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Aereo, Napster, Grokster, Grooveshark, Megaupload, and TVEyes: they all thought the same thing. Where are they now?

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It seems contrary to their docs[0]:

> Recall won’t save any content from your private browsing activity when you’re using Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, or other Chromium-based browsers.

Without a system-level incognito mode feature I could see apps allowing users to denote their windows as DRM content to avoid Recall.

0: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...

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"Why valves are a spacecraft engineer’s worst nightmare" is a great read about all the problems of valves[0]. There's also an interesting interview of the author worth a listen[1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/why-valves-are-a-spacecraf...

[1] https://offnom.com/episodes/149

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The media also doesn't define what it means to be a "doomer". Would an accelerationist with a p(doom) = 20% be a "doomer"?

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https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...

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That's not what executive privilege means. Executive privilege is the right to shield documents from disclosure to Congress.

Moreover, taking certain documents, specifically those relating to nuclear secrets, is unrelated to the Presidential Records Act, and must be declassified following the Atomic Energy Act.

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This could be labeled "sousveillance", watchful vigilance from underneath:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

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Storing data in the metadata reminds me of the $5000 compression challenge: https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

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Many years ago I worked at a startup where the CEO was a former CS professor. While at the university, he worked with a somewhat legendary guy who ran the CS school's IT infra. Somehow wires got crossed in recruiting while sourcing the candidate, and another guy with _the exact same name_ who _also worked at the university in IT_ but for a different school got hired after what must've been a perfunctory interview.

The startup had a lot of other problems, that one was the most awkward. It folded not very long afterwards.

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il y a 4 ansdiscuss

Useful for dramatic effect:

https://inception.davepedu.com/

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Related anecdote: the 2008 flash crash of United Airlines stock [0]. A six-year-old article about United Airlines' 2002 bankruptcy was republished from the Chicago Tribune in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (apparently without the date), then got picked up Google News, then by an investment firm, then ultimately by Bloomberg, leading to a flash crash from $12 to $3.

0: https://www.wired.com/2008/09/six-year-old-st/

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Alphabet owns Verily Life Sciences[1] and backs Calico[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Next comes the space telescopes that are based on the KH-11 spy satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...

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A system for alerting based on time-series data, with its own rule language. The language (along with many others) required authors have demonstrated they can adhere to the style guide by going through a process to obtain readability.

https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/

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   We'll continue supporting sideloading and linking to PCs

I see this as a tacit approval of the thriving network of pirate games, something like the Adobe Photoshop model of proliferating and becoming the de facto platform.

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You charge at the hotel.

https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging

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The predictions for the future of computing, December 1996, had some truly prescient gems. And a few misses.

> We may experience a gradual drift into a surveillance society ...

> The merging of cellular phones, portable computers, and highspeed networked servers offers many exciting possibilities.

> The Internet will be as ubiquitous in our lives as cable television is today.

https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199612_Byte_Magazine_Vol_2... - page 86 in the magazine, page 90 in the PDF

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Yes, however, vaccinated people are much less likely to catch the virus.

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Only 55% of Americans own stock: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Bear in mind matter isn't the only component. Energy is another huge input to the system. E.g. blockchain and its derivatives use tiny amounts of matter to use enormous amounts of energy.

We can and must develop more environmentally responsible sources of matter and energy. Trying to change human behavior with our current regulatory controls have been demonstrably inadequate. There are sources of matter and energy that do not run out, I believe them to be in space.

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