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How does one solve an arbitrary law problem? Algorithmically. Test questions have solutions, sure. They are guaranteed to have solutions, in linear time. You sit down and write the test in constant time, either you find the solutions, meaning your algorithm is good, or you don't, and have to modify said algorithm.

This modification costs time, and money. It's expensive.

They don't predict the ability to solve any law problem. How could they? How could they guarantee such an algorithmic solution? To an arbitrary law problem?

Is the solution to do away with such testing because of this potential undecidability? No, it is not. Write the bar exam, and pass it. Then move on to law problems that may or may not be solvable.

Condensation when it comes out of the freezer is certainly something to consider. Probably the thing to do is just take it apart and blow em outta there, rather than risk water pooling behind the screen of the laptop, and on the board.

Clear strawman: Which "liberals" want the Scandinavian model besides those who live in ethnically homogeneous areas of the US? Nobody believed that Scandinavian Shangri-la stuff, you just need listen to how they describe it.

I mean, there was a time when people from the place we call Scandinavia got into boats and did a fair bit of emigrating, to the great consternation of native populations at the time. What goes around comes around, I guess.

Also, seems to me the writer is conflating a certain political agenda in this piece, somewhat distastefully. These people never have enough buckets to sort humanity, so they just lump stuff together. "Liberalism" is a thing defined by words, and the more words used, the less consensus is possible.

Yeah, you can't call this hacking. This software is operating according to specifications, as far as we know. The hacking was from the guys who uncovered this, much appreciated.

However, this was a huge step backward. The company bypassed the legal system via code, to add obligations, and secret functionality to the client. How was this found? By others who would and do circumvent the law for their own reasons.

These reasons might be as noble. Just. Enlightened.

Having spent some time online, I of course, am skeptical.

That's fair.

>they haven't done enough for you.

We live forward in time, not backward.

Also, people know about IP rights. Either it's the law of the land or a treaty obligation. Clearly documented, as are the available remedies in case of dispute. Available to everybody, in theory.

This "DRM" was unilateral. Surreptitious. Why do this if not to remove agency from the client at some later date? Why bypass the legal system? Silently?

Altruism? Maybe, but that's just as bad, idealists and coercion go hand in hand throughout human history.

Pragmatism? Seems more likely. The trains can be fixed, except they get turned off from the mothership whenever they seem to be in the shop. They don't fix them for free, presumably.

Either way, that is some snake ass shit, since it's undocumented. Poor.

Or, you'd make sure that your liability was limited to one year, absent of any servicing. Maybe you'd have a renewable service contract, yearly, and one of the requirements is local inspection.

>force the owner to get the train serviced.

This is coercion, implemented via subterfuge. It's no different than if they sent guys with sacks full of door handles or whatever to take control of the trains, to accomplish the same result. Or if the client hired staff to crack the provider's server, and either installed ransomware, or stole the solution. Ridiculous. The way to operate is through the laws in question, rather than removing agency from the client.

If the client does not want to pay, you warn them of possible consequences, ask them if they would like to purchase an extra diagnostics package, and remind them that after a year, maintenance of the product is required to bring you back into the picture formally.

>as if all their life was leading up to this moment, in which they’ve achieved peak selfhood.

This is literally true. Absent of a serious mind practice, our memories are built upon the sands of rationalization. Looking back is not a reliving, it's more like a realization that changes happen. Looking forward? We are notoriously poor at guessing our future mindsets, especially charting a course to happiness.

Aversion leads us towards suffering, the dissonance between what we think the world should be vs what it is. The same goes for desire.

Fortunately, we are adaptable, almost infinitely malleable, in the present moment, although our ego makes us resist this ... pliability.

I used to think in terms of future me and past me also, until I drew a line in the sands of my rationalizations, and focused on the present moment. Future me, his joys and sorrows, his problems and their solutions, are above my pay grade, because he is as far from me as the edge of spacetime.

There are two ways to help him: Live in the present moment, so he has memories of the wonder of incarnation, and cultivate mental and physical suppleness, so his options remain open.

I would say to the article writer... revel with thy beloved as you observe the wonder of the present moment. You are not responsible for all the moments that make up a life.

Goodluck.

Goodluck.

