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> Or just come visit a bit and be another name on the list of Americans who had their mind blown.

I’m not American (but live here), and have lived in Europe and traveled most of it.

This HN hivemind if believing there is one type of person and one type of lifestyle is absolute lazy nonsense. I’m guessing you already know why I don’t need to drive a large pickup truck too?

All of these things have magnitudes. Have you ever built a cedar strip canoe, or are you making wooden spoons?

It would cost double what I pay for me to live with 1/4 of the space in a city.

I made a pretty intentional decision about what I wanted, and actually have far more space than where I grew up. I was actually taught to live on less, but have gone in the far opposite direction.

Taught or forced? That’s ridiculous.

My kids like to play in our yard. I do woodwork as a hobby. My neighbors spend summer by their pool. I like my privacy. I like quiet and space. I like strong community.

I spent 15 years apartment living all over the world, and couldn’t be happier moving to the suburbs.

Musk gets special benefit because anyone paying attention knows that he’s 5 years late on everything. I’m fairly sure we were supposed to be living on Mars several years ago, by now.

I agree it’s false advertising, and musk should be held accountable for that. But there has to be a little responsibility on consumers who pay for a thing that does exist and worse has actually never existed in the universe (camera-fed self driving)

My reference to kickstarter was a metaphor, so I’m using kickstarter to describe a similar situation that occurred when people bought a capability that didn’t exist in the hopes that it would.

“duped” isn’t the right word here. People optimistically paid money for a thing that didn’t exist, in the hopes that it would.

People bought into a kickstarter and are entering the “find out” stage

For 100% of tasks that an F35 can perform?

I know we currently have this capability, but aren’t up to speed if you can rely on it everywhere and every situation.

> remote control + AI?

We might be getting close to advanced AI for a lot of domains, but are we ready to have one making independent decisions with bombs?

I’m not a military expert but I’d much prefer having a human making decisions rather than AI for at least the next decade. I’m not sure that remote connectivity is reliable and high bandwidth enough everywhere for a drone fighter jet

Or safari on iOS

A proper starlink dish requires real power, which isn’t reliable in an off grid situation.

You need very little bandwidth because there is typically not a lot happening at a remote cabin.

Wow, I had no idea Anthropic was doing $850m revenue.

I know they have high costs, but as a startup that’s some phenomenal income and validation that they’re not pure speculation like most startups are

Edit: founded in 2021 and with 1000 employees. That’s just wild growth.

> That Chromium exists shows there's already an existing infrastructure that would make transitioning to it relatively straightforward.

I think there’s a very very substantial underlying infrastructure maintained and funded by google that would disappear. This isn’t a GitHub project where you can clone and make install.

We know the MS antitrust case. I believe the point was that suggesting someone isn’t an adult is not productive.

They could’ve simply referenced the case directly.

That’s a significantly higher bar. It’s not foolproof though.

I believe in most countries, customs can inspect your luggage. They can’t force you to reveal information that they’re not even certain you have.

Under your situation, the best idea is to simply have a wiped device. A Chromebook, for example, allows you to login with whatever credentials you choose, including a near empty profile

How useful do you think this is in practice? Wouldn’t it rely on app-level memory scrubbing and page clearing and such as well, if you wanted to truly make sure it’s unavailable? Do Apple offer APIs to assist there?

Every type of defensive tech is nothing more than driving up the cost of attack.

Doubling the dwell time for a scammer will halve their profits. That could have interesting second-order effects. Perhaps it makes it not worth it for some subset?

it was fairly new to me too, spotted it in response to Australia's new under-16 social media ban.

I guess it's an expanded (deductive) form of Action Bias, aka "do something" bias.

An idea like this could truly make you a multi-millionaire!*

*one minor catch is that you’ll have to start as a billionaire

Don’t forget about capslock: https://github.com/google/capslock

Assess your 3P modules for dangerous capabilities

What gives DEEP a competitive advantage, according to Wolpert, is the support of its founder, who he won’t name besides saying he’s a “North American tech entrepreneur…who likes to be quite private,”

https://www.cnn.com/science/deep-underwater-habitats-vanguar...

Care to clarify what these things do and why it’s relevant to the posted article?

Any references to back up the suggestion that a data driven approach doesn’t work?

Not being skeptical, but curious

Because it’s literally one of the greatest things about the US, and once it’s gone.. it’s gone.

> But a Bao-feng handheld that costs around $40 or so can work the local repeaters on 2m or 70cm and is a fine way to get started, learn the lingo, etc.

I’m not sure where you live, but I’ve never lived in a house or apartment where I could hit a local 2m repeater without driving or getting up on a roof.

I also have an 80 watt 2m radio in my truck, and will turn it on when I’m doing long trips. Very rare to encounter anyone else (simplex), let alone be able to chat for more than a very short period of time.

“Enable various forms of cybercrime” seems like a stretch.

If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and soldering irons.

I’ve got this, just some simple JS that flashes bgcolor when the time is up, and I click to extend. I just keep a tiny thin browser on my laptop display

I set it to 15 minutes or it’s too frequent.

I’ve considered a hardware device (and have tried some) but I like to also track time in meetings, so I’d be lugging it around with me.

> might be the most secure OS.

What are you planning to use it for (laptop suggests possibly a workstation?)

And what is your threat model? Who is the most likely attacker - govt? Crypto theft? Supply chain?

Unfortunately, I’m not convinced the dialog is connected to actual improvements - this project is somewhat of a perfect example.

I remember the boom of “privacy first” products that launched after the Snowden leaks, but they were all money grabs by folks who probably moved on to blockchain later and now AI.

I agree it’s wild how much of a common topic it is. I do miss the days when it was smart curious folks tinkering around.. but so goes every young field.

Yep, and I followed all of those. I still have absolutely no idea who is designing, running, building mikrophone or the project.

It’s great to know it’s not funded by DPRK, but that wasn’t my point. There’s a difference between it being built by an undergrad student and moxie marlinspike.

Or _who_ is leading this project.

There’s a gigantic difference between someone who has experience designing and building complex systems to be secure and private… and someone who thinks “how hard can this be? There’s gotta be a market for it!”

I can’t tell which one this is