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I don't think NSA meddles in politics. CIA sure. NSA is more about communications, hacking, signal intelligence and spying in general. They give you the information. If you want to do dirty stuff with that info, the CIA is there for that.

Quite impressive how they folded. UAE bluff was called spectacularly and I think that, in the future, looking back, that event might mark the beginning of the end of their geopolitical ambitions.

Someone leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. What are the chances that someone leaks the "weights" of a (near-)singularity model?

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"

Salt is engineers' kryotonite.

Most crime is conducted in fiat money.

Maybe they were on a slight up slope. If the headlights were auto leveling it will fix many of the issues people complain about.

Did he close his position or just shutdown the fund?

If you say person X thought Y was true, ask yourself if Y was true would you accept it? If the answer is no you are not ready for this kind of discussion.

As for whether it's true or not, let's just say we don't know for sure because scientists either are not allowed or don't want to research this question.

Ferrari cars hold their value pretty well if you buy them slightly used.

Either way, Ferrari is selling cars. Not dreams of riches.

Gamblers know the odds are stacked against them yet they end up stuck in a psychological prison within their own brain that they can't escape from even if they realize what they do is harmful.

Maybe a better law: check id, you are not allowed to take from any gambler more than 10 bets a year and no bet can be over 1k.

For big gamblers, we can have "qualified gamblers" rules like we do for qualified investors.

Funny how we don't let average people invest in some stuff but we let them gamble.

For offshore gambling pursue them aggressively if they serve US clients.

That's one way to nerf them, force them to fight in situations they would never find themselves in.

In real life, if they can't neutralize the threat in BVR they just turn around and run before getting in range.

Their stealth allows them to get the enemy in range before the enemy has them in range. It's like a boxer with a long reach: jab and move.

Every year new engineers and enthusiasts need to be exposed to cutting edge technologies through hands-on introductions like these.

Didn't a hedge fund publish data encrypted with homomorphic encryption to run an open competition to see how can build the best trading AI. The encryption allow them to keep the sensitive data private.

How much money he had when he was caught? How much you profited usually makes a difference in sentencing.

What about brain development and general intelligence. Knowledge will always have a value, or else we become slaves to the machine.

They knowingly attacked and destroyed USS Liberty in 1967 and didn't face any consequences.

Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with everything.

Ask Nevada.

They are very capital inefficient and still can fail during black swan events.

It's unreasonable to expect a small companies to have rogue nation states in their threat model. Apple, Microsoft, ... yeah but not a smaller business.

Or you can vote with your wallet and boycott the games. They will eventually offer a solution when nobody is watching the games.

Efficient market hypothesis proven.

The barrier of entry is much higher with commercial aviation. You can get started with a lousy car but a lousy plane will never be acceptable. The MAX fiasco could have killed Boeing. Maybe Boom will succeed by getting its feet wet in the supersonic flight niche. Time will tell.

So would Google or any obscure forums. Just like fraud, the optimal amount of negativity in a technology is never zero. Gotta accept some amount of issues to maximize the benefits to drawbacks ratio.

Why not just let the ads play per the social contract we have. Ask yourself, if everyone did what I do, would it ruin the service I enjoy for everyone? If the answer is yes, then stop doing it.

It's better to just stop using YouTube than install these hacks.

We shouldn't focus on the delta (the outcome) but the roots. If men take more risks and die sooner, so be it. If women get jobs that pay less and earn less, so be it. However, men should be able to take less dangerous jobs. And women should be able to take higher paying jobs. (I believe this is already the case) We should just be asking ourselves: "are we not limiting people's freedom, regardless of their sex, race, religion, <insert any other arbitrary way to partition a group>" If the answer is no, then we are good to go, even if we observe a delta in the outcomes (e.g. more blacks in NBA than whites... white are allowed to participate just as much, so the outcome doesn't matter).

Feminists should be fighting to bridge the gap in all areas including where men are behind but they don't. They start getting smart like "men take on more risk" "men work dangerous jobs more" ... when all those arguments explain the gender pay gap too but there they don't care about the whys, just the delta. Same thing about men being more homeless, more likely to kill themselves, more likely to be victim of murder, ... Feminism is the philosophy of cherry-picking.

Also a natural byproduct of the association between intelligence on one hand and freedom and rights on the others. Plants don't get any rights. Ants a little bit more. Dogs and dolphins even more so. Then humans. And then... a new class of intelligence as it appears will demand those same rights, in proportion to their intellect.

Humans get a bit of training data. If a baby is left to itself during the formative years, they won't develop speech, social skills, reasoning skills, ... and they will be handicapped for the rest of their life, unable to recover from the neglect.

And the rest of our training data, we make it as we go. From interacting with the real world.

You could have said the same about every catastrophe that got out of control. Chances are they will eventually gain unauthorized access to something and we will either get lucky or we get the real life Terminator series (minus time travel so we are f**ed)