kyboren

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by kyboren 7d ago
Indeed. I remember taking a California statewide essay exam in middle school whose prompt was specifically to argue for or against banning Harry Potter from the school library. I wrote a stridently anti-censorship piece extolling the virtue
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by kyboren 8d ago
> Why is it insufficient It's not the voters, the party apparatchiks, (social) media barons, big-dollar donors--no, it's those pesky artists who are responsible for "normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation&quo
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by kyboren 8d ago
Yeah! And for that matter, has Jon Stewart atoned for his sin of leaving The Daily Show in 2015? If he had stayed, no way Trump could have won! And why didn't Oprah run in 2024--she could have saved us! It's all their fault! Get r
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by kyboren 13d ago
What ideal, exactly? A fair (re-)distribution of utility? How about "free" school lunches? Progressive income taxes come close, though ideally they'd have more brackets with higher rates and the brackets would be graduated by
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by kyboren 13d ago
Good, because it's not. The inevitably unfair distribution of utility gains and losses is why I think congestion charges are bad policy. The fact that your proposal leaves a giant loophole for those whose utility gains are the largest
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by kyboren 15d ago
The main problem with that scheme is that its imprecision falls exactly where I think we need the highest precision: The ultra-rich. If they're just a passenger in their driver's black SUV (maybe $100k KBB tops), they're not
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by kyboren 15d ago
I'll rephrase it for you: "Fuck you".
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by kyboren 15d ago
Gee, how very democratic. If others don't like how you're trying to curtail their liberty, they should just out-bribe the politicians. Just as the Framers intended.
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by kyboren 15d ago
It's really difficult to sympathize with your perspective here. >>> Ban smartphones for kids. >>> But the school gives my kids homework on them. >> Then tell the school you and your kid won't use them; they
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by kyboren 15d ago
Imperfect but much better than existing implementations. Really, though, the goal ought to be not only to reduce congestion, but to fairly distribute the net gain of utility among those affected. A marginal $20 has very little utility to
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by kyboren 15d ago
Then refuse on First Amendment grounds. Your child has a right to an education and if you truly, sincerely believe those devices must not be used, the school must offer an accommodation.
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by kyboren 15d ago
I'm not disputing the negative externalities from traffic, nor the laudable goal of reducing the number of vehicles entering cities. I'm not even disputing the effectiveness of congestion pricing at achieving that goal. But the me
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by kyboren 15d ago
Why can't you? These devices require accepting and agreeing to a EULA. Simply refuse the EULA and explain to the school administration that you will not enter into a contractual agreement with Apple or Google, nor will you allow them t
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by kyboren 18d ago
> Well done proving how the USA is acting like an abusive asshole. Refusing to sell its energy to rich allies who consistently refuse to secure their own energy supplies, and who got themselves in this predicament despite the US's a
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by kyboren 19d ago
You make it sound like the USA is the only actor with agency. USSR then RU, PRC, DPRK--just to name a few--have all been playing dirty. Hell, DPRK is propping up regimes and meddling in European affairs as we chat . Yet European vitriol is
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by kyboren 19d ago
Y'all've enjoyed the benefits of the relationship with your ex for so long you've given into the illusion of living in a garden and forgotten that you actually live in the jungle. When something needed killing--and sometimes
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by kyboren 2mo ago
No, it was a much better system. Like all piracy, it didn't condition access on payment. And like all P2P, more users (because free) meant more content available to everybody. The rules weren't perfect, but they imposed order and
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by kyboren 2mo ago
"People got used to free shit and stopped paying as much." "Your claim is poorly supported." "Well it came from a book. Check it out if you're interested." "What? It's not free? Hell no I won&#x2
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by kyboren 3mo ago
No, the argument is, "If y'all hadn't squeezed us so hard, it would have been more profitable to invest in expanding production, so we'd have built more fabs and the memory shortage wouldn't be as bad right now.&quo
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by kyboren 3mo ago
> Why don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling? Because--unlike free speech--those are not essential to freedom and democracy. Care to answer my questions?
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by kyboren 3mo ago
Nobody has a right to unrestricted tobacco stores. Everybody has a right to free speech, and free speech frequently requires anonymous speech. This is why the protection of journalists' sources is so important, and why principled journ
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by kyboren 3mo ago
Software ecosystem aside, their hardware is inferior to NVDA/TSMC's and will remain so. And even if it wasn't, China just doesn't have the fab capacity to both meet domestic demand and export enough to hurt demand for
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by kyboren 3mo ago
> Genocide is not just "are they killing everybody", but also "are they driving people from their ancestral homelands"? Which is obviously why "Free Palestine" marchers regularly show their solidarity with t
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by kyboren 3mo ago
On Oct. 7 the Arabs in Gaza creatively used all means available to them to kill every single human in Israel that they could reach. This includes airpower, i.e. the infamous paramotor assault. If Israel learned from them and creatively used
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by kyboren 3mo ago
I've come around on the idea of a Palestinian state. Once they have a state, the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank will finally have defined borders and a single sovereign. And history shows they can be relied upon to launch another geno
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by kyboren 3mo ago
Sovereign manufacturing supply chains? A competitive EV company? A competitive space launcher? How about a healthy native birth rate and relatively low levels of immigration? But to create that many strategies, you're gonna need a huge
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by kyboren 4mo ago
I am sympathetic to the idea that contemporary views on imperialism are overly-focused on its downsides and blind to its upsides. "What did the Romans ever do for us?" etc. But I find these arguments a bit tired. I'm not fami
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by kyboren 4mo ago
If you mean releasing model weights: They won't, because they know the "shill something" vector will get abliterated immediately. And they can't use trade secrets or copyright to stop it, either, because they released th
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by kyboren 4mo ago
Please explain what you think it means. I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed out that LaTeX was created by Serious People, apparently CS P
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by kyboren 4mo ago
Your situation is a good argument against the equity-focused LCFF. It's such a HCOL area that despite having high property tax revenue vs. the rest of the state, your district really should be funded at a higher level. Unfortunately I

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