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Comment Re: Plausible deniability is better (Score 2, Interesting) 141

Unfortunately if you invoke your right to remain silent during a border inspection you will likely be denied entry.

You can't be denied entry if you're a citizen or if you're a permanent resident (i.e. green card.) They can detain you for a brief period, but unless they charge you with something they can't arrest you. Either way, you won't be turned away.

Comment Re: Plausible deniability is better (Score 2) 141

You're supposed to invoke your right to remain silent, not give false information. Unless it's under duress or something. Either way, if the police suspect you committed a crime, it's always best to do that regardless. Nothing good comes from talking to them without legal representation, even if you didn't do anything wrong.

Comment Re: Not sure why they don't do what Google does (Score -1, Flamebait) 56

Oh boy...This just has to be said:

You've been complaining this and that about 401k for months, yet right here you just very clearly demonstrated that you have no fucking idea what a 401k even is. Even a bad chatbot would understand this topic a lot better than you. You're just sitting here parroting, as in like a literal fucking parrot, whatever the fuck you heard on fark without understanding a god damn word of it.

You're not autistic either, so that's not an excuse. You have FASD, which to outsiders often appears as autism. Autism is not associated with speech disorders, but FASD definitely is. As you've already stated, your mom was an alcoholic. See if you can figure out how to put two and two together.

Comment Re: Not much of a "transformation" (Score 1) 34

Ukraine (and Europe and many others) would disagree on your assessment of Patriot interceptors. A drone won't intercept missiles. Patriot does. Including Russia's ill-conceived "impossible to intercept" Oreo Shnick. Different tools for different work. That's what combined arms is. Russia is losing principally because they're using the same kind of thinking you're using.

Secondary to that, they think bombing civilians instead of bombing strategic military targets wins wars. Spoiler: It doesn't. Nobody ever capitulated because of bombing raids, they capitulate only after they've lost the means to continue fighting. This is why Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil refineries is a good idea. Russians. Putler's wermacht runs on oil, not palaces or bath houses. So putting missile defenses around those is rather pointless. Ukraine has no reason to go after those, so why waste effort on it?

Comment Re: Wait...? (Score 1) 105

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, I've witnessed exactly this. What's really stupid is you guys think this is just a conservative thing. I've seen this happen in both tech and film (which I don't work in, but I've gotten to know several people who do.) In the film industry, most of that centers around the regulatory regime, a lot of it FilmLA related. What a conservative bunch those filmmakers are, amirite? And that Gavin Newsom warning about this...such a conservative.

One thing you very likely do not realize is how and when economic activity makes geographic shifts. You're living under this strange assumption that California has always been and will always be what it is. Just like Detroit.

I feel like talking to you guys about this subject is like talking to Russians about their special needs military operation. Like them, you only hear what you want to hear. A month ago, I made a post asking them how they're dealing with the fuel rations in Moscow and St Petersburg, they mocked and laughed at me saying there are none. These guys hadn't seen it in their particular neighborhood so they dismissed it as propaganda. Two weeks later, good luck finding any fuel, even in their neighborhoods. Like you, if they don't personally witness it, then it's not happening.

Right now we're very early stage into this. The first thing that needs to happen for a large shift like this infrastructure capex needs to be invested. That's already done. Next is the infrastructure to accommodate it needs to be built. That's what is currently happening.

Comment Re: Priorities (Score 2) 19

TPM is one of the most useless tools towards that end. Get a DMA card and find out why. For security -- especially for somebody in my position -- it's incredibly useful. There's no conspiracy to deprive you of your copy of "love, actually" or "mean girls", so you can relax, your bootlegged chick flick collection is safe from TPM. Believe me, I have several terabytes of bootlegged sci-fi movies on my Plex server, and I'm not in the slightest concerned about TCG coming after that

Actually the concern was SGX, which is now gone, and that would have impacted a lot more than just your copy of 50 shades of grey -- it was actually a security nightmare pretending to be your friend. TPM is completely open. SGX was exactly the opposite.

Comment Re: So basically... (Score 1) 195

Sure, and SpaceX is going to cure cancer and let us all live forever for free. The fact that they once did something that somebody somewhere thought they couldn't do doesn't mean they can automatically do anything.

I didn't say that.

Note that SpaceX themselves say they don't really have any idea whether datacentres in space will work.

More than once, too.

Telecom experts were saying there's no way you'd be able to bring down the cost of phased array antennas to a reasonable level. Nobody at SpaceX was certain of that either. Then it happened anyway.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Enjoy some nice fodder from gizmodo about heavy lift rockets being scalable:

https://gizmodo.com/bad-news-f...

Many others as well, like stainless steel instead of carbon fiber, the booster catch, the sheer scale of starlink, supercooled fueling, space lasers, hot staging (without sacrificing the booster), and full-flow staged combustion (which many had tried and failed.) And those are just the ones I can tell you about. There have been failures too, for example the attempt at landing dragon with thrust instead of parachutes.

I didn't say anything about stopping it.

Then you're just trying to be contrarian.

There are good arguments for proceeding carefully though. A million satellites in one of our most valuable orbits comes with a bunch of problems.

Nobody said otherwise, however, I don't believe you understand the significance of starlink's orbital parameters with regard to safety. You think you do, but you don't.

Elon doesn't have any downside. He's never going to sell his shares unless he absolutely has to.

Did you even pay attention to what I said? I asked how the GP believes there's fraud going on. Who is defrauding whom? Either you've come here just to be contrarian, or you've come to ask about your genital warts. I don't know which, but if there's a point to any of this, I've yet to hear it.

SpaceX made $75 billion dollars off the IPO, possibly at quite an inflated price. He also gets his Twitter investors off his back as they can now cash out their formerly underwater shares at a significant gain.

Who was on his "back" exactly?

Whether any of it is fraud or not is for lawyers to figure out.

And they start with an argument, predicated on a legal theory. I don't see anything resembling either of those. That's exactly what I was asking GP for.

Every company is going to hype their stock before an IPO. SpaceX says, buried deep in the prospectus, that they really have no idea whether datacentres in space are going to work or not, and they have a few very compelling reasons to push highly speculative, AI-related ideas even if they don't think they're going to work.

And what's your point? There's uncertainty in business? You're just now figuring this out?

Comment Re: What? (Score 2) 176

What's happened is many of the basics of life have been squeezed. Housing, education, utilities. Meanwhile wages have stagnated, in real terms.

And the data says...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

False.

This is just something socialists say, and often, because they need naive followers to buy into their crap to obtain any measure of power, but it has no basis in reality. Unless you live in Canada, Europe (except Belgium), or Russia (which would make a lot of sense in your case) but you're using US pricing, which suggests US context.

Even after you adjust for housing, food, health care, taxes, and other mandatory expenses as suggested by rsilvertard, people are still bringing in more.

https://www.macrotrends.net/30...

The disconnect you're having is I operate based on empiricism, in other words, what can be observed and measured, where you're already known to manufacture and/or spread disinformation.

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