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No, it was a much better system. Like all piracy, it didn't condition access on payment. And like all P2P, more users (because free) meant more content available to everybody. The …

"People got used to free shit and stopped paying as much." "Your claim is poorly supported." "Well it came from a book. Check it out if you're interested." "What? It's not free? He…

No, the argument is, "If y'all hadn't squeezed us so hard, it would have been more profitable to invest in expanding production, so we'd have built more fabs and the memory shortag…

> Why don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling? Because--unlike free speech--those are not essential to freedom and democracy. Care to answer my questions?

Nobody has a right to unrestricted tobacco stores. Everybody has a right to free speech, and free speech frequently requires anonymous speech. This is why the protection of journal…

Software ecosystem aside, their hardware is inferior to NVDA/TSMC's and will remain so. And even if it wasn't, China just doesn't have the fab capacity to both meet domestic demand…

> Genocide is not just "are they killing everybody", but also "are they driving people from their ancestral homelands"? Which is obviously why "Free Palestine" marchers regularly s…

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On Oct. 7 the Arabs in Gaza creatively used all means available to them to kill every single human in Israel that they could reach. This includes airpower, i.e. the infamous paramo…

I've come around on the idea of a Palestinian state. Once they have a state, the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank will finally have defined borders and a single sovereign. And histo…

Sovereign manufacturing supply chains? A competitive EV company? A competitive space launcher? How about a healthy native birth rate and relatively low levels of immigration? But t…

I am sympathetic to the idea that contemporary views on imperialism are overly-focused on its downsides and blind to its upsides. "What did the Romans ever do for us?" etc. But I f…

If you mean releasing model weights: They won't, because they know the "shill something" vector will get abliterated immediately. And they can't use trade secrets or copyright to s…

Please explain what you think it means. I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed o…

Your situation is a good argument against the equity-focused LCFF. It's such a HCOL area that despite having high property tax revenue vs. the rest of the state, your district real…

> the reality in California is that the state level funding is poor No, it really isn't. Again, just mandated Prop 98 state spending on K-12 is $127.1B for next year, with this yea…

I agree with everything you wrote about maladministration of California's math curricula, but: > since Prop 13 in the 1970s, California has been 49th or 50th in per-pupil funding f…

But were those folks members of politically desirable racial groups? Or were they Asian?

> copy [the] educational plan California used back in the 1970's I think that would go a long way. > more than make up for the Prop 13 funding disaster Wrong funding disaster. The …

Considering LaTeX came from legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Leslie Lamport's need to typeset a book, and was built on the shoulders of legendary CS PhD and Turing award wi…

AKA what CS PhD students have been doing ~forever. I guess this is like medical researchers "discovering" basic calculus or an office worker discovering that SFTP, sshfs, and git w…

> 1) I'm not aware of such a declaration coming from Cuba. Please give a link. > A speech by Raul at the University of Havana on 20 April [1959], however, attacked the United State…

I believe "dark triad" personality traits are significantly over-represented among CEOs vs. the general population. IMO it's likely that these traits are positively selected by sha…

> If they can make the EUV machines [...] They can't. The EUV light source is produced by Cymer, an American subsidiary of ASML.

> my browsing traffic doesn't hit the NSA - only my encrypted VPN traffic does I mean, let's be real. All known US VPN servers and Tor exit nodes--and probably all US Tor relays re…