Oh, we do. I meant that all of the ballots get mailed to voters before the election. We can either mail them back (postage paid) or drop them off at drop boxes in every district. It’s a pretty awesome system, but if the USPS refuses to deliver the ballots it could be a problem. The state would have to figure out some other way to distribute them. It would be a huge PITA and probably reduce voter turnout significantly.

Personally, I’m curious how they intend to apply this to states like mine, where all ballots are mailed.

Did they offer any advice on how the metering can be applied fairly, so the Trump administration can’t decide to turn away everyone from central America while welcoming thousands of white South Africans with open arms? No? Weird.

Reminds me of Pierce’s will

Making progress, yes. Catching up? Probably not. It will likely take years to undo all the damage they’ve done. And we’re only a year and a half into the term. They’re far from finished.

My favorite part of this is that A) everyone stayed in-character as this unfolded and B) they brought the cat back on stage for the curtain call.

I bought one used, so technically I didn’t give them any money ;)

I mean, you can do that now with a Quest 3, but I’m hoping the Frame will be a less fiddly experience, since that is the intended use case. Meta have gone out of their way to make PC gaming less friendly on their devices.

I suppose that depends on the goal behind the labeling. If the main goal is to call out when AI-generated content was used in lieu of paying actors and animation artists, then yes, they should also be forced to disclose when voice-over and non-realistic animated characters were AI generated.

If, however, the goal is to simply inform consumers that the person they’re looking at on the screen is not a real human, then I don’t think those things are a big concern.

It’s not really clear from the story what the intended goal is.

Back in the late 90s, when I was about to finish my degree, I actually sent in an application to the FBI. It’s entirely possible that years of watching X-Files had some influence on that decision.

Despite that public opposition, the theory does appear to be gaining some traction in Washington. In a letter last week, Congressman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce called for a briefing on whether the U.S. government sees evidence for Chinese influence in the data center debate.

Translation: “Please provide some reasonable basis for us to claim that public opinion is a hoax perpetrated by a foreign power, so we can do whatever the fuck we want and make tons of money.”

“Boys’ club votes to confirm that girls are yucky and dumb” is all I see.

I don’t think it’s entirely that simple. They sold it in 2008. It wasn’t worth $10M then because nobody was planning to build a giant datacenter on it, and the economy was in the toilet thanks to the subprime mortgage bubble. Still, $15K for an 88 acre parcel seems crazy cheap even then. And since the original donation stipulated that it was to be held in trust and used to build a park, I’m curious why they were legally allowed to sell it at all. That’s what the group fighting this is pointing out, but the local judge has dismissed the case and refused to issue an injunction while they appeal.

Yeah, unfortunately my options for how to allocate investments are limited by our plan provider. I’ve been taking them out of any funds that focus on US tech stocks and opting for international.

It’s not just apathy. Many states have been actively taking measures to make it more difficult for people to vote. Because they don’t want the wrong people voting.

According to documents reviewed by 404, the conditional language in the original deed granted the land to the “Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation, a Texas non-profit corporation, to be held in trust for future use as parkland by Williamson County, Texas.”

But in the years since, ownership of the property kept changing hands. Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation granted it over to a different non-profit called the Williamson County Park Foundation in 2003 before they gave it to the City of Taylor outright a month later. So far, so good. But in 2008, the city sold the land for $15,000 to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation (TEDC). It sat unused until last year, when the TEDC sold the plot to the company currently developing the data center, Blueprint, for a cool $10 million.

I’m certainly no lawyer, but that seems like a lot of shenanigans to get around a condition of the original donation.

If you’re using 6GHz for an entire building you’d have to use multiple access points that use a lower frequency backbone (like most mesh routers). 6GHz has a very difficult time with walls. If you aren’t in the same room with the access point the signal strength drops drastically.

There are different frequency ranges for wifi. Standard wifi uses 2.4GHz, which does a pretty good job going through walls and obstacles. For higher throughput applications, a lot of people choose to use 5GHz, but it tends to get blocked easier, and the signal can drop as a result. The Frame dongle uses a dedicated 6GHz connection to avoid interference from other wifi devices. The higher frequency range means it will be even more prone to blockage. But as long as you’re in the same room with the PC, it should be okay. Maybe an extension cable is warranted to get a clearer signal, though.

I’ve been re-allocating my 401(K) investments for a few months now to try and soften the blow when it hits, but I’m not sure how far-reaching this will be.

Most VR headsets have enough room for you to wear glasses while using them, but it can be a little uncomfortable. There are also lots of options out there for corrective lenses that fit headsets. I like the ones from Reloptix. I’m pretty sure Valve said in the initial announcements that the Frame would have a system for corrective lenses, so there shouldn’t be any need for special mods to make them fit.