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> I wouldn't hold up GrapheneOS as a good example of more freedom compared to Apple or Google tbh. I don't see why we can't have both, but this doesn't really a fair criticism of G…

We're commenting, not stating something as fact. And if that's the closest we'll get to a fact, then what if it's not? .. it's actually worse than no fact at all.

no way even ChatGPT is this nuts. Ok, well, maybe it is. but a magic 8-ball would have been better than this.

and the Apple (II etc) vs Mac teams warring with each other.

Kara Swisher gets in big public fights with CEOs and wears dark sunglasses in order to be cool. In other words, she's definitely not immune to bias and might easily want to shape t…

Texas has a larger up-front cost (about $300 one-time), but no annual fees at all, no income tax for corporations or individuals. Unlike Wyoming and Nevada, Texas does have franchi…

The Court of Chancery nearly always rules with the board (VCs) over shareholders (founders). VCs like that.

Oh, no, that's not true at all. An invention might not even be possible, let alone having a clear and (literally, provably) correct specification of inputs and outputs. Just seeing…

I'd settle for a source analysis and reproducible builds for just our myriad open source dependencies. All it takes is a single developer to be compromised in the thousands through…

> If we look at university performance at the margin, we would really be expecting some of these people to have won a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize-winning discovery. At the highes…

Yes; you might have seen mosquito "dunks" that are small donut shaped things that you can drop into flower pots or other areas that don't drain properly. They dissolve over time. T…

Here's what it's focused on, targeting Themelio cryptocurrency's requirements: > In a blockchain, the behavior we almost always want is for all transactions on the database to be s…

>>> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence. What you say publicly can & will be used against you in the court of law. "spou…

"Spouting off" is an idiom that means, essentially, "angrily complaining". It does not mean publicly confessing to a crime.

Of course, if you incriminate yourself while spouting off (or while engaged in any other activity, like writing in your diary), then you are producing evidence of a different crime…

The next sentence: "What you say publicly can & will be used against you in the court of law", so governmental consequences is what the OP was referring to. It seems like the OP mi…

> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence Actually, in the U.S., you literally have that specific constitutional right. The …

Unpopular opinion (and so strange that a red state like Texas did it this way), but: Texas is far too dependent on wind power, fossil fuel plants (even natural gas!) being shut dow…

North Korea is a nice foil, because then you don't have to cast aspersions onto trading partners. "Look, see? NK. We even copied some Korean words into the comments."