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Hard to justify for $599/$699 when a new Pixel 10a is currently $424 on Amazon.

A Pixel 10a is far bigger and has no headphone jack.

At this point I would take filled potholes.

> I am one of fifteen rank-and-file workers, and we are privileged to be led by thousands of Senior VPs.

This is simultaneously hilarious and painfully familiar.


This is a joke. If it's electronic the NSA can hack it with impunity, including your ISP. And that's assuming your ISP won't just give them whatever they ask for (unlikely).

There is nothing magical about these NSA hacks:

NSA putting implants into Cisco equipment before delivery to the customer.

https://www.certificationkits.com/nsa-upgrade-process-cisco-...

ANT catalogue from 2008 with hacking equipment:

https://dcssproject.net/ant-catalogue/index.html


I did once theorise that Cloudflare would be a fantastic NSA front.

That's why it is one.

> It took me less than 6 months from no knowledge to my first job.

I agreed with you up until this sentence. Entry-level devs with 6 months of require an enormous amount of time and mentoring until they're able to really perform well. I think the greater concern being expressed is not will people be able to type syntactically correct code?, it's will people be able to write software well?.


Never worked at a company that had junior devs, so I can’t say. I’ve had interns though, and some that were better than most of the low budget offshore contractors that I’ve ever worked with. I’ve worked with devs that have a decade of experience but can’t really ship anything. I think it just comes down to being good at this type of job or not.


Along similar lines, a coworker told me about Caveman and it has made my Claude experience vastly better. I'm already a programmer, Claude shouldn't need to tell me like I'm 5.

https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman


How can you tell it's AI generated?


It has the look: fonts, style, layout, too many em-dashes, and weird phrasing like "Every surface reaches the same optimizer and execution core."


You start with a hunch and then dive into their github repo to confirm that Claude is a top contributor. At least, that's my strategy. Honestly though, I don't care about the website being AI generated. That's not what's important for a project like this.


Just like you can recognize Hemingway's prose voice from a few sentences. After dozens-to-hundreds of hours with Claude, you can tell.


This doesn't account for the substantial difference between military deception and political (self-)deception.

The Midway water shortage deception was a way to gain a tactical, followed by strategic advantage.

Running out of missiles is an "incovenient truth" for the zionist pro-war crowd. History is littered with innumerable examples of political leaders not adequately considering ground-truth military and logistical realities (Confederates fighting in Pennsylvania, Germans invading Russia, etc.).


That's because you haven't thought it through. "We only want info on the bad people" might not alarm you personally until any government entity changes the definition of bad and now you're a "bad guy".


There are all sorts of powers we afford law enforcement that could be abused; I hardly think cameras would be at the top of the list of concerns, honestly. NYC has had thousands upon thousands of cameras for quite a while without much fanfare, along with other major top cities worldwide.


They are abused.

They can be abused in the future even more.

Mass surveillance is abuse within itself.

There has been controversy in NYC.

No controversy doesn't make things right.


Yes, I have thought it through. Is this how you view the world? "Smart people agree with me and thoughtless people disagree with me"


There is no implication of that in the parent post. This is uncharitable to the point of trolling.

Edit: Actually, it's such an extreme misconstrual that I'm wondering if you thought you were replying to a different post?


OP knows only a very basic opinion of mine, and they tell me I'm wrong because I haven't thought about it, what else should I think? Do you think they know how much I thought about this?

Isn't the implication "if only you thought more and better about this topic, your opinion would match mine"?


Digital property is property.


Is that what the law says? Does it say that digital copies of photos are property? Does it say browsing history is property?


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

Not to mention it fails a basic sniff test. You seriously think a judge is going to rule "well even though you deleted all your emails, since those are technically bits stored on a phone, and the phone is still there, you haven't destroyed anything, and you're free to go?"


Except that doesn't matter here, IP isn't why you can't destroy emails.

You can't destroy emails because they law says those are evidence.


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