When a lion takes over a pride, job #1 is killing any kid who's not his. This is not uncommon in the animal kingdom. One way, or another, the goal is to create an environment where your have a reproductive advantage.

So the base is genetics, but also you have to remember that humans and chimps understand timelines. So if you see a strange redhead by the watering hole, you slink back home and get the lads, gonna need to make an example out of him. After all, you only speak your tribes dialect, can't talk to him, and if even you could, what would you say?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> once law enforcement has established facts were materially altered for the purpose of obtaining funding

If you establish this, that's the case right there.

>Feds don't prosecute the stuff their own tribe is involved in

I get it. The world is complex, and grouping helps make it more manageable. However, in no way are the "Feds," part of the same tribe, especially in 2023.

>All such schools are hotbeds for govt spies, other folks.

Maybe recruitment? I'm not familiar with the curriculum at USC. Seems like you'd get them when they finished their degrees, unless they offer "wetwork" as an elective.

>They use the same techniques that this neuroscientist uses.

Disagree. Whatever tribe or faction these people you describe belong to, they are definitely not publishing papers. They'd be administrators. They are not involved in prosecuting academic malfeasance, and certainly the prosecution, is not taking advice from retired government employees. He/she/they have their own careers to consider!

>Pirates love having some moral justification.

Quellism is fictional, but that does not make it invalid.

>the personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

--Quellcrist Falconer.

NOTE: "Make it personal" but this is business not war. Kinda feel I need to clarify that last line.

>I'm sure someone much smarter than me will create this at some point.

Such a person is the very last creature I want parsing every byte of content delivered to me. in order to make this service a reality it must be local.

What we need is data poisoning. Have the AI watch ads, spoof responses, while we watch ad free content. Run it like SETI, during our devices downtime. They'll try to raise fraud concerns. Understandable. Accusations of piracy? Certainly possible. Convictions, though? Probably not.

He means protected from the consequences that arise from the things he says, the things he does, and the things that he acquiesces to. It is the most important privilege one can have. He wants the benefit of the doubt.

What does that mean? It means that he wishes to require people to interpret his actions and words in the most advantageous way possible, instead of ... "duck typing" them. Because we have heard the very tiresome quacking of this particular kind of duck for almost a thousand years.

We already have a term for this. Digital Sharecropping.

Putting a cone on the hood? Terrorism? Damn, that slope sure got slippery.

I'm not supporting this.

>I've driven well over a million miles over the last 25 years

You sure about that?

> Zero accidents and zero moving violations.

Good for you! You must be saving tons of money with your undoubtedly low insurance rates. Props.

> for a variety of reasons, our disfunctional government ...

Police have finite resources. You'll need to pay more taxes to increase that. Oh hang on...

> proven they are unwilling and/or unable to drive safely and jail people who drive without a license.

>The 95 year old who lives down the block, cannot see over the steering wheel and regularly wrecks her car continues to drive.

She passed her licence, did not total her car, and her insurance will go up due to her accidents Granny might not be a great driver, but just because she's 95 does not mean that she deserves to get shivved while bench pressing, surely?

>The 20 year old a block over who speeds around without a license plate on his car continues to drive.

You want him jailed, eh? Seems a bit much for a minor traffic violation.

The 35 year old with 55 moving violations and a license that is suspended speeds through the red light on the corner every day.

How do you know the license is suspended? How did you find out about the moving violations? How would your brownshirts identify these things?

>It isn't impossible to make our roads safer - or even difficult - we just lack the political will.

100% agree. I'm not paying for room and board for these people. I certainly don't want to default to disenfranchisement, since they've paid years of taxes into road construction.

What I would do, is focus on driving. We don't need to implement the damn Stasi just to fill your dungeons with your undesirables.

There was a man who never existed named Thomas Covenant, created by Stephen R Donaldson. Decades ago this character said something that has stayed and will stay with me my entire life:

"The best way to hurt somebody who's lost everything is to give him back something that is broken."

For us, this thing is MacOS. I miss dtrace every damn day.

DTrace allowed you to ask the damn os what it was doing, since the man pages are random and do not match the command line help, new daemons constantly appear with docs like this:

NAME rapportd – Rapport Daemon.

