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Thanks, your comment got this song stuck in my head. (I like my gym membership, thank you very much. I even visited the gym once several months ago.) We wasted every second dime On…

> You are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff. This common sense statement should be true, but is wholly ignorant…

No. They should be available for legit use cases and not available for data scrapers who will use it to facilitate algorithmic housing and employment discrimination. Especially not…

Few who paid their debt to society and moved on are excited about random strangers wanting to do their own petty little performative mock show trials to sit in smug judgement over …

I think the point is intent. Sure, no chance of success to build a reactor. But he created a radiation hazard situation all the same. If a nuclear engineer enabled and instructed h…

> succeeded in making a real reactor The concern here is not if an amateur attempt to make a reactor, hack a bank, bioengineer a medicine/poison is successful or not. Interactive a…

Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. If he had the help of Claude at the time, how much more dangerous would his bumbling have been? A real nuclear engineer with t…

A high school kid tried to build a nuclear reactor as a science project a while back, getting his mom's house designated as a superfund cleanup site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Fastmail reads or analyzes users email to sell ads? Fastmail trains ai models on their user's email messages? Metadata is more valuable than message content for analysis. GPG solve…

Off topic rage bait harassment has top comment? Why?

Is this specific to carplay, or can other bluetooth devices also silently and nefariously hijack your cellular data connection?

> Justice asks why no one of the 500M people who were searched have complained? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

> If you actually have serious workshop like restoring cars or building something, rent a warehouse. HOAs have strict rules about chemicals, noise and vans parked on drive way! I'd…

This is not always the case. Last week, my monitoring system sent me 20k emails in a few hours in response to a server attack. When those hit my gmail inbox, gmail marked them all …

Spotify forcing me to hear a bunch of ads on the desktop client today. I'm a paid subscriber. Seems widespread, the spotify subreddit is actively removing discussion of the problem…

> This time, the danger isn’t financial engineering. It’s that our financial system has attached itself to the vulnerabilities of our physical world — power grids, water, land, sup…

How does someone as young as Cavanaugh become so homophobic. I wanted to believe our society was past this.

The counter-example, in classic MMO terms, is Ultima Online adding non-PVP game instances in response to player feedback. Without the dramatic threat of PVP conflict at most times,…

Telco infra runs on autopilot?

Has none of the usual expected perks like rental car insurance or damage/theft protection on purchases. Guess purchase protection would be a threat to applecare revenue.

> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or b…

Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future

I just got an invoice from ups to pay a $16 brokerage fee to jpmorgan for collecting a $0.60 tariff on a sticker included in a box with a custom keyboard shipped from Taiwan. Seems…