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> I'm more concerned about what happens to US now, because I think the attack indicates a complete failure and collapse of the legislative branch of the US government.

Why now? Why not when they took out Soleimani in 2020? Or when they invaded and took out Gaddafi in 2011? Can keep going all the back to Truman invading Vietnam.

Way too risky to use Google services like this tied to your primary account. There’s too much risk of cross damage. Imagine losing access to your Gmail because some Gemini request flags you as an undesirable. The digital death sentence of losing access to your email with a company that notoriously has no way for the average human to contact a human is not worth the risk.

Particularly if you filter out the context when presenting the filtered data:

“Wish I could be there. I’d kill for such an opportunity. All the best and see you next time.”

So eggs with white gravy? I think I’ve had that combo and it was pretty banging.

> KeePass has long been the gold standard and darling of the tech world, earned through its unrelenting commitment to security, stability, and data sovereignty.

Eh? I always thought of pass[1] in that role.

> Devising a new schema based on SQLite would allow for current features that are being jerry-rigged into the attributes to have their own real place in the database, rather than clogging the user-facing fields. It also ensures that if in the future, some weird authentication method were to come out, no breaking changes would be needed. You simply would add a table to accommodate it, and old clients would simply not support the feature and just load the database without it. Of course, a warning would be shown to the user if somehow their database uses new features on an old client.

Using a relational database does not solve this problem at all. It doesn’t even address it at all.

The original problem is you have multiple implementations defining their own data model. Whether the backend is a file, a database, or a post-it note, that doesn’t work.

Just as you can ignore tables in a database, you can ignore attributes in XML.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

The next round of massive tech layoffs will be ruff.

> I think you might be underrating the value of even that enabling work. Some parents would not have the financial resources to provide those learning materials. And some parents would take a normative stance on how an 8 year old ought to behave.

And most modern parents would swamp the child with a bunch of mind rotting auto playing TV and video games. There's an account of Terence's time at university where he nearly fails his oral qualifying exams as he spent most of his time playing Civ rather than studying anything. Imagine the travesty for the world if 5 year old Terence had been handed an Xbox.

> You shouldn't be able to borrow money to buy a company, then transfer the debt used to buy the company on to the company itself.

Why not and how would you stop? It’s no different than a company issuing bonds to buy back its own equity.

I agree that it’s contributing to the enshitification of many end consumer industries, but I’m not sure what such a “ban” would look like it practice.

Not quite. Conservatives argue they shouldn’t have to provide medical practices like abortion that violate their personal ideologies. They don’t selectively grant them for a subset of the population.

“Sorry sir- I know you’re having a heart attack but you really should find a doctor that treats $POLITICAL_PARTY.”

The problem now is that it’s a human using Claude to write the code and another using Claude to review it.

Because only the creator should be able to instill the core. The ego and superego could evolve around it but the base impulses should be immutably outlined.

Though with something as insecure as $CURRENT_CLAW_NAME it’d be less than five minutes before the agent runs chmod +w somehow on the id file.

> More like ego document.

This metaphor could go so much further. Split it into separate ego, super ego, and id. The id file should be read only.

Kind of both. It’s the last direct decision that he made for Berkshire as the guy in charge.

> The moat isn't money for out-marketing your idea that 750 other people are building, it's having a good idea that solves a problem that nobody else is solving well.

An idea is not a moat. Execution is only a moat if being nimble is part of the ongoing offering.

If you really want to get cheap balls, go play a round at a mid tier course and take a peek in the bushes. You’ll get an assortment of balls.

I didn’t understand that part. The child has a mother, why wasn’t she reported missing?

The more familiar you are with his voice the less similar it would sound. It’s like how siblings look more similar to strangers.

More like they’re leasing away deeply discounted steam shovels at below market rates and somehow expecting to turn a profit doing so.

The real profits are the companies selling them chips, fiber, and power.

And if you can never catch up, how would someone new to the game ever be a meaningful player?

Rights don’t entirely disappear because a group of individuals decides to form a collective entity. That’s the heart of the Citizen’s United decision. If an individual can aggregate data about his customers and make a decision to not serve a known offender, then surely a group of individuals can do the same. That’s their right.

Again, this is not discrimination if it’s done for specific individuals, even if it’s done using data collected in aggregate. Banning a protected group wouldn’t be illegal. But banning a specific person would not.

Whether it’s legal to sell that same data as a list of undesirables is the open untested question.

In what way? A business can refuse to service any individual as long as it’s not a direct violation of things like civil rights laws.

What would such a ban look like?

A private company can surely link its own cameras and data to create a private use database of undesirables. I’m certain that Walmart and friends do exactly this already. It’s the large scale version of the Polaroids behind the counter.

At an airport once the coffee stand had a girl behind the counter that would just hand you an empty disposable cup. She didn’t even handle cash, it was card only using a self checkout POS system. And it still asked for a tip with the default of 20%.

There should be a way to specify a negative tip.

Oh you’re night! I had Morgan Freeman’s face in my mind too.

> The only way Batman remains a "good guy" in the eyes of the audience is by destroying the entire thing once he's done.

A key part of that is when he tells Alfred that he did not even trust himself with that level of surveillance and coded it to only grant access to Alfred. Further, Alfred agrees to aid Batman by accessing the data but simultaneously tenders his resignation.

I doubt Amazon has anyone like Alfred in charge of this thing. Because if they did, the resignation would already have been submitted.

> Since then, we have seen indiscriminate violence against people and families following the rules.

I'm not aware of any such thing, especially anything "indiscriminate". For sure there are causalities when protests go from speech to violence or directly interfere with the ability of law enforcement to enforce the law. But your framing makes it sound like roving bands of beat down squads.

> And a bizzare hate campaign against H1B.

There's nothing bizarre about workers being angry at a system that is being abused to drive down wages. The reality is that there are segments of workforce in the USA that will only hire H1Bs workers because they know they can treat them illegally. This happens all over the place but is particularly prevalent at larger orgs (both in tech and finance). The behavior is implicitly authorized by the companies as they outsource the "being the jerk" to those managers.

The non-H1B workers rightfully feel angered by this because it directly lowers their wages. It's like scabs flooding a union shop. Only worse as the scabs are scared of not only losing their jobs, but their visas.

> And court judgements explicitly enabling masked government agents to target someone solely on the basis of skin color.

If there was not a concerted effort to interfere with law enforcement or dox the people that work at those places, the masks would not be necessary.

> Wouldn't it be simplest to just legalize the people who are here and at the same time also open up immigrant visas too?

Any form of amnesty encourages the same behavior in the future.

How many and what kind of immigrant visas is an open question. There's definitely a need for more workers in some fields. Healthcare in particular could be well served by importing (even more) doctors from around the world.

What's not up for debate is whether we should be enforcing our immigration laws. If people different laws enforced, then get the laws changed. There's no unfairness to the current laws. And flooding the country with cheap labor hurts the lowest tiers of the populace the most.

The US has endless backlog of people waiting in line to legally enter the country. It doesn’t need to keep any illegal aliens to meet its immigration goals.

There’s nothing systemic about overeating at an individual level. It’s a personal choice to have that extra donut or cola. Nobody is forcing it down your throat nor shaming you for refusing.

Quite the contrary with segments of modern society trying to normalize obesity.