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by hammock 3d ago
There was an organization I came across that was working with private property owners to set up cameras outside/pointed at politicians, etc and sharing the footage. I can’t recall the name though
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by hammock 3d ago
> it's just some installer dude probably making $65k/year to climb poles and fasten cameras I find it hard to be persuaded by the salary idea. A hitman who works for $100 is just as bad as one who works for $10,000. In fact o
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by hammock 3d ago
The border guys are there are really aggressive too. I canoed the st croix up around there and you are warned not to paddle north of the halfway line in the middle of the river… agents will literally pop out of the woods and start reproachi
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by hammock 4d ago
You’re right. But I read between the lines in a different way. Language like this is intended to invest power and perceived need for more power in Western central governments, by design, because this is a campaign for national regulation
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by hammock 4d ago
Wasn’t trying to dick measure nvda vs fed. More thinking thru guarantees vs assets for the two institutions
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by hammock 4d ago
“Federal reserve note” You are taking this too literally anyway. I know they don’t backstop jack squat but in practice there is a fed put. Have a conversation with me, don’t be a pedant. If you are saying they will lend last resort against
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by hammock 4d ago
Ok how much did the fed sign up to backstop then? Surely it’s more than physical currency
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by hammock 4d ago
M2 is $21 trillion, which is what the fed signed up to backstop. How much did NVDA sign up to backstop?
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by hammock 6d ago
> to Hofstafer analogy making isn't some higher level cognitive process, certainly not a language based one, but basically is THE cognitive process This is so funny to me, because as many people know, sharing an analogy with another
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by hammock 8d ago
Here is maybe what he was remembering from HN: > Our Samsung fridge’s manual says it’ll automatically and silently mesh network with any Samsung TVs in range, use AI and hidden cameras to recognize what’s in the fridge and when we use i
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by hammock 10d ago
Great questions. In saying “accurate information” there is a hidden presumption that not all government information needs to be shared. Forget about whether it’s accurate or not and who decides what’s accurate, just be maximally open The fr
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by hammock 11d ago
I agree, eventually, but LLMs aren’t there quite yet. There are what, maybe 10 million distinct agents in the wild today? 100 million or a billion if we’re being charitable. At the time being, the vast vast majority of those agents are all
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by hammock 11d ago
Really only three or four things you ought to say during a stop “( Name and address, or license registration and insurance if in a vehicle)” -required by law pretty much everywhere. “I’m exercising my right to silence. I will not answer que
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by hammock 11d ago
Same thing with FISA abuse. Nothing materially changes
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by hammock 11d ago
> How was there ever any doubt that these cameras and this access would be used in this way? Strawman. I have never heard of one single ingenuous person that believed these would only be used appropriately. The main issue is that our gov
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by hammock 11d ago
> Surely access to footage can be gated behind some sort of expedited digital court warrant? These are police-owned cameras filming public areas. A better solution would be to require court approval to buy and vote these cameras, or wher
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by hammock 11d ago
There is a GREAT, accessible video about this experiment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjnTJos_no
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by hammock 13d ago
I was directly responding to a comment arguing that bus drivers were more adept at avoiding pedestrian killings than SUV drivers. Unfortunately extra training cannot change the physics of a 40,000 pound hunk of metal. If you look at passeng
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by hammock 13d ago
This is for SF, so 100% urban for both bus and vehicle data
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by hammock 13d ago
I provided the surface streets only metric, which eliminates freeways
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by hammock 13d ago
Per government data, San Francisco Muni bus pedestrian fatalities are roughly 2 per 100 million miles, while general motor vehicle pedestrian fatalities are a fraction of that, about 0.4 per 100 million miles. Even if you limit strictly to
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by hammock 14d ago
>Democracy works best as a diffuse institution and is more than just voting. People are supposed to have rights and power themselves People holding power themselves is called self-governance (in the Jeffersonian way). People voting for r
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by hammock 14d ago
You may be surprised to learn that the US corporate tax (yes, that one, the main one we already have and everyone pays) was originally introduced in 1909 specifically as an antitrust measure, to clip the wings of US Steel and Standard Oil.
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by hammock 14d ago
Great question. The adtech is what rigs the auctions for their moneymaker, the ads. If they no longer own the adtech then their ad revenue suffers greatly.
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by hammock 14d ago
What can’t be solved with legislation?
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by hammock 16d ago
Can’t phone cameras pick up IR?
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by hammock 17d ago
Same here, first time I had balut in Vietnam it unlocked some kind of primal level in me I didn’t know I had.
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by hammock 18d ago
Interestingly, the US has ADDED a glacier in the last 30 years, that of Mount St Helens, which was able to form after the explosion in 1980. It is the youngest glacier on earth
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by hammock 19d ago
Beautiful comment. Thank you for sharing
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by hammock 19d ago
Exactly. Think how much more efficient our government could be if we had one centrally planned government instead of 50 sovereign states. Sometimes I wish I could move to the USSR.

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