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My response is typically, "I have literally everything to hide. I don't want you to know my middle name. I don't want you to know what I had for breakfast. It's none of anyone's bu…

Wild that they increased the ipad prices as well; the entire point of the ipad is that it's a handicapped tool to avoid cutting into macbook marketshare.

Too many cameras and not enough food.

Now compensate for the oblateness of the Earth.

The way it should work is that if a government can't do a thing, then they can't pay for the same thing. Remove the demand and the activity will dry up.

Nonlinear.

This has got Russell Vought's fingerprints on it, mark my words. There's some way this is enshittified.

Sure, but that's a problem for my lawyer, not me. And sounds like a great way to plead guilty to a lesser crime, but IANAL.

You are correct, which is why that compulsion will be accompanied by immunity.

In America, we have the fifth amendment, and the right not to divulge any information whatsoever unless we're granted immunity. It is enough to say absolutely nothing, and request …

NASA has been downsized with a machete. And Russell Vought is holding the weapon.

Navy-strength rum.

I can't tell if this is a typo or not, and it's perfect.

Define theft. If you write a contract and give it to a lawyer with the instruction, "Anyone who satisfies this contract gets this money." And someone satisfies the contract to the …

Imagine I write a contract and empower an AI to execute it. I put $10,000 in a bank account and write, "I'd like a nice car." I do this of my own free will, at my own hazard. I kno…

It's a stretch to call training an AI creating a 'derivative work' by the legal definition. You could count the words in a book and publish the word count, and while the informatio…

I'm not even a Linux "enthusiast". I simply find Windows to be a terrible product and Linux to be a better product. I simply use the least terrible option.

Can it differentiate between different household members?

+1. There's a lot of money invested in having very very high confidence a part is perfect all the way through.

Apologies for the tangent, but may I ask what you use to write your blog? I love how clean it is.

+1 Steam works wonderfully on my Ubuntu VM.

I'm thinking about the motorcycle motor. If they're really lighter than competing motors, I don't see the downside of using them like a traditional motor, taking the weight savings…

Do you not think it would be more informative to look at the global percentage of people who are wealthy enough to take multiple bites of the unicorn apple?

Dismissing disagreement as jealousy always bothered me. To think a person is jealous of you requires a lot of ego, like... narcissistic amounts of ego in my opinion. Either that or…