KaiserPro (u/KaiserPro)

KaiserPro commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett

amanaplanacanal · 10 days ago

I think you mean broadcast TV. Broadcast radio is similar. The legal justification is something about the limited supply of public airwaves. Those regulations wouldn't fly in the US for any other medium.

KaiserPro · 3 days ago

It was about morals.

Hence the hollywood code, and all that sort of stuff.

The US really loved censorship, but just not in overt ways. Sure you could publish anything, but it'd never get syndicated by radio, newpaper, TV or cinema.

KaiserPro commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

toephu2 · 3 days ago

It's not even in RSUs. No SWEs/researchers are getting $100M+ RSU packages. Zuck said the numbers in the media were not accurate.

If you still think they are, do you have any proof? any sources? All of these media articles have zero sources and zero proof. They just ran with it because they heard Sam Altman talk about it and it generates clicks.

KaiserPro · 3 days ago

Oh they aren't getting 100m, but directors are getting something close to 25m.

I suspect some "strong" hires will be on 75m

Source; my company was bought by facebook. (no I didn't get fuck you money. )

KaiserPro commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

TrackerFF · 4 days ago

I really do wonder if any of those rock star $100m++ hires managed to get a 9-figure sign-on bonus, or if the majority have year(s) long performance clauses.

Imagine being paid generational wealth, and then the house of cards comes crashing down a couple of months later.

KaiserPro · 4 days ago

Its all in RSUs

Supposedly, all people that join meta are on the same contract. They also supposedly all have the same RSU vesting schedules as well.

That means that these "rockstars" will get a big sign on bonus (but its payable back inside 12 months if they leave) then ~$2m every 3 months in shares

KaiserPro commented on Margin debt surges to record high advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera

KaiserPro · 4 days ago

I mean it looks bad™ but looking at graphs I can't divine a reliable signal

The only thing thats almost clear is that as you get closer to now, margin debt is more closely correlated to S&P growth.

In terms of lead/lag, its not that reliable.

KaiserPro commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

KaiserPro · 5 days ago

I fucking hate hand writing. It stems from a formally diagnosed issue (no not dyslexia.)

It held me back during school, Nobody could read my writing, therefore I was thick as shit. All my exams were hand written, so they needed to have my exams transcribed by someone who could read my writing. (I could dictate my answers, but that required a different "statement", and dictation was expensive so the local authority said no. [its also a very hard skill to pic up on your own])

For normal school work I had access to an emate 300 which was great, but it was down to me to learn to type at any speed.

I got mediocre grades.

Had my mum not been middle class and frankly karen like in pursuing all of the options, I'd probably be in jail right now.

That being said, had I not learnt to hand write, it would have fucked me even more, as my fine motor skills would have been non existent.

(I also now use a wacom tablet as my main pointing device, which is ironic.)

KaiserPro commented on Why Metaflow? docs.metaflow.org/introdu... · Posted by u/savin-goyal

mastazi · 9 days ago

I think that this would be a better link as it actually explains what Metaflow is without too much marketing fluff https://docs.metaflow.org/introduction/what-is-metaflow

KaiserPro · 9 days ago

It seems like a half-remebered clone of facebook's flow: https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/basics

The plus side is that its not obviously async which is nice, the downside is that the syntax is less fun (you need to explicitly link forwards, rather than backwards.)

KaiserPro commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett

hn_throw2025 · 10 days ago

I am talking about a Police visit over a sarcastic satirical tweet. There are other cases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/kent-police-20k-...

> Look, unless we get someone extreme in power, and they are uniquely competent, they we are mostly safe. What will change that is the steady drip drip drip, of both economic hardship, and a willing medium to blame that on minorities. So 2028 is around the time that jenrick will attempt to lock us all up.

Sigh, I was half expecting drivel like that.

KaiserPro · 10 days ago

Yes, but as the news piece clearly points out, it was incorrect and cost the police £20k.

> Sigh, I was half expecting drivel like that.

Look I have been railing against this shit for _years_ the Public Order Act 2023 is the latest in a looooong line of laws that have actually and practically curtailed our rights to protest.

I have organise, I have petitioned, I have shouted and screamed, and yet here we are. I have given up.

I look over at the states and just have to hope that it reeks enough that it puts people off the badenoch/jenrick/farage wank fest.

Sadly with the underfunding of courts, and the move to bench trials, means that we are probably fucked, no recourse unless you're rich

KaiserPro commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx

gnfargbl · 10 days ago

A dishonourable mention for the original A1 version of the British SA80, which required high levels of lubrication to operate properly, and as a result often jammed in sandy environments... like Kuwait and Iraq [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA80

KaiserPro · 10 days ago

I seem to recall the A0 also used to yeet the magazine when you ran with it across your chest on the sling, because the mag release button had no guard (but that might be me misremembering it. )

KaiserPro commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett

hn_throw2025 · 10 days ago

You post recognises the boundary between free and illegal speech.

You have not addressed the fact that UK policing guidelines now have a third category of “legal but harmful” (which has resulted in real door knocks). This is subject to political outlook and therefore as “loosey goosey” as it gets.

KaiserPro · 10 days ago

> now have a third category of “legal but harmful”

I'm sorry but the police always have had that. Again, ASBOs, public order offences, "please move along now", town dispersal orders.

Specifically ASBOs give the police the power to stop someone doing almost any action, the courts have deemed antisocial.

A good example of that is street preachers being stopped from using megaphones, which must have happened as early as ~2005

> which has resulted in real door knocks

from the OSA, I'm not aware of any cases yet?

> This is subject to political outlook and therefore as “loosey goosey” as it gets.

The law is always subject to political outlook. Even a constitution is no match for a concerted effort to undermine it. For example: article 124/125 of the 1936 USSR constitution allowed freedom of press, religion and the right to gather.

Look, unless we get someone extreme in power, and they are uniquely competent, they we are mostly safe. What will change that is the steady drip drip drip, of both economic hardship, and a willing medium to blame that on minorities.

So 2028 is around the time that jenrick will attempt to lock us all up.

KaiserPro commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett

ap99 · 10 days ago

For the Americans looking at this act, you're maybe putting it in the context of American politics and thinking who cares if the porn sites have my face or id.

But in the UK you can be arrested and jailed for saying something online that offends someone else.

KaiserPro · 10 days ago

> But in the UK you can be arrested and jailed for saying something online that offends someone else.

actually no. its grossly offensive. Not someone finding it offense. And normally its a legal garnish, for something like trying to get someone else killed or injured via text.

However you can be arrested for organising a protest that someone might reasonably find annoying. That has much less legal oversight.