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> Musk didn't inherit his wealth, nor did he receive above average family support. that is an entirely separate question from if he grew up wealthy. to be fair, i dont actually kno…

i'm not really defending it per se, i just think the way you phrased your argument was silly. in general though, i think it does get tiresome when people attack a piece solely base…

The original phrack was (i'm assuming) 7-bit ascii, so obviously it wouldn't have used characters that aren't ascii...

You also don't have to agree with the message to enjoy a work. I enjoyed a lot of Heinlein. Do I believe the only way to save the world is to form a free-love sex cult? No, i don't…

> Being and especially growing up rich tends to shield you from seeing the consequences of bad decisions, and I think that results in a lot of these rich tech bros being unable to …

Feels like a bit of a strawman. Just because the PR dept of a company spouts some bullshit doesn't mean that it actually represents the company's views. A super bowl advert referen…

That feels like an incredibly modern view.

I wouldn't conflate bribe/coruption with payment. As far as 2) goes, I don't think that is actually true. Sometimes people don't have time for children's questions, but when a chil…

>My real gripe with this line of thinking is it implies that incentives should be obeyed, that it is normal or even noble to do so, and that is perhaps impossible to do otherwise. …

Sure, and that probably explains why companies (who sell software) love AI while hobbyists who just like to program hate it.

I think part of it though is that LLMs (especially in novice hands) create code that is more difficult to review and has subtler bugs. Code review is (for many) the least fun part …

https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero...

> No, no high-traffic sites actually uses P2P hosting but that doesn’t mean we’re not at a point where they can. Even if true, being the first to do anything is usually an expensiv…

> Perhaps I have gone to great lengths to prove something studio executives already know: the average viewer is not scrutinizing every frame for telltale glimpses of the Toronto sk…

If the ads only mentioned a program that gets less than 1% of the budget, that would also be pretty deceptive

Depends on how you define "hosting". CapEx costs for buying the servers is a non trivial expense (note: in accounting statements this isn't considered part of internet hosting). No…

P2P hosting doesn't really work in reality, especially for websites that change regularly and require quick propagation of those changes. Its not just Wikipedia. Name a high traffi…

Note, this is also about the UK union not just the USA one.

> One of the problems with the process so far is that it was not secret As far as i can tell, this is a straight up lie. Union organizers might know, but legally they are required …

As stupid as that was, they at least put a stop to it. It hasn't been a thing for several years now.

> I think this is mostly because people are some what hesitant of enabling TLS 1.3. Because merely enabling TLS 1.3 along side TLS 1.2 can trigger latent bugs in clients. I'm very …

I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets

They can and they should, but the world is not a perfect place, so backwards compatibility is neccessary. So long as TLS 1.2 can still be used securely, its really not a big deal.

True, but there is still a general expectation that if you sign you intend to make a good faith effort to ratify. There being plenty of exceptions (a country not engaging with int …

Oh wow. Never noticed that before. Guess im blind. Although when i tested it just now it did seem to support exact matches using quotes.