Lendal

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by Lendal 27d ago
True, it does not say the reason for the decline to indict. It could have as much to do with the overall decline in quality of the DoJ and its cases as a whole over the past year. Many nonsalient crimes will also go unprosecuted under this
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by Lendal 1mo ago
If a rival political party takes power in 2029 and they decide to do nothing about this, are they complicit? If the cops drive past a mugging, observe, and then drive on past allowing the law to go unenforced, are they not just as corrupt a
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by Lendal 2mo ago
The irony is this will harm US manufacturing, not help it. Manufacturing is the sector that most depends on robotics. Companies will now have to sue the administration so they can continue operations without this new regulatory hindrance. I
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by Lendal 2mo ago
There's no reason it can't. You could do the same thing on streaming as was done back in the radio days. I've been searching for it but haven't really found it yet. So far the closest thing I found was when Huey Lewis di
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by Lendal 2mo ago
The thing I did not expect is when watching a Youtube video, I cannot tell if the voice narration is an AI-generated voice, but I know for a fact if the entire script was written by AI.
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by Lendal 3mo ago
> 5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Here's where it went off the rails. Once you've abandoned the idea of democracy and peaceful self-governance, you're just anothe
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by Lendal 3mo ago
Yeah, I agree somewhat. But I also got the feeling when reading this article that this guy loves motte-and-bailey. People don't intentionally set out to do motte-and-bailey arguments, but they often do it by accident. When people reali
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by Lendal 3mo ago
It's already a massive grid of moving dots. You can see it from the ground in certain dark-enough areas, but in order to see it in space you have to get outside LEO, like Artemis did. They don't have lights but they are shiny and
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by Lendal 3mo ago
If you continue in this industry of software creation in a corporate setting, and you put your name into the source code, eventually you will become known for products/features that you never expected to become known for. And the thing
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by Lendal 3mo ago
I'm not so sure that enforcing an internal digital monoculture is a productive way to achieve innovation & resilience.
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by Lendal 3mo ago
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, since you have a friend who's a cop I'm compelled to ask the uncomfortable question, is an otherwise good cop who protects bad cops still a good cop?
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by Lendal 3mo ago
That doesn't explain the first ~230 years of US history though, where police weren't this way and we had the same Constitution.
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by Lendal 4mo ago
Yep. These companies forget that we can use AI too, to unpack these ridiculous corporate statements in record time to get right down to the point: We're going to dump all our values, and not even going to pay lip service to things like
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by Lendal 4mo ago
The American people knew who they were electing. They knew it, and they elected him anyway. Whatever damage results from that collective decision is our cross to bear.
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by Lendal 5mo ago
I get emotional whenever I see anyone with enough good sense to pass the baton at the proper time rather than die in office, letting it drop and clatter to the ground.
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by Lendal 5mo ago
Now if only members of our representative government would follow his lead to voluntarily retire when it's time, hand off the baton to a new generation, we'd all be so much better off.
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by Lendal 5mo ago
Even if they were to pass such a law which would be political suicide, it would still be up to the courts to say that it doesn't violate the Constitution. For example, a law that says anyone with a net worth of $1B can freely punch any
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by Lendal 5mo ago
People on both sides seem to give capitalism a lot of credit for human traits that existed long before capitalism.
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by Lendal 5mo ago
It's okay to have two conflicting thoughts about something and both be true at the same time. AI is awesome but at the same time is promising to do evil in the future. Why? Facebook has done a lot of good for the world, like React for
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by Lendal 7mo ago
The entire tech industry is rooted in the study of subjects which were extemporaneously considered unnecessary by the average person.
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by Lendal 8mo ago
Bingo. The guy has a lot of things right, but I was floored when I read "progressive consumption tax" coming from an otherwise well written essay. Consumption taxes are regressive, and no amount of progressive lip stick will make
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by Lendal 9mo ago
How do we even know they're being honest? They've been lying about everything for so long, and now we're just suddenly gonna believe they're being honest only when it pertains to Venezuela? Why?
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by Lendal 9mo ago
I have a file like this, several years long, but parsed with YAML so that each day is clearly separated from the next, and for list parsing, and for dictionary parsing so each project I work on is associated with a YAML dictionary key. I ca
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by Lendal 9mo ago
I chuckled when I read that, when over-16 is considered elderly. What will we do when we no longer have the views of 14 year olds at our fingertips? Well, hopefully they will write their views down on notepaper, and in two years we'll
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by Lendal 10mo ago
It's a personal decision. I haven't gotten a diagnosis because I've been able to hold a job for many years, and I'm married, so I'm mostly fine. But I have spent my life avoiding most human contact, precisely becaus
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by Lendal 10mo ago
Thanks for that insight. I previously had only a vague notion of why disorder is used. One of the main reasons I don't want to have an official diagnosis is because the word disorder has such a negative connotation. I really don't
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by Lendal 11mo ago
After rereading, it sounds like I meant for the two sentences to be related, but I didn't mean it that way. I was referring to the fact of Microsoft trying to force people to connect to the Internet before they can install Windows, or
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by Lendal 11mo ago
Manufacturing and automation is another big one. Think about a water plant that is air-gapped but needs computer automation software to run. These things are everywhere, in every town that has indoor plumbing and sewer. The specialized soft
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by Lendal 11mo ago
It depends on what your motives are. Every evil personality you hate started out first as a subversive force. Do you know what the secret end goal of your subversive force flavor-of-the-month is?
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by Lendal 11mo ago
The article describes it as a "useful analogy" but doesn't specify in what way it's useful. Seems the manner in which it's useful depends on your worldview or even your intelligence. Does it mean that predictions of

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