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by tzs 6mo ago
LLMs too. A few months ago I posted a comment here in a thread where I speculated on the reasons an old law might have been written the way it was. A couple hours later I asked Perplexity and the reasons it gave matched my speculation. I th
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Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. Many countries put sanctions on them to get them to stop. They made a deal, JCPOA, with the US, China, France, Russia, the UK, Germany, and the EU to stop in exchange for reducing sanctions. It worked. Eve
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by tzs 6mo ago
There is no need to implement these kind of things in a way that gives any PII to Musk or Zuck. One way is the California approach which requires that device operating systems offer parental controls that parents can set up when creating ac
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by tzs 6mo ago
You are assuming without evidence that they are coordinated, then using that to infer central orchestration, and then using that inferred central organization to support coordination. When there is something that aligns with the interests o
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by tzs 6mo ago
You can buy current cars that do not require any subscription services. For example on my 2025 Hyundai here is what would stop working without a Bluelink subscription. • Anything you do through the Bluelink app. • Automatic calling for help
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by tzs 6mo ago
But also due to the electoral college a small change in turnout in swing states can have a large effect. None of the swing states had higher than average Boomer concentration. Pennsylvania is right about average, and the rest were all lower
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I can't read the article so don't know if they give enough details on the Norway law to tell, but most of the other countries or states with such laws prohibit specific practices that are very common on social media sites. If you
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by tzs 6mo ago
> By the time vaccines were out, it had already mutated enough that it didn't make much of a difference whether or not people vaccinated, and most people ended up getting some variant of it. Vaccines made a huge difference in whethe
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by tzs 6mo ago
Boomers only slightly favored Trump in 2024. Young voters (Gen Z) went Harris by 10 points. People in the first ~1/2 of middle age (Millennials) slightly favored Harris. It was the second ~1/2 of middle age (Gen X) that were pro T
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by tzs 6mo ago
I wasn't talking about just base trims of the cheapest models. For example in 1989 the Honda Accord ranged from $11.5-18.2k depending on trim. Converted to today's dollars using CPI that is $31-50k. Converted using the Social Secu
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by tzs 6mo ago
In constant dollars cars are actually pretty much the same as they were 40+ years ago when you compare similar types and trim levels. A new Honda Civic for example costs about the same when you take into account inflation as the Civic I bou
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by tzs 6mo ago
Suppose I decide to do some target shooting in my yard and set up a target. One of my shots misses and goes past the target and hits your house where it causes a surprising amount of damage and you sue me. Would you say that if a court allo
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by tzs 6mo ago
The law that created the hotline even specifically mentions those two groups, along with rural Americans: > (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that— > (1) youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (re
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by tzs 6mo ago
> Everyone moving to USB-C was the same standard, though; now you can use the same charger with your phone, laptop, tablet, other random gadgets, etc. You could already use the same charger with nearly everything. It was the cables t
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by tzs 6mo ago
> The move comes amid EU-wide efforts to cut the continent’s carbon footprint and tackle mounting waste [...] ... > [...] if specialised tools are required, they must be provided free of charge when the phone or tablet is purchased. S
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by tzs 6mo ago
> One can argue that the US and Europe have maintained a low energy consumption The US has not "maintained a low energy consumption". US total energy consumption is the second highest in the world, at 2x third (India), 3x fourt
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by tzs 6mo ago
That should be read as "when the application is (downloaded and launched)". If it were meant as "when the application is downloaded and every time the application is launched" it would probably have been written as &quot
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You are probably mixing up this bill with the California law, which its title kind of suggests it would be similar to but it isn't really.
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Those were all almost completely useless because they were before the text of the bill was released.
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by tzs 6mo ago
That's pretty much the California law.
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> Based on the few snippets quoted in the article, I think as written this bill gets closer to a good, privacy-preserving, non-authoritarian version of "age verification" than any of the attempts so far. I think you are mixing
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by tzs 6mo ago
A "normal consumer", at least in most of the US, can take their iPhone to an Apple store, a Best Buy, and probably several small phone repair services that have small stores or kiosks in a nearby mall or inside a Walmart. From an
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by tzs 6mo ago
The main type 4 law right now is the one California passed and some others copied. It requires that the parent be able to enter an age or birthdate. The API that the OS must provide to apps is required to let apps ask for age ranges, with t
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There are several different approaches to trying to keep children from things that are probably bad for them on the internet that have been proposed or passed as laws. 1. Requiring sites in various categories (porn, social media) to make su
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Where does this bill say it applies in that situation?
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What we do now works fine. Numerous studies, including by people that had a strong interest in wanting to find problems, have found that the amount of ineligible voters that slip through is insignificant. Voter registration records are gene
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> Environmental activity against meat has led a lot of people (26% of Americans) to believe that there is a push to ban red meat I'd guess that has more to do with something like half a dozen different Fox hosts saying a few years a
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They asked you for the source of a claim you in a comment above. Posting a link to that very same comment is not a link to a source.
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In the case the article's actual headline is "New Publishing Requirements & Evaluation Process for Games". The clickbait headline was supplied by the person who submitted the article to HN. Your policy will lead to missin
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If your site is covered by GDPR and you do not have a physical presence in the EU you have to appoint someone in the EU to receive mail on your behalf, so people who want to make GDPR requests by mail can write to them. See Article 27. Ther

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