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Is that a strategy for the 99th percentile or the 50th?

The winner of classroom tech is classroom tech vendors, not students, not collective test scores.

Taking care of them was historically about calorie and nutrientmaxxing. Subsidized calories have worked too well, worldwide, and there's no response to it within the current Overton window.

Going from software rendering to hardware acceleration back then was good times.

Quake II & IIIa

Tribes & Tribes II

Half-Life, TFC, Counter-Strike

Morrowind

Unreal

Those moments will never return...

Probably Team Fortress Classic. Hi to all nade and rocket jumping fans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_Classic

They didn't hammer the entire internet. That would be like a multi-terabit DDOS. In contrast, the scanner in question sent a trickle of web requests for old vulns, nearly-innocuous at this point.

Fear & the danger aren't the same. anyway, I'll let it go.

>These systems are not accessible via the internet.

How would you know? Are you verifying them? SCADA systems weren't intended to be online, but that didn't stop critical infra for power plants, etc. to show up online. The convenience is too great to not try to remotely maintain them 'securely' & the assurance of airgaps is technical and expensive to get right.

Besides, are you considering the addition of modern AI to these 'offline' systems - factories, power, national weapons? You can get frontier models in a fraction of a rack today, who knows tomorrow. The organizations running these systems want in on the technological possibilities of AI, too.

Not to be a doomer about all this or anything, but there's a lot of evidence technologically superior entities dominate technologically inferior ones. So our home countries are in a Red Queen's Race to keep up, which is why adding "local" or "offline" AI to these systems seems probable. Again, airgaps are hard to maintain. It is within the realm of possibility that what's offline today is accidentally or intentionally networked tomorrow.

> It’s fair to ask if the harm they cause is worth the good they do.

Researcher disclosures, even with POCs, have moved the industry to action incumbents would have rather buried. I’m thinking of CPU and memory exploits, and stuff like log4j, as examples.

Frontier AI is enabling the cyber arms race more than anything past, and certainly more than some bot slowly crawling web servers for old vulnerabilities.

If we’re talking harm, it should be in the broader context of internet history, imo.

Apart from feigned ignorance, a common trope is arguing X vehicle isn’t used optimally in a way they agree with and thus isn’t necessary to own.

I was pointing out the logical destination of this.

What % of people who have wealth really need that wealth?

It's also increasingly appearing to be the case that checking out yourself is adverse selection.

People with money have others shop for them, or ship to their house. The checkouts are for those who labor in that system who must now submit to the panopticon.

If you stumble into a big retailer like Walmart or Home Depot now yourself, it's like you crossed a zero-trust boundary. Security guards, motion-activated cameras that play sounds and nag you to remind you you're surveilled, manned turnstiles to stop door crashes with loaded carts -- all these adversarial controls suggest you're now in the wrong customer channel.

> I think people who are opposed to them would agree with this, people who are in favor of guns would be alarmed by this.

Bizarrely, I think it comes out backwards. In this article, the comments are surprised that Waymo's gun detection led to someone contacting authorities - it's not over guns, but that it was "young people" with guns, which means they can't use generalizations, there have to be bespoke solutions unique to every individual, calling the police to assess on potential threats is too broad.

The gun crowd would neither use taxis broadly to carry weapons, nor do so in the manner of the "juveniles" found in the article. Generalizing, they're well-versed in the minutiae of gun transport laws and more or less anticipate law enforcement contact, whether inadvertent or from Karens.

One well-known definition of gambling is whether it has 3 components: a prize, runs on chance, and requires consideration (payment).

That consideration > prize isn't part of this common definition.

>The organization is saving “north of 85 percent” in licensing fees compared to when it relied on VMware, the executive said.

Nothing we can't google.

VMWare VCF is, let's say, $350/CPU core.

MVE is $600/socket, so at 32 cores, that's $18.75/core. At 64 cores, $9.38.

An 85% reduction in licensing/support fees is plausible.

100% was already possible, just not with 24/7 support.

Overpolicing is the term used by one side that claims that any disparities in crime rates along demographic lines are due to an excess of police activity rather than any other factors.

Malfeasance is the $10 word that's probably more appropriate here for the actions of officers intentionally abusing the systems their authority grants access to.

Easier just to say it's a thing, like a force of nature.

New network growth (mobile, Africa, Asia) uses it, old growth stays on v4 and will eventually roll over. People with address space usually don't need much more, but the IPv6 space better reflects how connected the world is - we're gonna need a bigger address space than v4, that's for sure.

New protocols shipped quickly on rough consensus and working code and weren't perfect - some left all kinds of undefined behavior, or lacked clear advantages over predecessors and competing protocols.

The 'why' behind all of these protocols and decisions is left out in favor of the cert exams. Being able to implement is usually what gets you paid.

>mere fact that Layer 2 and Layer 3 addresses are distinct concepts.

The logical separation between the ideas allows for a lot of flexibility, and there were some wrong answers on how scalable vs flexible things should be.

