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According to The Economist it was Jensen Huang (NVIDIA).

Oh I'm sure editorial staff across all major media is prepping for the right moment to pop that front page. I'm guessing that we're not long from seeing the first "personhood for software" mainstream (premature) discussions popping up. I personally can't wait for it - it's going to be a real shitshow :D

> These people just want a dependable platform they control

Are you referencing Apollo/Reddit users? If so, I'm not convinced that 'control' is their main concern. I would guess that most users outside of the HN crowd care more about a nice UI, and of course being wherever all the action is. Both points do not seem in focus in any of the federated platforms I've seen so far. The UI is usually a carbon copy (at best) of whatever platform they're trying to replace, and the federation makes it less obvious for users where and how they get access to most engaging content. I am happy to be proven wrong though. The federated route is appealing to me on paper, but I'm not yet convinced it has good product/market fit with the general population on the internet.

Has anyone got Canvas to work on the Android client? Any canvas files won't show up in the vault.

  Resigned from Twitter today.

  Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding!

https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/160534120710993920...

The important point of this story is not whether VIN plates should or shouldn't be affixed with rivets. It is whether the state should be able to _administratively_ confiscate personal and valuable property without a court order. Civil forfeiture laws have no place in democratic societies.

I made this mistake once, albeit with Newtons second law instead. I was explaining my estimations for changing some key processes in a company. As a kind of mental aid, I used 'F' as the total effort needed to make the change, while 'm' represented the size of the organization, and 'a' would represent the speed we wanted to perform the change with. F = m * a. A simple way of illustrating the exponential relationship between these factors.

But it blew their mind. It took on 'mystical' properties, as if we had distilled change management into pure Newtonian motion. I started seeing not only F = ma in memos on other issues, but also other equations like E = mc^2, trying to wrestle management lingo into relativistic conservation of energy.

Lesson learned, I guess.

Thank you, these points gave valuable insight.

I hear you, and I respect your resolve.

I understand - it seems like a rational position to me to a certain degree. But regardless of circumstances leading to the event, what do you think you would do if you saw murders and rape right on your doorstep? Honest question by the way - there are plenty of examples of pacifists standing up to violence following a pacifist ethos.

It's close to where I live, and I have friends in Ukraine. So, it's probably fear and tribalism at the bottom of the stack, although I could also rant off a nice list of philosophic reasons for wanting to contribute. But yeah, probably just fear.

I respect that. I thought I had that red line as well.

You raise good points. I feel like I should contribute, and I have experience and domain knowledge that would be useful, but up until now I didn't feel that the goals justified the means. But there has been wars all my life, and there will likely be wars after the war in Ukraine is resolved. Am I fine with my work being used in warfare for future wars, where I don't necessarily agree with the use of force? I'm having a hard time figuring out which route would lead to most regret - doing too little, or doing too much.

That seems like a very absolutist statement ;) But yes, that's how I mostly feel as well. There's another part of me that questions, if I ever really had principles, if I can change them when things get scary.

I'm in Denmark, with ENG (US) as language, and I'm getting the speech.

I like the speech, but I would also like to see your software.

* edit: Seems fixed for me now. Filestash looks pretty useful btw!

Terrible story. Civil forfeiture seems utterly incompatible with any notion of a just society. It's like democracy just gave up and regressed to feudalism.

Even _if_ the author had turned out to be 100% guilty of whatever Amazon accused them of - this form of civil forfeiture is still punishment without trial and not in line with the sixth amendment.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

I'm actually writing a book called "Quantum Habits".

I've only gotten to the title, so far.

Their main customer base (by orders of magnitude) are advertisers. I'm not convinced that this move will change anything at all in those relationships.

I, myself, am a 'victim' of this, with two personal accounts grandfathered in from the good ol' days. I'm moving both of them to Protonmail.

You did imply plenty though, by putting it in the same category as _Lisp_.

Paper about the 66 qubit quantum processor Zuchongzhi.

I'm a great believer in the power of cash to solve problems. Rutger Bregman's Utopia For Realists opened my eyes on this matter. The minority of "rotten apples" only spoil the concept if we let them - we can view their potential misuse as part of the operating cost of helping a large majority of people into happier and more productive states of life.

I worry that some employers fear that UBI and similar will decrease workers dependency on their employment, and thus become more demanding and more expensive. My own intuition is that keeping a strong imbalance in power between employer and worker is at best a local maxima for the employer, and much greater profits can be achieved with a more balanced relationship with the workforce.

It can be either. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/safe-deposit%20bo...

From secretservice.gov (emphasis mine): "The United States Secret Service is a _federal law enforcement agency_ under the Department of Homeland Security charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government."

I haven't heard Bill Gates pushing certain lifestyle choices in regards to climate change, but rather trying to influence policy. Examples to the contrary are welcome.

The guns stored in homes as part of military service, are stored without ammunition. While CH does have a relatively high amount of guns per capita (~27), it pales in comparison to the United States (~120). Is the US 4X safer than Switzerland, or might there be other factors that account more for the low crime rates in Switzerland?

Ok, fair enough. By surrounding myself with men holding guns - do you mean law enforcement and military? In that case I don't see a disconnect between supporting issuing firearms in a highly regulated way to law enforcement, and not supporting widespread use among a population.

I don't think your Bill Gates analogy makes any sense at all. His work in his foundation, and the expertise he has access to, seems pretty removed from the size of house he chooses to live in. Is your argument that he needs a certain moral justification for warning about climate change? Or that his immense wealth disqualifies him from discussing science?

Do you have a source for gun ownership being _encouraged_ in CH? Also, it's going to be a tall order to control for other factors when comparing these specific countries. They seem quite far from each-other culturally, geographically, historically and economically.

Can you explain how you came to that conclusion? It seems tenuous at best to assume reducing illegal firearms among a population, has the same effect as reducing firearms among law enforcement.

Isn't that the case for most reputable VCs? Marketing your product, identifying synergies in portfolio companies, recruiting opportunities and so forth? Or are a16z & YC in a class of their own in that regard?