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Peter Thiel says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

reuters.com
8 points·by Cornbilly·9 tháng trước·5 comments

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law

arstechnica.com
5 points·by Cornbilly·9 tháng trước·0 comments

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Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
>irrational

Oh buddy. I don't think that's the word you want to use here.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
I can give you the Model Y but take a look at the rest of the lineup compared to when they were first released. Hell, you're in this very post calling the S/X old.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
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Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
This one is hilarious. https://hackerone.com/reports/3516186

If I submitted this, I'd have to punch myself in the face repeatedly.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
I won't disagree that the people inside the system are making it worse but the system is currently setup to incentivize bad behavior.

- Overly broad qualified immunity

- The power of the police unions

- Lawsuit settlements coming out of public funds

- Collusion between prosecutors' and the police

These are all issues that need to be resolved to restore the sanity in policing.

At the federal level, the FBI needs to be reigned in...somehow. They all to often work outside the bounds of their defined role and powers. This isn't a new problem and one could argue it has been an issue since the beginning.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
I would disagree to a certain extent. "Law enforcement is not your friend" is a good mindset as a citizen. You should never hand them information without a lawyer and you should always push for oversight.

I agree that the "same at it ever was and always will be" attitude isn't great. It's defeatist and I choose not to live my life that way, even if it would be much easier mentally.

I think part of the reason I see this attitude so often is that, especially since 9/11, a large portion of the US population has decided that the police and military are infallible and should be trusted completely, so any large-scale attempt at reform runs into these unwavering supporters (and, in the case of the police, their unions).
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
The best part is that, in trying to comply with this guidance, the government chose Telemessage to provide the message archiving required by the Federal Records Act.

The only problem is that Telemessage was wildly insecure and was transmitting/storing message archives without any encryption.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
AI is not unique in this regard. We just saw the same thing with the crypto/blockchain nonsense.

Regulation lags so far behind that you can get away with bad behavior long enough that, by the time regulation catches up, you can buy your way out of consequences.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
That's great but they could have been honest up-front and said "The plan is that this is eventually fully-automated but we estimate that it needs supervised training for X amount of time in order to handle Y% of transactions automatically".

But this is tech and you just lie because hardly anyone in the investor class knows enough to call you out on it or they are just going with the lie to make a buck off of other rubes.

Privacy concerns aside, I thought it was a cool project. I agree that “convenience store” was probably not the best target but I think it was an effective enough proof of concept (creating a decent sized chain of them probably wasn’t the best idea) . I’ve seen the system used more effectively in smaller situations like stadium concessions, where the duration of the transactions needs to be very short to facilitate throughout.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
Their initial advertising claimed near full automation by their "AI" system when, in reality, they had people manually handling around 70% of the transactions.

I get that this is a message board for YC, so lying about your company's tech is considered almost a virtue but that is an unreasonably big lie to tell without getting your hand-slapped by some regulatory body or investor backlash.
Cornbilly
·5 tháng trước·discuss
It's great that they faced essentially no consequences for this. A sure sign that we have a functional and sane market.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
>I'm surprised to see so many anti-graffiti comments here.

I'm not. HN trends toward the most suburban conformist mindset possible.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I always assumed "social media" is something tied to your real-life identity. For me, HN would not be social media.

But there are people here that give their entire life story in their profile, I would say that, for those people, HN is social media.

Though, the Trump regime may see things differently.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
You mean the ones that we had the ability to remove in previous administrations without the need for harassing and assaulting non-criminals and citizens on the street?

As for the list, do you think this DHS compiles a list of its fuckups and publishes it? I can get you some news articles if you’d like.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Yeah, that’s been the GOP playbook for 20+ years. It’s only recently been used for US citizens.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
This is a great paper but, in my experience, most people in tech love this paper because it allows them to say "To hell with pursuing reality. Here is MY reality".
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
>@dang and other mods - when ICE abduct your kids on the way home from school, kick in your door and shoot people in your street will you feel proud of your cowardly behaviour here?

It won't happen to them because their boss (Garry Tan) is associated with the power behind the thrown (Peter Thiel).
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I would guess there is a remote safety driver as well. Tesla has pulled that same trick with their "autonomous" robots.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
>Doesn't China own most of the real estate in Canada.

No.
Cornbilly
·6 tháng trước·discuss
The Libertarian Party does not put all of those caveats on their stance and you sure as hell didn't in your polemic post.

Your argument is nothing but pedantry anyway. The libertarian stance is that most immigration laws should be abolished. Whether or not the books on the laws reflect their stance doesn't change that is their stance. They advocate for open boarders and migration free from government interference.