stevenalowe

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by stevenalowe 11d ago
Banks should stop sending checks to other banks, it’s ridiculously wasteful
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by stevenalowe 12d ago
Why do deployed troops have cell phones at all? Seems like a huge security risk
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by stevenalowe 13d ago
Is this conflating student protests with administrative policies?
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by stevenalowe 13d ago
Yeah that is nutso But not out of character or unexpected
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by stevenalowe 13d ago
My phone tells me that an incoming phone number is a “spam risk” but does not block the calls so my carrier gets a zero score
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by stevenalowe 13d ago
Atmospheric structure not artificial
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by stevenalowe 14d ago
paywalled but yay non-paywalled article [1] [1] https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6067819-judge-b...
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by stevenalowe 14d ago
"a club where immature tech bros larp as men of culture." which proceeds about like one would expect - fearless ignorance and bigotry masked as intellectual discussion worth reading but hold your nose
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by stevenalowe 14d ago
stupid is as stupid does -- Forest Gump
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by stevenalowe 14d ago
Unlikely - there are over 400 Star Wars novels
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by stevenalowe 14d ago
You’re right my mistake! “Second-generation immigrants” is the correct term
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by stevenalowe 15d ago
Paywalled, but I don’t think having US citizen parents is an actual requirement for a child’s US passport. A Dreamer, for example, would be a citizen but their parents would not
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by stevenalowe 15d ago
Mere fines for bad behavior simply become part of the cost of “doing business” unless the fines are significantly larger than the business’ assets. Banning, jailing, and fining the responsible executives would help, but the current “oh you
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by stevenalowe 15d ago
Why would you think that a neolithic existence is simple and free from politics etc. Still humans.
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by stevenalowe 17d ago
"TV watches you!" What could possibly go wrong?
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by stevenalowe 18d ago
“ The visions are filled with communities of mutually loving people, the elimination of middlemen from transactions, where everyone knows the true you, the nonexistence of bureaucracy, the existence of a social good that’s identifiable by l
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by stevenalowe 18d ago
The law is still useless and stupid, and the carve-outs for people and organizations that can’t be pressured by economics make the intent (state control) more obvious. I’m not looking forward to the cascade of consequences from this but I g
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
comparing this person to Rosa Parks is wildly inappropriate
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
and yet very little access to common sense :) the article cites the ability to keep a ton of details in working memory as an advantage, I'm not so sure that it is - perhaps it is quality over quantity; a compression of everything known
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
"Illinois now requires operating system providers, open source projects included, to build age verification by 2028" however "nothing in the bill has teeth against someone with no business presence in Illinois"
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
as per [1]: "Illinois now requires operating system providers, open source projects included, to build age verification by 2028" however "nothing in the bill has teeth against someone with no business presence in Illinois&quo
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
Zuck created a monster and tried to hide its harm - not the same thing at all
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
But it’s not a product safety law and it’s not confined to a single state
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
All of your examples are state and local regulations that apply to people and corps in the state, not everyone everywhere And there’s no need to be insulting
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
illogical hubris - no state can regulate the internet; no state can compel developers to write code. the court cases on this will be interesting
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
well that didn't take long - $700M in cuts coming [1] [1] https://mashable.com/tech/ea-sale-closes-shed-700-million-in...
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
EA has been saddled with a heavy load on their way to the bottom. Private equity firms are not known for their innovation or longevity
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
It is illegal for the President to sell this access and also illegal for recipients to act upon the information received. But who will enforce the law? Not the DOJ…
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by stevenalowe 1mo ago
Replace LLM with “intern” and the absurdity should be more obvious The fact that we can’t trust the code outright is a bug
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by stevenalowe 2mo ago
No, AI misinformation and data center hysteria are dividing people.

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