michaelt

Yes, I'm trying to say it's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of other ways you could organise a justice system, many of which would lead to more just results.

For example - a fixed price system. 8 hours wages from the two parties to the dispute buys 30 minutes with one judge and two lawyers. More than enough time to deal with a minor matter like a scratched car. Or if you prefer a continental-style inquisitorial system, you can lose the lawyers and have 90 minutes with a judge. The fees mean judges and lawyers take home 5x the average salary.

If we've got a Lamborghini justice system, delivering amazing performance to people with a spare $250k and doing nothing for anyone else - some would say that's not the right price/performance trade off.

Really?

I was under the impression that when a new CA starts operating, they get their certificates cross-signed by older CAs, to ensure their certificates work on older devices? Lets Encrypt did something like that [1] - although they started operating in ~2015, their certificate chain started with a root valid from October 2000 to October 2021 [2]

After all, many website operators want users to be able to connect even if they're using prehistoric Android versions.

You can access Wikipedia with Android 4.4 which was released 13 years ago [3] (although apparently not on the slightly older Android 4.3)

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted [2] https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/ [3] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=en.wikipedia....

But if you only want to MITM the connection used by 'pip' to install python wheels - that doesn't check for CT records at all.

I feel this is the kind of discussion that would really benefit from a number of concrete examples.

The thing is, that only helps Tor users who are happy for their PC to contain evidence of what they were doing over Tor (such as a known hosts file listing).

If your security requirements are so high your PC contains no evidence whatsoever of what you were doing over Tor, you wouldn't get the banner.

The simplest way is to just launch the servers yourself, using a cloud provider. Tor is completely OK with exit node operators being anonymous, and with exit nodes running in cheap cloud data centres.

If someone finds it burdensome to review my 50-line AI-generated bug fix, adding 200 lines of tests only gives them more lines to review.

Consider how many American companies exclusively manufacture in the far east.

If a European buys a product "made by" Apple or nvidia or Nike or Levis - that's not an American export, it's an export of Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, or wherever. America still gets the profits, though.

RSA was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for me.

Almost every programming language and database I've ever used assumes 86400-second days, ignoring leap seconds. And one of the popular ways of applying leap seconds was a 'smear' [1] running every clock slightly fast for about 24 hours, rather than having a 61-second minute.

So instead of UTC we actually all use a slightly elastic timescale with the name of UTC, most of the time aligned with UTC, but with the linearity of TAI, and the desirable property that if I'm going to a concert at 19:00 in a year's time and a leapsecond is announced and implemented in the interim, the concert doesn't change to 18:59:59.

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear

If I open something like a stadium, and whenever there's a big game I need a load of security to deal with traffic, drunk fans, and fights - arguably most of the security should be paid for from ticket sales, rather than the taxpayer, although the taxpayer should be there as the final backstop.

Likewise, if I have a bank with a vault full of valuables and I think it needs 3 armed guards present 24/7 - probably that's going to be at my expense, not that of the taxpayer. Although any bank should get a police presence in a reasonably timely manner, once they raise the alarm about a robbery.

A person returns a $5000 RTX 5090? A manager will be paged, who will carry it over to the high value items cage, in full view of the CCTV.

A person who returns a $5 bike light? And that person has also spent $$$$ over the years with a 0.5% return rate? Straight on the pallet of mixed returns without even opening the package.

Medium-value returns and customers with an eyebrow-raising return rate get a medium amount of inspection.

> Beginning in January 2025, the company will stop stocking books regularly, and will instead sell them only during the holiday shopping period, from September through December. During the rest of the year, some books may be sold at Costco stores from time to time, but not in a consistent manner, according to the executives

You install an update. Oops, they added a sandbox that doesn't work inside a docker container, it's stopped working.

You install an update. Oops, you can't log in inside a docker container any more, it's stopped working.

You install an update. Oops, they started catching the copy+paste shortcut and replaced it with one that doesn't work.

You revert a broken update. Oops, the update changed the format of your login details, the old version can't read them, gotta log in again.

You install an update. Oops, can't scroll with the mouse wheel any more.

Not showstopping bugs (if you're used to persuading broken oauth logins to work) but it certainly makes updating an "ugh, what have they broken this time?" experience.

What could possibly go wrong?

It's true - a robot arm is not so different from a CNC machine.

But a 5-axis CNC is not so different from a 3-axis CNC, a 3-axis CNC is not so different from a laser cutter, a laser cutter is not so different from a vinyl cutter, a vinyl cutter is not so different from a large-format printer, and a large-format printer is no so different from an inkjet printer.

An industrial robot arm, out of the box, only has internal sensing (joint position, torque etc) and a start/stop button - can't sense the external environment at all.

But I've got a light on my porch that turns on when it gets dark.

By the 'react to the environment' definition the former is not a robot, and the latter is.

Instead, he argued the definition of a robot is "I know it when I see it"

Free speech advocates support the right of everyone to set up a stall in the marketplace of ideas, but don't have to support every idea that sets up a stall.

A publisher of gay erotica might support free speech, and find themselves alongside revolutionary communists, hitler-heiling nazis and radical islamists distributing bomb-making manuals - but the groups aren't allies or friends outside of that.

The menu: Rosemary and garlic roast lamb, Extra-crispy roast potatoes, Honey-roasted carrots and parsnips, broccoli.

The photo: [1] Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, broccoli, brussels sprouts. No lamb, no parsnips.

If you shoot for what's in the photo, you're going to have a bad time.

You're also going to have a bad time when you try to make an apple crumble with no flour, no sugar, and no butter, because they're not on the shopping list.

[1] https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/gyzrX8zp3O2KLEPm0FAqh...

That sounds great, regardless of the Google stuff.

To me that seems a exceedingly broad definition of fair use.

Wind tunnel time and aerodynamics simulator time are included in the cost cap, as are car parts and most staff (but not driver salaries, travel or marketing)

Drivers can spend all the time they want in standard consumer sim racing rigs, practising the tracks. But when it's the type of extra-high-fidelity simulator that lets you make the car better - that's subject to the cost cap.

It'd be pretty easy for the company to dispel those outlandish accusations - the PR department could just report the true numbers.