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throwaway7356

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    Nuclear isn't as cheap as you present it. It needs heavy subsidies for insurance and waste disposal. Most nuclear power proposals are just LARPing as "cheap" as they pretend subsid…

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    Comment #49209041

    Yes, because comparing it to larger countries with more economic power like China would make the US politics look even dumber.

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    Comment #48871009

    It'll still connect to IPv6 addresses and bypass any firewalls. Also users might become part (victim?) of a police investigation because of illegal actions that seem to originate f…

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    Comment #48869054

    > Apps are not infected with NetNut. This is just Google abusing their monopoly position to hurt its competitors. If apps ship with stealth backdoors to sell access to the user's i…

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    Comment #48835198

    > The fix was prepared statements You don't need prepared statements. The fix is parameter binding: submitting parameters separate from the SQL statement itself, separating code fr…

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    Comment #48821032

    > nor do they provide the brain an interpretation of what they perceive > What it gets from the body is raw physical measurements No, sensory organs like eyes do a lot of processin…

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    Comment #48808929

    Then one can claim that humans are less intelligent than a goldfish as "none of us have ever seen a human swim as well as a goldfish".

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    Comment #48807122

    > yet with enough developer elbow grease they can do all the same things an LLM can do, with much higher reliability Where can I access such a Lisp expert system? If I cannot becau…

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    Comment #48806825

    Yes, that condition makes it no longer open source software. It also has the effect of making software adopting such licenses getting removed from open source distributions.

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    Comment #48794342

    The terms of service are between Anthropic and one of their subscribers. So Anthropic can maybe cancel their contract. This doesn't affect what copyright law allows or does not all…

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    Comment #48776535

    > I think the notion that you could control something (legitimately) smarter than you is a pretty risky proposition. Well, Trump seems to control a lot of people given how afraid t…

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    Comment #48705176

    > In practice the only place it shows up is if you are using "ssh -X". That uses the security extension by default. Which is why there is also a "ssh -Y" that disables it for appli…

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    Comment #48705169

    > But granting full rights to distro-provided programs like vim or xeyes is perfectly sane. You mean run everything distro-provided as root? There are reasons systems don't do that…

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    Comment #48691431

    Maybe include some election guides for poor, misguided Americans that would hurt themselves by not voting for God President Donald Trump I as well? It's protecting people from them…

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    Comment #48691302

    Can't the AI companies spare a small investment in Trump coin to ease the process?

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    Comment #48669423

    > Ok, but what about those shady sites that resell Windows education keys? Yes, they are fine? They might no longer include full first party support by Microsoft for not being "new…

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    Comment #48669388

    > China aren't offering a cheaper solution. They are subsidizing an existing one So basically like US companies subsidizing offerings with selling user data, ads for crypto scams, …

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    Comment #48620647

    > all system calls had to go through libc (or perhaps a big ntdll.dll-like Which makes containers crap on Windows and *BSD as they have to run the currect libc or equivalent. Thus …

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    Comment #48616509

    Yes, many developers give nothing about even basic security. That's why we still have every basic security issue like hardcoded passwords, SQL or other injections, XSRF and so on r…

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    Comment #48616400

    > CORS is threat model used for when you can't trust your self. No. But many lack basic understanding of web technologies or facts like that a browser can be used to access more th…

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    Comment #48525039

    They use Yandex for e-mail, so probably a Russian group behind this.

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    Comment #48514977

    Probably Anthropic just needs to commit to handing over some shares to the Trump presidential family after their IPO and this will be solved. This is just cost of doing business in…

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    Comment #48514208

    > I don't think in court a whole ban on a product for security reasons would stand. There are lots such products, like weapons-grade radioactive material, weapons outside the toy g…

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    Comment #48457395

    > Maybe this all means there’s a place on the net for gopher, Gemini protocol, or tilde.town or ssh BBSes? By your question (and Betteridge's law of headlines): no, as they fail at…