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If you judge the internet and the world by "no new anime content today" things have actually improved. But some would think that's not a healthy way to see things. > People who long …

You might want to cite something, rather than do this. Everybody seems to pretend to be black Americans, whose freedoms weren't gained simply by protest, but by being beaten and having dogs sicce…

> if browser(s) chose to on their own simply send "I'm over 21" to every site this becomes a pointless exercise and that applies whether the browser makers do it out of frustration t…

In a lot of cases it's simple price fixing. If you want to be shocked, compare the prices of frozen potato products (like bagged hash browns and french fries) to the price of potatoes. There'…

The real problems are that: 1) they're colluding to do this, or more accurately that they don't have to collude to do this, since the brands have all been bought up by monopolies. Shrinkflat…

Simple programs with simple functionality becoming massive and networked and somehow less functional is the other side of shrinkflation. The reason they became huge was developer convenience i.e. they…

This is a strange reaction to a (admittedly horrible) red state governor halting construction of data centers due to public objections.

It's important to note while people are pumping the AI bubble that a near-moron with a checklist can do this job. They replaced AI with a regular old phone tree. AI couldn't do this job with…

Also baldness.

Your reading comprehension is off.

What people want back is the crazy innovation of getting every one of your friends' updates unless you have intentionally muted them, in chronological order. It was also nice to decorate your pag…

Step 1: Get a website.

> I worry that "code was never hard" is going to become a misleading truism for business leaders. The fact that children cannot do it does not mean that it is particularly hard, and compu…

That goose was already roasted. Firefox can't be trusted with Mozilla because Mozilla can't be trusted with Firefox. They intervened in the most important antitrust trial so far this millenn…

You're replying with a trite cliché to a comment saying that this particular technology was step N-(20+) being built at step N.

> So with that in mind, why wouldn't AI be able to write better code? > Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo…

Don't use your phone while you poop if you're a phone addict like this person and their demographic, and you need to create an artificial excuse for you to stop constantly touching it. I alm…

They were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.

> you know what a browser is called by the web site? check the header that tells the version. You mean that key whose only legitimate values also call every browser Mozilla? Arguing from the dictio…

Then you are a uninvited bot that crawls my content in order to send alarms to people to tell them to visit my site? This is a "what if it's for your own good?" argument. What if I brea…

They'll get a discount for publishing good things and suppressing bad things about Palantir. edit: prepare for a lot of interesting op-eds from the nation's first newspaper printed in full c…

Those that acted in their own self-interest thrived, and others died.

> I read up recently on the history of the fall of the roman empire > eventually opting for authoritarianism The Roman Empire was always authoritarian. You might be interested in the collapse of…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control

This dumb lawfare is a safety valve to allow them to continue not to regulate. Just like the under-18 bans are also an excuse not to regulate (and to root everyone's computer.) Somehow the evil a…

They've been continuously programmed with insane beliefs about China, which is less shocking when you understand what insane beliefs that they've had programmed into them about their neighbo…

Wow, the people buying them up must be really stupid then. You should tell them.

> This might just be realistic about the median American's tolerance for walking. This might be unrealistic about the number and relevance of Median-Americans. Turns out more than a few Americ…

Such a silly complaint. Just file a request with Google for a run, and if you give them a few hours advance notice and verify that it's you through a video call with their AI authentication servi…