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Doesn't the data or whatever have to be received on earth? Can Joe Public do some (light) arson on that?

Satellite phones and Starlink dishes suggest that the data links can cheap, ruggedized, small, distributed, etc.

Russia has (likely) done that already in Poland. But with a constellation using laser interlinks and having multiple ground stations across the world, it becomes a difficult logistical problem.

Sounds good.

Edit: it seems perfectly acceptable and ideal even for society to say there is a cost to wealth. As others have mentioned Neovim is in the US is likely mostly tax exempt so this hypothetical doesn't even apply to them.


So you want a non profit to pay taxes on money it seems they do not have access to and have never touched.

Great.


Theft is good? What?

We slid down that slope a long time ago. Taxes are good and pay for my important things, up until the moment they pay for someone else's important things, then it is theft.

Taxes on unrealized gains are good? Are you nuts? No sane country has them, and it is one of the stupidest ideas that NL came up with. Way to squeeze middle class even more.

I'm not sure what argument you're making? Taxes are theft? Consensus on that type of thinking seems to be hard to come by.

consensus is easy. its that people want to not pay taxes and still use public infrastructure anyway. thats the real theft.

> Taxes are theft?

Taxing unrealized gains is theft and stupidity.


This isn't a criticism, but I do think this comment actually raises part of the problem. There are people on twitter telling people they should be on twitter, and it's apparently effective enough that at least some people are still signing up or trying to at least. The world needs more of the inverse, people telling those they care about who are on twitter to get off it.

And likewise, continuing to call it "Twitter" when that is long dead, which has amazingly positive brand association as near as I can tell entirely from the name doesn't do any of us a service.

If you want people to stop using it call it "X". Not something clever, like "Shitter" -- which I personally enjoy! Just call it by what it was intentionally renamed to:

"Oh you mean X? No I don't take part in that hateful stuff, sorry"


I call it "former Twitter" to honour the good times, and maybe because deep down I hope it'll one day escape from fElon Musk's evil clutches.

What bad things has she done? Why is she laughable? Does she show up hundreds of thousands of times in the Epstein files? Does she demonstrate daily corruption and self enrichment openly?

I've personally never come across a police department or sherrif in the U.S. that doesn't have a non emergency number. I'd assume thats what you should call for things that aren't an emergency? They've never told me to call back and call 911.

Allegheny County in Pennsylvania is one such department without a separate number. I don't think it's that uncommon.

I've tried calling the non-emergency number for my city, and they told me to hang up and call 911.

I think a great many Democrats could have warned you this type of war was not only possible but likely under Trump. People made an active, conscious decision to vote for him or to not vote. No one to blame but themselves for this, they got what they voted for (yup non-voters also share the blame, no one can feign ignorance on Donald Trump or the Republican party). Not that it matters, the rest of us get to suffer the consequences right along with them.


Democrats are equally enthusiastic about attacking Iran. Just listen to Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. It was also Biden who started the Gaza genocide with Israel. That’s the point, the American government is 100% captured by Zionists. There’s no voting your way out of it.


Half the members of the legislature act like Trump is a king and believe that his Executive Orders are the same as laws signed by themselves. They've said as much on national television.


Polls for the last few decades haven't really been all that accurate or good ("it's 50/50" - worthless).

You also seem to be ignoring all the systematic changes that have been made during Trump 2 in your prediction for such huge wins for the democrats. Things like the final destruction of the Voting Rights Act and the extreme Gerrymandering have gone mostly towards republicans. Also 32% of voters (or more) still don't really see a distinction against Donald Trump and The Almighty. Forgive me but I'm not convinced it'll be the bloodbath you think it's going to be. Democrats might have a minor edge in the house when all is said and done and literally nothing else to show for it.


Gerrymandering can help Republicans in the lower chamber† but it can't help in the Senate where they're most scared. Every voter in Texas gets to decide whether to pick Ken Paxton or James Talarico and perhaps more importantly if they can't stomach voting for somebody with a D next to their name, they can decide they were too busy that day to go vote at all so it's not really their fault.

† But it might not, if you turn five 7/3 R seats and two 9/1 D seats into six 6/4 and one 9/1 you risk a dummymander where too many of "your" voters vote the "wrong" way and you have seven Democrats elected even though you still took almost 50% of the vote in some districts and you drew the maps.

