direwolf20

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Iran -> get the fuck out of the region, pay tariffs to us from now on, and let us develop nuclear weapons. (The 10 point plan)

US -> Ok we will agree to that.

is surrender

You're allowed to consensually waive your own privacy rights.

    biz > user

is capitalism. Removal of that isn't capitalism. Non-removal of that is capitalism.

Without NAT, it wouldn't be. That's the point.

Games, voice/video chat (especially open source ones), stuff like Tailscale, stuff like Magic Wormhole, ... stuff like Dropbox.

Is there anything you do on a computer that involves communicating with another user? That's not just anything - that's most things! All communication between two computers is improved by not requiring NAT.

Corporations love to keep us dependent on their central servers, of course.

It's a legal requirement in Europe for privacy. A long term static address is a personal identifier.

if your OpenGL driver had a glDoACoolDemo(); function, you wouldn't be allowed to call it. But if you find that among the regular functions are some code blocks that just happen to form a cool demo, you can use them and take credit for your discovery...

256 bytes (plus X kB of BIOS) (plus Y kB of hardware schematics)

In a world with certain incentives, one must always expect people to act in accordance with them. If you don't like it, change the incentives or cope.

Then why did the US surrender just now instead of finishing the job? They have agreed to all of Iran's terms and imposed no terms of their own. And ships still aren't passing the Strait of Hormuz - why is that, if Iran has no military capabilities?

There's nothing the US can do any more to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon. They have just proved that peace talks don't work, negotiations don't work. The only way to defend yourself from America is to have the actual capability to nuke Washington DC from afar. And Iran has a right to defend itself, so it will develop that capability.

What would be the consequences? The same thing that already just happened? America punished them, killed their head of state as revenge for not having a nuke yet.

They had to rapidly back off when they realized which civilization that was

So basically complete American surrender. And America accepted this deal.

But this doesn't

These capabilities will be RLHF'ed out for the general release, of course. Only the NSA will get them.

Even worse. In China they kill you for trying to dissolve a company without paying debts.

But why are filenames equated with spacetime coordinates? That doesn't make any sense - reflect on why you leaped to that analogy. The spacetime coordinates are the disk ID and sector number. We've been using operating systems that work a certain way for so long that we think filenames are like spacetime coordinates.

Filesystems aren't some universal truth. They were invented at a specific moment in time for specific reasons.

Solution: rotate your monitor 90 degrees, and inform your OS that you have done so. Now your monitor is 1080x1920. You'll actually be amazed how much more of a document fits on screen without sacrificing readability.

You can't do that and if you do do that it's an imprisonable felony. You have to pay all debts before dissolving a corporation. If you can't pay them you have to go through the bankruptcy process.

I believe dissolving a corporation requires you to attest you've paid all debts. If that's impossible, you have to go through the bankruptcy process. If you attest that you've paid all debts but you haven't, now you're committing frame against the government which they really don't like. You could be imprisoned for that.

You'll have money because you'll be selling fast internet to people. If YCombinator startups can make it work, so can you. Wear a hi-vis vest.

From paper shenanigans. Don't expect accounting spreadsheets to perfectly mirror real life. Most of the financial economy is kayfabe.

Don't confuse the passport ID check with the "are you over 18?" checkbox. Both types of laws exist.

People are too afraid of breaking the law. Look at every multi billion dollar company - all of them got where they are by breaking the law. How's it going to look in front of a jury when the government says "this man illegally brought cheap and fast internet to a neighbourhood?" The companies don't even have narratives that nice.

Even YC startups are encouraged to break the laws. The key is knowing which laws you can break, how much you can break them, and what's likely to happen if you're caught. When an illegal good thing is caught, the response is usually to slap on the wrist and legalise it.

A lot of current ISPs did start out illegally too.

Don't splice into other people's fibers though. That's a much worse crime of property damage.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, especially if nobody notices.

Sounds like you do know a way: Buy a spool of fiber and lay one from your house to the nearby block. Make it public knowledge that you're doing this and sharing internet with your neighbours (even if you're not). The incumbent will quickly upgrade your area.

Is this like how in France, DNS resolvers are legally required to block certain websites? That's right, if you run "unbound" with default options in France you're a felon.

It's lawful if you have a good faith belief that it's a circumvention tool.

It might even be true. Not having a download button is a copy protection measure as defined in the DMCA. If this project bypasses not having a download button, it's an illegal circumvention measure under DMCA.