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Meanwhile cigarettes, which are also cancer linked, are legal with a warning and some picture on them.

And alcohol, which is also linked to cancer, is legal, with a warning on it.

And (non-self driving) automobiles, which kills tens of thousands of Americans yearly, with no warning or pictures, are legal.

Activities that reward being sedentary - a known factor in lethal cancers and disease - have no warning labels. When is my PS5 gonna warn me about playing video games?

While Americans are dying from a range of cardiovascular disease and cancers it's comforting to know that red M&Ms or red fruit punch won't be one of the causes.

memorization is not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about

1. you have a problem, you try something and it doesn't work. 2. you find an LLM and it "gives" you the answer with one or two tries 3. problem solved! what have you learned? How to have answers given to you when you ask.

or 2. you look for an answer in a dizzying haze of man pages, quacks, and website Q&As. 3. you try and try again and eventually problem solved. you have learned not only how to solve a particular problem but your overall ability to solve similar problems has done up. You've learned how to fish, not just ask an LLM for a fish.

I think the prospect of an impending SEC or other investigation is only one factor in stocks losing value.

They highlight inflated sales and financial irregularities like a chain of companies that engage in self-dealing, but are portrayed as independent to hide their real ownership, and so on.

If you believe what they say, your faith in the company is shaken because they're pulling a con job on you to invest in them and believe their story. If the SEC investigates that just supports the claim that it's a con.

If they don't investigate - for whatever reason - it doesn't mean that it's not a con and you won't lose all of your money believing it.

So a change in the regulatory environment is only one element.

For example, the Modhi/Adani thing is outside the reach of the SEC. And after watching a piece on it, apparently shorting it was amazingly tricky, and they had to go through some Singaporean markets to arrange a short position.

Aside from the obvious risk of short selling is the tornado of lawsuits and threats that arise from targeting shady companies.

Just because some company is accused shenanigans or breaking the law doesn't mean they won't try to litigate you out of existence.

Or that they don't have associates with baseball bats who might visit you in the night to discuss your "bad choices".

It takes some real minerals.

I think its brought attention to numerous cases of accounting and other shenanigans.

What I've noticed, casually, is that they often target companies or management with a pattern of fraud and abuse, and surprise they keep doing it.

VP of Sales gets slapped on the wrist for illegal tactics?

A few years later he goes on to be promoted to CEO and.... does the same thing!

Amazing.

They are short sellers, were you expecting roided out pro-wrestlers with tats and wild hair or something?

I had the same idea. Maybe it's a subtle message?

Everyday, at the same time, in the same place, play that instrumental DJ set and with a blank document write down whatever comes to you.

Let me know what you find.

Stone cold assassins indeed. We need more people like him.

that's not how this works :-|

Any links you wanna share? I've never seen an AI generated man page.

There's something to be said for that approach.

It's not the only approach, and definitely as someone once said, premature optimization is the root of all evil, and maybe you are optimizing at exactly the right time.

Who can tell?

Government regulations (like not polluting the water or forcing your workers into 40 hours a week of unpaid overtime) may be part of it. But China has been known to "dump" commodities into foreign markets to destroy those markets

Here's one random article I quacked, and this issue has been going on for years it ain't new: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/28/business/china-goods-expo...

China has also devalued its currency to facilitate this dumping spree

Another random quack (more on the how than history, but the impacts are detailed) https://gbtimes.com/how-does-china-devalue-their-currency/

So the narrative that "the US is choking itself with silly regulations and can't compete as a result" is a pure fiction afaict.

At least on TV, while the first officer is "running their plates" a second k9 unit rolls up and the dog jumps around and pops the bad guy with his 50kg of contraband.

Or at least that was the way it was shown on this one episode of whatever show I saw it on.

Well, with all due respect to the heroic efforts of the vast majority of the DEA, if we judge them by their total success or failure, I'd have to go with "failure" as far as the US is concerned.

Being a massive drug market with people dying from drugs on a daily basis is not exactly a shining indicator of success.

That said, for the DEA to succeed we'd need a massive amount of coordination - which is to say real leadership on this issue, I think which may be beyond the DEA by itself.

The history of civil forfeiture is maritime law, which has special conditions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

If you are an innocent person carrying the suspected proceeds of crime, and can prove it's not from a crime, you should not be impacted.

Recourse is built into the civil forfeiture process, afaict. This article is, as I read it, a case of a man using the channels of recourse successfully.

Your portrayal of the police as an arbitrary force that seizes things without recourse is, I think, incorrect.

Maybe dividing opinions and advocacy into two parts like so:

Does the opinion or advocacy have a direct bearing on the success or improvement of the company?

