> A sub-100 IQ person who receives immense resources can graduate college.
yes, but almost certainly not in math or physics.
and they won't, e.g. pass the California or NY bar exams.
(taking about NT people here)
sealab 2021 -> frisky dingo -> archer
not a bad run of nonsense. (though Archer prob went on like 10 seasons too long... early Archer was epic.)
Apparently this is called Amazon Haul in the US, according to TFA, and it's been available in the US since 2024
https://www.amazon.com/haul/
i had never heard of it until just now, but clicking on it... it looks somewhat like aliexpress et al and the prices do seem lower. in the FAQ it says that things are shipped from overseas and that the buyer is the importer and that Amazon will "facilitate" the paying of tariffs...
15 day return policy.
interesting.
1% of what? The value that's going up...
yes, but assessment value also can only go up by max(inflation, 2%) every year unless you sell or do a major remodeling.
And in this area housing has been going up faster than inflation for so everyone's taxes are just basically going up 2% a year regardless. (AFAIK)
i also liked this part of the article:
The Zuckerberg compound’s expansion first became a concern for Crescent Park neighbours as early as 2016, due to fears that his purchases were driving up the market.
yeah.... i'm sure homeowners complained about driving UP the market. sure. Esp in a state where property taxes are capped at 1% by Prop 13 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 )
This whole thing is an episode of RHO Palo Alto
(tbh i WOULD be annoyed about constant construction noise but i doubt it's anywhere as bad as they make it out)
but no one seems to have realized it must be a dead man switch. If the robovac fails to contact its masters within some time limit, then it is ordered (at a deep level) to kill itself.
(Couldn't find this obvious comment in the discussion branch, but I can's see or search All from here...)
The shutdown command was delivered remotely via a different channel when the guy blocked the telemetry IP only. so not a traditional deadman switch that the device itself decides to stop working.
and besides the device can't work without Internet anyway since apparently its room mapping capability is cloud based
Does any other car manufacturer have that?
All or most GM vehicles have had that since ~2009. They used to advertise it on TV about how they'll stop the car if it's stolen.
see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Tesla also offers some stuff like this. Ford claims not to... but not sure.
which obviously in 2025 weren't fixed per the article
That's not what the article says, it merely wants to give that impression, because it's easier for them to get clicks that way.
Note the the only claims made as of the 2025 report are that they're using Windows Server 2003 and some old security software in some capacity. The stuff about the passwords is all from 2014 and 2015.
Ugh. this headline is trash and TFA is half enterprisey BS word salad.
The "product" is not a product as much as some documents about how the grid might upgrade its IT security.
and re Ukraine trying "it"
Ukraine's state-owned power grid operator JSC NEK Ukrenergo, which will be simulating the tool on a digital twin of its grid, said it sees many benefits to implementing such a system into their national grid. However, JSC added that it probably wouldn't be implementing the tool anytime soon: "Even in 'peaceful times', a deployment of this nature would require capital investment, staffing, training, perhaps new hardware or integrated systems, and ongoing maintenance."
Even the old Eastern bloc piece of junk that my grandmother left when she passed away - I still use that one to scare the neighbour's cat when that pest climbs onto my balcony.
why not just say hi to the cat and let it hang out on your balcony if it feels like it? maybe there's a spot with a good view, or nice sun.
Well, technically speaking - they can only get ONE date.
according to the summary they apparently had a different date every day.
players!
Quite plainly, this is a national security issue. It's not a far-fetched hypothetical to see networks infiltrated to compromise security in order to steal sensitive information about people, businesses, etc. Yes, "national security" is the common claim of the oppressor but that doesn't mean it's always illegitimate.
WHO THE FUCK WOULD BE AGAINST ACTUAL NATIONAL SECURITY?!
Our government is generally rules based. That is a specific system of laws vs of people or of "reasonable behavior".
The specific question is whether the regulation was allowed under the specific law that they used.
As TFA points out the argument is that the rule the FCC made was beyond what the law they quoted allowed. I'm so so on whether it is or not, but that's the point in question, NOT whether someone hates national security.
Since WWII governments have worked tirelessly to divide the populations of the West so we'd fight each other rather than oppose them. Now they're whining about "unity"
This seems contrary to what i recall. The cold war was all about uniting the west (minus Eastern europe) against the Soviets.
The EU project also was vastly unifying.
Also in the US neither political party is "now whining about 'unity'" , but rather they're doubling down on vilifying the other guy and trying to throw them in jail.
As far as Europe i don't keep up as much , but it seems to be the center and left who are trying to "unify" with each other against those "evil" "far-right" people who want to stop the massive flow of African and Middle Eastern migrants.
Obviously not “a joke”. It was a transparent deflection to single minded uniparty collectivism. Nonsense on the order of “democrats good” “republicans bad”.
Dude, your exposition on this stuff was excellent, but give the guy a break. What he wrote can indeed easily be read as just a joke.
And i really don't think it's one of those "oh, you made a hateful statement but then you got called out on it and you're trying to backpedal" cases...
from TFA
Over time, epistemological approaches rooted in Western traditions have come to be seen as objective and universal, rather than culturally situated or historically contingent. This has normalised Western knowledge as the standard, obscuring the specific historical and political forces that enabled its rise.
In a basic sense, this is true, but in general it is used to bamboozle people into the (incorrect) "math is racist" mindset and then to much handwringing and government spending on dumb reports
If you line up Christianity vs Islam vs Hinduism etc yes, your have different epistemological and metaphysical approaches.
But physical based science and even modern psychology and economics are both universal and generally hostile to (or at least orthogonal to) all the classic views.
Articles like this really underplay the degree to which the past is a foreign land for all of us.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
