taurknaut

Why not just call it blackmail? Is there any evidence that Putin has more influence over our government than, say, Bibi does? That seems extremely difficult to believe. This feels a lot like centrist qanon.

Smartphones at least are absolutely crippled by being locked down by user-hostile app stores and rent schemes. Instead of uplifting us, they've made us angry crackheads. I think the valley is a risk to humanity's survival at this point.

LLMs and electric cars simply have zero impact on my life, and I imagine that other people would have had few issues coming up with the latter.

Clever. I feel like knowing I'm actually talking to Eliza would undercut significant value here though.

Sure, the issue is the non-free ones they endorse.

Nah, I just tried and it works fine.

A) a lot of what is censored ends up being publicly-known information already, so it's not a matter of safety but rather public image (imo), and B) this creates a perverse incentive to associate national security (...or other sources of unsafety) with unrelated topics to avoid having to hold yourself accountable for your work.

Plus, there's little way of knowing for the documents for which we haven't seen the uncensored version if they aren't just censoring arbitrary things.

It may be reality, but it's still pretty bad for any government that pretends to value transparency.

I don't even think half of them are getting paid. They're doing it gratis.

White nationalism is indeed a major problem in ICE (and law enforcement in general), but I don't think this is an accurate way to paint the situation as a whole. This is what textbook nativism looks like, and many non-white americans are nativists as well. They rhyme and overlap and often share goals but they're not the same and they are often motivated by different fears.

What we see here looks more like this than like apartheid/jim crow (though if you look at how we treat legal immigrant labor it gets much blurier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Nobody in this thread is blaming ICE for their own existence.

However, now that they exist and wield great political power, they probably should get some for their continued existence.

ICE represents so much currently wrong with america today: a bipartisan-supported, taxpayer-funded gang of thugs that exist to ensure a cheap source of labor. what's actually driving down wages is the fact that a lack of reliable and legal mechanism to find citizenship if you already live here means many if not most people are willing to turn a blind eye to the same taking of jobs and downward pressure on wages that got everyone upset in the first place to avoid cruelly displacing someone from a place they call home.

So yea ICE can suck a fuck.

> Using LLMs to judge correctness

It seems their pr is willing to make much stronger claims than you will.

Many open source licenses are non-free. It's simply not useful to generally conflate the two concepts when they have distinct meanings. I never have nor ever will look towards the OSI as contributing to the free software movement rather than trying to choke it out.

To be disruptive you need layoffs. Where is all this labor that can be replaced with chatbots?

I, personally, strongly hate cars and think they're moronic. Sometimes revolutions aren't a good thing.

Sure but i'm many orders of magnitude times more likely to die from a virus than "enemy tanks".

What would you characterize as more dangerous than a threat like this? What are you seeing that you'd characterize as panic?

People have pointed out for decades now that the OSI is a corporate alternative to free software. That was always the complaint.

Most authoritarian countries have been formal democracies(/republics) for a while. There are a LOT of ways to heavily influence elections short of rigging them. (Though, of course, ballot stuffing remains a concern too.)

No symptoms doesn't imply no side effects.

Furthermore the more viruses you're exposed to, the more likely you'll get one mutated to really hurt you. The best way to deal with viruses is to avoid them to the extent possible.

I think there are many people fine with simply removing federal enforcement over states. One possible outcome of this is the federal government us just a joke and laws are relative to where you live.

I mean. This weird-ass country is already like that, despite the states themselves making zero sense. It'll just get worse.

Well I certainly don't use linux because it's written in C. Who would?

Edit: This seems like more of an indication of a culture that lacks effective conflict resolution than any kind of technical question.

This doesn't strike me as that different than an enum.

nobody deserves to be wealthy. The concept is simply nonsensical.

Tenured teaching positions are also in freefall right now.

> Rails can become a ball of mud as much as any other framework can.

...but rails can fit this dysfunction on a single slide ;)

This is actually pretty accurate, except ruby is just slower, not randomly fragile at scale.

While I like many people have been doing this for years, it's not clear what this will actually solve. What will strategically benefit us is banding together in public, not talking in hushed tones in private.

> cheats

All i see is competition. Companies cheat by relying on ip to begin with and it hurts the consumer.

> It's an important constituent, but only complete OS-emulation with deterministic scheduling could (at a huge overhead)

This does actually exist; check out antithesis's product. I'm not sure how much is public information but their main service is a deterministic (...I'm not sure to what extent this is true, but that was the claim I heard) many-core vm on which otherwise difficult testing scenarios can be reproduced (clusters, databases, video games, maybe even kernels?) to observe bugs that only arise in extremely difficult to reproduce circumstances.

It does seem like overkill just to get a marginally more reproducible build system, though.

Sorry? What does my post have to do with accelerationism? I am not arguing any of this is good. But what country has ever voted its way out of fascism? I'm sure there's a good example somewhere. Pinochet maybe? Typically the route goes liberal democracy votes in far-right power, far-right power doesn't let "moderates" regain control, far-right state can't find stability and people get fed up with a state that prioritises the needs of thew few over the many, state must be scrapped and rebuilt to restore any semblance of democratic rule. People who think you can moderate between the far-right, liberals, and all the long list of terms to the left of that—basically the entire political spectrum—are typically really bad at fighting the far-right because they take them in good faith. Which is dumb: you can't win an argument with an anti-semite (or other similar movements today) because it was never a rational belief but an enjoyable activity for the people to take out their miserable personal problems with hate and paranoia, and messing with good-faith liberals is funny and enjoyable and easy for miserable people. And who knows what the politicians actually believe when they'll say anything to get elected.

But, I will personally enjoy watching americans discover what america has always been on some level. Institutions are not going to fight for us. Institutions haven't wanted to give us most or the rights we take for granted today. We need to do more than vote if we want democracy to mean more than voting. We need to (gasp) be honest with our neighbors, not avoid uncomfortable topics, and critical of the people we vote for. For a country that prides itself on being a democracy we aren't very good at the fundamentals.