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New comment by linkregister in "Gloomberb"

linkregister — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:36:23 +0000

Why would a trader need your consent to make a trade with somebody else?

New comment by linkregister in "Grok Bot"

linkregister — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:29:05 +0000

This is one compaction away from being truncated to "allowed examples: `git add`...".

System prompts aren't safeguards.

A step in the right direction is auto-review, available in claude-code, codex, and Cursor products. This is not foolproof either.

This is why remote calls should be gated through an MCP or other API gateway. The MCP can restrict calls even when the provider lacks scoped privileges for their integration keys.

New comment by linkregister in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

linkregister — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:07:47 +0000

It's public record that Elon Musk personally spent $100M on the Trump campaign. Elon Musk is now using that political influence. While this may not meet the elements of Bribery under US Code, it clears the bar for an opinion on the Orange Site.

New comment by linkregister in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

linkregister — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:37:21 +0000

Socialized housing is a management technique. It does not inherently create housing. Read about Stockholm's situation if you are interested in learning about the topic.

It is indisputable that there have been successful socialized housing schemes. It is also indisputable there are successful free-market housing systems; for example, Minneapolis.

New comment by linkregister in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

linkregister — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:36:45 +0000

A socialized housing market replaces exorbitant prices with a lottery; public-subsidized housing in Stockholm has a waiting list of years. The way to stabilize the demand curve is to increase to supply.

New comment by linkregister in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

linkregister — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:22:24 +0000

Are you claiming that China, India, and Pakistan do not possess nuclear weapons, do not assert they will retaliate with those weapons, or are led by old white men?

There are many Indians and Pakistanis who do consider themselves white. I'm unaware of a prominent white identity movement within China, but I don't have total certainty.

New comment by linkregister in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

linkregister — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:27:30 +0000

There are plenty of Chinese domains that are just numbers. If they can build entire businesses off of that, so can anybody. There's of course a ton of risk around scammers winning SEO and adwords competitions.

New comment by linkregister in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

linkregister — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:23:52 +0000

The PLA has engaged in many battles over the last few decades. There were some as recent as 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army#Eng...

New comment by linkregister in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

linkregister — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:28:35 +0000

The parent comment is getting dunked on because it feels rich for the majority racial group to claim aggrieved status.

But I agree that adding the whiteness status of the men doesn't add to the story. The distinguishing characteristics of the men were they were rich and powerful. There are many people in the United States who despite their whiteness, suffer injustice, lived in poverty, and are oppressed by powerful interests.

The above does not erase the fact that systemic racism impacts Black and Hispanic Americans significantly to this day, and work to mitigate this should continue.

New comment by linkregister in "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)"

linkregister — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:28:13 +0000

Did Kimi or other open source models use a different corpus? Why is your animus directed specifically to Anthropic?

New comment by linkregister in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

linkregister — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:39:44 +0000

Yet the comment was valuable nonetheless.

New comment by linkregister in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

linkregister — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:19:54 +0000

Being unwilling to compare degrees or amounts is not a flex.

New comment by linkregister in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

linkregister — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:28:03 +0000

The essence of the Enron scandal was the perpetration of accounting fraud. It took down Arthur Andersen. We went from the "Big 5" accounting firms to the "Big 4" because of this. They very much violated GAAP.

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

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:24:09 +0000

When looking at 2025 and 2026 narrowly, China is a better actor on the world stage.

I wonder if Vietnam, Philippines, Republic of Korea, India, and Japan are acting against their own interests by aligning themselves closer to the USA than China. Maybe you can educate their governments and populations.

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:55:09 +0000

Do you get mad at your computer for replacing clerical workers? What does this nonsense comment have to do with the issue at hand?

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:52:45 +0000

What does your story have to do with Moonshot AI? Do you think they didn't also use the same corpus? Bizarre

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:49:34 +0000

You're calling someone a political hack, but imposing neutrality on my statement.

I don't even necessarily disagree with your assessment of this spokesperson. But you must admit how inconsistent you're being.

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:44:17 +0000

That's a reasonable viewpoint to have. In a multipolar world we want Mistrals as well as Deepseeks.

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:26:29 +0000

Your statement is orthogonal to my comment. Why reiterate the schadenfreude / fairness comment already stated several dozen times in this thread?

New comment by linkregister in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

linkregister — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:24:47 +0000

Reread my comment and look for a value judgement on my part. The final sentence is probably a good clue as to my opinion.