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by breakpointalpha 13d ago
Presumably the guard is supposed to keep the "bad people" out, so that kids can be safe. Instead, the Mom is placed on probation for seven years and will have monthly visits from CPS.
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by breakpointalpha 13d ago
At a minimum a judge signed warrant should be required for any data access. Second, a third-party annual security and data audit, with power to revoke licenses if findings aren't mitigated within a reasonable time frame. Finally, a civ
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by breakpointalpha 14d ago
This article appears to be a coordinated attack on Perplexity. Also posted today is this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375 Containing this link: https://trellner.com/reports/manuf
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
It seems reasonable that Axon, the #1 police body camera vendor, would benefit from a national social media wave of hate towards it's competitor Flock. People who get angry enough to tear down the Flock cameras in their area get rounde
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
Personally the line for me is a human police officer with reasonable judgement and accountability. If an officer was standing next to every Flock camera in America, the public would be hyper aware of the situation we are now in. Mass, warra
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
I asked my local sheriff about the Flock cameras that are located on my street. He swore that they were only "ALPR" (Automatic License Plate Readers) and "definitely not Flock cameras". I went and looked again, and the
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
He is likely quite wealthy now, from his long career on YT. I'm sure that many of the things you see as "work" are hired out. Video editing, thumbnails, etc. Even hiring multiple Linux developers to help him get through a tri
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
I think they fully understood, which is why they all got jail sentences.
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by breakpointalpha 1mo ago
"Stand back and stand by."
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by breakpointalpha 2mo ago
At a minimum the data center should be responsible for paying for noise mitigation on all houses within a half mile of the site. That work could be done within a few months, upgrade all the window treatments, replace all doors with solid co
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by breakpointalpha 2mo ago
Yes.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
The day reddit asks me to upload an ID to shitpost about the NBA is the day I stop using reddit.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
A union absolutely can and should protect workers from frivolous layoffs. If the company tries to layoff 10% "due to AI" the remaining 90% can strike. History is full of union solidarity vs idiotic management.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
US software engineers need a union. If I hadn't already landed a job somewhere else, I would only return with a 20% pay bump and an iron-clad contract.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
It's routine and trivial for the US Gov to enforce export controls on non-US based companies. This "across the border" strategy will not work. Seagate Singapore was hit with civil penalties and settlements for shipments to Hu
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
Ah thanks for reminding me to cancel my subscription.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
Good reminder for me to cancel my Cursor subscription. I don't support Elmo.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
As a pedestrian, can you sell your neighbor's dangerous car?
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
If a driver would get a ticket, shouldn't Tesla also get a ticket? In the US, drivers kill pedestrians all the time and are barely punished. Is this the same standard that should be adopted everywhere?
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
There's nothing truly secure from a group of highly motivated nerds.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
I don't understand why "break the door down" wouldn't be the most immediate course of action by a senior engineer in that situation. I'll get my tools.
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by breakpointalpha 3mo ago
I don't understand this point of view. $140k in a LCOL is a fantastic salary. Median US household income is $83k/yr. It feels more likely your investment account gains are driving your decisions. Stock gains are also driven by inf
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
Discord's killer feature is the "hangout" room. You can see if people are in there and actively talking before you join and that alone encourages spontaneous drop ins.
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
I actually think many people would choose this option, if it was possible. 21% of Americans are functionally illiterate according to the University of Alabama.
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
I quit reading after the first paragraph when I saw this pattern: "Not X, not y, not z, A!" The overly emotional paragraph headlines were also off putting.
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
U of Arizona graduated roughly 10,000 students this weekend. Schmidt could have paid off every student loan for every graduate in full and not even noticed it as a rounding error in his net worth. Would have done so much more for humanity t
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
Still Capitalism, but the Nordic Model. High taxes on the wealthy, high social spending for all, lower business regulations, lower wealth inequality, and high labor market flexibility. https://maseconomics.com/nordic-model-e
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
The core loop of new friend formation is repeated casual contact. School is naturally good at forcing this, since we are filtering in and out of different class groups. If you want to recreate this in post-school life, you have to join high
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
No, it's infinitely worse for your life to be surrounded by bad decision makers.
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by breakpointalpha 4mo ago
From the post: "curl is currently 176,000 lines of C code when we exclude blank lines. The source code consists of 660,000 words, which is 12% more words than the entire English edition of the novel War and Peace. ... curl is installed

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