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> It is a product of outside Chinese money being funneled into US politics to hobble the US in Artificial Intelligence Or this could be Russian propaganda, to manipulate US opinion…

Lots of people are scared of those who are different or unfamiliar. They live in their own bubble - prefering homogenous suburbs, non-poor office workers, algorithmic feeds for the…

Ah, I was more focused on the effectiveness as opposed to the quantity, i.e. if you have a million dollars, that could be decent way to spend it, given the world we live in. I see …

Sounds like enough to pay some people for some months or a year or two - a combination of experts, part-time specialists, cotractors, etc. - to do things like gather some data via …

Russia has been trading with a number of countries[0]. Mostly China, but also significantly with India, Turkey and the EU, and in much lesser amounts with 30+ other countries, incl…

> funding the conquest of Ukraine It is well known that China is still engaged in trade with Russia- oil and gold going one way, drones and weapon components going the other. But y…

I'm not sure about some of the things you mentioned. Stuff like this is food for social media algorithms - "the world is ending!" But they are interesting points to think about. Ho…

There were a lot of voters who didn't want those cuts. So they complain. Is that what swing voters thought they were getting? The government spends like 1000 billion on the militar…

So does that mean our social/political/economic system (culture) is a failure - having created the conditions for population decline (including industrialization and urbanization),…

> I want to see humanity live and thrive Me too. It would be nice if we, as a society, did more to prioritize that. Letting big tech psycholocally pollute everyone for profit is no…

> maybe you don't give a crap if today's teenagers will inhabit a horrific world with twice as many old people as society can afford to support I wouldn't say that a lower populati…

> no one really does audit it Isn't this article about an AI that just audited it? > not more secure than others Didnt the audit only found one bug, much less than other kernels fr…

I assume those are lines of code in just the kernels. As an FYI to everyone: The OpenBSD and FreeBSD teams both maintain entire distributions, similar to Linux + Debian or Linux + …

> you should be able to pass BT through USB I use a Creative BT-W2 bluetooth usb dongle. Small and has a button on it for pairing. OpenBSD sees it as a normal audio device.

I'd say yes. Things like increased military spending (2% of gdp, largest since the end of the cold war), buying more non-US weapon systems (like Saab's GlobalEye, instead of US AWA…

I agree, we could do so much better. Zoning can be a tremendous quality of life issue, and needing a car to participate in society is an expense other people in other places aren't…

Or a regression in the standard of living. Ideally to a comfortable sweet spot for people.

There were lots of Jan 6 weapons related convictions: "180 defendants were charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon, which includes firearms and ot…

> To build high-density housing, the city or state would have to buy out the existing landowners Couldn't they just change the zoning to allow for greater density? The properties b…

Does the interestate commerce clause preclude state laws pertaining to implementation and usage? For example, can a state outlaw public plate/facial recognition cameras, or usage o…

> The best solution is to have uniform federal regulation with no state laws What if the feds won't let a state outlaw policing using AI? Or insurance companies setting rates based…

If self-driving is better, then presumably cheaper insurance costs would be an incentive.