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- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 18 hours ago:
The root of the issue is allowing officer to lie in order to deprive people of thier rights.
He knew he had nothing, he was just trying to get a confession by saying it was a 100% lock. The cameras wouldn’t matter as much if lieing like that was illegal.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 5 days ago:
I feel like it changes the meaning of “day”. In some contexts, day is the daylight hours… but in this context it is from when you woke up to when you went to sleep. So it feels a bit more timezone agnostic. But only a tiny bit. This would be more ture if you were comparing have a good afternoon to have a good day.
But the real answer. Someone just didn’t like saying the same thing over and over, so threw in some variation. Someone else who wanted to suck up to them started using it. Others just happened to follow.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
I wish their were, but I’m not so sure. They started arresting people who simply wrote articles they didn’t like. They have declared an organization that doesn’t actually exist terrorists. So now all the have to do is is say, you’re antifa and you are under arrest. Any peacful solution will just result in the people involved getting arrested. Or at some point they will just declare a peaceful protest a terrorist attack because one person threw a rock that they thought was a gernade… and they then just open fire. They are clamping down on the media so that only thier voice is heard. And they are meddling with elections so they can’t lose. But here is a simpler answer. If thier were peaceful ways, then the people of more countries would have used those in thier countries. But if you look, the vast majority are under the control of corrupt governments. The US is the result of a violent revolution. It just didn’t last. Corrupt rule is the steady state that all large organizations trend toward.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 2 weeks ago:
Noone would ever confuse me for someone who dresses for others. Lol
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
I see that as a good thing. It’s like a check against uncontrolled spread. They would lose in natural competition. But a lawn of today already would. Yet the deeper roots would be good for the soil, flood control, drought management. Probably just not enough profit in the idea though.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the point I was replying to was basically referring to unintended runaway modifications that could be disastrous like horror movie level. Chickens that can’t walk is not runaway because… well they can’t run, lol, so they also can’t breed. If humans died tomorrow, thoses chickens wouldn’t be far off.
That said, I support lab grown meat research. So we can stop with the chickens that can’t walk. But that won’t save the dogs that can barely breath due to selective breeding. - Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
It is really interesting stuff. But it doesn’t explain why the roots can’t be bigger. You can take a small power source and charge a big battery or a small battery. It just takes longer for the big battery.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
And yet, not disastrous.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
Thats a great talking point, but it is BS. Humans have been genetically modifying organsims through selective breeding for millenia. Any animal or plant you eat is nothing like it natural origin.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
That, and I can’t help that my brain is wired to enjoy looking at a well kept lawn. It just is. Though I also like forest. Wish I could have both.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
But why? Roots act as energy storage, so once full, grow more. Not full stop. That should lead to pretty decent roots.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
Hm, this doesn’t fit. You are saying the roots store energy in case the foliage is lost, then saying the roots can’t exist without the foliage. Which is it? I get that they are energy storage. So the foliage in all plants must generate an excess of energy to fill the storage. That should mean that once the storage is full, extra energy can be spent to extend the roots, then fill with energy, rinse repeat.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
Why is it someone hasn’t modified the dna of grass to give us one that has both deep roots and works like lawn grass on top.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 3 weeks ago:
In this case though he said he was in a union. So committing to something sets precedent that can be used against the union. If there was no union involved, then I agree with you. I just suck at lieing.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 3 weeks ago:
Dictators care about how they are perceived because they used skills in manipulating how they are perceived to get into the position they are in. Making it a self selecting group. But when you change “how” they get there to simply be that they were given superpowers at birth, you remove the self selection. So now it is just a random sampling of the population, which in my opinion skews toward not caring as much about how they are percieved if they don’t need to.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 3 weeks ago:
There are certainly people who do. But I think they are the minority. They do sort of bunch up though. So if you are one, you probably don’t realize you are the minority.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 3 weeks ago:
That is too much of a commitment. Should end with I’ll consider that, or I’ll look into that.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 weeks ago:
Sadly, if it is in the cloud, it can get hacked far more easily than on your local. But neither is really safe. And very few people can stomach what they would have to do to improve thier odds.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 3 weeks ago:
Nope, cause pharmaceutical company would produce a drug that you take for a short time and never need again. Not enough profit. And they would have no actual control over the superheros. In the boys, all of the sups seemed to care what the public thought of them so much, they would do what the corp wanted. In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did. And they would just kill whoever they wanted, and threaten to kill others to get what they wanted. Kinda like the oligarchy we have today, but with far less constraint, and no need to even try to hide things like being pedos and racists and such.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Only workers are expected to be happy with good enough. The elite will never say the balance of thier bank account is good enough. And thus companies always need to grow bigger.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago:
Meh, that was the sales pitch. But name one tool in development that actually does what the sales pitch claimed. Knowing how to get useful info out of AI does involve knowing how to talk to it. Just like getting the most out of gitlab means knowing how they intend for you to organize your jobs. So AI is just like every other tool, overhyped, underdelivering, and has “some” use.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
You are right I did say easy. In my head I meant that valve pay for it and such, not that it was technically easy. But what I typed didn’t line up.
And as far as sandboxing, I wasn’t really thinking vm sandboxing, I was thinking they could litterally take a whole pc, run the game and see what it does. I assume they could probably do that in a less labor intensive way like run it in the cloud and watch for the process to try to detect that as well. All in all I was thinking more testing env, and not end user changes. Cause yeah, end user support for isolating processes should be on the OS.
But in general, they should do a better job vetting publishers and ensuring those publishers can be held accountable. That is hard to do without blocking out the smaller publishers, but I have faith that if they put a few minds to it, they could figure it out. Probably could contract out the planning part to some experts so they wouldn’t have to perm hire a lot. Might even be able to contract out the vetting so they could pass the liability on.
A crazy thought just hit me. Something like fdic insurance. Won’t happen with this admin in the US, but if the gov setup the vetting guidelines, they could insure the vetters for damages if they followed the guidelines. That would spur vetters into existence that valve and others could then contract. Pipe dream I am sure.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say it was easy. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
Clearly it passed thier test. But it was not undetectable.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
I am decently versed in the game of cat and mouse. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 weeks ago:
Steam could easily gave automation the installs and runs games in a sandbox. Then watches what they do. The things it needed to do to steal the crypto should be vastly different than what a game should be allowed to do.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 weeks ago:
I saw birth control -> baby scale -> death. I was like wtf. Lol.
- Comment on Incorrect? 5 weeks ago:
Now I am curious, how big is a uterus? Bigger than the average penis? And if we are considering it’s size with a baby in it… no contest.