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New comment by consensus1 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

consensus1 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:25:01 +0000

Delaware LLCs are tied to real people

New comment by consensus1 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

consensus1 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:22:49 +0000

Because typically in tax matters the first step is to inform the person that they owe $X in taxes + $Y in penalties and give them a chance to pay up.

New comment by consensus1 in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

consensus1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:25:04 +0000

That backlash is based on conspiracy theories about data centers using up all the water and the legitimate fear of AI taking their jobs, not anything to do with privacy.

New comment by consensus1 in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:14:01 +0000

I'm talking about now. Most recently the liberals took their case all the way to the supreme court (and lost) insisting on their right to run a racial quota system in universities.

New comment by consensus1 in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:05:27 +0000

That makes you a supporter of the existing immigration system

New comment by consensus1 in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:03:41 +0000

In the US it's always the liberals arguing for special treatment baked into the law for their favored groups and the conservatives argue for equal treatment. The liberals then argue back that equal treatment is de facto discrimination against then.

New comment by consensus1 in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:59:16 +0000

But implicit in your statement is "accept my position on immigration." You are probably not interested in giving in to the conservative position on immigration in order to get them on your side against Altman.

New comment by consensus1 in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:57:43 +0000

Your heavily restricted, highly educated, legal immigration examples are a tiny fraction of what immigration is in the US. The tens of millions of unskilled illegals allowed into the country is a wage suppression tool.

New comment by consensus1 in "America.gov"

consensus1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:46:06 +0000

But why not just use a LLM?

New comment by consensus1 in "A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:57:53 +0000

The media has been hyperventilating about how evil the tech industry is for the last decade.

New comment by consensus1 in "A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:56:39 +0000

But we are not really like Milhouse. In reality the teachers didn't care about us enough to make fun of us in the teachers lounge. We were just that year's batch of work soon to be forgotten when they move on to the next. This is exactly the same as the advertising companies. You are just a member of the cohort of a particular target campaign. Nobody cares about you or even knows you are part of that target cohort.

Unless you become a target of the government. Then people a lot worse than any teacher you ever had will be looking through it, and they, unfortunately, do care.

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:49:32 +0000

There was trust left in the US government to be scuttled? Could have fooled me.

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:48:39 +0000

Downvotes signal going against the hive mind, not being incorrect, so they signal to me something that I should be sure to read.

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:27:03 +0000

Indeed you should beware: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-climate-change-environm...

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:26:31 +0000

This is not telling the full story. Biden tried to block new oil and gas leases, but he was blocked from doing so by the courts. Oil production was up not because of, but rather in spite of the Biden administration.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-climate-change-environm...

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:19:02 +0000

I do not buy that the SPR is effectively empty at 35-42% of capacity

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:52:19 +0000

That is not at all obvious. Iran's Hormuz leverage has proven much less effective than they had originally hoped for and now they are feeling the economic cost of the decision. The SPR is drawing at a rate of 400K bbl/wk over the past few weeks. That's not great, but very far from catastrophic and is sustainable for years at current level of 285 mmbbl. It was recently Iran that tried to get the US back to the negotiating table, not the other way around.

New comment by consensus1 in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:41:29 +0000

The headline is hiding the fact that this was a fairly modest 400K bbl draw for the week.

New comment by consensus1 in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

consensus1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:33:57 +0000

Really even more since almost nobody actually uses 50 mbps bandwidth continuously

New comment by consensus1 in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

consensus1 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:29:52 +0000

Your claim "Imagine you individually copied and sold libgen" doesn't hold up because there are two parts, copying and selling. Copyright law considers the copying part to be a small civil offense punishable by a fine. It's the selling part that is much more highly illegal and can result in criminal punishment. OpenAI only did the copying part.