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by gzread 8mo ago
Switzerland also gets the benefit of being a smaller country. I agree DB is poorly managed, but it's not nearly as bad as it could be. I think another part of their problem is trying to run at very high utilisation ratios, which slight
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by gzread 8mo ago
So when you transfer $100 to your bank from another bank, the bank doesn't receive $100 credited to your bank's bank account?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Why mandate something that already happens?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Because manufacturers don't want it because it reduces their revenue?
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by gzread 8mo ago
You're lucky the browsers eventually relented and allowed custom root certs. That was seen as a vulnerability and almost patched.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Same as when a nefarious actor serves alcohol to a minor anyway: they get fined or arrested.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Why is every device OK but every OS isn't?
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by gzread 8mo ago
So how is mandating the existence of a parental controls feature that?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Do they work universally or are they easy to bypass by finding an app they don't cover?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Unless the VM app is marked 18+
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by gzread 8mo ago
Do you oppose mandatory food nutrition and ingredients labelling?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Big Brother isn't just when you don't vote for things, or else every design decision in every commercial product would be it.
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by gzread 8mo ago
One is also using a phone and one is using a laptop.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Yes, they can enable the parental controls that, according to the California law, must exist in every consumer OS.
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by gzread 8mo ago
The entire GPL is a radical idea that restricts the rights of software developers for the benefit of software users.
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by gzread 8mo ago
To "alarmists" both "climate change does matter" and "China isn't the only problem" are valid arguments because that's a logical AND: "it's a problem and we're causing it, so we should
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by gzread 8mo ago
The leadership can. And the shareholders of the military industrial complex. Not always but they can.
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by gzread 8mo ago
It's one of several "checks and balances" whereby one branch can override another branch, in this case the executive can override the judicial. Congress (the legislative) can override the executive too, by firing the Presiden
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by gzread 8mo ago
The Gervais model! I haven't heard that in a while.
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by gzread 8mo ago
WW2 hit the higher layers of abstraction. You could still grow food plants in those countries during and after the war, but the governance structures were bombed. Climate change is the opposite. If you can't grow food, you're fuck
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by gzread 8mo ago
Making the temperature rise 10% worse doesn't mean the GDP impact won't be 1000% worse.
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by gzread 8mo ago
The average would also include rich people - if rich people are using far above average and poor people are using slightly above average, who's below average?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Or just running the economy into the ground until it doesn't matter how many dollars anyone owes anyone because there's nothing you can buy with them.
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by gzread 8mo ago
That's only for crimes, isn't it? Ans it doesn't apply to anyone who isn't the president.
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by gzread 8mo ago
One allowed way to implement it is that your mom has to log in as root and unrestrict your account, and the user's age is only set to one of 4 different brackets so you'd better be watching the user every day for several years. Al
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by gzread 8mo ago
Browsers send a language flag to servers but I don't see anyone asking for a certification that you actually know that language.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Good, if that's what you want for your kids, then don't set them up with a child restricted account. It's completely up to you.
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by gzread 8mo ago
No you can't, because the software industry spent a lot of effort encrypting DNS and HTTP so that intermediaries can't tamper with or spy on it.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Are we talking about the same law? California AB1043?
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by gzread 8mo ago
Most laws are ineffectual. Kids can't drink alcohol but they still can; theft is illegal but I still got your car keys; murder is illegal but people still die. In this one, there's no punishment for bypass, just like there's

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