SYNOPSIS Daemon that enables Phone Call Handoff and other communication features between Apple devices.

     Use '/usr/libexec/rapportd -V' to get the version.

Dogshit.

>I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to.

Christ, man, I can literally see it, seen it tons of times, and yet ... just wow.

Poor devil certainly does not know his audience. I read all of that shit. Incorrect. It's the same Leviathan. It's just now it can see us clearly.

After 2016, I feel like I need to keep an eye on what is going on over there.

Comments were the the organic voice of the public. So we know this is happening. How many L's will it take before we leave the altitude sickness of the high road, and turn our democracies into Babylon? They could have just done ordinary marketing, but nah, better results if they snake it. 3 year moratorium on working in this space would be much better. Deprive the public of it's voice and the penalty is to be silenced.

This road is going to end in hell.

This had to be higher, they got what they wanted, at least take some of their GPT cash, so they can't fund Skynet or Roku's basilisk or worse, fill our elderly ears with perfect reproductions of our parents and children selling us plausible products, adding product placement in our photos in exchange for more storage as we weep helplessly in confusion until we step into the street and are pounded down by self driving cars who instantly and algorithmically spit out scripts so that our killers skate.

Or, don't fine them at all, but don't fine me either.

Buddy is missing the point of school. The most important things is to learn how to pass tests, to hit deadlines, and to find a way to work when you'd rather be doing something else.

Of course he is lamenting, he's a mathematician, so he's made it through all the shit, and his intuition is now a mathematicians intuition. Changing the curriculum will be great for people like him, but terrible for great politicians, who happen to be learning algebra, or chemists, or chefs, or CEO's. Inclusivity is a virtue, so let's not forget the future cannon fodder, the brutes, the blunt instruments, the weak reeds, and the evangelicals.

He envisions an untapped strata of mathematicians. I would say that people are not being undersold on mathematics, and it's elegance. There's just not a lot of people who are mathematicians. Rebranding it as art won't help, even art has the fiddly bits that are the bedrock of life. Cut the construction paper. Gather the glue, don't get caught huffing it, etc.

In fact, if anything they should stop teaching algebra and calculus and start teaching statistical methods and probability, which will expose students to evaluating risk. Give em some dice. ( parents might be ambivalent about this ) Discrete math, where you can do it with marbles and a strip of tape.

This would make intro science more like numerical methods, and then they'd move into continuous math a bit later.

It does not really matter though. Hit deadlines, pass tests, and know how to grind your way through something simple and tedious. Because simple love of the work might not be enough. Maybe you end up having to strip to pay for textbooks. Maybe shit just doesnt work out for you right away. Those rote tasks will keep you moving toward your dreams.

This is rubbish. The police investigate the claim and based on the results of the investigation, the prosecutor decides whether charges can be laid. The prosecutor!

Not the police!

What? Where is this routine? Where do you live? What if you don't have a phone? Why would you give your phone to the police in this situation instead of the prosecutor?

Which government? What level? My god, who told you this thing? For what other crimes is this policy enforced?

This is because the dialogs have gotten rid of the disclosure arrows that gave path information and metadata about the binary. Also, executables used to have names consistent with the naming conventions on the platform. Now you just get dialogs with some cryptic name, and a one line manpage.

When you sit you may feel discomfort of a kind that makes you want to move. Sit for a bit longer. The discomfort will move rapidly from place to place, since it is an artifact of the revolutions of the mind stuff.

It's kind of like spam subject lines... a call to action.

My nose is bleeding? I need to... Wait, my ankle is killing me, let me just... Oh, no, now my back, quick stretch will ... Hmm, I'd be so much more meditative if I just pop on to Amazon and order a proper cushion...

Just sit. You'll be fine.

Remember that the word user also governs the skeletal muscles. Not the most ideal situation, but you have to expect some strange things if you grow such a complex thing as a brain from some goo. When these things, or other things happen, just watch them, let them pass, and then bring your attention back to the breath in your nose.

It's like balancing. How do you get better at balancing? Stand precariously every day and eventually your muscles will strengthen and you will be balanced.

Similarly, bringing your attention back to the breath in your nose is how you get better at this thing.

Just some tips that helped me.

That's right.