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many cults do this regularly

Anthropic simply has a better claim, better PR

most people have been already inoculated against that kind of doomsday predictions

(and also because of this there's a huge problem with solving slow moving diasters, like climate change)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339625

the difference in which side of this bet people take.

of course each stock price is many bets intersecting at the same time (with all their correlations of course)

stocks are claims on future cash flows, currency is claim on future purchasing power, but all can be though of as forms of money, where the prices are based on background information [ie. priors, beliefs, experience] and people's prediction of the future supply and demand.

and the general abstract definition of said bet is asking where are you in the information flow. if you know with sufficient certainty how the people afer you will evaluate some news then you can guess which side to take to make some money.

unfortunately this would lead to more innocents getting coerced into various schemes, or simply their signature stolen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...

https://xkcd.com/538/

Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:31PM (#50321275)
enable the proposed repo (and pin it to a lower priority) and install the package explicitly

https://ubuntu.com/project/docs/SRU/reference/sru-verificati...

or download the individual package (and dpkg --install ... but this doesn't check signatures)

https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/26.04/ubuntu-proposed-main-amd64/lin...

check https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432

the amendment passed, no? so it already survived quite a bit of discussions
... yet hundreds of other TLDs manage to do rollover without an incident of this magnitude.

I completely agree that the tooling is questionable, and that the protocol is meh, but in this case the monitoring noticed the problem yet humans did not notice (or get) the alert.

I assume police already stores dossiers on reported crimes.

Initially it's a report. Place, time, allegation, supporting evidence.

The question is how much (automated) detection ought to be allowed, what's the retention period, and so on.

Flock is a bad trade-off, but that doesn't mean there's no point in collecting data. If every datum is a semi-tangible report, then the sensitivity/specificity has quite a good change of being high (especially compared to dragnet surveillance with post-hoc data fishing).

Germany also got so high on Putin's gas that it turned off nuclear power plants. So yes, it's not trivial to deploy, but it makes sense to do so, especially on the long term, no?
structuring is illegal for tax evasion too!

obviously if someone is a repeat offender then as they cross the threshold, chop-chop, straight to jail, charge them with the whole batch of crimes together.

it doesn't mean keep no records of crimes and don't respond at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat -> he's in bed with Israel -> someone mixing up Israel with Judaism?
safe transit is important exactly for the people who barely have a few dollars for transit. subsidized tickets are the way to go. by enabling and allowing fare evasion for those who need it unfortunately allows those to get in who don't need to.

https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2026/news20260908

and still. limited resources means some crimes will go unpunished.

let's start with the ones above $1,000 first, hm?

Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:57PM (#50171798)
sorry, can please explain this? which benchmark are you referring to?
Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:41PM (#50171607)
https://rusted-kernel.com/

though not updated yet, but the script is on GitHub

https://github.com/tb0hdan/rusted-kernel

Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:51AM (#50166438)
Re:Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:19AM (#50085241)
you misinterpret my comment.

i am using that as support for my claim that this extralegal proscription of access to financial services would likely also not survive the courts.

my position on this is simple. if the state claims there's something illegal then they should charge him/them, if not then pressuring private parties to stop exercising their freedom of assembly and association obviously goes against the spirit of civil rights and the rule of law.

(and I know the problem is convoluted, hard and obviously a realpolitik minefield, but ... again, obviously whatever the last 20 years of elected governments were/are doing did not solve the problems.)

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:07AM (#50085102)
as I was reading your comment I was thinking about what the bug is, and my initial guess (pulled out of thin ass-air) was that even on mobile somehow the touch targets overlap and there's no way to actually send the click to "policy"
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:47AM (#50084919)
interesting observation!

on mobile it works (where I would expect the hamburger menu), and on usual desktop I have the usual menu bar, but when I change the window size on desktop I get the hamburger menu (and then the UX jankiness is evident, but for me easy to work around, as moving the mouse down closes the "research" block and then it's quite simple to move it up to be able to click "policy")

at this point I think Opus does something better by default

Re:Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:48AM (#50084409)
banks declined to do business with him (and/or with the movement he is associated with) not for "his opinion", but for his actions

IMHO it's obvious that there should be a limited minimum/basic account provided by the state unconditionally, and that the current practice of using AML regulations to effectively ban people from having bank cards and bank accounts goes against the spirit of due process.

it's quite farcical that private banks are used as mandatory designated sin-eaters (scapegoats) for this. they don't want to and mostly can't comment on the specifics (because SAR - suspicious activity reporting - and the various national equivalents, usually immediately triggers the requirement to play dumb, since that's the only way to ensure that the bank cannot be later dragged in front of whatever authority for not cooperating with the investigation) but everyone knows it, since it's in the fucking news.

and the actual legal actions tend to be overturned.

all of which in total end up helping these organizations (and these politicians) to farm reputation.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/entry-ban-for-austrian-...

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:24AM (#50073196)
through a non-profit of course.

I don't like the changes, but if someone wants easy access to all the Android phones someone needs to take responsibility for what gets published. (and naturally since it's mostly a sham we need to have some shell corporation, just as malware publishers already have.)

Re:Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:19AM (#50056060)
people are very good at seeing their pets conforming to their expectations, whether that is scientifically true or not :)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-breed-individual-beh...

> Breed offers little predictive value for individuals, explaining just 9% of variation in behavior.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/which-dog-breed-s... (here note how big the overlap is between breeds for most traits, and clumpiness is rare, but present)

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:05PM (#50036048)
addig Vaulwarden compatibility to already FOSS mobile password managers might be the path of least resistance

or pooling together tokens and asking Claude nicely to make a mobile app

Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:08AM (#49988473)
granting an option for people who want to have this seems strictly better. it could be a bit more expensive to cover the added administration burden.

this is a very local need of some people. they are a minority, and they want some accomodations.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:11PM (#49984208)
it's industrial policy, which is of course the minimum for being able to even think about having independent thoughs when it comes to international relations.

hard to stand up for EU (or even national) values if some dude in Washington has the keys for most of your military

having at least some in-house expertise is the first step.

yes, but valuations are dogshit, which means capital is scarce, runways are too short, products end up so-so, and startups fail before they gain mindshare, not to mention the long enterprise sales cycles
every time oil is removed the walls are damaged (because they pump in water to force out the oil, which dissolves more of the walls)

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-pet...

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