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Comment Re:Point of information (Score 1) 98

He's also a fool when it comes to politics. People should want government writing rules and picking winners for AI just as much as for social and news media: not picking winners at all, and setting as few and as narrow rules as possible. Do you want the default (or only) AI service to run like the DMV?

Betteridge's Law continues to hold true.

Comment Re:Fine (Score 2) 123

The second amendment guarantees states the right to form armed militias (or to put it in modern terms, armed police forces).

This is thoroughly false. "[T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The prefatory clause about the militia explains the motivation but does not recognize or protect anything on its own. "The people" have a First Amendment right to peaceably assemble; a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms; a Fourth Amendment right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches; and retain rights not granted to the federal government or reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment. "The people" have individual rights, not collective ones.

And a militia is a military force, not armed police. In the 18th Century, the militia was called into service to fight Indian tribes, French forces in the colonies, and various rebellions. Armed police forces would not have filled the need even if they existed at the time (the first modern US police department was created in 1838, and the next was 1845).

Comment External monitor support (Score 1) 157

"External monitors don't work unless your MacBook has a built-in HDMI port."

That means I can use a Thunderbolt-attached monitor with my MBP that has an HDMI port, right? What, no, it really means "External monitors only work via built-in HDMI port" and "This article was written poorly"? I am shocked, shocked.

Comment Re:Discord has 2 targets on its back (Score 5, Informative) 123

Concern over FISA orders in situations like this is way overblown. You should be concerned about orders available in any lawsuit, like OpenAI being ordered to hand over lots of its chat logs in the NYT copyright lawsuit. You should be concerned about sales of access to information, like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. You should be concerned about compromise of material in a jack by criminals or a nation-state. Unless you are a terrorist or foreign intelligence asset, the risk of those dwarfs the risk that a FISA order will compromise your data.

Comment Re:Reverse causation? (Score 1) 172

That's for 1 kj/kg/day, yes. Extrapolating that to 85 kj/kg/day is in turn just over 1600 dietary calories per day, which is pretty much right for a seriously sedentary person.

On the other hand, weight change is ultimately driven by calories consumed versus calories burned. Someone with excess fat usually needs to improve both sides of that equation, and short bursts of exercise probably don't move one's basal metabolic rate enough to shift "calories burned" much. That's where the ability to sustain exercise comes in handy.

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