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by wat10000 3d ago
Your statement is far too broad to be correct in any case. Thousands of Chinese and other non-white people immigrated long before 1965. Ironically, some of the earliest Chinese people employed by the federal government were employed by Cust
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by wat10000 3d ago
I’d guess they’re saying that based on his place of birth and missed him becoming a US citizen sometime afterwards.
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by wat10000 3d ago
I corrected the actual misconception in another comment: CBP is not hiring noncitizens. Given that, I don’t know what to do with the rest of this. Knowing about the racial makeup of past immigrants is apparently super important for a bad an
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by wat10000 3d ago
You have to be a citizen to work for the federal government, with a few exceptions that I don’t think CBP falls under. So the answer is, they aren’t.
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by wat10000 3d ago
Why are you dodging the question of why that even matters? Are you too cowardly to explain your beliefs?
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by wat10000 3d ago
That’s not an answer. Their comment didn’t mention whiteness at all. You believe that the whiteness of these immigrants is so important that leaving it out constitutes misrepresentation. Why is it so important? Come on, you obviously think
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by wat10000 3d ago
Why is this so important to mention here?
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by wat10000 3d ago
I’m completely lost. I’m not talking about safe, I’m talking about how routing everything though a server gives a lot more control to the manufacturer and they’re loathe to give that up.
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by wat10000 3d ago
Ok, I don’t understand your point, then. If a device works locally then you can firewall it and block any nasty stuff phoning home. If it runs everything through the manufacturer’s servers then you can’t firewall it without disabling it ent
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by wat10000 3d ago
Fighting is competitive and single-minded in a way that programming very much is not. The purpose of fighting is to defeat, often kill, an enemy who wants to do the same thing to you. In that world, there’s no room for anything but the most
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by wat10000 3d ago
“If you can firewall your LAN - you can also firewall your WiFi.” Huh? Your WiFi is (part of) your LAN.
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by wat10000 4d ago
They realize. They hate it and wish it would go away. LAN connectivity makes it really hard to spy on you, inject ads, require subscriptions, and brick perfectly functional devices so you have to buy new ones.
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by wat10000 4d ago
And articles like this are just making it worse. What’s the takeaway? “It’s too late to fix it, so there’s no point in trying.” The outcome can always be made better, or worse. We need to focus on that if we want to aim for “better.”
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by wat10000 4d ago
Sort of. Its idea of “the outside world” is very restrictive. Simple example: write into a pointer, then free it. From the compiler’s perspective, this write can’t be observed and can be removed. It’s not legal to read memory after it’s bee
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by wat10000 5d ago
It’s a position they chose. They could say, mass surveillance is unconstitutional and wrong, but we’d be happy to continue with our mission of targeted intercepts and providing secure communication to our people.
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by wat10000 5d ago
Why? Seems to me that dead is dead, regardless of how it happens.
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by wat10000 5d ago
If Pearl Harbor had been the only thing that happened that day, and the nature of the attack had been such that it was automatically prevented from happening again, then what came after would have been a severe overreaction too.
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by wat10000 5d ago
Most of that fear was driven by the response, not the attacks themselves. The government could have tried to calm the people down, but instead it amped them up and treated terrorism as the most dangerous thing imaginable. You can't say
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by wat10000 5d ago
Yeah, I'd be a lot less confident in any career advice today compared to, say, ten years ago. But what else can you do....
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by wat10000 5d ago
And adjusting a curtain rod shouldn't necessitate a call to 911 and an ambulance ride to the hospital, but sometimes shit happens.
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by wat10000 5d ago
I don't see signing away your right to access the legal system as an essential part of a settlement. You could just sign a settlement that says, here's what happened, here's the remedy we've agreed to. And then if one pa
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by wat10000 5d ago
I'm pretty sure the Iranian one is quoted because they used the word, whereas the US one is not quoted because the statements that the reporting was pulled from never used the actual word "open." I see how it would read as bi
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by wat10000 5d ago
The real trick (if you can pull it off) is to cultivate a passion for something most people aren't that interested in, but where there's plenty of demand. I wanted to make games growing up, as I'm sure many of us here did. It
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by wat10000 5d ago
As far as I can find, every mention of beheaded babies in the BBC is explicitly a statement of other people's claims and not a statement of fact.
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by wat10000 5d ago
Those have the same implication even if it's written slightly differently. "US insists" makes it clear that "open" is a claim by the US, not an independent fact. The first one doesn't match the supposed pattern
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by wat10000 5d ago
They always have. It's funny to see the evolution of language. Quotation marks indicated that something was a direct quote. Then people started to use them as a sarcasm indicator. Now we're to the point where people can't eve
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by wat10000 5d ago
That's a contract violation, not an illegal act. And I'd bet that plenty of sites that Anthropic et al have trained on have ToS that forbid using them for model training. This site does. Do we think the AI companies aren't tr
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by wat10000 5d ago
Not sure what part of my comment this is meant to address. I explicitly acknowledged that the law seems to consider this to be legal. My point is that if it's legal to feed random web sites into the training system, why would it not al
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by wat10000 5d ago
Just because the material was legally required doesn't mean you can do anything you want with it. I can't (legally) buy a physical book, scan it, and put the scan on my web site. It seems to me that an LLM is a derived work of the
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by wat10000 6d ago
Depends on whether your naive approach prioritizes time or space.

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