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by tzs 6mo ago
Details matter. The California law and the others that seem to be modeled after it involves no actual age verification and no presentation of any identifying documents to anyone. It just requires that devices include a system that lets pare
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by tzs 6mo ago
Users definitely click "report spam" in large numbers on things that are not spam. At work we've long had problems of getting reported for spam when the only things we send are: • A receipt when a person comes to our site and
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by tzs 6mo ago
> At least do something for the people by, say, pardoning a whole bunch of low level drug offenders and decriminalize cannabis at the Federal level In 2022 he pardoned ~6500 people with federal convictions for simple possession of mariju
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by tzs 6mo ago
“ Many like it there are. Mine this one is ”, Yoda, Yoda.
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First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest(arstechnica.com)
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by tzs 6mo ago
More recently, in Afghanistan, Canada sent its military and incurred 0.5 deaths/100k population. The US military incurred deaths of 0.8 deaths/100k. US contractors took a hit of 1.2 deaths/100k. The military death rates per 1
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by tzs 6mo ago
If "wit" meant two people, I wondered if halfwit could be related. Turns out it isn't. "Wit" the pronoun and "wit" the noun referring to mental ability are unrelated homonyms, and halfwit comes from the la
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by tzs 6mo ago
Not really, since it would be irrelevant to the point I was addressing which was the assertion that Hama are mostly just irrelevant chest thumpers that want to feel powerful. What horrors others have inflicted on Gaza deserves plenty of dis
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by tzs 6mo ago
> Well, the answer to this is simple. The only nation with the ability and the demonstrated willingness to risk life, limb and treasure is the US. The rest of the American continent cannot and has never taken this role. Canada would like
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by tzs 6mo ago
> I have no love for Hamas, but let's be real: most of what Hamas puts out is meaningless chest-thumping by an irrelevant power that wants to feel powerful within an apartheid state. The October 7 attack on the other hand killed 12
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by tzs 7mo ago
Medical advances have a lot to do with saving those lives. Many injuries that would have been fatal in 1900 are survivable now.
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by tzs 7mo ago
This was quite a bit more convenient when we were getting our music on CDs, because many CD players included an A-B repeat function. This let you designate two points in a track ("A" and "B") and it would endlessly repea
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by tzs 7mo ago
The number Lxgr gave, 1-2 TWh/year, is simply completely wrong. Germany's annual electricity use alone is around 500 TWh/year. 1-2 THw/year would be the electricity use of 300-600k average German houses.
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by tzs 7mo ago
I wonder how well it would work to use AI as a front end to Band-in-a-Box? Band-in-a-Box is a commercial program that has been around since 1990. What it did then was let you specify a chord progression, style, tempo, and instruments and it
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Dietitians are not doctors And doctors are not dietitians. Doctors in the US receive an average of under 20 hours of training in nutrition over four years of medical school. What little they do receive is often focused on nutrient defi
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by tzs 7mo ago
> And what exactly would be the purpose of age verification? Because defining someone "mature" based on their age is pretty hit-and-miss: we have plenty of adults, even of a certain age, who it's hard to imagine have ever
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by tzs 7mo ago
That's essentially the approach California is taking.
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by tzs 7mo ago
Yes, it can be. Google has a zero-knowledge proof based system in Google Wallet that lets you store store signed credentials such as government ID and then prove to third parties that you have such a signed ID and to disclose to them facts
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by tzs 7mo ago
I'm unclear on the relationship between Collabora and LibreOffice. Some of the earlier stories on this described TDF as ejecting LibreOffice core developers. My understanding is that Collabora is an online collaborative office suit bas
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by tzs 7mo ago
How do you use your paper ID to to prove identity or age or citizenship to someone hundreds of kilometers away whom you are conducting an online transaction with?
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Tesla had that, all Musk had to do was refrain himself from waving his hand around in that certain fashion. He probably also would have had to refrain from retweeting white nationalists and adding the 100 points emoji that is usually u
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by tzs 7mo ago
Musk's gestures: https://x.com/BartoSitek/status/1882081868423860315?t=8F0hL-... Those other people's gestures: https://x.com/ExposingNV/status/1881647306724049116?t=CGKtg0...
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by tzs 7mo ago
Is it accurate to say Tesla democratized EVs? The Roadster came out in 2008 but was over $100k. Over its lifetime they only sold around 2500. It was always a rich person's car. The first 21st century EV in the US that was aimed at a mo
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by tzs 7mo ago
The question does indeed remain, but is it a question whose answer matters? If someone exposes a shady organization why should I care if they did it for ethical reasons or for something less noble like revenge for getting kicked out of that
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by tzs 7mo ago
The site this is on seems to be a bit questionable [1]. [1] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064706/ba8e449d224f5067/
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by tzs 7mo ago
> China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined [...] And the USA burns more natural gas than China, and the USA burns more oil than China. All this simply reflects both using the fossil fuels they have the most ab
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by tzs 7mo ago
That power use seems reasonably believable. I'm in the Puget Sound area where we get less sunlight than you and our winters are colder, and I just made a graph of my daily electricity use for 2025 [1]. My house is all electric. I had 2
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by tzs 7mo ago
> As a side note, agriculture uses up lots of water in deserts (more so than people), so it seems like in desert spaces like Idaho, solar would make a lot more sense than agriculture would. And we should move the agriculture to where the
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by tzs 7mo ago
I have personally found it is often easier to find things in a physical book. Say I want to look up an equation that I remember learning about from a particular book. If it was a physical book there is a good chance I will remember a place
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Memorising even a few hundred lines is unusual now. Memorizing a few hundred lines of epic poetry probably is indeed unusual. But I bet most people have more than a few hundred lines of poetry in the form of song lyrics memorized (alon

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