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mayneack··on Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax
Why have any regulations for corporate governance?
mayneack··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
On android there's a "differs along the way" option which let's you split the way.

There is a limit to the type of quest you can fit into the mobile app. It also should have a fall back "leave a note" option.

mayneack··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
In my experience, the bigger the app, the longer the update cycle. They likely have a QA and integration process to deal with how osm combines with other sources. Something like osmand is basically just an osm wrapper, so they can be fast.
mayneack··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Another option for apple would have been to just wait for a few months. They are downstream of osm but updates are slow. Likely your "propagated within minutes" was misleading. Almost no app, certainly not a mainstream app your customers might use, is reading osm live. They're all days to months behind on periodic batch updates.
mayneack··on Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
The method of seems to involve hearing the artifacts which seems plausibly risky for an ancient artifact.
mayneack··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
9th is a region (includes California) circuit is a level (appeals court right below Supreme)
mayneack··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
I've seen this sort of thing happen when something starts small and no one cares and then it gets traction. Eg: If you have a tiny toy project that the engineers call one thing, you might publish it under that name. If it then gets the attention of some higher level marketing team, you might rebrand it to align with the rest of the company.

No idea if that happened here or in google generally.

mayneack··on How we can reduce traffic congestion
The relative price of those cramped urban centers where this is true suggests that at least a few more people would choose this path if it were cheaper.
mayneack··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
A settlement can be in favor of apple still
mayneack··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
this will settle before it gets to discovery I bet
mayneack··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
Either laws work the way they're written and 4 members of the court disagree or they work the way the Supreme Court says they work and a worse ruling could threaten those citizens.
mayneack··on They are looting your life savings
> And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.

> Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.

> https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920...

mayneack··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
Daniel has been posting for months (years?) about how much scrutiny he gets from security researchers and various automated tools. I wouldn't expect curl to be the average case for mythos.
mayneack··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically the same thing. [2]

This is the wrong way of thinking about it. It's not adding 20% to an already taxed entity, it's adding taxes where there weren't before. Adding 20% on top of the income tax would indeed be controversial. In his framing the rate of return is effectively untaxed income, so it would be more accurate to say that this is like adding income tax to a currently untaxed income stream.

mayneack··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Arguing over implementation details is a pretty common thing for laws to do. Maybe it would weaken the logical consistency of their laws, but that's not really a thing that matters.

Why do states allow hunting some animals and not others? Why do states distinguish between different forms of income to tax? It's all implementation details.

mayneack··on AI didn't delete your database, you did
I think the "black box" framing that it uses neatly applies the same theory to organizations and ais. It doesn't matter whether there's technological or organizational reasons inside the black box to dodge accountability, the outcome is the same.
mayneack··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
There's a whole industry of hiking gear that has been steadily trading weight for durability. I only hike in running shoes (altras) which only last me 400 or so miles. It's way less durable than my old boots.

I doubt this sort of thing will translate, but I wouldn't put it past hikers to opt for something less durable to shave a few grams.

mayneack··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Why stop there. Why not deny them modern medicine or nutrition?
mayneack··on OpenAI Privacy Filter
Curious how this compares to presidio which mixes regex with a model: https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/
mayneack··on Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
A16Z was (is?) up to their eyeballs in crypto as well.
mayneack··on Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
Pretty sure it does https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=34.026608&lon=-118.3...
mayneack··on Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
Neither of those controls their ecosystem. Truth Social runs on Activity Pub.
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
Yes. If you're just making arbitrary choices on each instance you're not a free speech zealot you're just making judgement calls like everyone else.
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
In what world is twitter the least censored site? The big 3 federated sites are much more open if you want it to be and X is a walled garden.
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
How is twitter more of a free speech platform than the three open federated options (activity pub, at protocol, and nostr)?
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
Half this post is about how few people they're reaching on X.
mayneack··on EFF is leaving X
Bluesky might have be niche in terms of users but it's an open platform like activity pub so it's at least quite aligned with the EFF mission.
mayneack··on Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
I promise there are thousands to millions of people just as ruthless. Most of them just end up as petty criminals.
mayneack··on Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
That may or may not be true in aggregate, but for extreme outliers it's impossible to separate from survivorship bias. Are Musk and Andreeson really the most skilled entrepreneurs in the world or are they just good enough for luck to propel them to stratospheric success?
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