Have you been mauled by a hollandish uhh Dutchman?

Does the nipple thing cost extra?

I saw a diagram explaining the ‘agent architecture’ of chatGPT and it was a whole set of lines and arrows just to say how if you ask about the weather it queries a weather API, and so on.

Qualcomm is one of the worst monopolists in any industry though. They are widely known to have a stranglehold on all mobile device development

It’s not that the money is unaware this kills the business. They know. They don’t care because their process is business-agnostic. By design and intent they extract value from the business like it was a capri sun pouch and when line no longer goes up, it’s discarded for the next one.

I respect Nilay’s ability to be firm and ask questions he knows are going to upset his interviewees without actually becoming confrontational.

The configuration must grow.

Institutional inertia is real. Obviously every situation is different but in most cases they are not blocking remote access, they’re just tracking if you badged in that day. If you are still doing work, it’s going to take them awhile to respond - they are hoping you quit rather than having to fire you.

Both things should be done simultaneously!

Usually it’s phased and they don’t cut off remote access entirely. They still want you to be able to work on the weekend at home…

Let them enforce it. Don’t quit, that’s what they are trying to accomplish anyway.

Edit: sorry I jumped to conclusions inappropriately

https://decrypt.co/40284/us-homeland-security-can-now-track-privacy-crypto-monero

It seems that it’s at least somewhat traceable as of 2020, and if you have any opsec failures you might be compromised and not even be aware. It’s still better than cash but not a magic bullet.

My point was not that cash wasn’t being accepted. It’s more that carrying large amounts of cash around is extremely risky for non obvious reasons.

Not carrying a phone is definitely possible and even commendable, but for many people it’s not an option. Just off the top of my head:

If you are in an unfamiliar area unexpectedly you won’t have been able to print off a map ahead of time

Many people’s employers require them to be contactable during on call periods

If you are trying to get a job/caring for a sick relative, there may be risk with being unreachable for an extended period

Obviously these examples are things that can be worked around in many cases, but currently society is arranged around the idea that you have a phone on you if you want to do anything. I agree with you this is not a good thing, generally. If you are able to push the trend back it’s worthwhile but short of an EMP / solar flare removing all communication networks worldwide I don’t believe there is a realistic chance this changes.

Other unsorted thoughts:

I know bill serial numbers are tracked, if they really wanted they could probably find video of you getting money out of the bank/ATM. Again, there are workarounds but it gets to be more and more commitment to POSSIBLY be untraceable.

If you have friends with phones who travel with you or you get photographed in the background of someone else’s social media you can get profiled that way

• All this to say, I agree with the gist of what you are saying but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect many people to be able to do the work for something that has less tangible benefit to them than being able to pay rent. Social change will require personal habits changing along with political pressure to make databrokers illegal, prevent tracking via metadata, etc.

What holes do you see in the logic of this document?

If you want to develop a solo project and also be a sex pest, no one can really stop you. If you want to be the BDFL and public face of a large organization, it’s not enough to be technically correct. You also need to be someone who is at least tolerable to interact with.

Can anyone explain why it was necessary to catch it chopsticks-style instead of landing it on the ground like they had been doing with the smaller boosters?

Terry Pratchett was ahead of his time.

They grasped a small kernel of truth and encrusted a huge wad of nonsense around it. You already have to use credit for some transactions, effectively. If you try bringing 100k in cash to buy a car/house, there is a good chance it’ll get seized by police. Corporations already do that tracking and they don’t need credit card transactions for it - if you use a cell phone they know what store you went into. That can be combined with other metadata to know exactly what you’re doing. Carrying cash does not fix this.

What’s this from?

I hope that was a typo for Proto-Indo-European