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> Do dems actually support abortion rights? Kamala didn't really campaign on that. How about gun control? Kamala was all too happy to talk about how she's a proud gun owner.

On the contrary, abortion was one of the main issues the Democrats campaigned on. I live in California, and while I didn’t get presidential campaign ads for obvious reasons, down ballot Democrats campaigned hard on a pro-choice message, despite the fact that California is about the last place where pro-choice is under threat. (Gun control a little less, but I still saw it sometimes.)

The issue is that Democrats successfully passed a lot of pro-choice ballot measures in 2022 after Dobbs. In 2024 they couldn’t use this issue much, since the states with heavy abortion restrictions after 2022 are much less sympathetic to the pro-choice cause, particularly because Democrat party messaging has moved a long way from “safe, legal, and rare”. Also, Trump distanced himself from the pro-life cause during the 2024 election, even removing the strongest pro-life language from the Republican party platform.

Without the pro-choice vote that delivered the midterms, and combined with the general incompetence of the Kamala campaign, Democrats really had little to offer, especially since they’re associated with unpopular policies like DEI, open borders, trans advocacy, inflation, etc.
That's one of the reason they elected trump, to cut back on government authority and bring back individual freedom.
Oh, 100%. My point was just: if you're worried that you can't audit your cloud provider's microcode patch level because you aren't using SEV-SNP, you have a threat model where their microcode patch level is not particularly relevant to you to begin with.
Policies don't really determine elections in this age -- the only thing that determines them is people's brains being cooked.
Most large well run businesses use MDM and have rules to preveht information leakage to Microsoft and ads.

When I use to buy Windows computers, I always bought the business line. Are they just as bad as the consumer products these days? The last time I bought a Windows PC was 2016.
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In my particular case, I am an operator and sys admin, but I don't give myself root privileges without having to go through some serious hoops, which I only jump through if I really truly need it. If I want root, I have to actually change the kubernetes manifest yaml to allow elevation to root privileges. That's not something that can be done without getting others involved for code reviews and what not.

However, even in the case of general developers, it isn't true. Companies do restrict exec abilities, but we don't. Many startups are the same, because developers are expected to also troubleshoot and debug production issues. If you don't allow shells in pods, you are really binding the hands of your devs.

To be clear, I am not disagreeing with you. You are correct in many cases. But there are a number of exceptions in my experience.
The EU generally (so far) has passed reasonable legislation about these things. I'd be surprised if it was taken more broadly than the point where a reasonable person would feel comfortable with it.
I am not describing birth certificates. I’m describing a registry of residence.

That’s another thing the U.S. does wrong. If you hold a birth certificate for a child, what does that prove? It’s just an officially issued statement that a particular person was born to these particular parents. It’s completely useless as an authentication mechanism of identity.

The problem is not that birth certificates can be re-issued when lost. The problem is that they are trusted to mean anything about that person that possesses it.
I care dis-proportionally about experiencing the story, so to me a second watch loses a lot of appeal.

And tbh, I feel like movies are very meta and you also get more from each movie if you watch more movies/read more books. Like Doctor Sleep for example, is an adaptation of a Doctor Sleep novel, but also a sequel to both the Shining novels and movies. You would get more of it if you read the two novels and watched the shining movie than if you just watched the movie or read one of the novel twice. I also enjoy watching different adaptations of something and pit them against each other, like Let the Right In (both the novel and the movie) and the American adaptation. I guess that's my version of what you get when you watch a movie twice.
This is really great work!
I think the argument for entropy mixing was that RDRAND could be broken, not that it was broken. On these processors, apparently yes it could.
> If these programs are so small, why do you care so much?

Because they help starving children?

> First, these are symbolic

Are we talking about how USAID worked against apartheid in South Africa now?
History will show that the Pax Americana was ended by America. Completely self inflicted. We deserve the result though.
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Unquantified possibility, based on "throw enough money a the problem and get lucky" which in my books, is nothing like as probable as people think.

Still, NIST moved. They did this for 20+ year secrecy requirements. IETF has moved. People are shifting the basis of encryption.

Some of it is just stupid. the DNS does not need secrecy, it needs verifiability and if they roll keys more frequently, they can stay in the current technology for a lot longer.

I am concerned about the longterm impacts of this shift. A lot of infra has been built out on the belief the current methods are "it" and not all of them are field upgradable quickly.

