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The irony is this will harm US manufacturing, not help it. Manufacturing is the sector that most depends on robotics. Companies will now have to sue the administration so they can …

There's no reason it can't. You could do the same thing on streaming as was done back in the radio days. I've been searching for it but haven't really found it yet. So far the clos…

The thing I did not expect is when watching a Youtube video, I cannot tell if the voice narration is an AI-generated voice, but I know for a fact if the entire script was written b…

> 5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Here's where it went off the rails. Once you've abandoned the idea of democracy and pe…

Yeah, I agree somewhat. But I also got the feeling when reading this article that this guy loves motte-and-bailey. People don't intentionally set out to do motte-and-bailey argumen…

It's already a massive grid of moving dots. You can see it from the ground in certain dark-enough areas, but in order to see it in space you have to get outside LEO, like Artemis d…

If you continue in this industry of software creation in a corporate setting, and you put your name into the source code, eventually you will become known for products/features tha…

I'm not so sure that enforcing an internal digital monoculture is a productive way to achieve innovation & resilience.

While I don't disagree with the sentiment, since you have a friend who's a cop I'm compelled to ask the uncomfortable question, is an otherwise good cop who protects bad cops still…

That doesn't explain the first ~230 years of US history though, where police weren't this way and we had the same Constitution.

Yep. These companies forget that we can use AI too, to unpack these ridiculous corporate statements in record time to get right down to the point: We're going to dump all our value…

The American people knew who they were electing. They knew it, and they elected him anyway. Whatever damage results from that collective decision is our cross to bear.

I get emotional whenever I see anyone with enough good sense to pass the baton at the proper time rather than die in office, letting it drop and clatter to the ground.

Now if only members of our representative government would follow his lead to voluntarily retire when it's time, hand off the baton to a new generation, we'd all be so much better …

Even if they were to pass such a law which would be political suicide, it would still be up to the courts to say that it doesn't violate the Constitution. For example, a law that s…

People on both sides seem to give capitalism a lot of credit for human traits that existed long before capitalism.

It's okay to have two conflicting thoughts about something and both be true at the same time. AI is awesome but at the same time is promising to do evil in the future. Why? Faceboo…

The entire tech industry is rooted in the study of subjects which were extemporaneously considered unnecessary by the average person.

Bingo. The guy has a lot of things right, but I was floored when I read "progressive consumption tax" coming from an otherwise well written essay. Consumption taxes are regressive,…

How do we even know they're being honest? They've been lying about everything for so long, and now we're just suddenly gonna believe they're being honest only when it pertains to V…

I have a file like this, several years long, but parsed with YAML so that each day is clearly separated from the next, and for list parsing, and for dictionary parsing so each proj…

I chuckled when I read that, when over-16 is considered elderly. What will we do when we no longer have the views of 14 year olds at our fingertips? Well, hopefully they will write…

It's a personal decision. I haven't gotten a diagnosis because I've been able to hold a job for many years, and I'm married, so I'm mostly fine. But I have spent my life avoiding m…

Thanks for that insight. I previously had only a vague notion of why disorder is used. One of the main reasons I don't want to have an official diagnosis is because the word disord…