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nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Wasn't this a hoax? A parent abandoned thir child and ICE took care of the kid.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> It definitely was not and there is boatloads of readily-accessible evidence to prove it.

Cool, cite it.

> Brooks Brothers Riot wiki page

That's a seperate event. What does that have to do with the Capitol riots? On what specific wiki? Do you mean Wikipedia? Wikipedia not a citable reference, according to Wikipedia.

nailer··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I imagine their response would be: "we need to parse a new file format, that may have been edited by users, reliably. That takes time."
nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
None of this addresses the comment you’re replying to.

Again, for your benefit:

> There is no apartheid: arabs in Israel have more rights than in Gaza, the UAE or Saudi Arabia.

nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
"New model, middle version" is already communicated well by Apple.
nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
No you're not.
nailer··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
- 24 x 7 trading is open to retail (no more waking up finding out the market moved out of hours and your stop loss didn't execute because the price moved 'though' it)

- Fractionalization (you can buy $12 worth of NVDA easily)

- Fundraising (you can raise public money without needing the large caps of traditional public markets)

- Distribution - smart people that know math publish a whitepaper and get investors into their strategy immediately rather than waiting for a hedge fund or bank to get them to market.

- Composability - eg, I invested in an app that let's people use the HNWI 'buy/borrow/die' technique as a wealth building strategy - talk into any shop, buy somethng, pay using as small loan taken out of your share holdings.

nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
This. If Wikipedia wanted to address something, they could look at issues like these - just from October:

- ADL report finds 91% of banned editor’s Israel-related edits still live on key pages. https://www.timesofisrael.com/biased-wikipedia-edits-on-isra...

- Forensic details of Oct. 7 atrocities (sexual violence, burned victims) removed and never restored on Gaza war page. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-wikipedias-d...

- Editor JDiala admits 10-15% of active accounts since Oct. 7 were sockpuppets or Discord-coordinated for pro-Palestine bias. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-911291

- Hamas page restructured days after Oct. 7 to move antisemitism and abuses material to low-traffic “Criticism” article. https://www.foxnews.com/media/first-fox-wikipedias-editorial...

- New cohort of 19 editors uses subtle methods (undoing, hedging, slow rewrites) and controls latest versions on ~60% of examined pages. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-911852

nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
“ChatGPT 6.1 Max” would be simple.
nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
It's more like if Apple called the iPhone 16 the "iPhone 14 16 edition"
nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
> > But does Terra 6.1 beat Sol 6?

> Run your own evals then if you have this much of a need to "correctly" choose.

No. OpenAI want my money, it's on them to communicate properly.

nailer··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
This causes friction between men and women (which rank differently for agreeableness) and neurodivergent and neurotypical people (same).
nailer··on EA is shutting down BioWare
> Dice pushed le Industry forward when they stole Desert Combat, made a shitty Engine & called it 'BF2'.

Dice acquired the Desert Combat studio, and the same people made BF2.

https://giantbomb.com/wiki/Companies/Trauma_Studios

nailer··on EA is shutting down BioWare
> I point this out because the Saudi Investment Fund bought EA a couple months back and they obviously have very strong opinions on those sorts of relationships.

They do, but only as a means for controlling the people they rule over. The House of Saud, when outside Saudi Arabia, drink alchohol, wear revealing clothing, and make use of the sex industry.

nailer··on 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution
> And second, it's been proven repeatedly that ratcheting up punishment as some sort of deterrent doesn't work

Who proved that? Have you lived in a high trust society that punishes crimes, or do you not think they exist?

Your point seems to be that people don't believe they will be punished. Everywhere I've been people did know they would be punished, severely. Organized theft in Singapore if you're a male younger than 50 could get you caned. Perhaps you're arguing that public punishment would help raise their awareness?

nailer··on 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution
This seems like the "you can't flip the switch" meme.

Yes, it really is that simple. I can leave my laptop unattended in an unlocked coworking space in Singapore because people know they'll be punished if they rob me. It's marvellous.

I haven't heard of a similar case of organized mass rape in the UK before this, so it's surprising to read you comment, but if you have sources add them here. Like many of the UKs (and Europes) problems, the issue isn't ethnicity, but rather Islam, which explicitly permits sexual slavery.

nailer··on 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution
There are many people in these threads that state that they don't like capital punishment (OK?), add zero supporting arguments, and aggressively downvote anyone who supports the death penalty.
nailer··on 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution
Have you been to Singapore recently?

In this case, organized rape was effectively unpoliced for some time to avoid "community tensions" with police saying the children involved "were slags". The message should be sent that organized crime will now be prosecuted.

nailer··on 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution
I'd like to see the rape gangs in the UK executed. As there were multiple, similar cases ran by different groups, I think it would deter the next group of rape gangs.
nailer··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
Everyone in antifa believes they're actually fighting fascists. Everyone in MAGA doesn't, as I'm sure you're aware.
nailer··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
> if a bunch of guys...came to your home, burned it, raped your little sister, and killed your parents how would you act ?

Certainly much worse than the IDF did when it happened to Israel.

nailer··on /dev/null: social network for developers
No, everyone is still there talking about programming. Your choice, but you’re missing out.
nailer··on Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
I moved recently. I previously moved to the UK fifteen years ago. It's great here, people are very welcoming to immigrants and have been kind all over NY, Georgia, and Miami.

- NY has a great tech scene, it feels slightly healthier than SF but FAR more ambitious and supportive than London does. Also London investors are incredibly flaky.

- Street violence is an issue (in NYC), but phone theft and terrorism are not.

- My gym has a good out-of-the-gym social scene which has made it easy to meet people.

nailer··on /dev/null: social network for developers
I can't see any of the content unless I sign in.

I don't know if I want to sign in, because I can't see any of the content.

nailer··on /dev/null: social network for developers
> follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.

Isn't that Twitter?

nailer··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
> Wikipedia is perfectly acceptable to cite

No, not accordinging to Wikipedia.

> Hamas is a resistance group.

No. Their aim is to slaughter Jewish people worldwide, which is in Hamas' founding charter.

> One of these is doing anti-colonial resistance

How? Arabs colonised the area in 650. Hamas openly chants that "from the river to the sea (ie, all of Israel), Palestine will be arab"

> Israel has stripped Palestinians of any political means of resistance,

Arabs can vote in Israel. Arabs cannot vote in Palestine.

> Israel is doing a genocide, Hamas is not.

Yes but why? Hamas deliberately eliminated, in part, Jewish people. That meets the definition you gave. Why is Hamas not committng genocide then?

> your anti-academia stance

I'm not anti academia. I'm just open about the biases of academia. It seems you are not.

nailer··on Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second
Got it - thanks for answering.
nailer··on Tesla Roadster
Why? I’ve sat in a self driving Tesla, with the attendant’s body rotated towards me while we chatted in Florida. What specifically is wrong?
nailer··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
Wikipedia itself doesn’t like citing Wikipedia, and the site is famously biased. My question though is that a part of the Jewish people was murdered deliberately, why would you not consider it genocide?
nailer··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
I’m not sure what Wikipedia has to say would be relevant for any topic. However “in part” seems like a way to redefine violence against any individual member of a group as genocide. Do you consider Hamas’ murder rampage also to be an act of genocide?
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