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kakadu··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
> which goes against the alignment of the university donors

Why do we allow non public universities to exist again?

kakadu··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
Either it's yet again a marketing ploy or federal police needs to move in
kakadu··on US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'
Incredible that US public service does the bidding of corporate America.

It's like freedom.equals(we don't like regulation at all)

kakadu··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
You keep spewing apologist nonsense by refusing to acknowledge that the US is by far the most imperialist entity at the moment.

In comparison, China is the least.

kakadu··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
> China didn't just form with its current borders. It expanded and contracted and expanded some more for millennia.

As did everyone else?

I don't see China having military bases all over the world and proping up "freedom fighters"

kakadu··on Creativity is the new moat
Being in a Union is the only moat.
kakadu··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Why isn't Firefox funded from the state as a utility and is instead left to rot in the hands of the "free" market?

If ff needs to turn a profit to survive how can it not follow the directives of the market?

kakadu··on The safest job from AI may be writing
The safest jobs from AI are the Unionized ones.
kakadu··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
What does being smart even mean?
kakadu··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Does it matter?
kakadu··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
This is another opportunity for the EU to reign in and create a proper definition of ownership so that this does not pass.

Of course, it would be interesting to hear the freemarketeering on this site and how people should "vote with their wallet" and sites/movements such as $freeplaystation.whatever sprouting pseudopolemic nonsense.

kakadu··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Making it illegal would be communism
kakadu··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter, thank you for your time

I have been living and working Estonia for around 2 years now, I have mostly US clients for a saas that I direct, this saas brings me around steady income of around 200k euros per year, at least 130k come from east coast companies.

Can I apply for the E1 treaty trader visa? Even if my company is not incorporated in Greece?

kakadu··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
> There is a class of prediction markets that are useful

No there is not.

That's as damaging a statement as "soft" drugs or "problem" gambling.

Statements usured by corporate PR to set up a fake middle ground and delegate responsibility to the consumer for any "bad" behaviour.

kakadu··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
I am not convinced that Israel is such an important ally.

I suspect a fourth column.

kakadu··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I cannot believe we do not have a good arm Linux laptop with a comparable price and battery to a MacBook at this stage.

I am forced to use this abomination of an operating system just because.

Come on Lenovo, make it happen

kakadu··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
I ve been a happy user of debian stable for 15 years now, if I could get a Linux laptop with a comparable battery life to apple's then it's done for me.

I think linux people tend to forget how important battery life is on a laptop

kakadu··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
He is an _American_ hero
kakadu··on Europe: WhatsApp opens for third-party apps
Is this one of the instances where European regulations hurt businesses?
kakadu··on Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors
They tell themselves stories about "if free market did not want it it would not exist" or better us than them
kakadu··on NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
Didn't the US revoke the visas of around 80 Palestinian officials scheduled to speak at the UN summit?
kakadu··on Apache ECharts 6
While I like echarts I have found it somewhat challenging to extend their functionality.

I wanted a Gantt chart and while I did achieve what I wanted it wasn't without having to delve into the their source and putting log statements everywhere.

I happen to be using ant design and I've had the same issues there.

Its a bit all over the place and the translations are not great, but i will stick with it.

kakadu··on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
Would something like this happen if the hostile educational environment was against - say - black people? Or any other ethnic group?
kakadu··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_prof...

This one seems to tick all the boxes

kakadu··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
A hammer hammers.

It hammers 100% of the time, with no failure.

It requires the same amount of labour from my part but it delivers the same outcome every time.

That is what tools do, they act as an extension and allow you to do things not easily done otherwise.

If the hammer sometimes hammers, sometimes squeaks and sometimes screws then it requires extra labour from my part just to make it do what purpose specific tools do, and that is where frustrations arise.

Make it do one thing excellent and we talk then.

kakadu··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
> that has brought relative freedom and prosperity to most of the world for the last three and a half decades.

What an incredible take.

I cannot possibly think of a US intervention that went well for the receiving end.

kakadu··on AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
Me and my euro mates are not interested in this kid of "innovation".

The "business investors" and "innovators" can take this kind of business elsewhere.

This kind of talk where regulators are assaulted by free marketeers and freedom fighters is unacceptable here.

Let us not misinterpret business people as "innovators", if what they do is not net positive for the society, they do not belong here.

kakadu··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
The embracing of Typescript and type hints pretty much solidifies the case against dynamic typing for complicated projects.

We have projects in java7 still which span thousands of LoC and juniors can just jump in using their IDE and make some sort of contribution.

With python this takes much longer.

kakadu··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
> This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades.

You must live in quite an interesting world then.

The fact that people are running to a megacorp's aid because a bad EU forced them to quit being anti-consumer is staggering.

So staggering in fact, that these commentators might not even comment in good faith and in fact be PR pawns.

I'd really want to believe the latter because someone that gets so intimate with their phone brings out a sadness in me.

kakadu··on Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
> Its getting worse everywhere:

I was introduced to the following concept[1] some time back, and I can't help but think it gives a very reasonable explanation as to why everything is a subscription these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

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