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New comment by adestefan in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

adestefan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:34:06 +0000

New England colonists had a habit of ransacking and burning down the houses of government officials throughout the 1760s and during the Revolutionary War. Got bad enough that most did not sleep in their government housing.

New comment by adestefan in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

adestefan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:27:56 +0000

That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.

New comment by adestefan in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

adestefan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:34:39 +0000

It’s right at the top of the linked bill.

The attorney general or a district attorney may bring a civil action on behalf of the state against a person that violates the prohibition against individualized price or wage setting based on surveillance data to seek the imposition of civil penalties. In addition, a person aggrieved by a violation of the prohibition specified in the bill may bring a civil action on behalf of themself or a group of similarly situated persons to restrain further violations and to recover damages, costs, and reasonable attorney fees. A violation of the prohibition against individualized price setting or individualized wage setting is a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act".

New comment by adestefan in "Claude's new constitution"

adestefan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:00:54 +0000

What makes Anthropic the most money.

New comment by adestefan in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

adestefan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:16:49 +0000

It’s as random as any other UUID.

New comment by adestefan in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:11:51 +0000

The problem isn't only papers it's that the world of academic computer science coalesced around conference submissions instead of journal submissions. This isn't new and was an issue 30 years ago when I was in grad school. It makes the work of conference organizes the little block holding up the entire system.

New comment by adestefan in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:04:38 +0000

The entire thread is people missing this simple point.

New comment by adestefan in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

adestefan — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:53:43 +0000

There's a better word for it.

New comment by adestefan in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

adestefan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:31:09 +0000

We've taken the one task that computers are inherently good at and somehow made it worse.

New comment by adestefan in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

adestefan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:29:16 +0000

It's become worse since 2017 when they changed the 1040 to make it "shorter." All they did was move everything to different forms so now it's an insane process of shuffling numbers back and forth across many forms.

New comment by adestefan in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

adestefan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:26:42 +0000

They helpfully send you letter when you screwed up, too.

New comment by adestefan in "Apple: SSH and FileVault"

adestefan — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:45:19 +0000

But that uses TPM backed keys only protected by the TPM PSRs. Someone could still swipe your box and unlock the disk.

New comment by adestefan in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

adestefan — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:09:57 +0000

You don’t. You can’t even serve ads in search without issues. Even when ads on Google were basic text not inline they were an intrusion into the response.

New comment by adestefan in "Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban"

adestefan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:26:01 +0000

Rick Scott made his money by being the CEO of a company that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud.[0] He’s one of the most corrupt people in Congress.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-de...

New comment by adestefan in "US AI Action Plan"

adestefan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:38:41 +0000

The language lets you get around a bunch of pesky laws by declaring it a "national defense emergency."

New comment by adestefan in "Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O"

adestefan — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:40:22 +0000

They did it. The Republicans rolled it all back.

New comment by adestefan in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

adestefan — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:01:29 +0000

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.

New comment by adestefan in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

adestefan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:38:46 +0000

That's the last GPLv2-only version of rsync.

New comment by adestefan in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

adestefan — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:51:32 +0000

It's unclear if you'd win this case right now.

New comment by adestefan in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

adestefan — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:59:48 +0000

Adam Mastroianni talks about this a lot. His best example is at:

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/things-could-be-bette...