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by protastus 4mo ago
We doesn't need a signed affidavit on GitHub to trigger an investigation. This already crossed the line of reasonable suspicion. The investigation is where evidence gets collected. Who knows what other improper behavior these people ha
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by protastus 4mo ago
When negligence is so bad that it looks like sabotage from a hostile agent, then criminal investigations are needed to learn more about the people who did it, the others who enabled it, and deter similar future acts. DOGE did a lot of bad t
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by protastus 4mo ago
In 2026, storing government credentials in a repo and not having scanners to flag it should be investigated. I am highly suspicious of anyone doing this in a professional capacity. If I worked at a foreign intelligence agency and saw this,
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by protastus 4mo ago
Speaking as a non-expert, I think Pix has much bigger scope. Pix is account-to-account. One can buy real estate, pay bills, make person-to-person and business-to-business transactions, government payments, recurring payments. The funds also
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by protastus 4mo ago
I think we need to put this in context for folks who are not from Brazil. Comparatively, a domestic bank wire in Brazil before Pix was already easier and faster than one in the US today. I don't recall the bank fees being bad either. T
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by protastus 4mo ago
My understanding is that FedNow could become something like Pix, but implementation is voluntary. In Brazil, the central bank required all retail banks of significance to implement Pix by a certain deadline. Visa and Mastercard are very muc
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by protastus 5mo ago
Calling the F-35 a masterpiece is rage-bait. The primary goal of this program is not to make a plane, it's to spend $2 trillion in military contracts. As a side effect, it runs as a jobs program for engineers and its US based supply ch
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by protastus 6mo ago
xv is my favorite image viewer of all time. I loved how it launched immediately and made it very easy to see an image or browse a folder right from the command-line. 20 years later, computers are dramatically faster and such a fundamental t
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by protastus 8mo ago
Tesla body work is extremely expensive. Aluminum, extensive welding instead of fasteners, substantially reduced modularity due to castings, specialized tooling just off the top of my mind.
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by protastus 8mo ago
Elon can't legally financially entangle Tesla to SpaceX due to Tesla being a public company, so his hands are tied. Tesla is clearly benefiting from protectionism and its sales would collapse if BYD were allowed to openly sell in the U
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by protastus 8mo ago
Because it looks like Elon recognized Tesla's inability to compete against BYD and gave up making cars. This is negative. Since he couldn't leave it at that, he announced a pivot to a product that doesn't exist. This is also
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by protastus 8mo ago
The metric for the Cybertruck is the impact to Elon's ego. Nothing about this project is rational.
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by protastus 8mo ago
No, it didn't. Order was not restored, criminals were encouraged, and here we are.
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by protastus 8mo ago
The Trump administration has gone so far down the path of fascism and crime that I'm convinced they don't simply want to be in power indefinitely -- they need it. Otherwise, the moment a law-abiding president gets elected, there
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by protastus 8mo ago
I always thought it was hilarious that a company called Danger lost everybody's data. The connection to Microsoft only makes it better.
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by protastus 8mo ago
My impression is that Chinese consumer products haven't been hijacked by the "design above everything else" mindset. The priority is to make things work at scale. American product design is obsessed with appearance and finish
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by protastus 9mo ago
Americans are too culturally isolated from other countries and cultures to build empathy. I think Americans have main character syndrome at scale, and these comments are obvious when read through this lens. This may surprise folks who don&#
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by protastus 9mo ago
Thanks for the explanation -- I also had no idea what this meant. I am disturbed that in-group code has been normalized as a way to state socially abhorrent positions out in the open, as if it offered plausible deniability.
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by protastus 1y ago
I disagree. Reasonable would be to require a minimum salary for the job, as market evidence of scarcity. Paying an exorbitant fee to the government will discourage the activity in the United States.
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by protastus 2y ago
Deploying a model on an NPU requires significant profile based optimization. Picking up a model that works fine on the CPU but hasn't been optimized for an NPU usually leads to disappointing results.
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by protastus 2y ago
Yes it's hard and also not done well. Most companies don't fund security as much as they should. At best they'll hire an occasional consultant for the purposes of compliance with a supplier agreement or industry regulation th
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by protastus 2y ago
No doubt, Big Tech prints money and absorbs all available talent. Boeing's troubles are surely compounded by having all the best new talent hired away from them, because Big Tech pays much better.
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by protastus 2y ago
Elon Musk makes it abundantly clear that he has absolute control of his companies and publicly entangles them (e.g. sending Tesla engineers to audit Twitter). X was operating in Brazil while being maliciously non-compliant, in a manner obvi
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by protastus 2y ago
Elon Musk is not in Brazil so action against him would be a waste of time. Action was against X, and then Musk shut down X's Brazilian office and left outstanding debts. The supreme court evaluates that X and Starlink have same ownersh
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by protastus 2y ago
Alternative take: what would you expect by consistently and publicly antagonizing a supreme court justice?
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by protastus 2y ago
Is it? Hardware engineers at Apple, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon are paid much better than at Intel.
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by protastus 2y ago
One problem with paying people significantly below market is that some of your people will be disgruntled and will optimize for working as little as possible without getting fired. Soon enough there are entire groups whose culture aligns wi
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by protastus 2y ago
This company needs to be audited, starting at the top. Once a business is considered critical for natural security (Boeing is certainly in this category), it has an obligation to deliver with quality and on time. Boeing is failing and needs
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by protastus 2y ago
> indie developers can't memorize everything in 100s pages of policies/rules etc I am certain that if there are any developers that care about policies, it's the indie ones. And there are still too many rules for them to f
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by protastus 2y ago
It's entirely feasible for Google to involve humans in review, and create a team for developer support. The scale is not nearly as large as people think, and Google is wealthy beyond belief. Larry Page said it very clearly: “Find the l

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