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Comment So I can't recognize child's friend's mom (Score 1) 27

Without pulling my phone out of the pocket and taking a picture with software that a coding agent wrote for me that does exactly the same thing on device. Whom does this benefit? Government doesn't care about social graces and they can also pay 100x more for custom built surveillance glasses. All Meta is doing in blocking me from avoid constant social embarrassment from difficulty placing faces.

Comment Daszak (Score 1) 303

We have very good reasons to distrust the virology community: Peter Daszak and the fact that he enjoys the support of that community.

-- He organized and signed the Lancet statement against the lab-leak theory, without disclosing his conflict of interest as a collaborator with the WIV.

-- He kept his EcoHealth Alliance 2018 proposal to insert furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses at the WIV secret, until it was leaked in 2021. A normal person would think it was obviously their moral duty to release any information potentially relevant to the origin of COVID. This alone made it clear Daszak cannot be trusted.

-- He has claimed that since the proposal was not funded, the work must not have been done. Every scientist knows that if you don't get funding from one source, you often pursue the work regardless.

-- A recent Senate hearing asked him whether he ever asked his collaborator Shi Zengli whether the work went ahead. He said he has never asked her. That's unbelievable unless he deliberately didn't want to know, in which case it's totally irresponsible.

The virology community and the NIH have closed ranks around this guy, so I don't trust them either.

Comment Re:We need the coercive power of the state (Score 1) 39

Bingo, people forget how artificial and unnatural copyright laws are. Someone tries to grab your stuff, you are morally justified to fight back, alone or with a million of your best friends who decided to form a city and hire police force. Someone sees you doing something and does the same thing, you have some unhealthy control issues if you complain. If it has to be a thing, make it truly time limited like 20 years and have generous exceptions like libraries can stock 5% of total copies in circulation.

Comment Re:Transphobic (Score 1) 251

Would not wanting cis straight men to use women's bathrooms, shared locker rooms and sports competitions be androphobic? Having boundaries is perfectly healthy. Most have nothing to do with fear of you personally, but with a small minority who would take advantage of the situation. Others are not even about fear. I want to appear my best in front of opposite sex, in my own definition of opposite sex, and it's my right to brush my hair and put on flattering clothes before they see me. If other people have different preferences, they can join nudist camps.

Comment Even with a house, EV is a luxury second car (Score 1) 186

I drive to other people's houses or AirBNBs quite often. What are the odds all of them will have chargers? If not, I have to sit in some random place late at night for an hour, provided there is a free spot with a working charger. I don't hate the planet, but my family's safety is a more immediate concern. Modular battery swapping is the way to go I would think.

Comment Linux is UNIX (Score 2) 155

And runs on a whole lot of personal computing devices - phones, Chromebooks (as native OS and Crostini), Windows (WSL), NAS boxes, routers... No need to remember when it's everywhere. UNIX started out as an operating system with widely available sources, if not open sources in modern sense. It's attempts to create closed source proprietary ecosystems that largely failed. If the complaint is that interesting new CPUs were abandoned in favor of Intel, there are lots of ARM options these days and RISC V is coming up. I am actually typing it on a mini Elementary OS desktop that I get to avoid doing personal stuff on a work laptop, but desktops are largely out in general, so UNIX desktops are too. Although at work we do most development on Linux workstations.

Comment Why would anyone expect otherwise? (Score 1) 35

Companies and regulators are an adversarial relationship. Regulators should insist on certain type and quality of data available after an accident, companies should comply but can't be expected to criticize every aspect of their own performance. If I unfortunately have an accident, I am not expected to tell police officer, DMV and insurance companies all the ways I could have handled it better "oh you know, I was thinking of work and not paying attention, and I could have started breaking earlier...". There are certain facts I have to relay to the best of my knowledge, like whether I was stopped or moving during collision, and then authorities will determine who they think is at fault.

Comment Re:Not a Rose (Score 2) 181

That's on us if we are so idiotic that we can't separate a creation from its creator. Asperger's is quite clearly not autism and is not necessarily disabling, with many affected having great family and professional lives. Conflating the two exposes some to unnecessary stigma and interventions and deprives others of full support they need. All because we have some beef with long dead author.

I would be happy to try out ReiserFS if it's indeed better for something. I would also support Hans Reiser being given access to computer that he can use to positively contribute to society despite his crimes, provided that any profits go to compensate his wife's relatives and/or general social benefits. If that happened, renaming the project would be in order. But thousands of California inmates are already keeping us safe as firefighters. I don't see benefiting from that, or even celebrating any heroic actions, as minimizing or celebrating their crimes. It's just completely separate things.

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