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jj999··on The Problem with Counterfeit People
https://archive.is/aDwCP
jj999··on Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
Robocop made me question capitalism

Total Recall made me question the self

Starship Troopers made me question patriotism

I'm a sucker for Verhoeven's sci-fi flicks.

jj999··on Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
So you trust the database to be exact?
jj999··on Banning open weight models would be a disaster
The fight against encryption continue to this day and while https is now ubiquitous, large-scale cdns makes it somewhat a moot point and emails are still largely plaintext.
jj999··on Porn sites are banning Texas
Nobody likes international sanctions nor getting liberated.
jj999··on Are we all trapped in The Matrix 25 years later?
yes.
jj999··on Are we all trapped in The Matrix 25 years later?
For a very long time I thought the peak moment was 2001-09-11, an instant before the first plane touched the first tower.

Edit: date

jj999··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
No one care about your constitution outside your borders while the concept of Free Speech is universal and isn't defined by a geographicaly limited piece of paper. I'll never let your regressive law colonize my thoughts.
jj999··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Name a juridiction where he would have been both i)taken in and ii)secure.
jj999··on Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately
Why can't we agree there are differences between other human beings learning from other people and a multinational corporation learning from everyone at industrial scale, with industrial means?
jj999··on Your TV Is Too Good for You
I watch tv on my 720p non-smart tv and it still feels like I'm living in the future. Nobody needs 4k. Hell, nobody needs 720p. A lot of people lives in a luxury bubble.
jj999··on What DNS Is Not (2009)
Properties are dependant on you being able to defend it, which, if you aren't a state, you delegate to the state where you posess thing. This include your body, your mind, and your life.
jj999··on A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs
For millenia humans was divided between the illiterate mass and a literate elite. Mass literacy is a localised phenomenon historically and geographically. Youtube users chose their side. Choose your.
jj999··on Relationships: Start with Several
Are you sure it's one person with two heads and not two sharing a body?
jj999··on Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
This guy do love to namedrop.
jj999··on The Longer Something Doesn't Happen, the Sooner It Will
Also called the gambler's fallacy.
jj999··on The Plot Against Einstein
We live in a world where code in the Linux kernel will rot until removal if it was commited by someone who later become a criminal and where research will simply not get done if the one that would do it don't have the right political opinion. "Remarkable" is not the word I'd use. "Banal" seems more true.
jj999··on Nesizm: NES emulator for Casio Prizm calculators
That emulator was by a group calling itself "Bloodlust software". These guys released a bunch of freeware games with gory theme. This include nesticle with the bloody hand as mouse cursor. I also remember a ball game with the balls replaced with severed heads and lot of blood splatters.
jj999··on "Autism Is a Spectrum" Doesn't Mean What You Think
Most sentences in this article would get you banned on TicTok.
jj999··on You're Too Old for That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech
Being angry about this only hurts your chance of understanding why one will think this way and enact change.
jj999··on If Lisp is so great
> blub languages like Lisp

I see what you did[0] here.

0: https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox

jj999··on An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women around the world
It's well known there are only two political ideologies and those are uniform internationaly.
jj999··on In India, an algorithm declares them dead; they have to prove they're alive
Something similar happened to this french woman: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-sa...
jj999··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
try https://wiby.me
jj999··on Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors hasn't kept pace
Yes. Birth rate is 1.4 by woman but immigration is 470k/y.
jj999··on 'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline'
all of these being good things.
jj999··on Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032
The judicial branch decide what's legal and what is not in most modern democratic country by interpreting laws written by the legislature. However, in parliamentary systems, like UK or Canada, the government mostly control the legislature and impose its agenda. I'm unsure about Czech republic but clear power separation like the US is uncommon.
jj999··on Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032
Odd question. The Czech government is the entity defining what is legal.
jj999··on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS Deprecation
this gpt guy is a master at euphemisms
jj999··on Universities accommodate food delivery robots
Wait 'till these things bully pedestrians out of the sidewalks.
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