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  • Eh, that's the system so I can't fault you. But specialty electives like that usually have limited seats - your seat may have displaced someone much more enthralled with the subject.

  • Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

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  • Palantir itself is enough of a case to be against the whole thing and anyone involved.

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  • Poor little Johnny, for he is no more.

    As what he thought was H2O, was H2SO4.

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  • Consider the mere fact that Doctors exist, and have been a thing for thousands of years. I think this tells us that for every person that is incapable of keeping themselves alive, there's at least a hundred more just like that, and just one person smart enough to keep them all going.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • Trump's 'gold card' visa starting at $1 million granted to just 1 person so far, White House says

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  • The thought-exercise I'm currently trying to resolve is: what happens when a US citizen applies for one of these? Let's say you scrape together the cash and buy one. Will that matter if ICE throws you in a cell anyway? Now let's consider what happens if the same happens for an immigrant? I'm gonna say that these aren't worth the paper they're printed on; right now I don't think there's any such magic talisman (short of being a celebrity) that will help once you're inside US' borders.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • Working in IT is rife with these kinds of philiosophical quantries. Right now, I try to seek out work that is as ethically and morally aligned with my values as possible, while still building a comfortable retirement for me and my partner. That also means working where I am skilled, and so I pay a price for not being more based earlier in my career.

    For the moment, let's push aside the whole problem of working for money in a society with little to no safety-net, as exploitative in the first place. Also, the problem that while not a zero-sum game, moving money around usually has exploitative moments for others.

    At present, I would (and have) refused work that would inflict harm directly or indirectly on others. I consider participating in increasing strife, wealth extraction, and exploitation to be a big part of that. I work in an industry (IT) that has big problems with pollution and waste, concentrating wealth in the hands of the few, and more recently, stressing public resources (AI through power and water); this is a story that I do not like and wrestle with constantly. No job is perfect, but some are better than others.

    All this leads me to a stance of trying to balance the above. This pragmatism also has me thinking in terms of harm reduction, which brings me to an actual answer to OP's question.

    Were the job something that gave me enough leeway to reduce harm, I might consider a position that doesn't align well with my values. A much bigger paycheck would go a long way to help that - I might be able to do more for people with more disposable capital. To be blunt, it would be like taking a bet that were I not involved, things would be worse.

    The pay would have to be figured out on a scale of moral compromise. A little more compromising than now would be at least a half million/yr, but i'd need to be upper management to defend livlelyhoods and chart a stable forward direction for people. Once we get into life-and-limb territory, we've transcended salary so "total compensation" would need to be in the millions and I'd still require levers to pull to prevent harm. I'm not sure that kind of position exists without owning the whole company.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • I was gonna say. Complaining about Apple not working well (or at all) with 3rd party hardware and software has always been an exercise in futility. Like since the late 1980's, always.

    Long ago they positioned themselves as a premium brand with an image to maintain. Can't let the plebs skate by with cheap add-ons.

  • The Strait of Hormuz

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  • Six hour supercut of some MxC episodes, with a link to the start of an episode, right before "Wall Bangers": https://www.youtube.com/live/Sw4JZkWbz5I?t=18187

    For the uninitiated, this is the official (and completely unhinged) localization for Takeshi's Castle. I say "localization" and not "translation" because, well, you should just watch it.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • they have a 180 day period to define the regulation and a year for it to be contacted and implemented.

    This has a familiar smell. The 3d printer "gun printing prevention" bill(s) that are floating around have the same "we'll figure out the actual law after the bill is approved." And here I thought that punting congressional authority to executive agencies was bad. Now they're not writing laws, but instead, blank checks for vague things within even more vague legal outlines.

    In a more general sense, it also resembles the work being done to level this requirement at online services as well.

    Ultimately, the only way to really enforce any sort of age verification system is to force all content providers to have an age verification step.

    My biggest fear here is that this will have teeth, and will be crafted so that the only feasible way to make it work is to be 100% cloud connected behind federally approved vendors (e.g. Apple and Microsoft).

  • 8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data

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  • I trust that they'll be complete push-overs when it comes to law enforcement and agency data requests without a warrant.

    Outside of moving data overseas, away from 5/9-eyes, I'm having a bad time figuring out how to obtain cryptographic control over my data within existing services. This leaves me to just upload crypto blobs everywhere with no real services to support it, or buying my own hardware and co-locating it myself.

  • What made you choose Signal over WhatsApp (if applicable)?

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  • Meta. But perhaps an additional and entirely petty reason: It's a terrible pun.

  • Exam prep

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  • Indeed. Riker needs to back the fuck up. Also, where's that human sacrifice?

  • TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.

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  • it was classified as a deadly nightshade

    It's worth mentioning that while this seems insane to us now, it probably made a ton of sense at the time. The key is that tomatoes are in the same botanical family, so the plants have a lot in common. For example, here's what black nightshade fruit looks like:

    You might see something that and think it resembles a dark tomato. Hundreds of years ago, people looked at a tomato and saw a red nightshade.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • That man is a menace.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

  • Iran pressures Trump to give them a better deal than Obama

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  • not to mention their absolute laziness over the term.

    Creatives almost always lean left, often far left. It's not just lazyness: they literally can't get anyone good to invent stuff for their whole... thing. That's why the campaign optics and merch are so basic, and why they keep using everyone's music without permission.

    Point in case: "make america great again" was originally a slogan that was used during the 1980's. That in turn is a knock-off of (the modestly clever) "Make Britain Great Again" from the 1950's. "Lazy" doesn't even begin to describe all this.

  • Man bites woman at cherry blossom park in Japan, dies shortly after

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  • I think I know what you're talking about. Personally, I've always chalked it up to Japanese media as an outlet for people that have to live in a restrictive culture. I think every culture does this to a degree: fantasies are sold for the consumer to live vicariously. Everyone just has different unmet psychological needs, where trends vary culturally. IMO, American media is just as fucked up in completely different ways.

    It’s just what I see in some art I enjoy, and then we see some FloridaMan type crimes like Dude Emerges From Ceiling And Throws Log and we Really Wonder.

    Sometimes it's mental illness, other times it's when all the manga and video games just aren't enough.

  • 1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI Chatbot

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  • like handing the consumer a live wire.

    Honestly, that's practically all of computerized information technology right now. Hackers, spammers, bots, foreign-state actors, trolls, viruses, government spying, manufacturer spying, information brokers, intrusive advertising, it's all just just teeming with bad stuff that requires education to navigate successfully.