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by tzs 1mo ago
> So the issue really isn't "social media", it's the blackbox personalized algorithmic feed. > So that is what we should be addressing. That is what the bill addresses. It bans providing an "addictive featur
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by tzs 1mo ago
> This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online c
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by tzs 1mo ago
> I'd rather EU have a decent frontier model lab that plays to win, and steps on toes while doing so, than have a very elaborate bureaucracy that tries to prevent that from happening What in the AI Act makes it hard to develop front
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by tzs 1mo ago
A big difference with libraries is that (hopefully) a whole lot of other people have used that same library the same way you are going to use it for the same purpose you are using it for. All the significant bugs hopefully were found by the
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by tzs 1mo ago
> What reckoning? The settlement benefits Meta immensely. This was one lawsuit. It settled their immediate legal problems with the 47 states and DC that were included in the settlement. Florida is continuing with its own case against the
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by tzs 1mo ago
> Meta is pushing forward every measure it can to record precise identity, age, and income with everything that you do. According to numerous comments in all the threads we've ever had on California's age verification law and t
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by tzs 1mo ago
> An individual can reduce their contribution to climate change by up to 30% by simply forgoing meat and dairy So they go from their contribution to climate change being completely insignificant to it being 70% of completely insignifican
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What loopholes?
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by tzs 1mo ago
I'm guessing you are thinking about things like addictive social media and the efforts to keep kids from overusing it, and the idea is if there were strong privacy laws it would be harder or impossible to implement the most addictive f
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by tzs 1mo ago
For most individuals there is no lifestyle change they can make that will matter. Fixing it requires collective action. The way individuals can meaningfully contribute is by supporting politicians that will make policies and rules and regul
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by tzs 1mo ago
Changes can be phased in. For example that's why places phasing out ICE cars are generally doing it by phasing out new ICE sales over many years and letting any cars already on the road when new sales stop stay on the road, and are con
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by tzs 1mo ago
That's like saying coastal sea level rise is nothing to worry about in places like Florida because that whole area was at the bottom of an ocean 100 million years ago.
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by tzs 1mo ago
How about if someone asks for copies of all their data? I thought that was not complicated, but then there was that post here a while back where someone asked McDonald's for their data. It included a vast amount of things that the comp
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by tzs 1mo ago
Briefly, for each EU country you sell into you must: • Register with the government package registry in each country. • Sign contracts with a "Producer Responsibility Organization" in the country to fund local recycling. • Track t
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by tzs 1mo ago
How is that relevant? (1) The data centers under discussion aren't using green energy sources. (2) The overall emission numbers aren't really relevant to the people who live near large emitters. It is the local numbers that affect
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by tzs 1mo ago
US national security does not need thousands of new AI data centers built in a short time frame.
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It is possible you do remember brands you've seen advertised but just don't remember you saw an ad. I remember a long time ago seeing a study that asked people if they had seen ads for the California lottery and if so what they re
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by tzs 1mo ago
It is not a new problem. Look at Musk's Tennessee data centers to see the problems with off-grid data centers that don't have good pollution controls. Second, in many places power is a problem with AI data centers that do want gri
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by tzs 1mo ago
Here's the 1000+ comment discussion of this from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237
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by tzs 1mo ago
There was a big discussion of this recently here, which will give you more information, but yes, it is in fact destroying a large number of EU small businesses. The EU has recognized this and they are scrambling to fix it in legislation due
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by tzs 1mo ago
> The only difference is to what degree they wield the tariff hammer, and in which direction it is swung. You are ignoring a massive difference. Trump wants balanced trade with each individual country. Pretty much everyone else who wants
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If you need to get internet to rural places quickly then such services are great. But if you are trying to get something that could last for decades and handle the expected growth in the speed and bandwidth that the average family might exp
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by tzs 1mo ago
The LLM on Google search says that too. It cites this (plus a couple things that cite that): https://cis.org/Camarota/New-January-Data-Still-Shows-Most-J... That cites this: https://www.bls.gov/news.rel
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Boomers were split nearly evenly between Trump and Harris in 2024. Gen X were the ones that went strongly for Trump (around 54% to 44%). Millennials were for Harris (51-47%), and Gen Z were for Harris as strongly as Gen X were for Trump (54
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by tzs 1mo ago
Isn't that covered in the second paragraph of the post, and in this section [1] of the README at the linked site? [1] https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch#local-vs-online-the-...
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> It's just an odd choice on a page that's only about USA fuel prices I don't see why. There is a global fuel crisis. It is affecting prices in much of the world. This particular page is about those prices in the US. The p
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Everything should be on their website, plus posted to the top social media (by popularity) to make it easier for people who want a push feed. They should also post to at least one social media site that allows full reading for free without
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The obvious questions are (1) why didn't they create something like VAT MOSS (or whatever they call the current version), and (2) why no de minimus? I did some searching on Google, and its LLM gave what seemed to be a good summary of t
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by tzs 2mo ago
Is bricking accurate there? From what I've read the old Kindles can no longer download from the Amazon store, which is the only reasonable way to get new Kindle books onto a Kindle. However, any Kindle books they have already downloade
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Under per person the amount per person is the total amount we decide is acceptable for humanity to emit. Breeding more people doesn’t change the total. It just reduces the amount each person is allowed.

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