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eitau_1 commented on FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement   axios.com/2025/12/17/bren... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
vkou · a day ago
You're conveniently ignoring all the wild shadow docket decisions in Trump's favor with no provided justification. None of that sets a precedent.

There's also a giant bloody spectrum between 'policy that had a bad outcome for someone (hint: That's every policy)' and 'blatant pay-to-play corruption and criminality and treason' when it comes to that immunity. The court, of course, went all in on enabling the latter, instead of finding any kind of rational ground, because any rational ground would have put Trump in prison.

By failing to give any qualification of what the fuck an official act is, they've given him blanket immunity. And blanket immunity for an executive means that the constitution is as good as a piece of toilet paper. There are no consequences to him violating your rights.

eitau_1 commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide   mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga
zug_zug · 4 days ago
Reminds me of "cancer alley" [1].

As somebody who's looked in to this a bit, the deeper I dug the more I ultimately moved toward the conclusion (reluctantly) that indeed big corporations are the baddies. I have an instinct to steel-math both sides, but not every issue has two compelling sides to it...

One example of them clearly being the baddies is them paying people to social media astroturf to defend the roundup pesticide online [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley

2. https://galiherlaw.com/media-manipulation-comes-out-during-m...

eitau_1 · 4 days ago
Seeing how much having an unlimited upside corrupts corporations seeded my first serious doubts about capitalism.
eitau_1 commented on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]   andrewoswald.com/docs/Adv... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
SoftTalker · 13 days ago
By what other means would people with a product or service to provide reach other people who are interested in obtaining that product or service?
eitau_1 · 13 days ago
Catalogues
eitau_1 commented on SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B   wsj.com/business/spacex-i... · Posted by u/bko
modeless · 13 days ago
Even without Starship Falcon Heavy is still competitive with New Glenn, and nobody is anywhere close to competing with Starlink (Amazon is still far behind, as is ASTS). And if Starship works SpaceX will still be in the lead for a long, long time.

IMO the only remaining unanswered question for the Starship program is the reusability of the heat shield. There's no reason to believe any other part of it can't work.

eitau_1 · 13 days ago
New Glenn has an edge over Falcon Heavy and possibly over Starship when it comes to payload volume.
eitau_1 commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws   theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec
rckt · a month ago
I get that too many regulations is a bad thing. But when we talk privacy and personal data there should be no gray zone. It has to be black and white. When I see a stupid cookie banner I search for "Reject all". There's no some data that companies can collect and process without my consent, they just shouldn't be able to collect anything without me actively opting in. Business never respects anything, but profits. Seeing news about relaxing these laws with the "AI" going after this leaves a bitter taste. And with them also trying to push the Chat Control thing, it gets even worse.
eitau_1 · a month ago
Most baffling thing is that sometimes you can't opt-out from "always active" stuff that still involve hundreds of "partners"; see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844691
eitau_1 commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws   theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec
GardenLetter27 · a month ago
You can just set your browser not to send whichever cookies you don't want to.

Cookies are a client-side technology.

Why does the government need to be involved?

eitau_1 · a month ago
If there's no regulation, nothing stops a website from telling hundreds of third-party entities about your visit. No amount of fiddling with browser settings and extensions will prevent a keen website operator from contributing to tracking you (at least on ip/household level) by colluding with data brokers via the back-end.
eitau_1 commented on A prvalue is not a temporary   blog.knatten.org/2025/10/... · Posted by u/ingve
eitau_1 · a month ago
See also: great video on a very adjacent topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klq-sNxuP2g

"Moves are Broken" or why non-destructive moves are at odds with invariants

eitau_1 commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng
tguvot · a month ago
pods are about convenience. exactly same reason that i got dishwasher with detergent cartridges and washing machine with build in container for detergent.

but if we talk about powders, they can be very different with different performance. There are commercial powders (for restaurants and such where dishwashers run on very short cycles) that I afraid to put in my dishwasher and there are eco powders that are made from unicorn tears (tried once, they cleaned dirt but leave stains on clear glass). i went through sds of a bunch of them. most of them have same similar basic ingredients, but in different proportions

eitau_1 · a month ago
I can't remember if it was main video or second channel one, in which Alec states with confidence that big brands make powder worse on purpose to push their higher margin pods.

The opinion is based on his experience (horrible residue left by big-name powder in contrast to store-branded great-value powders being problem-free) and lab results.

eitau_1 commented on Some software bloat is OK   waspdev.com/articles/2025... · Posted by u/senfiaj
SurceBeats · a month ago
The article is kind of right about legitimate bloat, but "premature optimization is evil" has become an excuse to stop thinking about efficiency entirely. When we choose Electron for a simple app or pull in 200 dependencies for basic tasks, we're not being pragmatic, we're creating complexity debt that often takes more time to debug than writing leaner code would have. But somehow here we are, so...
eitau_1 · a month ago
The sad reality is that easy tech explores solution space faster

u/eitau_1

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