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Tax rates for wealthy folks are what, 10%? It makes a big difference if the majority of money that is made is distributed to the people via salaries, or whether it's profits and only 10% makes its way to the people.

How did this common-sense-defeating liability culture actually start in the US? From a European perspective it is really strange to be liable in situations like this.

The link to cryptanalysis details is no longer working. Here's an alternative: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/FrankStevenson/analysis.ht...

That's also CalRobert's post, so it refers to the same person.

Why is Auracast not ready yet?

> The obvious solution is to make it tax-deductible.

Or make employer paid health insurance count as income and therefore not tax-deductible.

I guess even a disposable vape has more computing power than the Lunar lander. (I don't know if that's more or less ridiculous than a key fob, but at least a key is not so disposable.)

Without paying for remote backups, can I just manage my own backup on my own hard drive, and restore it when I want to?

> Honestly I feel like you should only use kernel anticheat on a dedicated machine that's kept 100% separate from any of your personal data. That's a lot to ask of people, but you really shouldn't have anything you don't consider public data on the same hardware.

Yes, and at that point, you may as well use Windows for that machine.

Also, "extremely rich" is like "extremely successful in life" to a lot of people. But for the latter, emotional connections are also important.

Are you sure? Because last I checked OpenSnitch used different techniques from namespaces, that seemed more brittle to me.

Is the Japanese diet so full of ultra-processed foods?

Couldn't quickly find a source for Japan, but this meta-study [1, see Table 1] gives a list of the percentage of UPFs per national diet. It lists Korea (25.1%) and Taiwan (19.5%), which may be relatively close. Anyway, the US comes in at 58%, clearly a big difference.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8538030/

I have built and used this setup before, and I would consider buying this anyway just to for the smoother UX.

I guess, from a Western-European perspective, the problem is that with the choice of Democrats and Republicans you get the choice between right-wing and ultra right-wing. Having right-wing politics that funnel money from the poor to the rich, or the tenants to the landlords, is in the interest of the financial backers of both parties. Messaging-wise, the Democrats have always been "more honest" (low bar, it's hard to be more dishonest/convoluted than Trump anyway), so maybe that's why Trump seems to come out ahead there.

What I don't get is how the bar for the Democrats seems to be so much higher than for Trump. Sure, "the typical man" is more easily validated by Trump than Harris, but at the same time Trump says much worse things about women than Harris about men. I can see how the Harris seems more "elitist" in a way than Trump, but to me that seems like a subtle negative versus Trump's long list of very obvious flaws.

How does the hatred for the Democrats get so big?

When it stops working great. My 2014 Macbook is about due for an upgrade, mostly due to the GPU struggling with a 4K screen.

Synthetic data can never contain more information than the statistical model from which it is derived: it is simply the evaluation of a non-deterministic function on the model parameters. And the model parameters are simply a function of the training data.

I don't see how you can "bootstrap a smarter model" based on synthetic data from a previous-gen model this way. You may as well well just train your new model on the original training data.

The interesting question is not the choice between diversity and merit, but how you attract and select the most meritorious candidates in a setting where your company overwhelmingly skews towards one demographic, given that people are more likely to hire others that are similar to them (and conversely, potential candidates are not likely to join companies when there are no people similar to them).

I don't think this is a matter of merely re-shipping the same products. For example, if you look at poultry, the Netherlands imported 240 M€ worth of live poultry and exported 2300 M€.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the...

Punitive damages are not a thing in a large part of the world. In particular in the European countries where Paypal or some of its subsidiaries reside.

The reason you're getting downvotes is because your comment is irrelevant. The point of the article is the transition of passwords to passkeys. Minimizing the number of accounts you have has absolutely nothing to do with that. If the point of the article was about optimizing your online security posture, and passkeys as a method for that, then your comment would be more relevant.

The reason no one replies and just downvotes, is because we don't want to clutter up the discussion with even more irrelevant comments. Usually I'd do the same, but for the chance that you are really commenting in good faith and not a troll, I thought I'd present you with a learning opportunity.

Amazon Prime Video is even worse, on Linux they only serve 480p. Any pirated file is much better quality.

> exfiltration is obviously possible, I’m not sure why I would even need to specify that any page is able to read its own contents using JavaScript

Things that are obvious to you may be non-obvious to other people, including the readers of your blog.

Which ones? And why are they less convenient?

I like Spotify and use it a lot, but I think their UI is somewhat okay at best.

You never had one of the pins slightly bending so the connector wouldn't fit anymore and you had to manually try to bend it back?

Besides the actual hardware, I think the biggest problem is the software implementation of trackpads in Linux (at least in libinput/Wayland). Even running Linux on my Macbook, the trackpad experience is vastly inferior to macOS.

I don't care too much about gestures, but mostly about stable palm rejection and proper acceleration curves. The current implementations sadly provide neither.

You don't think that having children is a selfish decision in itself? I have thought long and hard about whether I want kids or not, and ultimately I concluded that I should only have kids if I myself really wanted to raise kids (regardless of say, whether my partner wanted to have kids). Kids do not ask to be born, and life is not a guaranteed net positive.

Also Ctrl-O for back, and Ctrl-I for forward, are useful.

And '. for line of the most recent change in the current buffer.

I think the concept of "licensing" should not apply to something you own. If they want to rent you a CPU, fine, but then they should also bear the costs for when it breaks.