If yes, it's a good co-worker thing; share it

If no, it's a irritating co-worker thing; share it selectively or not at all.

That Linux is better than Mac or Windows is not likely to bear directly on the success of most companies, etc.

From Elon's Tesla Anti-Handbook:

“Your #1 job — everyone’s #1 job — is making this company a success,” the document states. “If you see opportunities to improve the way we do things, speak up even if these are outside your area of responsibility. You have a personal stake in Tesla’s success so make suggestions and share your ideas. Your good ideas mean nothing if you keep them to yourself.”

Obviously he wants opinions if they bear on the success of the company

Supposedly these "no code" sites can stand up a basic infra with very little effort.

If so, have a no code site set up a mail host. It might still not be trivial but it might be much easier?

Wow, that is better. Nice find.

I remember reading someone talking about how Proton couldn't be that secure (ultimately) because they relied on a javascript front end.

I recalled this when I read some crypto security efforts were focused on removing any javascript dependencies. I was like... hmmmm.....

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Musk is concerned about getting his fill of:

1) "hardcore" engineers, who I suspect aren't necessarily h1bs, but h1bs are the cudgel to motivate his workforce, and a safety net if they all tell Musk to go fly a rocket and quit.

2) inexpensive engineers; Musk is notoriously cost-conscious. I remember a humorous story about his left-wing anti-establishment wife who complained that she had to eat peanut butter sandwiches in a modest home. I guess she figured if she was selling out she deserved a palace and caviar. But to the point, Musk is incredibly frugal and cost-oriented. H1b satisfies his need for cheap talent, provides a safety net (point 1) and downward cost pressure (point 2) for non-h1b engineers.

Now if we could only start out-sourcing our CEOs....

I agree with you, or rather I think the barriers to farming are becoming lower, so maybe we should reconsider that homestead?

If this no-code stuff isn't a bunch of malarkey, it might be lowering the barrier to self-hosting that we've all been waiting for.

And self-hosting of email isn't quite "doing everything", it's doing one or two things.

It would be, to use your analogy, like growing your own tomatoes because Walmart's suck (and they do). Homegrown tomatoes don't have that "red leather" skin, a mysterious past, and may be quite inexpensive.

You can still get your Chinese made shirts, shoes, pants, and other inexpensive Chinese made goods at Walmart. But skip the Tomatoes.

I am a fan of proton, but we should always be ready for the bad news that forces us into another provider or self-hosting. Sooner or later it always happens.

Like lavabit or anon-penet.fi, cases where things go tits up for non-provider related reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer

As you note it's not built into other legal systems. In which case, those other legal systems aren't automatically corrupt or based on extortion.

A legal system is designed to advance a purpose: justice, the protection of citizens, etc.

Assumptions of guilt or innocence aren't immutable laws of the universe. They likely simply reflect prejudices held at the time of creation, or inherited from even older systems, like Roman justice.

This story doesn't hint at corruption or extortion: a plausibly innocent man was swept into a forfeiture system that didn't work as it should.

The part about the receipts I had missed.

Although volunteering information about anything seems suspect.

And it also seems to be a matter of DEA dropping the ball, but perhaps they foot drag knowing that anyone with illegal money isn't going to ask for it back, as they'd have to explain why they had it.

I wonder if Elon is going to suggest we defund the DEA as part of his "DOGE"?

About time.

I seem to recall some detail about how they don't do the packaging, and that' still on the mother island.

This suggests that may be the case: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/tsmc_amkor_arizona/

It's a move in the right direction, but not as much as may be needed.

If the manager's neck was on the line for poor candidate hiring and low morale, I suspect they mire hire more carefully and manage more effectively.

Do we really know which crazy billionaire is the lesser of two evils?

We can merely choose between which is the seemingly better known evil.

Self hosting is a way to go. It would be nice if one of those "no code" shops could make it a bit easier or something.

I think it's not about encryption as to the primitive tooling of Proton's calendar import, and maybe a little inflexibility on the author's part.

That's how I read it.

"And the url did not work because my work email is private (and will stay so)."

I have not tried this, but there is some email obfuscation feature:

https://proton.me/support/pass-email-alias

and other email obfuscation services.

Not sure if this would matter for something like a calendar import, as I'm sure how the traversal works.

Also, the author could have tried a Murena /e/ os de-googled phone.

Glancing at my Murena /e/ os "App Lounge" there's dizzying number of calendar options with high privacy scores.

Also, doing some poking around and testing rather than going all-in on proton mail's calendar, esp. if calendaring is so important.

That said I use proton mail's calendar for everything personal and it works "ok" for me.

100% correct.