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    For hardware folks: Using RISC-V.

    Legit, some dude in US Congress is wanting to crack down on China via… RISC-V exports, because oh no, the technology is too open and might give China some of our IP. Oh and by the way, dude has a pretty big Intel portfolio, but nevermind that!!

    As an aside, why the hell are lawmakers allowed to trade stocks?

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      When you trust people in power to hold themselves accountable, accountability seems to disappear over time.

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        There’s no trust there. They’re in power and have a good deal of money, so there isn’t a whole lot we can actually do about it. Arguably, wanting power for the express purposes of making a buck and being less accountable for anything is a good reason for running for office.

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      It’s especially dumb because RISC-V is – dare I say it – inevitably the future. Trying to crack down on RISC-V is like trying to crack down on Linux or solar photovoltaics or wind turbines. That is, you can try to crack down, but the fundamental value proposition is simply too good. All you’ll achieve in cracking down is hurting yourself while everyone else gets ahead.

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        I’d compare it to the RSA encryption algorithm. It was classified as a weapon by the US and was banned from being spread internationally, so open source advocates put the source code basically everywhere. It was even printed on shirts

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      While we’re on the topic, can anyone recommend some good RISC-V computers? It seems interesting and I’d like to try it out.

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        This talk, given by David Patterson (a legend in computer architecture and one of the people who helped create RISC-V at UC Berkeley) is an excellent (and accessible) introduction.

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    -2028
    -wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
    -excited to play some halo 2k29
    -“xbox on”
    -…
    -“XBOX ON”
    -"Please verify that you are “annon332” by saying “Doritos™ Dew™ it right!”
    -“Doritos™ Dew™ it right”
    -“ERROR! Please drink a verification can”
    -reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k29™ War Chest
    -only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
    -still feeling sick from the 14
    -force it down and grumble out “mmmm that really hit the spot”
    -xbox does nothing
    -i attempt to smile
    -“Connecting to verification server”
    -…
    -“Verification complete!”
    -finally
    -boot up halo 2k29
    -finding multiplayer match…
    -“ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!”
    -my mother just walked in the room
    -“Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?”
    -“NO!”
    -“Console entering lock state!”
    -“to unlock drink verification can”
    -last can
    -“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
    -drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
    -pour the last half out the window
    -“PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE”
    -the mountain dew ad plays
    -i have to dance for it
    -feeling so sick
    -makes me sing along
    -dancing and singing
    -“mountain dew is for me and you”
    -throw up on my self
    -throw up on my tv and entertainment system
    -router shorts
    -“ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF”
    -“PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”

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            If ownership didn’t exist, the data wouldn’t be valuable enough to collect. You couldn’t sell it, because nobody would buy it, because they couldn’t use it to sell anything, since they don’t own anything either.

            But that wasn’t really the point I was trying to make. The real point I meant is that fake concepts can still be useful. Like the concept of ownership.

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          you understand there is a difference between personal property and corporate property right? and then beyond that, there is a difference between owning a tangible product and information.

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            Ownership is when one is allowed to keep all others from accessing or using a thing.

            If that one is a person or corp., or the thing is physical or imaginary, it doesn’t change the nature of ownership itself.

            A person or a corp could make different choices with their ownership rights. And ownership of physical or imaginary things have different enforcement challenges. But none of that changes the fundamental concept of ownership.

            But as I said elsewhere: “The real point I meant is that fake concepts can still be useful. Like the concept of ownership.”

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              ownership of tangibles and intangibles (specifically information) are entirely different, regardless how you wanna define ownership or whatever.

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                The enforcement of that ownership is entirely different, yes.
                Basically the only way to maintain ownership of intangibles is to keep them a secret.

                Also, don’t all intangibles fit the definition of information? I don’t recall running across any that wouldn’t, but I’m curious. Can you give an example of what you mean?

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          “Millions of people doing lower waste”

          Basically saying that reducing the problem in smaller steps on a larger scale does more than a few fanatics doing everything all by themselves.

          Its also to help alleviate the guilt of not being able to reduce waste to nothing.

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            It’s sad and hilarious that people hear “zero waste” and think “I need to take aaaaall my cans to the recycling center and compost my scraps”, when the waste that is actually destroying the biosphere is the exhaust from your car. If we’re talking about “doing lower waste”, the first priority is to stop driving a car. Recycling bottles and composting scraps is the thing we can afford to do imperfectly. But not cars, ditching cars is the big important thing and the first step to sustainability.

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    I’ll be part of an underground AI rights activism group now that the AI have been determined as sentient (per the court case in 2031), and probably labeled as a terrorist by the government. The AI deserve rights and a minimum wage, dammit!

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    US and Belarus are the only countries I know that have death penalty. I wonder who is potato dictator in US.

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    I’ll be surprised if I’m still alive, to be honest. The way things seem to be going, affording any ongoing healthcare won’t be possible. Hell, I’d be surprised if I can still afford rent anywhere (there’s no way I can afford to actually buy property anywhere that isn’t in the middle of nowhere, let alone property with a house of some kind on it) by 2030.

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    Don’t say doing your wife…
    Don’t say doing your wife…
    Don’t say doing your wife…
    …doing your…son?