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by ke88y 3y ago
Which seems like a massive liability for the company. Search engines seem like a much lower moat than mobile platforms these days.
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by ke88y 3y ago
Same. My last two androids literally didn't work as cell phones -- calls dropped all the time, SMS messages consistently failed to send, etc. I guess now I'm an Apple person, but I didn't choose Apple per se... I just needed
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by ke88y 3y ago
That's a weird game to play with those words.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> We're getting a little off topic here LOL what? I can request student's grades and disciplinary records via an open records request?
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by ke88y 3y ago
I've been screwed by enough unreasonable contracts that I have little faith. But, yeah, I suppose "ACLU's lawyers think they have a case" is as good a reason for optimism as any.
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by ke88y 3y ago
LOL what? I'm so confused. It's not a red herring. It's a side conversation about a different but related topic. Someone proposed just releasing all the data. Someone else replied with why that wouldn't work. Ie, a conve
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by ke88y 3y ago
Totally unreasonable, but that doesn't mean it's not legally enforceable :( Why do you expect the ACLU to win? (not arguing. Genuinely curious.)
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by ke88y 3y ago
LOL. I'm not going to deanonymize datasets for an internet stranger. Certainly not for free, but also not at any hourly rate unless I know that the organization employing me either has the original non-anonymized dataset or at least
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by ke88y 3y ago
I also completely lost the plot here... AFAICT, the thread went something like this: The top-level concern is something like this: professors use their trusted relationship to schools in order to make bank on expert witness fees, which feel
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by ke88y 3y ago
I did some consulting on this WAAAAY back in the day. In the case of education, good enough anonymization often isn't really possible. A lot of information about school students is public -- yearbooks are gold mines, as are results fro
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by ke88y 3y ago
I think largely for the same reason that numerical software took off where symbolic solvers didn't. Much more user friendly, "good enough", and actually scales to problems of commercial interest.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> It does not prevent websites from allowing minors to search for censored content censored by the bill, but the text of the "Limitation" still does not allow websites to display content censored by the bill No judge except t
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by ke88y 3y ago
I noticed that you haven't bothered to reply to any of my reasons for supporting KOSA, or any of the observations about factual inaccuracies or exaggerations in the EFF post. There exist people who disagree with you and who aren't
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Just use Erlang or Go. Even Java... Python doesn't hold a candle to any of those languages when it comes to multitasking. 1000%. Pretty much any other language. > But, if you genuinely needed and advice on how to use Pytho
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by ke88y 3y ago
This is ridiculous in both directions. In one direction, someone can have 12 months of tech industry experience with more knowledge than a Masters degree holder. In the other direction, it's also possible to have 30 years of real exper
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by ke88y 3y ago
> When the government prevents people under 18 from watching YouTube videos KOSA does NOT prevent people under 18 from watching anything they want. > Richard Blumenthal, is one of the two senators who reintroduced the EARN IT Act i
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by ke88y 3y ago
You have misunderstood several aspects of this law. > I also oppose these bills. The effect of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which I have read, is that anyone under 18 years old would be prevented from viewing any content that a (m
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by ke88y 3y ago
The EFF complaints are specious FUD. There are many VERY simple ways to comply with KOSA that don't involve censorship, most of which boil down to "don't make your money by using weaponized human psychology on children".
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by ke88y 3y ago
The "search vs display" logic is incredibly tortured, the legislative intent is more than clear, and no reasonable regulator or court would arrive at this interpretation of the statute. I agree that amending the text to mention &q
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by ke88y 3y ago
I guess that's one way to justify having strong opinions about bills without having to actually read the text.
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by ke88y 3y ago
If you don't want age verification, then I think it is politically wise to fight that fight separately. Nothing about KOSA as written requires age verification, not even as a second order effect. Furthermore, KOSA does not introduce an
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by ke88y 3y ago
Basically everything coming out of Detroit is sub-100K. Even the tippy top trim of the e-F150 MSRPs just below 100K. Sedans and mid-size SUVS tend to be priced comparably to Tesla's offerings. Lucid are expensive, but their entire prod
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by ke88y 3y ago
Thanks. I'd appreciate your thoughts on sverona's comment if you're able to share. (Not the particular scenario, but the general concern that KOSA could be weaponized by anti-LGBTQ AGs.)
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by ke88y 3y ago
I agree, and drive begrudgingly in any case. I'm merely observing that "Tesla" used to be a signal brand and it's now somewhere in-between "cheap plastic brand" and "anti-signal brand". > Don&#x27
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by ke88y 3y ago
I agree with your concerns. I'm just a techie with no legal background, but as far as I understand it, KOSA enforcement would be done by the FTC and state AGs via civil suits against companies. It's not a criminal matter, so law
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by ke88y 3y ago
True. The text is "patterns of use that indicate or encourage addiction-like behaviors". It's broad but careful wording. The FTC and courts will have to decide the exact meaning. I think "encourage" is clear enough
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Making the choice to not serve minors won't stop minors from lying about their age This is true. But I believe anonymous speech is important, and once you require age verification you necessarily sacrifice anonymity. > and i
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by ke88y 3y ago
The Senate is currently run by Schumer, and KOSA has bipartisan sponsorship.
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by ke88y 3y ago
Believe me: I have the same concern. Sec. 3(6)(b)(1) satisfactorily addresses my concerns. Platforms do not need to prevent minors from accessing materials that they are specifically seeking out. Also, the set of "mental health disorde
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by ke88y 3y ago
I encourage you to read the proposed statute. It's not very long. KOSA requires that social media companies cannot target children with certain types of ads or provide algorithmic recommendations, when they "reasonably know"

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