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> typically a 486-core SoC

I want 486 cores!

I'm part of several Discord servers for specific communities, like the developers of a specific open source project. Within that community, we send community-specific messages on Discord.

There is a specific community I talk to on Twitter, people I know from Twitter. I mostly message those people on Twitter.

For general usage, for texting anyone, SMS is the default that everyone has. I'm not installing a separate app and signing up for an account for each specific contact.

The weekends, the local ham clubs do what we call a "fox hunt". Just for fun, someone hides a transmitter and others look for it.

For a single person looking or a pair riding together, it normally takes 2-3 hours to find a lunchbox sized transmitter hidden somewhere in the city. A larger transmitter would be easier. Working together is slightly easier. We should have hunted the thing interfering with GPS.

> The only real downside is they are centralized, AND acceptance is less, because it's Less popular than the mainstream cryptos.

That, and every other day there's another story of people losing millions of dollars when $20 million "mysteriously" disappears from yet another exchange.

Cryptocurrency welcomes criminals, so there are a lot of criminals in that world, committing a lot of crimes.

> ensure the design matches what is on file

Yeah, for every router in the shipping container, "ensure" that this SOIC is the same chip that's specified in the approved design. You do that by - magic?

Or are you suggesting decapping every chip in every router so you can look at them under a microscope - thereby destroying them?

You can either have a chip that works, or a chip that has been decapped and examined by experts (at very high unit cost) - but not both. You can't both perform forensics on the chip AND have it still be usable.

To clarify:

As a parent, you almost HAVE to rely on Nickelodeon not showing an ad for the local strip club during an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants. You can;t be staring at them 24/7, because you need to take a shower. So about the best you can do "is I know she's watching Nickelodeon, so that should be fine".

Similarly, Roblox is made for kids. They have a lot of restrictions for that reason, with different restrictions that apply to different age groups, and some specific settings that parents can choose to enable or not. If your kid is in a protected environment playing with their friends, that's about the best you can do since you need to cook dinner, not just stare at the kid 24/7.

I used to post things like that in response to stories like this.

Then I had kids, an discovered that parents occasionally need to poop. Or wash the dishes. Or work. I was surprised to learn we can't actually be staring at our kid 24/7. the best we can do is know that the kid is watching PBS, or playing a game made for kids, with kid-appropriate features and controls. For example, Roblox, a game made for kids, has very aggressive limits on what can be said in chat. It feels like they've whitelisted a bunch of words and phrases, and nothing else is allowed. Either that, or they've blacklisted half the dictionary.

dmomo made some practical suggestions that could actually help.

My impression is that Roblox does care about it - if for no other reason than that's where their money comes from. If parents don't think their kids are safe playing Roblox, they won't be playing Roblox anymore.

I had a short exchange with the Chief Scientist at Roblox the other day, and I think your specific feedback about allowing particular games and only showing those in the list would be helpful.

> Congress that he his party has a majority in go

His own VP is literally the deciding vote.
His party controls the senate.

All they need to do is avoid being so extreme that even some dems can't swallow the stuff they're trying to pull.

You specifically said a *serious* crash.

When people are seriously injured in a crash, it often matters whose fault it is - did the person who hit you run the run light? Are they drunk? In MOST cases, someone broke the law - by leaving their lane if nothing else.

So police are ALSO needed at serious wrecks, along with the ambulance. They are also the ones who handle routing traffic around the crash etc.

> Cutting Netflix: Saves $15 a month.
> Cutting once-a-week restaurant visits for a family of 4: Saves $160 per month.

That's at $10 / person - a VERY cheap restaurant. With a drink, Taco Bell can cost almost that much. And that's ONCE a week.

The average American spends about $200/month per person, or 30%-40% of their food budget, on restaurants.

So you significantly understate your point.

In the US we do this thing where we have a trial, and find out what they did before sentencing them.

This person committed their crimes in 2019 and earlier.
What you are referring to was in 2020. Trump will be tried, and will be sentenced based on what the evidence shows he did wrong.