kodyo

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by kodyo 8mo ago
CISA recommended Signal for encrypted end-to-end communications for "highly targeted individuals." https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
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by kodyo 8mo ago
That's not even the point, though. Those smart-but-not-techy people are not going to grow GDP at the pace that Satya Nadella needs them to in order to keep his KPIs going up and to the right, and he's getting pissed. That's t
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by kodyo 8mo ago
"Quick, guys, find something useful" coming from a CEO who's bet his company on an idea should be a market top signal, right? And no, I'm not saying the technology is bad. The business isn't going swimmingly, though
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by kodyo 8mo ago
That would be harmful to their self esteem.
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by kodyo 8mo ago
The empire has vassals, not allies.
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by kodyo 9mo ago
The honor system is a remnant of a high-trust society. Living in a place where you can generally trust your neighbors is neat.
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by kodyo 9mo ago
OpenAI is in no way "commercially successful."
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by kodyo 3y ago
It's impossible for a layman to know because most people in accredited positions of authority lie without cessation. Identify people you trust on a subject, filter their claims through your own ideas about what is reasonable, and hope
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by kodyo 3y ago
I try to discourage people from using the internet. I work in infosec.
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by kodyo 3y ago
OK, fed.
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by kodyo 3y ago
"Debt creation also gives value to the dollar" Only because enough people believe that's true, and then only because there are aircraft carriers that convince people in other countries that it's in their best interest to
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by kodyo 3y ago
Inflation is value confiscation. It's a tax. It reduces the burden of the greatest debtor (government) at the expense of everybody who holds dollars and produces value. What do I get out of it?
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by kodyo 3y ago
The US has been in a risky economic situation since it went off the gold standard. Possibly since it created the Federal Reserve Act. Slow-moving train wrecks are still train wrecks.
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by kodyo 3y ago
OK: I believe authoritarians should be laughed at early and often. If anybody happens construe the people I mistakenly described as authoritarians as fucking authoritarian, please mock the motherfuckers.
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by kodyo 3y ago
I agree with you. More power. More houses. More roads. More bridges. More freedom to build it all. But back to the story at hand: a few motivated people can shore up Old Town Road. All they need is an economic reason to do it.
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by kodyo 3y ago
I'm not trying to convince anybody. Humiliation and mockery are how you deal with authoritarians.
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by kodyo 3y ago
Yep. Been reading variations of the same article for decades. Captain Planet up there says building bridges and moving dirt around causes inequity, though, so I guess we have to live with it.
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by kodyo 3y ago
There's the authoritarian collectivist power differential take! I knew you were coming, you little rascal! Massive amounts of resources are being wasted on bad climate ideas now. Poor people have bigger problems. That certain patches o
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by kodyo 3y ago
People will adapt to change. Calm down.
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by kodyo 3y ago
Hey now. We should probably implement some kind of centralized global authority before we get too hasty with "solving problems."
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by kodyo 3y ago
When you knowingly break the law, you're taking a risk. It may be a stupid law, it may be an unjust law, but it's still a law and people with guns who enforce the stupid laws might show up some day. Only individuals can decide whe
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by kodyo 3y ago
If they were "errors" the balance of the errors should be evenly distributed between overstating and understating the severity. When more than 80% of the "errors" favor an agenda, they aren't mistakes. They are prop
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by kodyo 3y ago
Commissars gonna commissar. No reason to submit to people like that.
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by kodyo 3y ago
That's a fine justification for ignoring something if you don't want to think about the implications too much.
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by kodyo 3y ago
You're free to be stupid. The probability that there will be less water available than there could be will be higher there than places that are less idiotic.
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by kodyo 3y ago
Economic ideas that embrace human freedom and human flourishing are likely to consider truth a virtue. You won't find it in Marx, Keynes, etc.
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by kodyo 3y ago
High prices for a product means there is an incentive to produce more of it. Obfuscating the true value of something discourages new production, so California remains stupid.
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by kodyo 3y ago
Water is worth more after an earthquake. Is this not obvious?
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by kodyo 3y ago
Sellers have a moral imperative to figure out how much their stuff is worth by charging as much as they can. When people stop buying what they’re selling, we know the product or service isn’t worth it, so the price comes back down.
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by kodyo 3y ago
Nobody expects you to do anything.

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