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by beejiu 1y ago
I somewhat agree, but exposure to global online content is hardly natural in terms of brain development.
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by beejiu 1y ago
The recent UK Cass Review concluded "It has been suggested that hormone treatment reduces the elevated risk of death by suicide in this population, but the evidence found did not support this conclusion." Do you have any counter-e
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by beejiu 1y ago
Yes, it should apply to all medical treatments targeted at children, since children don't have developed critical thinking skills. Do you think it's appropriate for random people to tell a 10 year old how to take their insulin? I
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by beejiu 1y ago
It's not about the kids of their parents, it's about other parties that are promoting or encouraging HRT to other people's kids.
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by beejiu 1y ago
Because youths don't have developed critical thinking skills and HRT is an invasive medical treatment!?
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by beejiu 1y ago
Google does not use a separate crawler, but they do use the robots.txt semantics to control what's allowed in the AI "index" separately from the search index. From the docs: > Google-Extended doesn't have a separate H
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Google Wipes 350 Android Apps Tied to Ad Fraud Driving 1.5B Daily Bid Requests(adweek.com)
1 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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Akamai App Platform Makes Kubernetes Production-Ready – Now in GA(linode.com)
1 points by beejiu 1y ago|1 comments
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by beejiu 1y ago
Japan's the fourth largest economy in the world and, given how cheap rice is, it being 1x, 5x or even 10x average I'm sure is insignificant to 95%+ of people. For perspective, it's about 2x what you'd pay in a UK superma
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Systemic Misalignment: Exposing Key Failures of AI Alignment Methods(systemicmisalignment.com)
2 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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by beejiu 1y ago
Isn't the point of regulation to set the bar you must prove you meet, rather than a bar you must prove others haven't met?
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by beejiu 1y ago
But access to medical treatment, particularly drugs, should be "paternalistic", so I strongly agree.
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by beejiu 1y ago
Yep, they confirm it here: https://faq.whatsapp.com/444002211197967/?locale=en_US "This may include information about how some users interact with others on our service."
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by beejiu 1y ago
Re: "we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging" From https://faq.whatsapp.com/444002211197967/?locale=en_US : > In the ordinary course of providing our service, WhatsApp does not store messages once t
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by beejiu 1y ago
Servers are things on other sides of networks. An electron app running locally is all client, whether it contains a database or not.
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by beejiu 1y ago
> "Personalized" advertising isn't good for anyone except the ad networks. According to Meta, their personalized advertising alone generates over $0.5 trillion of economic activity per year. As much as the Hacker News crow
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by beejiu 1y ago
True if you assume we can't change the (societal) reward environment we live in.
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by beejiu 1y ago
The study says none of the machines reached 60C, and 2 out of 6 only heated up for 5-13 minutes. No doubt this is so manufacturers can get the Grade A "energy rating" mandated under EU/UK regulation. (It's even worse for
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Britain hit by unusual power activity hours before Spain blackout(telegraph.co.uk)
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by beejiu 1y ago
As well as the "cell memory", the total number of fat cells you have in your body is set during adolescence, then it remains constant for the rest of your adult life. ( https://www.nature.com/articles/ncpgasthe
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by beejiu 1y ago
Why pay $200/mo when you can just access the models from the Platform playground?
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UK's Radio Teleswitch Signal Is Ending as Supply of Vacuum Tubes Runs Out [video](youtube.com)
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by beejiu 2y ago
Yes, it's true, but digital services tax was only supposed to be temporary and the UK agreed to move away from it once a global tax system was negotiated at the OECD. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-agre
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by beejiu 2y ago
Google Ads specifically.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Businesses are traditionally taxed on their profits, not their turnover. Being a turnover tax, DST acts more like VAT does for consumers. Mathematically it has to be passed onto the customers, it just makes Google the collection agent on be
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by beejiu 2y ago
That was the intent, but in reality the tax is fully remitted to Google's customers. I'm a small UK business and it appears on my invoice, so I'm effectively the one being taxed. This is why I object to the campaigners callin
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by beejiu 2y ago
The UK already does and so does Canada. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-t... "The provision of a social media service, internet search engine or online marketplace by a group includ
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by beejiu 2y ago
Ad blocking happens on your own computer, which you are authorised to make changes to. But simulating a click, therefore making an entry in another person's computer is what makes it unlawful.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Computer Misuse Act 1990. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3 (1)A person is guilty of an offence if— (a)he does any unauthorised act in relation to a computer; (b)at the time when he
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by beejiu 2y ago
Using this would be unlawful in the UK.

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