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sbayg··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
I could sort of imagine plausible reasons for that, but not allowing sim pin seems… nonobvious.
sbayg··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
MDM is the worst part of iOS. It undermines all of apple’s security claims, basically making iOS windows. Devices should not be able to be remotely controlled.
sbayg··on GPT-5.6
History moves left to right.
sbayg··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Wait, are you saying leadership at those institutions (say the Washington post) secretly want to help Trump while appearing to be aligned against him, because of say the Zionism angle or like maybe Bezos wants a president that will lower his taxes? If so, that’s not a thing many ears would be able to hear here. More parsimoniously, perhaps the journos and pundits crying wolf (to discredit Trump’s critics) are acting alone. It only takes a few, because real idiots on the internet will latch on to the farcical nonsense and amplify it further. It doesn’t mean NYT/WAPO stand for false flags, it just means they have some political actors within them using plausibly deniable attacks on Trump to help him because they are for lower taxes/zionism/etc…
sbayg··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
I wish there was an investigation but the CCP blockaded any inquiries, going so far as removing the computers and not cooperating with international authorities. /s
sbayg··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
False flag farcical comments will always be a thing.
sbayg··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
COVID19
sbayg··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Just because most of critics are brain dead morons doesn’t mean Trump is a great guy or above the same level of scrutiny shown to previous presidents.
sbayg··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
What people deem to be subjective is very often subjective. You disagreeing simply proves the point.
sbayg··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
Ever had a CTA or other plaque study done? Athletes have plaque often, but so do stoners. Supposedly stoned plaque is stickier and thus more deadly.
sbayg··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Subjective being subjective
sbayg··on My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?
Why don’t you go elsewhere?
sbayg··on OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
Strange conclusion to reach. Taxes are generally assessed periodically (annually for income, property taxes, etc…). Time is money. The tax assessor always comes back for more, as long as there is more to tax.
sbayg··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
Courts do award higher damages, specifically punitive damages, to punish and deter wealthy or large corporate defendants. In civil law, the defendant's net worth is a recognized legal factor because a small penalty on a massive corporation wouldn't incentivize them to change their illegal behavior.
sbayg··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
I feel you but are you possibly conflating civil and criminal justice? Tickets don’t scale with net worth of defendants, but class action penalties often do.
sbayg··on U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators
When we killed Kennedy. That was the point we should have admitted being the bad gays.
sbayg··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Maybe Spain has people on the inside (of Huawei.)
sbayg··on OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
Why assume it wouldn’t sell shares? If the state can take 5% ownership, it can sell that 5% for profit, and come back for another 5% next year. Ideally the rules on when to sell would be systematic, or made by a neutral bipartisan committee of advisors, but I suspect maybe it would be just be up to the treasury (like the crypto it now holds).
sbayg··on Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
But we have AI now to guide us and it will help ensure we prevent most major ecological miscalculations. The context is different now, given the change in the cost of planning and research into ecological side effects, unlike anything we had in the past.
sbayg··on Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?
> patriotism and pride

You realize nationalism is the source of all evil in the world, right? Is Brin even a citizen?

sbayg··on The AI backlash is only getting started
That’s what the growing hoards of permanently unemployable people will do, sit around and google jevons paradox and the lump of labor fallacy and ponder whether economists have ever been wrong in the past about such matters, and whether AGI is really all that different from the steam engine anyway. Tech sector is just tech, like it’s always been.
sbayg··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Baby aspirin was overdone too. Interestingly, the fish oil hype cycle has a much longer timeline if you consider the popularity of cod liver oil once upon a time.
sbayg··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Neither did a lot of nazis, that’s the reason the Mitchell and Webb bit is so funny. Nazi’s are always the least self aware, by definition.
sbayg··on The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century
Only the rich own stocks. Most Americans have either no assets or debt.
sbayg··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
Easy money and cheap (foreign) labor are one and the same. Political parties that are not accountable for this are the upstream problem. In other words, it’s a failure of what we think of as our “democracy.” The will of the people doesn’t mean much when you can just swap out “the people” to get what you will.
sbayg··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
How many took the COVID vax? /s
sbayg··on Expanding Project Glasswing
In other words it creates work. In other words Jevons paradox.

I can’t wait for the first court case where an LLM surfaces a vuln, lazy devs ignore it, and someone later sues the company into oblivion for liability.

sbayg··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
People 50 years ago would laugh at the irony of that statement, being made here on what we call the internet. Real life will never be digital, and yet here we are, talking to anonymous strangers many of whom are not actual people.
sbayg··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Hard for to assess that stat given the polling organization has this on their Wikipedia page.

“On 29 August 2024 the Israel Defense Forces released Hamas documents[6] that it said showed that, unbeknownst to the PCPSR, Hamas had secretly falsified its levels of public support in polls conducted by the PCPSR.[7] Rejecting the IDF claims, Shikaki said it was 'highly unlikely' that Hamas had falsified its results, but vowed to probe the claims.[8]”

sbayg··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
The abstract you linked, pasted below, seems to say otherwise. Placebo groups report same SE frequency.

“Across 684 randomized controlled trials, reported SEs were infrequent. Although dose and duration tertiles were statistically associated with study-level side effect reporting, the effect sizes were uniformly small, events were infrequent, and the reported symptoms were primarily mild and nonspecific. No consistent exposure–response pattern indicative of clinically meaningful risk was observed. Adjusted logistic regression and frequency-based analyses showed no consistent dose- or duration-dependent increase in SE risk, with placebo groups often reporting similar or greater SE frequencies at the study-reporting level. CrM appears to be well-tolerated and, at the study-level, does not increase the risk of gastrointestinal, renal, liver, musculoskeletal, or other SEs compared to placebo, even at high doses or longer durations.”

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