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When you say "especially by a system that has already been demonstrated to be abused," what does that mean exactly? We have some of the largest and globally important cities with t…

There are all sorts of powers we afford law enforcement that could be abused; I hardly think cameras would be at the top of the list of concerns, honestly. NYC has had thousands up…

> ...and this is a very important point: there is generally no DRM-hacking required. But...if DRM hacking is required to get a PC game to work on a PS5, it's illegal to do so under…

True, but the example was just an example. Buying a game on PC and making it run on a PS5 - why would something like that ever be illegal?

I don’t think preservation is an important argument. If I own an AppleTV, and I purchase a movie through their service, why should it be illegal for me to export that movie to watc…

A single screen that is much larger than a MacBook screen, that is the advantage. And the connection dance is really just...tapping the connect button?

The difference between owning a billion dollar company and the deduction from donating a billion dollar company is pretty huge. Donating the company was certainly not a financial b…

If you use YouTube a lot, paying for no ads is a no brainer. I pay for YT premium, Apple News+, NYT, Kagi, etc. If you watch just a few videos a month, the price is just not worth …

Not trying to be a dick but: 1. He tried to not buy Twitter very hard and OpenAI’s new board member forced his hand 2. It hasn’t been a good financial decision if the banks and X’s…

Or they read about the large cuts to Twitter’s valuation from banks and X itself?

100 million monthly active users at the end of October, and still growing, according to Zuck. Is that not considered successful anymore?

To be clear, it looks like there are 40+ DC fast chargers within 50 miles of this location, which seems to be Hollister Hills in CA. Hard to count because it is close to San Jose.

No offense, but it isn't hard to look up how people live in cities and countries with good transit infrastructure. A good starting place might be Netherlands (biking infrastructure…

Public transit in almost every US city is terrible. It isn't hard to see why someone with means would rather call an Uber than wait 15 minutes for the next bus to show up. Public t…

> Nothing against Teslas, but the issue is that reality is far from the vision proposed by proponents of EVs including governments and entrepreneurs. EVs are not reliable for long …

These programs have existed for many years and at least some portion of borrowers took out loans with the expectation that the government would honor those programs. There is no re…

Another option, the Dygma Defy, is releasing soon as well https://dygma.com/pages/defy

Oh, I misunderstood. I believe you are missing the forest for the trees but can't fault you for feeling angry if you believe trust was broken.

Respectfully, I think we agree? The current proc macro situation allows security vulnerabilities and a potentially dangerous change went unnoticed for weeks. This RFC aims to addre…

See also: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-sandboxed-determin... Authors comment: >"Someone else is always auditing the code and will save me from anything bad in a macro …

These issues from the original comment are not related to Microsoft supporting a wide variety of hardware: > ...the UI with Bing/Ads/telemetrics/etc integration is so crap...

Sure. Apple is also giant and (probably?) fits those descriptors as well. Why is Mac so solid under similar circumstances?

Maybe I'm way off, but in my mind social media is more like ice cream or fast food companies knowing their product is unhealthy.

Might be true, I have no idea, but it seems irrelevant when discussing Twitter: they were a public company being offered a generous premium.