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Are there world laws? Where if you violate them a group of soldiers will come to your country and take you to the ICC? If the ICC is moot then why have it? or for that matter the UN?

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A few things to add to that:

  • not all crimes qualify for extradition, it's usually to do with the severity of the crime
  • some international bodies may be involved iirc, like interpol and Europol etc
  • it can also be done by three letter agencies or even just normal police. The extradition is usually just burocracy that slowly escalates up the levels of justice and finally to the indicting country
  • geopolitics can make this extremely complicated, because countries never cooperate out of goodwill, usually there's underlying treaties that bind a bunch of them to commit to extradition
  • usually criminals get away with something, because the countries they live in don't cooperate with an extradition in various ways
  • because it's international and countries act in their own best interest, jurisdictional boundaries are sometimes extremely weird and assumed jurisdiction can make things difficult (multiple charges for a crime, countries not extraditing because they don't trust the judicial branch of another country, weird quirks of things like law in space and maritime law, ...
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Why are all the Lenovo ThinkPads either like $500-600 or like $2000?

Think pads get ordered by companies in bulk. After a few years, they get swapped out for a newer model. The old ones often get resold to a refurbishing company, and they test them and sell them refurbished for way less money. This happens a lot, so because they are refurbished and there's so many of them, prices are extremely low. I got like 6 of them for 200€ each. It's insane. So that explains the extremely cheap ones.

I could hypothesize that the price jump is because there's a gap between new and refurbished models, but tbh I don't really know and I also don't see that much of a jump. But that's kind of my theory. Hope that helps.

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Record your vote if you vote by machine. It's your vote, you can record it. Post your video everywhere if you notice your vote changing.

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Yeah and just the same, people can't record you voting a certain way and ostracizing you for it. There are good reasons, but obviously in this current climate that's quite risky. I just hope enough smart people do statistical calculations to validate plausibility afterwards. I'm sure trump will insinuate the vote was rigged afterwards, but that's why more eyes on it and smart people double checking it will be viable.

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PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

I mean he is right that it's a metaphor for owning games.

And he is very wrong that it's a mentality issue.

Honestly I even believe him that physical discs are not feasible anymore to produce, but then again I ask: "don't we have a point in making sure we still own a copy of the product we bought?" It's not like we don't have a reason to be anxious about this.

And then if we go back to the discs, if you get rid of that, what's the point of consoles? The differences between PC and console get slimmer by the day, and this exacerbates it.

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Rough Methods

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That's true but from what I remember it's just a lot worse in the US. German police have its issues, but it's more rare and less egregious usually.

Not excusing it, fuck everyone who abuses their powers or does not hold people properly accountable, but we're talking about very different amounts.

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How do people "hack" websites like to shut them down or whatever? Is it as simple as learning C++ and Java? How do people take credit for what they did without being arrested?

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I'm gonna dumb this down for people like me: if a user does unexpected things in a program, sometimes it can abuse the program so that it allows the user to do what it shouldn't.

Most software nowadays is incredibly attuned to this so there's truckloads of things that have already been brushed over in a software but software always has remaining holes in it.

When you develop a software, you have to make it work in the right way, and then you have to stop it from crashing when used in the wrong way. But if you "hack" some software, you only need to find out how to use it the wrong way. That's why software development and red teaming are very very different fields. Though generally cybersecurity (at least in my eyes) is considered one of the most difficult fields in computer science because of the broad base knowledge required.

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What Qwen4 sizes are you hoping for?

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Mixed?

It's the lower bound of where LLMs are helpful. Anything less and the models would be either too slow to work or too dumb. With the 1070 they are already painfully slow but at least they're still good enough to do some menial tasks.

A good harness for web search etc does a lot though.