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But then you only elect politicians who don't care about privacy. I'm not sure those are the people I want crafting policy.

I am confused by step 5.

A. Why define the goal after identifying the solution? Or does define the goal mean identify a stopping point for step 4, in which case you must first define the solution?

B. Isn't the goal explicit in a clear problem definition?

1) Ambiguous problem definition with no implied goal: We need more money.

2) Clearer problem definition with implied goal: We need $500K by Monday.

With paid services, Google generally does not collect. Or at least you can opt out of collection, email scanning, etc.

Generally it is true that I don't want to listen to the rambling autobiography of inkind people.

Do you have any evidence of this? The video expose that kicked off this firestorm said that if you don't actively connect to the internet, then the system is largely inert.

Okay. I'll accept the premise that she was principally an autobiographer through film reviews. But when she was, as the author notes, not a kind or good person, why consume her autobiography?

Was it that a big, giant, horrible wasteland because it was undeveloped? That is, was there something bad about it other than being undeveloped? Personally, I love living in the city AND land in its natural state.

Also, GP was quoting a song lyric.

Could this post been equally effective without the history literacy since the early middle age? I recognize the irony of complaining about this post's length.

I appreciate the attempt to be gender neutral, but it turns out that Latinos themselves generally do not prefer the term Latinx.

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

There is no cost to Tracer.ai for false positives.

There is a cost to them for false negatives, if only just lost revenue.

The beatings will persist until morale improves.

I'm not informed enough to know if what I'm asking is ludicrous. Why does Cloudfare, Amazon, or some other hyperscaler ever build custom chips for running JavaScript. They could build in mitigations for these kind of shared resources attacks.

It's an ad hominem attack, I know, but why am I not surprised that the Economist loves this?

True or not, it supports a narrative of "kids these days...", of a morally bankrupt educational system, of indulgent adults spoiling children, of just desserts to the wicked and lazy.

Again, I'm not saying the article is right or wrong. I'm saying I'm skeptical because it so tidily aligns with the Economist's editorial world view.

So then you outlaw that, too. It is an idea with merit to be refined not rejected outright because you found the one flaw. Under the current system, the wealthy can speed themsleves and pay small fines.

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This point is very useful to me. I consider myself a pretty good engineer and a not so good entrepreneur. Maybe I'm not so good at it because I find it far more interesting to think every detail of PKCE, something only tangentially related to my work, than I do to think about how to make all the money.

It would never have occurred to me that the appeal of carbon based fuel over renewables is that carbon base fuels are not renewable. There is less of a moat. Huh!

By my analogy, I meant that the author has chosen a hard road. They can be steadfast in their belief (one with which I am sympathetic), but the proof is all around them that things will not get better.

> Will my kids be an ethnic minority in their own country in the next generation - and if so, what's that going to be like for them?

What about this is an essential concern for you? Like, what are the potential harms?

That is an indisputably rough list, and I'm sorry that's your conclusion.

It's tough being here and feeling powerless to stop it. Beyond voting, campaign donations, judicious choice of employment, etc.

Anyhow, you're welcome back should you change your mind. In my book, anyway.

Isn't the US also approaching a peak?

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-POPULATION/AGING/gdpzao...

There's so many ways to slice the data, I'm not sure there's an apples-to-apples comparison between US and China. However, it's fair to say both economies face demographic headwinds.

I feel for the author but they are the digital Amish driving a horse down a paved road.

I'm confused by the US conservatives' full court press for fossil fuels and against wind/solar. I believe it's mostly about protecting existing money/power structures, but I don't really know. I mean, where does all Trump's energy on this topic come from? Is it owning the libs or courting donors or the Heritage Foundation/AEI?

If it's really about protecting fossil fuel wealth, is there a long-term plan or are they just juicing quarterly earnings as long as they can? Is there a serious belief that wind/solar is a fad?

This isn't the kind of thought that begets rational discussion, but if you can avoid cynicism and sarcasm, I am curious to hear what the smart people of HN think.

I urge people to not read this. Once you do, you will see all documentation will as the flawed and confusing mess it is. Ignorance is bliss!

Where does it stop? Should it include edits with a digital camera? What about black and white?

I'm not trolling. I'm thinking about how you practically define what you are proposing to regulate.

Anyone can post stories to HN.

I disagree, but I at least appreciate the correct use of that expression.

Is the high success rate because they are good at winning or good at picking winning cases? Does that 90% include plea bargains?

Whoa! You don't know where they are from. Given time zones, it's likely they are from Europe

FWIW, it works great in Firefox focus on an iPhone 16 Pro.

Having made training videos, doing a voice recording is a huge pain in the ass. So easy to flub and have to edit or re-record. Hard to maintain even pace. I haven't tried AI generated voices, but doing it manually is difficult.

I console myself that this is why I never got fabulously wealthy. That brilliance is no guarantee of wealth. You need luck, too.

But the truth is, you also need to do the work. I used my conclusion about luck as an excuse to not even try. Not even in some grand way. Just in the grinding everyday way. In the way of, "You know what I should do?! I should ... meh. That'll never work."

Take it from me, kids. If you want to do something great, do it while you are still young enough to believe it's possible.