Now the trouble is that voters seem to be imagining that if the Democrats take the Legislature that's the whole ball of wax and it just isn't. If there's a narrow D majority in both parts of Congress you can expect that to stall the stupidest stuff from Trump which was subject to congressional oversight, but the useless "We need bipartisanship" mewling will start almost immediately from people who apparently were 100% fine with party-line Republican decisions or executive override.


Gerrymandering is backfiring on the GOP now. It involves reducing GOP margin in supposed safe districts while concentrating DEM voters in others. But if they get the estimate on GOP voters wrong this ends up creating more DEM districts. And this appears to be happening in some places, including 3 supposed GOP districts in Texas where the DEM candidate is leading.

When it became clear this was happening some gerrymandering attempts were aborted, for example in Indiana.


It’s called dummy-mandering, when you try to create more districts that are less safe with tighter margins, but you get the math wrong or sentiment changes by the time the election comes.


How exactly has he greatly improved the world? Being the first loser of the browser wars?


You do understand the genesis of Firefox and Javascript, yes?


But Philippines is on Anthropics list of allowed countries?


It was flagged for account-sharing, or detecting a compromised account


I had my GMail account locked for 1-2 years because I accessed it from my parents house (in the same country but in a different county) while on holiday. That was because they detected the account being used from a different IP address.

Using VPNs can also trip this.


Interesting, I only use VPNs and have never had an issue other than constant "prove that it is you" secondary authentication.


How do you know there wasn't account sharing though?

I've seen some amazingly dodgy stuff when hiring people from south east Asia, sharing a paid account with friends worth a months rent there seems milquetoast in comparison.


>How do you know there wasn't account sharing though?

Even if it was, it should be able to be sorted, maybe pay some overcharge or explain, and have your fucking business access re-instated.


This is such a tough problem. Anthropic would need access to some kind of technology that could, like, intelligently handle unforeseen circumstances and nuances. Yeah, that’s definitely not something we should expect of them.


It’s interesting how much Anthropic itself is a demonstration that its own hype is false.


Just use any product going all in on AI hype. In 5 minutes you will see annoying bugs, server is down, non-sensical press releases, confusing UI. This is GitHub, this is Cursor, this is Anthropic, this is Google, this is all of them.


Including most of vide coded apps one sees, even from people who they'd trust before.

Anecdotal example, I downloaded a new alerting app recently from an indie dev who had a small following back in the day in iOS space. It asked for a subscription, like $20/year.

I thought, let me try this the (final version, from Mac App Store) app first. Well, it's a barely-there vibecoded shit. There's a bare-bones list, everything looks like my nephew designed it, the macOS "app" is a iPhone-size view of the iOS one, it has a bug that if you click on it it opens multiple duplicates of the same list view for no reason that you have to manually close, and in general it barely works.

Yay for vibe coding.


Not to mention if their tools were so clearly useful they wouldn’t spend so much time making UI updates designed to force, trick, or confuse me into using their tool when it wasn’t my intention. SaaS companies with assistant integrations are the worst about this (looking at you, HubSpot)


Agreed. I think LLMs are best used as pair programmers or typists for users who already know what they’re doing. Or as tutors for users who want to learn.

Vibe coding is mostly garbage. But it can be useful for creating instant, disposable prototypes to investigate an idea or design direction.


There clearly was account sharing, someone logged into the wife's account from the Phillipines.


The core complaint was that it took weeks for Anthropic support to restore access. For a startup that might as well be years.


You aren't supposed to add other users to your Team plan?


Well a VA would need access to her account, just like how they would need email access etc. But Anthropic has clearly picked the enterprise side of things, small teams and startups without millions of dollars in token budgets are irrelevant to them. I’m surprised they even got their account back to be honest.


And yet enterprises will be the first to move to on-prem LLMs as soon as they become feasible. The next generation of TPU chips already promises 5x efficiency and enough RAM to run a 1TB+ model, and Kimi K3 is about as good as Fable for a lot of tasks, so we'll be there much sooner than anyone anticipated.


One can only hope, it would be great for everyone, myself included (the company I work for rather)


The VA had her own account on the Team plan.


why does that matter ? Why does that block entire corporate account not a given user ? Use your brain


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