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cmsparkson Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud

> "in the absence of a law that compels us to write software, which is unconstitutional btw"

This isn't really settled. Writing software is not always constitutionally protected speech, and Apple being compelled to write software would probably not constitute a violation of the First Amendment. Federal wiretap law can compel companies to make it easy for the government to get data via a warrant (which necessarily entails writing code to produce that data) and has been upheld in the past. Also companies are often liable for the code they write. Both of those are examples of when code is not considered speech.

cmsparkson 2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics

One note about the aero research rules in F1 which makes this post particularly interesting: there are limitations on the amount of CFD simulation time teams can use.

cmsparkson US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review

Seems like a lot of this data is sourced from OpenElections[0][1]? Not sure about what makes this better than OpenElection's data, especially considering OpenElections seems to have done a large portion of the difficult wrangling work...

There should definitely be better attribution for this data.

[0] https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1361508657154961408

[1] https://github.com/openelections

cmsparkson If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

I have a similar issue with setting up my eGPU with Bootcamp. Apparently the macOS bootloader messes with the setup of a ton of devices so what I have to do is plug in USB C devices before boot, then plug in my thunderbolt devices in the bottom left port at a specific point during boot, then plug in USB-A devices after login. Anything else crashes the machine.

Admittedly my use-case is niche, but I wouldn’t be surprised about similar things happening with other devices.

cmsparkson Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei

There’s a lot of distrust from many southeast Asian nations due to the conflicting territory claims in the South China Sea as well.

cmsparkson Three Levels of Controversy over MMT

I feel like this glosses over the first point of whether MMT is solid economics. This is probably the most important part of the discussion which likely controls the political controversy surrounding it. MMT is an incredibly fringe position in the economist community without very clear empirical backing. This seems much too nice to MMT as an economic theory.