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Rich parents can not prevent their children from accessing pornography and social media on the internet, and will also not be able to do so after this legislation. Pornography is often delivered by pe…

> I'm telling you why ordinary people support this, and I can tell you they overwhelmingly do This is a claim without backing, and if there were backing to be had, it would constantly be throw…

They still broadcast on FM.

> Have you ever bought a ticket to a concert ? what did you actually own ? A ticket that would allow you entrance into a particular concert. Is this some sort of rhetorical question? I can't d…

> But governments enjoy on a pretty broad support for this No they do not. They do an enormous amount of PR trying to convince people that they have it, though. In the real world when there is a to…

I don't know what you're seeing here. They only did this with a couple of points that were very close to each other, and didn't change their horizontal position. That, and the rest of t…

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Not from Latin but through French - the direct use of Latin in English is generally restricted to technical jargon and legal terms (that English often also share with the French.) Latin isn't rea…

Approximately 0.0% of those came into English through Latin, while around 100% came through Norman French.

I don't really buy any explanation here. The reason why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone is because when I'm alone I'll loop a lot more. My reactions to thoughts that…

You seem to have selected specifically people who are not likely to know the full implications of their behavior, and I agree with you. I don't even like doing stuff like this on my phone.

If you're a medium-large company, you should definitely run your own AI because you can max out the CPUs more often. You're not only able to run privately and locally, but you're also a…

> but a lot of people are going to multiply the per-month charge by 12 or 24 and say "Could I set up a local model for less than that, and have it pay for itself within a year or two?" An…

> If you trust hosting your code with a specific cloud provider then you'll probably also trust them for code assist. I'm interested in this thought. There is significant motivation for p…

> You are saying that differentially private census data couldn't be used for gerrymeandering and advertisement while non differentially private data could? They definitely didn't say tha…

> recording attributes like race, skin color, The only reason we ever started doing this was to track ex-slaves and their descendants, and after-1965 every other possible grouping of people started…

You are citing a single use of em-dashes in a single 30 year old article as proof of something. If anything, the length of that article shows how rarely em-dashes were used by most writers. They'…

> And what division would a world flag generate? It's just a way of saying that you're too good for your neighbors. That's why it would appeal to liberals and libertarians alike.

> neighbors doing something legal The question is about doing something illegal , such as removing a covenant that was involved in a sale when reselling? If it is something that could have been ob…

> Both a wheelbarrow and a Ferrari have wheels. What is this supposed to mean? They're also two rolling carts steered by a human, and I'm going to make similar decisions for both when I&#…

> I believe these are the exact technical advancement the top-level poster was contrasting with cable networks You would have had to guess, because it went unspecified. If we're talking about …

> Why is nobody here defining social media, put down the clear criteria? A preference for unfalsifiable babbling. As worthless as arguing what exact colors the word "pink" refers to. Just…

> And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome. What's probably tiresome is trying to come up with a proof tha…

I have no idea what you're trying to say here. What it sounds like you're saying is that it is possible for processing to make a product unhealthy, and unlikely for processing to make a prod…

These are both absolutely the wrong ways to look at it. > 1. Ultra processed food is a media hype -> totally dismiss it Don't let the media decide what you think, whether you want to go aga…

> However, they have not sucked on them like candy and swallowed the contents 16 hours a day. Swedish Snus has been around a long time, isn't linked to cancer at all, and has no bad effect on …

> Around COVID times many top universities experimented with removing test requirements from admissions, under an argument largely related to equity. It's been a failure everywhere, with many,…

Pretty sure that's what NSO Group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group ) is. Israeli intelligence could also just insert vulnerabilities in cheap garbage (or even more ex…

> Should not there be a tax to offset the "frictional" unemployment? Absolutely not. That's like taxing shovels because people were digging with their hands. The result is just more …

> And the ones spanning generations were completely fair game. No they weren't. Copyright at this point covers things for at least half a dozen generations back, and is intentionally made anno…