Think about how badly US fintech at the shop front moved off signature methods, against 2nd adopter advantage in the rest of the world, and now imagine that every economy worldwide is trying to replace the Point-of-Sale card reader tech simultaneously to meet a deadline.
Yes, I could take payment but I chose to take days off instead.

I wanted to but I'm limited to max five days transfer. When the biggest player in eu does this, that's a sign of how things are in eu.

Did I hit a nerve? Here's more for you: most people in eu are fucking lazy, incompetent, have no vision, bureaucratic with no eyes on the outcome/goals.
That being sad human translators are very often under imense time pressure and that sadly leaves a mark on the translations.

To stay with hungarian example: in the original of Fifty Shades Of Grey Christian is a big fan of the band Kings of Leon. Somehow the translator managed to translate the band name as Lion King. Which drastically changed the vibe of some scenes. Most probably the translator wasn’t familiar with the band and had to translate it super fast.

Similarly in the hungarian translation of Harry Potter Slytherin's Locket was translated as Slytherin's Lock. And when in the next book the context made it clear that indeed we are talking about a locket not a lock they just changed the name of the item like nothing happened. :)
The problem you will quickly run into is individuals cannot take the load that this line of thinking leads to. Accidentally typo an extra 0 on a payment process? Hope you have the funds to take accountability on that mistake. After all, we have taken the choice that the system cannot be operated to rollback any choice, as that would lower human accountability...
Arguably, depending on your country, paying your taxes is significantly worse...
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Though is true of a lot of fully grown men - especially in DC.
I said pass, not ace.

15th percentile of passes, on the weakest aspect, is still a big improvement over "not passing". That improvement is what I wish to highlight.

(The observation that 48th percentile (lowest overall from your link, let alone 15th for essays) of passes corresponds to 90th percentile of all exam takers, suggests that perhaps too many humans are taking the exams before they're ready).
This is where we are, we need to stop complaining and deal with things as the actually exist. I am doing this in my own way, my fear is Elon and Co. hitting Medicare/Medicaid so I am making my own: https://medicare.dev. I think this is going to become more and more common as fed become less and less stable/reliable.
We’ve seen that in Korea very recently.
The bill you link to specifically allows the President to abolish USAID: as it states,

Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. [1]

And here's the text of section 6601, which explains how to abolish USAID:

(a) Submission of plan and report
Not later than 60 days after October 21, 1998, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a reorganization plan and report regarding-

(1) the abolition of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the United States Information Agency, and the United States International Development Cooperation Agency in accordance with this chapter;

(2) with respect to the Agency for International Development, the consolidation and streamlining of the Agency and the transfer of certain functions of the Agency to the Department in accordance with section 6581 of this title;

(3) the termination of functions of each covered agency as may be necessary to effectuate the reorganization under this chapter, and the termination of the affairs of each agency abolished under this chapter;

(4) the transfer to the Department of the functions and personnel of each covered agency consistent with the provisions of this chapter; and

(5) the consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of the Department in connection with the transfer of such functions and personnel in order to carry out such functions.

The President can abolish USAID, or can streamline it, or terminate functions within it, according to your own provided links, and only has to submit a report about it.

1: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&...

2: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:22%20section:...
I thought the same thing, people do literally whatever they want, evade tax, annex sovereign territory, coups, war crimes, pedophilia, it seems to just be getting worse.

I honestly feel like a moron for paying taxes.
There is no law that isn't open to interpretation. There is a reason for the judicial branch of government.
Might be interesting to see this combined with vex. Also nice to see the recognition that memory bandwidth is an important consideration.
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Here's the court's decision on the case:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...

The result wasn't what you're describing. The plaintiff was suing in federal court, with a constitutional cause of action. The defendants argued, and the court decided that the plaintiff has a medical malpractice cause of action in state court, which is appropriate for her to pursue (at least before a federal court will rule in her favor).
Why should you care if the national debt goes up or down? Why is it bad if it goes up? Do you actually understand the underlying mechanics, or have you just built a lot of eloquent abstractions around the idea of “number go up is bad”?
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You can intercept and modify messages on the fly. This helps a lot if you want to update legacy code, but don't want to break other classes that use the same call. It also allows for modularization more easily. I have a project that receives data from a bunch of sources, so I have a class for each source (this is simplified). To make it much easier to add a new one, which happens pretty regularly, the code that calls the processor checks all the classes in a specific folder for a certain function (`.respond_to?`) and then gets the right one for the data type. This means that to add a new source I have to change 0 lines of legacy code, just drop the new class file in the right place and it works.
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What do you mean by relying on Google?

