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New comment by readams in "TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past"

readams — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:37:49 +0000

millimeter wave radar systems. Backscatter x-ray machines are no longer used. Both have similar properties of being able to see through clothes.

New comment by readams in "Waymo Premier"

readams — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:07:23 +0000

When you consider the required tipping, the cost is quite close. And the Waymo is nicer.

New comment by readams in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

readams — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:19:13 +0000

Don't forget to include time to handle lawsuits and funding delays! Also, someone may break into your house and rip up the instruction book.

New comment by readams in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"

readams — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:48:19 +0000

And yet, in a recent conflict of the US navy vs swarms of drones, no ships were lost.

New comment by readams in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

readams — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:25:55 +0000

Yea it's hard to reconcile such a small number of affected racks with such a widespread impact though, so this must not be the whole story. They're talking about a half a year to restore the data center. It must be more than a roof repair and 19 racks.

New comment by readams in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

readams — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:42:41 +0000

Gemini will be replacing the legacy Siri:

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...

New comment by readams in "Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6"

readams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:53:40 +0000

I think that where this gets interesting is when you can just drop these robotic systems into an environment that wasn't necessarily set up specifically to handle them. The $50 for your gauge isn't really the cost: it's engineering time to go through the whole environment and set it up so that the robotic system can deal with each of the specific tasks, each of which will require some bespoke setup.

New comment by readams in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

readams — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:01:23 +0000

As always, Matt Levine has the best take on this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-02-24/ai-...

"I am sorry. But if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly designed mechanism that could lead to $50 billion of market value collapsing overnight, would you like to trade with me,” they are going to say yes, but their eyes are going to light up, you know? If at Time 0 you give them an extremely gameable system that can produce billions of dollars of profit, at Time 10 your system is going to be a smoking wreckage and they are going to have billions of dollars of profit. That’s their whole job, you know? I couldn’t tell you in advance what all the intermediate steps will be, and in fact in hindsight I cannot tell you what the intermediate steps actually were, how Jump and Jane Street made money off the collapse of Terra. But as a heuristic, I mean, come on. Terra was like “hello we have a balloon full of money, here is a pin, dooooooon’t pop the balloon.” Guess what!"

New comment by readams in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

readams — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:53:23 +0000

So then do you punish the chefs for making their food too appealing?

New comment by readams in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

readams — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:57:37 +0000

The concept of addiction seems be quite diluted at this point. Does it really make sense to say that, because you're trying to make a product that people like, that this means you're addicting them (intentionally or otherwise) to your product?

Food should not taste good? Books should not be entertaining? Don't try to make your video game fun, or some people may become addicted.

New comment by readams in "Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage"

readams — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:05:51 +0000

AI is already taking over content generation

New comment by readams in "ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face"

readams — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:47:47 +0000

This is a bit thin to be drawing any conclusions. Only what one person claims. Has this happened to anyone else? Might there be another reason (that they're not telling us) that this happened?

New comment by readams in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

readams — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:08:06 +0000

In these modern times of ours, the word literally has taken on a new meaning, which is "not literally but with emphasis." This seems like the most likely explanation.

New comment by readams in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

readams — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:53:43 +0000

That doesn't work as well since you want people with crypto wallets you can steal. People applying for a blockchain company are far more likely to have this.

New comment by readams in "Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights?"

readams — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:09:47 +0000

Amnesty has long since squandered any credibility they once had

New comment by readams in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

readams — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:41:06 +0000

Here's Nvidia's CPUs, which are increasingly a required part of their data center offerings:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/

New comment by readams in "California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom"

readams — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:21:27 +0000

Big tech has generally not loved this because they know that adding friction like id checks massively reduces attach rates. This is watered down enough that it's likely seen as a lesser evil.

New comment by readams in "She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k"

readams — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:18:10 +0000

And yet, if you tried it, you might find this often not as true as you might think.

New comment by readams in "Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river"

readams — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:17:10 +0000

If you read the article, you'll find that in fact the collars do prevent them from moving toward the river using sound, vibration, and shocks.

New comment by readams in "Less Slow C++"

readams — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:30:31 +0000

My small angle sin function is even faster: sin(x) = x