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You're missing the point, the TPM 2.0 requirement is there to drive adoption, not to actually prevent you from installing Windows 11.

You won't know until you buy their book (yes)

People underestimate how quickly you burn out when you're completely on your own. It's the people around you that give you purpose and motivation.

I don't think selling more hardware is the primary motivation. The motivation is ensuring everyone has TPM 2.0 enabled on their device.

This allows Microsoft to protect parts of their software even from the user that owns the hardware it's running on. With TPM enabled you finally give up the last bit of control you had over the software running on your hardware.

Honey, how you grew

And if we stick together who knows what we'll do

It was always the plan

To put the world in your hands

If you're in a suburb what else is there to do? Going to any interesting spots to hang out with friends involve asking your parents to bring you there with the family car and then arranging a strict timetable on when to pick you up again.

PSOs are Pipeline State Objects, they encapsulate the entire state of the rendering pipeline.

Those military actions are on international waters. There is no legal theory even on the fringes for invading another country using that act.

They can't declare war, that would require approval from congress. They're relying on the post-9/11 authorization granted to the president to use the military to go after terrorists and those that harbor them.

That is why this administration is leaning heavily into calling the drug traffickers "narco-terrorists" and calling fentanyl their "weapon of mass destruction". They're covering their ass legally so they can invade another country without congressional approval.

Unfortunately in Europe these can also be scams, there are some people who will dress up homeless but are actually just begging for profit.

They're easy to recognize, because they're very forceful in their begging, relying more on intimidation than compassion.

There really is no level people won't sink to for some money.

Reminds me of a certain self-driving car company.

It highly depends on what your definition of a price increase is. The cars people actually buy have definitely become more expensive with more and more people choosing to buy SUVs.

The sedan hasn't become more expensive, but people don't feel safe driving them anymore between all the large SUVs, this pushing more people towards buying more expensive cars.

Infrastructure is not unproductive, even machines need roads. I don't think self-driving vehicles should be exempt from road tax.

I believed in the lab leak theory so for me getting the vaccine was a no brainer. I could get infected by one of two things developed in a lab, only one of which had clinical trails on humans. I went with the clinically tested option.

Unfortunately that is not the case for me in the Netherlands. No Chickenpox vaccination is offered and making sure kids get it early is still considered the right way to do immunization.

The idea being that it's better for people to get it as kids, because if you give them vaccines as kids you'll have to give them boosters as adults. Whereas a latent disease will provide a lifetime of immunity.

For Multiple Sclerosis multiple studies have shown it is strongly correlated with an EBV infection and only an EBV infection. After the infection it just becomes a genetic lottery with a really shitty prize.

I wonder when we'll finally accept that there's no such thing as a harmless latent disease. Chickenpox, EBV, HPV, they're all associated with either neurodegeneration or cancer.

We should be vaccinating kids against all of them rather than sending them to Chickenpox parties.

> But we'll pretty much never be able to prove or disprove that...

How convenient for you...

If you're social you're more likely to care about those around you. Vaccines are also important for protecting vulnerable people in the community, so they were doubly motivated that way.

Note that LLMs can easily deduce what your biases are based on your prompt and give you only information that confirms your biases.

The problem with the myocarditis risk in young men is that they undergo exactly the same risk from the actual covid infection. And given the fact that it was already obviously going to be endemic it really wasn't much of a calculation. It was basically: You either roll the dice now or you roll the dice when you inevitably get covid.

For a lot of people these aren't rational beliefs, they're beliefs based on appeals to emotion. They will only rationally re-evaluate those beliefs if you change the kind of media they consume.

Datacenters in space would make 0 sense because the only way to lose heat is through radiation, which makes for terrible cooling.

If you want to avoid national laws and have great cooling, then submerse your datacenter in the ocean instead.

It wasn't rebooting, it ran out of memory and started aborting lower priority tasks. It was a excellent example of robust programming in the face of unexpected usage scenarios.

There's not an unlimited amount of fake numbers available, that's the difference. The point is to limit your ability to register thousands of accounts.

Spam filtering is a game of numbers, every limit you impose to the ability of spammers to amplify their message reduces the likelihood a particular individual receives a spam message.

I'd trust the 20 somethings more than the AI model.

What if people on SignalUltraSafeTM want to talk to people on regular Signal?

Telegram solved this already though, they allow users to register using either their phone number or a unique username. But Telegram has a huge spam problem. Which is likely the real reason Signal requires a phone number.

The US has world-class healthcare, if you can pay for it. If you can't, then you're getting the healthcare equivalent to a third-world country.

> Why should doing so on your phone be any different?

Because it's obscenely profitable for the platform holder to have complete control over app distribution.

Can we stop pretending it's about anything else than that? Just imagine if Microsoft got a 30% commission on every PC software purchase in the world...

Even for genuine WhatsApp traffic the speed is limited so severely that loading a video or image someone sent you is nearly impossible.