Llama 3.1 and DeepSeek v3/R1 largest models are rather good at even a niche language like Finnish. The performance does plummet in the smaller versions, and even quantization may harm multilinguality disproportionally.

Something like deliberately distilling specific languages from the largest models could work well. Starting from scratch with a "legal" dataset will most likely fail as you say.

Silo AI (co-lead of this model) already tried Finnish and Scandinavian/Nordic models with the from-scratch strategy, and the results are not too encouraging.

https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen
>As a European, that's practically an oxymoron. The more one limits oneself to legally clean data, the worse the models will be.

Train an LLM with text books and other legal books, you do not need to train it on pop culture to make it intelligent.

For face generations you might need to be more creative, you should not need milions of images stolen from social media to train your model.

But makes sense that tech giants do not want to share their data set and be transparent about stuff.
America as 70s/80s Turkey, just have the military coup the civilian government every time it gets out of line. Not a super stable way to run a country!
I'm in a totally different field and this is 100% my experience. Some of the old papers have really great ideas that no one ever worked on, or talk about problems, which we have more data or better solutions/attacks on now. Finding these are like finding gold nuggets - they can set you up for years.
I used to roam that city in my youth some twenty years ago. And if you told me then it would eventually be what it is today, I would have laughed in your face. I'm impressed with how much Detroit has reinvented itself and continues to grow again.
They allocated €37.4 million [1]. As an European, I truly don’t understand why they keep ignoring that the money required for such projects is at least an order of magnitude more.

[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/pioneering-ai-...
> in the research team's opinion

This statement is carrying a lot of weight, and isn't properly justified.

The authors say the reason the skin gets so inflamed is the presence of all the immune cells. They then go on to say that the immune cells seem to kill potentially harmful bacteria in the area.

What is the reason they say that the body's response is problematic?

It sounds a bit like saying that the fact that our upper arms become sore after an vaccination (also immune-response related) outweighs the benefits that having vaccination has.
See: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112459155499812117

Which also links to the earlier: https://infosec.exchange/@realn2s/111717179694172705

And that in turn to the somewhat related: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/be-en/2013/11/25/the-compute...
In a way the argument doesn't matter, because there's a good chance it's just a lie they don't believe themselves.

Fascists will prioritize accumulating power, even if that means destroying previous allies. They don't care whether you think some of they ways they do, you've got something and they want it and might makes right.
You have to remember what "calling to account" is. It is a demand that you explain yourself. In the case of a business venture, it means to present the books and detail the entries. A court, congress, or your boss can demand your presence at a meeting to "explain yourself". Accountability doesn't mean punishment, it means you are subject to demands to make an "account" of your self. Punishment is a separate thing from the account.

If your account implicates yourself in malfeasance, you might be punished. But that's good!. But there are other kinds of accountability. The FAA is very clear that you must make an accounting for yourself. But the FAA is also very clear that they won't punish you for your account. That doesn't mean you aren't accountable!

Most computer systems can not do this! They can not describe the inputs to a decision, the criteria used, the history of policy that led to the current configuration, or the reliability of the data. That's why lawsuits always have to have technical witnesses to do these things. And why the UK Postal scandal was so cruel.

Systems that grant actors immunity from accountability as a matter of policy are terrible systems that produce terrible results. Witness US prosecutorial immunity.
I'm always hesitant to enter "punishing crimes" discussions on this one. Those, by definition, establish intent to commit the crime in a majority of cases. As such, they would almost certainly hit some "accountability" even if they were in a company. Heck, even qualified immunity for government actors typically falls on that.

That said, I do think we are in alignment here. Punitive actions are but a tool. I don't think it should be tossed out. But I also suspect it is one of the lesser effective tools we have.
You guys have a map bug in your careers page which is causing a point to show at 0,0 (the center of the world!)-- just off the coast of Nigeria in the gulf of guinea. Well at least, I'm assuming its a bug since that's a common result of something like null values being mishandled. But maybe you have an underwater office there?
Besides causing chaos, they haven't done anything objectively or qualitatively for you to claim "great work."

Buddy, get real.
Just for defensive purposes obviously