Imagine if all USB-C cables had a patent owned by the consortium and an identification chip made by the consortium. The spec could require that devices would not use the cable at all unless the chip is cryptographically…
VPD has become notably more controversial after Jim Chu stepped down, before that it was notable how professional they were for a North American police department
Based on Alyssa Rosenzweig’s reverse engineering, the current GPUs are still descended from PowerVR IP
It’s still far too scalable compared to what was accessible back then. The police should be handcuffed to paying for a full ass helicopter if they want to do surveillance
There should be no optimization on police resources. When Katz v. USA (no expectation of privacy in public) was decided, surveillance was done by an officer who needed to be paid a middle class salary, maybe armed with…
Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed
We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would…
Yellow dots doxxing me whenever I print something is equally despicable, client side scanning on my iPhone is equally despicable. Some crimes are not worth it to eliminate, and western liberal society should just accept…
I would rather just accept more crime than accept draconian regulation telling me what I can do with a piece of hardware I own Go solve gun crime with boots on the ground instead
Maybe this would’ve made economic sense 20 or 40 years ago, but nuclear is too expensive now compared with renewables. I can’t help but think this is a covert plan to bcecome an “almost nuclear” state in response to…
Not only are the wages higher, the unions insist on hiring 3x the number of necessary staff (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...)
Having a single buyer gives the government the ability to force standardization across cities, and squeeze contractors. Knowing the US though, it’ll become a jobs program for bumfuck towns like Plattsburgh NY
Everyone should have security robust against nation-state actors by default in the most popular consumer products, so that people who need it can hide in the masses. I hope LLM-assisted “offensive security research”…
We should not fulfill our imagined moral responsibility to the third world if it has real cost to the people already here
I have a (admittedly unevidenced) hypothesis that the US took off from other economies after ‘08 because real estate became a spectacularly shit investment overnight and investors had to invest in productive things for…
Forcing developers off of Rosetta 2 is a pro-consumer move because it gives the ultimate incentive for developers to modernize. I don’t want to use Lightroom (replace with whatever app is part of your workflow) through…
Those countries could keep their own talent through economic policy (i.e. fuck you pay me) That they don’t is entirely their own fault and they deserve to be brain drained. “Talent” are people with agency and not…
A123 also owned the IP to lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, which is now BYD’s claim to fame
re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist
I got an HP50g from Craigslist in high school that - was cheaper than a TI - had a primitive CAS system - teachers had no idea how to put it into test mode It carried me through AP calc BC, I would’ve gotten <4 off of…
There were hardware supply issues around launch time that made consoles a much better deal than the equivalent PC
Funnily enough, I learned to code “depth first” by putting together enough documentation examples and stackoverflow answers to reach a working Android app, long before I learned to code “breadth first” in school.
And I will keep voting to benefit myself, my family, and my country in that order. It’s their own fault that they do not have visionary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew or a dynasty like the CCP that’s willing to sacrifice…
I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability
That’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines
Imagine if all USB-C cables had a patent owned by the consortium and an identification chip made by the consortium. The spec could require that devices would not use the cable at all unless the chip is cryptographically…
VPD has become notably more controversial after Jim Chu stepped down, before that it was notable how professional they were for a North American police department
Based on Alyssa Rosenzweig’s reverse engineering, the current GPUs are still descended from PowerVR IP
It’s still far too scalable compared to what was accessible back then. The police should be handcuffed to paying for a full ass helicopter if they want to do surveillance
There should be no optimization on police resources. When Katz v. USA (no expectation of privacy in public) was decided, surveillance was done by an officer who needed to be paid a middle class salary, maybe armed with…
Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed
We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would…
Yellow dots doxxing me whenever I print something is equally despicable, client side scanning on my iPhone is equally despicable. Some crimes are not worth it to eliminate, and western liberal society should just accept…
I would rather just accept more crime than accept draconian regulation telling me what I can do with a piece of hardware I own Go solve gun crime with boots on the ground instead
Maybe this would’ve made economic sense 20 or 40 years ago, but nuclear is too expensive now compared with renewables. I can’t help but think this is a covert plan to bcecome an “almost nuclear” state in response to…
Not only are the wages higher, the unions insist on hiring 3x the number of necessary staff (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...)
Having a single buyer gives the government the ability to force standardization across cities, and squeeze contractors. Knowing the US though, it’ll become a jobs program for bumfuck towns like Plattsburgh NY
Everyone should have security robust against nation-state actors by default in the most popular consumer products, so that people who need it can hide in the masses. I hope LLM-assisted “offensive security research”…
We should not fulfill our imagined moral responsibility to the third world if it has real cost to the people already here
I have a (admittedly unevidenced) hypothesis that the US took off from other economies after ‘08 because real estate became a spectacularly shit investment overnight and investors had to invest in productive things for…
Forcing developers off of Rosetta 2 is a pro-consumer move because it gives the ultimate incentive for developers to modernize. I don’t want to use Lightroom (replace with whatever app is part of your workflow) through…
Those countries could keep their own talent through economic policy (i.e. fuck you pay me) That they don’t is entirely their own fault and they deserve to be brain drained. “Talent” are people with agency and not…
A123 also owned the IP to lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, which is now BYD’s claim to fame
re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist
I got an HP50g from Craigslist in high school that - was cheaper than a TI - had a primitive CAS system - teachers had no idea how to put it into test mode It carried me through AP calc BC, I would’ve gotten <4 off of…
There were hardware supply issues around launch time that made consoles a much better deal than the equivalent PC
Funnily enough, I learned to code “depth first” by putting together enough documentation examples and stackoverflow answers to reach a working Android app, long before I learned to code “breadth first” in school.
And I will keep voting to benefit myself, my family, and my country in that order. It’s their own fault that they do not have visionary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew or a dynasty like the CCP that’s willing to sacrifice…
I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability
That’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines