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sb057on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

Counterfeiting money is bad, and should be illegal (the wisdom of forcing such software into printers notwithstanding). Manufacturing your own products is good, and shouldn't be illegal.

sb057on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

None of what you said is true.

> the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which gives you the right to manufacture a fire arm

There has been a right to manufacture firearms since before the Revolutionary War, and which has remained a right continually since.

> it must be for personal use

Not necessarily; though you can't conduct business without a federal license, you can, for example, manufacture a firearm to be given as a gift.

> cannot be transferred

See above.

>must have a serial number

Not only is that not true, a federal judge struck down the prohibition on defacing serial numbers in United States v. Randy Price (2022):

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.23...

sb057on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

>Taiwan is already independent.

That is a very controversial statement, and one that both Taipei and Beijing disagree with.

sb057on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

Per your link:

>The primary meta-analysis of indoor ALAN and breast cancer risk suggested an association, but it was not statistically significant.

That said, I'm actually sympathetic to the idea, and personally use incandescent lights. I just don't have any hard evidence to back it up (yet).

sb057on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

If you threaten to kill somebody then follow them around for days at a time, is that intimidation?

sb057on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

There's a mostly-unsubstantiated-by-data belief that LED lighting can cause health problems by some combination of flickering and narrow color spectrum.

sb057on Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

The lack of a video demonstration doesn't really inspire confidence.

sb057on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe

"You're absolutely right; that runway was decommissioned in 1974 and is now a cornfield. Would you like me to contact emergency medical services and file an accident report with the F.A.A.?"

sb057on Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun?

From a layman's perspective, it seems like it's mostly an expected outcome of college degrees becoming a class signifier. In 1990, only a fifth of American adults had bachelor's degrees, with those who held them making 70% more than high school graduates. A sizeable gap, sure, but those non-college graduates have minimum wage retail workers and general laborers, and union steel and auto workers in the same educational bucket.

By 2020, it had risen to well over a third of Americans who had bachelor's, and 105% more income for those with them. One might expect a dilution in a degree's value, but I think it's just a matter of minimum wage workers still being high school graduates, whereas virtually all professional workers (including the increasingly few manufacturing workers) needing a bachelor's to get past the first stage of HR.

[1] https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

sb057on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

Well Mozilla has completely failed at it, for starters.

sb057on Fast

This page (consisting of 693 words) took a full second to load for me because it had to import multiple fonts from Google (which also constitute over 70% of the page's size).

sb057on Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express

City of New Orleans is functionally a through line with the only major stop in the state being Memphis. The only other bookable stop period in the state is in the middle of nowhere with the only trips departing at 11pm and 4am. I suspect the average ridership between the two stations is approximately zero.

sb057on The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

Technically, prediction markets aren't gambling, they're soothsaying, which is a form of witchcraft punishable by death.

sb057on Collapse OS

Appropriately enough, the website is no longer accessible due to rate limiting, and the Internet Archive is down due to a power outage.

https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1905030204357214335

sb057on Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market

>My point is, if someone sees that you hedge financial well-being on e.g. you country not slipping into the civil war over the next few years, and orchestrates exactly that to profit themselves — this is not your moral failing, it's theirs, and even the "well, you kinda tempted them, technically" argument is bogus.

As a third party, I don't particularly care who's in the wrong if I'm living in the middle of a civil war.

sb057on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

That question supposes that humans aren't also primarily motivated by food (I've also never met a man or woman that wasn't).

sb057on How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

>Lawyer specialising in giving up a citizenship I never had for those living in a country I left in 2018.

I mean it kind of sounds like they've correctly pegged you for being an expat of that country.

sb057on Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

The fact that they charge significantly more money than virtually every other utility company in the country (and indeed, within California) with comparable margins is pretty good evidence I feel.

sb057on Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?

DDG, but pretty much exclusively for the bang shortcuts.

sb057on Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps

It's actually not quite so clear cut. 1053/1054 was when mutual excommunications between Rome and Constantinople happened, but (as the schism itself is evidence of) Constantinople did not speak for the entire church, and other eastern sees continued communion with Rome for quite some time afterward.

https://kalebatlantaprime.medium.com/the-great-schism-was-in...

sb057on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

Everyone's death is "reasonably foreseeable".

sb057on Exploring Commercial Products for the NES Expansion Port

That comment is even more bizarre given that there is a brief digression on the Super Famicom's expansion port which explicitly does mention the Satellaview.

sb057on Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

While the characters are certainly distinctive, I find paragraphs to actually be less legible than, say, Times New Roman.

sb057on Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit?

Because the people who would use public transit are not politically relevant.

sb057on The curious case of the missing period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

"In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language..."

sb057on Online Shopping in the 1950s

See also: online dating (and the pitfalls thereof) as showcased in a 1967 episode of Green Acres

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592766/

sb057on Knockoff Iranian drone sold on Alibaba was meant for war, documents show

>I think there is already a nuclear powered chaotic nation right next to China.

Four, in fact!

sb057on Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amount of cheese

Emmental

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_(North_America)

sb057on Paradise Lost (1667)

(1667) :o)

sb057on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit

>The oldest game still available (counting by which date it was made available on Steam) is the original Counterstrike with a game ID of 10. Games 1 through 9 aren’t on the platform anymore, and I’m sure they are far from the only games deleted from the platform.

For what it's worth, IDs 1 through 10 are a mix of test depots, libraries, and such.