are these geothermal plants operating turbines, and thus are throttled by redirecting steam away from the turbines?

I hate these rituals at $bigCo, but pretty strongly believe I need the stability of working for $bigCo to feel happy. Is there somewhere that isn’t a startup that doesn’t have these issues?

Ah. I had guessed as much, but figured that was an awful assumption to apply to someone. Now, looking at their post history, I see they also advocate for the idea that similar groups of people are less intelligent based on their skin color.

Truly disappointing.

Would you care to elaborate what you believe this problem is, and how you've deduced it?

Does that not imply that everyone else — through taxes — subsidizes losses, and thus poor business decisions? If so, why should these be subsidized for businesses? Should regular expenses also be subsidized for individuals?

bigclivedotcom, aka the Consumer Reports of electronics that catch on fire and/or perform miracles.

> not to mention it’s ableist.

Thank you! Seeing someone recognize this is wonderful.

I have a disability that has resulted in me being screwed over by the idea that communication, “emotional intelligence”, and other “soft skills” are somehow more important than my ability to do the job. I often feel that I’m alone when I acknowledge that I’m bad at those things, and that I do not intend to change that by constantly fighting my biology (“masking”).