Ethernet and IP beat the shit out of everything else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars

They emerged with a decent answer: L2 crosses intranetwork, L3 crosses internetwork. Their separation allows L3 addressing to be completely unaware of multiple changing L2 (lower level) intranetwork switches, which is immensely useful.

Trying to solve everything with One Master Protocol to solve it all turned out like this: https://xkcd.com/927/

This is great until you're at war (economic or kinetic) with who does your manufacturing.

But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

A litany of jobs? Do you mean a minority of jobs - civil service, some clearance jobs, holding some offices?

The Immigration and Nationality Act makes citizenship discrimination illegal.

>Other countries get by just fine

Which ones are your model for the US?

If they have almost all of the rights and almost all of the benefits but none of the responsibilities, which you ignored, then the point stands.

They benefit from the entire bill of rights (arguably rightly so).

They have better job prospects.

They can purchase homes with federal loans.

They can attend college.

They can invest and own companies.

They can even draw from Social Security.

For now, non-citizens cannot vote openly in congressional elections, but can in minor elections like school boards and municipal votes.

They cannot be drafted to defend a nation. They have to remain employed, but enforcement is questionable and creative solutions exist.

It's a pretty good deal. Oh, and of course dual citizens always have an escape hatch to leave one country and their debts behind should they choose.

Weakened so it can be controlled as a golem of sorts to carry out agendas like paving over the Middle East for them, not necessarily destroyed.

>It's a way to make sense out of the world and to have some shred of a sense of agency in a world where a person otherwise has no power.

Wouldn't poo-cassos be better framed in an institution cell away from the other 90% of society? That way they can get the mental support they need and rebuild their agency. If you don't have agency, you need conservators to help you address it. For children, those are parents. For adults, that's the state.

Otherwise we're admitting participation in a society is pure benefit without any responsibilities.

Call it an informal institution to push homeless away but without worry about way to define them, like you'd deny on a sign - a word for homeless doesn't do it, it's not a single flag that marks someone as an undesirable.

[1] is apparently how society converges on an assumption you're engaged in business as a customer, employee, or entrepreneur, then everything is accessible to you.

[2] is the check to make sure people excluded in [1] are punished for using the commons instead of a sanitary location.

>The law determines that public space can't be used for any sexual activity.

When it's one person, true, but when it's a population, the politics historically changes and the law accedes to pressure to stop enforcing that determination.

people can destroy things faster than you can build or even maintain them is the problem.

it's mean to identify the certain people or hold them accountable, though, so we don't.

The utter lack of it? There's an entire industrial complex around homeless "support" to do magic tricks on money.

Portland's county allocates $9m annually. LA's county allocates $4b annually. Should it be 2x that? 20x? 200x before any positive change occurs?

"Mental health" is a non-answer designed to shift accountability and agency from individuals into everyone else vis a vis whatever system is expected to provide this vague "support", despite the failed track record of these systems to improve anything but their employees' and contractors' pockets.

Closing bigger public bathrooms and switching to individually lockable bathrooms - cells, basically, often with codes if at a business did work.

It filters out that bottom 10% that can't coherently speak or present themselves to pass a vibe check in asking for bathroom access.

Things did improve for those with standards, at the cost of having to deal with the bathroom equivalent of barbed wire topped walls around your home compound. That IS better than walking in on the bottom 10% or the disasters they create, but only slightly.

Collectively, squeezing the bottom out by denying them access building by building, block by block has helped turn parts of cities around. It's not that different than locking up your food high in the air when camping so animals don't get into it - they don't come around and stop coming around if they are.

Andrew Huberman has this idea about Duration, Path, and Outcome.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CHLavYHn-BG/?hl=en

Duration - how long will things take?

Path - how will we get there?

Outcome - what's at the end, or how I think of it, what does done look like or where do I want to be?

Things like anger and anxiety are IMO, when our brains take an unfortunate offramp instead of solving for these. I've used this as a analytical framework to calm myself and make a plan to get out of a jam many times: physical pain, pressure-cooker work stress, interpersonal conflicts.

I have also had significant success using it as mini-framework to help break down problems people have come to me with. There's a lot to emotions in general far beyond "psychologists HATE this one trick" - don't let me oversell it, but it immediately came to mind reading the article.

If you're going to start a war, don't lose. Things in the US are not to the point the people needed would defect to the strike.

It brings up the 1940s struggles of labor, industry, and .gov, and labor lost and had its back broken. Could labor outmaneuver industry and the state today if we ran it back?

Amusing, but a long string of rogue cyber intrusions coupled with Jstor blocking MIT altogether a few times isn’t something to ignore. Hard to imagine just ignoring the risks and potential of that unknown.

MIT and Jstor had a bunch of incident response going on, and it isn’t a leap to consider Jstor would cut them off for good if the situation went unresolved.

MIT evidently added a camera. Later that day, the MIT police made their first contact with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._...

"When it was discovered, a video camera was placed in the room to record Swartz; his computer was left untouched. The recording was stopped once Swartz was identified,"

IME, months-long internal investigations in an org with Secret Service involvement would be unlikely to escape senior management, but I'm just speculating and only have the same info as everyone else. You might be right.