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Love Kagi. Love paying for good software like it

When we hear these stories, we never hear about the end result. We only hear about the act. It's like hearing a gun was fired. It was fired, but what did it hit? The data that is i…

The redcoats couldn't see the travel of every single person. They couldn't stop every person carrying a letter that had met with a certain person. They couldn't arrest everyone tha…

Mother and daughter charged https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/us/abortion-prosecution-n... Many women with life threatening conditions get stuck waiting for the inevitable because…

Too bad its not going to reported on by anyone else

To be fair, this entirely depends on the breed in question. There are some breeds that are known to have weak bloodlines, and some breeds that are better. It is also dependent on t…

I wouldn't be surprised. There are a large number of historical examples of human experimentation before 1975 when the Church committee did it's work. I think these shady agencies …

Is the patent system hurting innovation in the US? There has been almost a complete consolidation of phone companies into a few conglomerates. There is barely any innovation in the…

Like every other tech company on the planet. Its a huge problem that society can't even begin to study because all of it is done in secret. It's also kept secret because the damage…

Kinda odd that this article is coming out with so many deaths of important crypto people. 3 Dead in November of last year, and a recent one a few days ago. [1] https://nypost.com/2…

There is no article published on the washington post. ChatGPT fully hallucinated this

This is close, but the specific verbiage that US leaders hoped for is that China would liberalize and transition to a democracy. In the 2010s, it became clear it wouldn't happen wh…

Different leaders have different policies thus the US is a true democracy and is moral? Just because the Overton Window[1] is large in the US doesn't mean that political dissenting…

To be fair, a multi-polar world with the level of technology that we have today is unprecedented. I don't think nations would resort to fighting in the past. It would be more simil…

I don't think we know the full extent of what the US does with our data in the cloud. Congressman trying to re-authorize PATRIOT Act was spied on by the FBI [1]. Google fired emplo…

Big tech has ingratiated themselves with congress by hiring friends and family, donating liberally to political campaigns, and staying involved in Washington with think tanks. In p…

I can't help but wonder if other countries are watching these proceedings and wondering about their own national security. The US is concerned about misinformation, blackmail, and …

Extraordinary rendition has no laws backing it. The US government simply ignores any cases with a "State Secrets" statement. This is a known practice that happens in the US and oth…

Overuse of useEffect is my number one pet peeve for juniors. I can't tell you how many times I have seen a total mess of manual data passing between 3 components with so many if..e…

Which is why it would be nice for the Supreme Court to confirm GPL's enforceability. It hasn't been tested in courts, but it would be insanely powerful for the open source communit…

Nerf recommender systems and improve search quality. Make algorithms simple enough for people to understand ie "People frequently watched this video after this one", "People who li…