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by tzs 7mo ago
If that's what they wanted there is no reason not to start with laws like the TX and UT laws. You need the boiling the frog when you are trying to push the evelope.
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by tzs 7mo ago
> I appreciate the principled stand, but on the other hand the CA law only requires users to self-identify when setting up accounts (and then the OS will expose age to apps). It is narrower than that. It only applies to accounts whose us
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by tzs 7mo ago
What do you find bizarre about them? 36% of missing person cases in the US are black women and children, even though only 13% of the population is black, but those cases get much less media attention and are treated less urgently than missi
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by tzs 7mo ago
Native American groups seem to think Feather alerts have been successful: https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/feather-alert-for-mmip...
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by tzs 7mo ago
That makes no sense. First, fossil fuels currently are used to generate about 60% of the world's electricity. Nearly all of that could be replaced with renewables plus batteries. Second, only around 20% of fossil fuel used for transpor
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by tzs 7mo ago
Sometimes you need both hands for something else while on the phone. Landline telephones mostly had handsets that looked like the top photo here [1]. When held with a hand they were positioned as shown in the second photo there. Because of
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by tzs 7mo ago
(This is a reply to the dead comment, which was not dead when I start writing this) I don't know how long their specific proposal would take, but on a Unix or Unix-like system the California bill could be done in a week. 0. Make a dire
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by tzs 7mo ago
So basically parents set the child's age and apps rely on that if they need to know if the user is old enough? That's pretty similar to the California bill. Parents set an age when creating a child's account. The OS provides
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by tzs 7mo ago
Is there something wrong in particular with that image? The composition fits in well with the content of the article, and the art seems pretty well down. I'm only seeing one error that would make me think "a human probably didn&#x
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Given that it seems Meta is commissioning these laws That's not given. Someone found some good evidence that Meta was supporting (and even supplying language) for some of the earlier laws. Those were the laws doing age checks on
551.
by tzs 7mo ago
I don't know about the similar bills, but the California one only applies to the accounts of children.
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by tzs 7mo ago
Speaker phone is probably necessary nowadays since many people only have a smartphone. With the old phones you could reasonably tilt your head and raise your shoulder to hold the handset in place so you could do something that required two
553.
by tzs 7mo ago
I'm curious what people think of people who use their speakerphone in public, but have the volume set low enough and themselves speak low enough that the conversation is no louder than an in person conversation would be. Still annoying
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Moving people in nyc at densities of 10ft by 20ft apart from the next human at the best theoretical case is astoundingly stupid Are you sure? I would expect that it is average density of people over the length of the route that is impo
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by tzs 7mo ago
Don't forget that in the EU household circuits tend to support higher loads than US household circuits. EU typically from what I've read uses 240 V compared to 120 V in the US. They are usually 16 A compared to 15 A in the US. Tha
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by tzs 7mo ago
There have been a whole bunch of articles in the last month about how the US automakers are trying to being back sedans: "America Fell Out of Love With the Sedan. Detroit Wants to Bring It Back" [1]. "Detroit Automakers Want
557.
by tzs 7mo ago
If you don't charge your PHEV it still works as a HEV, so you get considerably better gas mileage than a pure ICE. Also, is the drivetrain more complex? If your Hybrid is a Toyota it will have a mechanically simpler drivetrain than an
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by tzs 7mo ago
I came across a good example of that a few years ago. Caltech had a page on their site listing Caltech startups. There were quit a few off them--by number of starts per year per person Caltech was actually generating startups at a higher ra
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by tzs 7mo ago
I don't know about EVs specifically, but there seems to be demand in Europe for Chinese PHEVs: "Chinese automakers nearly double Europe market share to 8% in February as PHEVs drive growth" [1]. [1] https://www.aut
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by tzs 7mo ago
> I wish we could have them in the US but my patriotism also tells me that would be the death of almost all US auto companies. As an American it is not clear to me that I should care about US auto companies . I care about US auto worke
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by tzs 7mo ago
BYD was planning to do that, but Trump said he'd put 100-200% tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico and BYD cancelled those plans.
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by tzs 7mo ago
That's not even sufficient to handle the needs of a single large city. The limitation is that even with the much larger constellation they hope to deploy there won't be enough satellites visible at once from any given large metro
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by tzs 7mo ago
The federal government and a most state governments in the US have laws that waive or partially waive sovereign immunity for tort claims against the government. This raid was in Ohio. Here's their immunity waiver: https://co
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by tzs 7mo ago
What is the audience it is for?
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by tzs 7mo ago
The choices are not ban anything that makes noise and allow everything that makes noise.
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by tzs 7mo ago
> The Xbox One has been emulated though (well not emulated, it's a compatibility layer like Wine). The parenthetical is not needed. It is OK to call Wine an emulator. The "Wine Is Not an Emulator" thing came about later an
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by tzs 7mo ago
A few people have replied saying Meta lobbying, but the bills Meta is known to have lobbied for seem to be the ones that require actual age verification that would tend to increase the amount of personal data Meta gets. Meta's lobbying
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by tzs 7mo ago
What you have overlooked is that this type of bill is being introduced in states that have the strongest data protection and privacy laws, such as California and Colorado, and now Illinois. This is happening after several other states hav
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Zero knowledge is not true. All chains rely, ultimately, on a place where ID:s are stored, and from there, they will leak. All of the systems I'm aware of rely on someplace your ID is already stored.
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by tzs 7mo ago
That post first appeared in 2019 and has been updated since then. The last update was sometime between from May 2023 to October 2024. It includes a link to something dated Dec 23, 2023 which further narrows it down.

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