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We doesn't need a signed affidavit on GitHub to trigger an investigation. This already crossed the line of reasonable suspicion. The investigation is where evidence gets collected.…

When negligence is so bad that it looks like sabotage from a hostile agent, then criminal investigations are needed to learn more about the people who did it, the others who enable…

In 2026, storing government credentials in a repo and not having scanners to flag it should be investigated. I am highly suspicious of anyone doing this in a professional capacity.…

Speaking as a non-expert, I think Pix has much bigger scope. Pix is account-to-account. One can buy real estate, pay bills, make person-to-person and business-to-business transacti…

I think we need to put this in context for folks who are not from Brazil. Comparatively, a domestic bank wire in Brazil before Pix was already easier and faster than one in the US …

My understanding is that FedNow could become something like Pix, but implementation is voluntary. In Brazil, the central bank required all retail banks of significance to implement…

Calling the F-35 a masterpiece is rage-bait. The primary goal of this program is not to make a plane, it's to spend $2 trillion in military contracts. As a side effect, it runs as …

xv is my favorite image viewer of all time. I loved how it launched immediately and made it very easy to see an image or browse a folder right from the command-line. 20 years later…

Tesla body work is extremely expensive. Aluminum, extensive welding instead of fasteners, substantially reduced modularity due to castings, specialized tooling just off the top of …

Elon can't legally financially entangle Tesla to SpaceX due to Tesla being a public company, so his hands are tied. Tesla is clearly benefiting from protectionism and its sales wou…

Because it looks like Elon recognized Tesla's inability to compete against BYD and gave up making cars. This is negative. Since he couldn't leave it at that, he announced a pivot t…

The metric for the Cybertruck is the impact to Elon's ego. Nothing about this project is rational.

No, it didn't. Order was not restored, criminals were encouraged, and here we are.

The Trump administration has gone so far down the path of fascism and crime that I'm convinced they don't simply want to be in power indefinitely -- they need it. Otherwise, the mo…

I always thought it was hilarious that a company called Danger lost everybody's data. The connection to Microsoft only makes it better.

My impression is that Chinese consumer products haven't been hijacked by the "design above everything else" mindset. The priority is to make things work at scale. American product …

Americans are too culturally isolated from other countries and cultures to build empathy. I think Americans have main character syndrome at scale, and these comments are obvious wh…

Thanks for the explanation -- I also had no idea what this meant. I am disturbed that in-group code has been normalized as a way to state socially abhorrent positions out in the op…

I disagree. Reasonable would be to require a minimum salary for the job, as market evidence of scarcity. Paying an exorbitant fee to the government will discourage the activity in …

Deploying a model on an NPU requires significant profile based optimization. Picking up a model that works fine on the CPU but hasn't been optimized for an NPU usually leads to dis…

Yes it's hard and also not done well. Most companies don't fund security as much as they should. At best they'll hire an occasional consultant for the purposes of compliance with a…

No doubt, Big Tech prints money and absorbs all available talent. Boeing's troubles are surely compounded by having all the best new talent hired away from them, because Big Tech p…

Elon Musk makes it abundantly clear that he has absolute control of his companies and publicly entangles them (e.g. sending Tesla engineers to audit Twitter). X was operating in Br…

Elon Musk is not in Brazil so action against him would be a waste of time. Action was against X, and then Musk shut down X's Brazilian office and left outstanding debts. The suprem…

Alternative take: what would you expect by consistently and publicly antagonizing a supreme court justice?