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New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:24:07 +0000

What's your definition of "abject poverty"?

I find it hard to believe that half the US would meet the criteria for any reasonable definition.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Ferrari Luce"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:18:35 +0000

After seeing the pictures, I assumed they were moving into the mass-market budget EV sedan market at a price 1/10th of that.

$650k is a fine price for a Ferrari, but not one that looks as plain as that.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:45:00 +0000

I'm surprised by Grok as well:

https://grok.com/imagine/post/8d1eab88-737f-4d46-ba92-9b6502...

Interesting that it does better at making the pelican peddle in the video generation than in image generation.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:21:27 +0000

That just helps them classify the type of traffic. They're not breaking the encryption to see the actual content.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:37:54 +0000

I can easily pay for a VPN service with crypto anonymously. I can also use a VPN run by a company outside my country of residence and jurisdiction.

Neither of those is possible with my ISP.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:28:08 +0000

You don't have to go back 30 years to see it. Just take a shared taxi in Sumatra. Most of the men and some women will be smoking. Inside the car. With the windows closed. Sitting next to babies and young children.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Porn website at center of CNN investigation into sexual abuse taken offline"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:37:51 +0000

Sad to see how only the big monopolies are allowed to continue hosting user-generated content because of regulatory capture.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Ted Turner has died"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:39:57 +0000

Bison are less selective eaters and tend to spread out more, so they're less damaging to grasslands than cattle. They also require less water, antibiotics, and general attention than cattle.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:31:47 +0000

When using the web interface for ChatGPT like this, is there any way to tell which model is actually being used?

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:56:58 +0000

> I think insecure/dangerous Claw-agents could be useful but cannot be made safe

Isn't it a question of when they will be "safe enough"? Many people already have human personal assistants, who have access to many sensitive details of their personal lives. The risk-reward is deemed worth it for some, despite the non-zero chance that a person with that access will make mistakes or become malicious.

It seems very similar to the point when automated driving becomes safe enough to replace most human drivers. The risks of AI taking over are different than the risks of humans remaining in control, but at some point I think most will judge the AI risks to have a better tradeoff.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:13:22 +0000

I bet there are some people building cool things for narco cartels with similar parts..

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:21:13 +0000

Zoom works fine with Firefox on Android.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:09:30 +0000

What's wrong with a Chinese owned company? As someone who has no plans to step foot in China, I'd much rather be spied on by the Chinese than the US or EU.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

I don't think the EU wants FOSS phones. If anything they'll push regulations that make them illegal to own. They want backdoors for all of your communication.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:24:05 +0000

There already is a means to keep children away from toxic content: parents (possibly with the help of locally run content blocking software).

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:40:27 +0000

Bubblewrap containers to keep all of my environments separate on my laptop works just fine without giving up control to Google.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Grok 4.20 Beta"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:15:17 +0000

Do you happen to know what model "Grok Expert" is currently using?

Expert has consistently produced better results than 4.1 for me, so I'm curious if anything has changed with the release of 4.20.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:13:32 +0000

> I love it. We need to see more of this.

> Use of semantic elements is an interesting take. I'll give it a try.

> Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best.

> Good one. Presentation is good too. Thanks

These are the kind of comments you see from Indians paid to boost Youtube content.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:47:52 +0000

That's evidence of possible low-level protective mechanisms, but what really matters in the end is the effect on cognition, which in RCTs have favored DHA.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:01:47 +0000

Your link doesn't say anything about dementia. Do you have any source that shows EPA is more beneficial than DHA?

What I found from a quick search says the opposite:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019002/