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…and here I am a dumb American tourist who knew nothing about Vespa’s and was just upset because I couldn’t get my uber and missed my train.

Now I want one!

> Because it's their property. Now you can try to make an argument that it's stolen IP and that matters in some way, but that's just more likely to ensure no one has access

The knowledge of the world is their property? Or is it the model weights? Or is it the natural resources they are subsuming by buying politicians and political power and leaving residents with high bills (while securing cheap energy costs for themselves). Perhaps it's the equipment they lease causing drastic price spikes in RAM and GPU's for everyday normal people.

> And if you don't like it raise a trillion dollars and make your own.

Not the only solution here mate.

I think you misunderstood me, I'm saying strong (very strong) data privacy laws make age gating unnecessary. This solution has far reaching benefits across all age groups.

You know this? My guess is that companies will be held responsible for anyone accessing there content that is not supposed to. In that light they will feel the need to block any unknowns that come through rather than potentially face issues if someone who is technically banned from accessing gets in.

I'm not sure how you confidently can say that every company is going to allow the people we can't verify have access?

That's a complete false dichotomy.

We create all kinds of consortiums to manage complex decisions that shouldn't be owned by one entity.

That's true but has anyone studied the good things that have happened from younger people being able to find community or other positive aspects?

Either way the solution again is not age gating, it's real meaningful data privacy laws that if enacted would have a huge effect on many companies today.

Gating is not just for porn, they are talking about using for social media and various other things. You can imagine that many things end up age gated if this becomes legislation, as a preventative measure.

Then your 10% becomes problematic because you are either restricting or granting access based on invalid information. So in your world here we then need ways for people who were incorrectly gated to reach out and be corrected somehow.

Your example is in bad faith as your example assumes that the only thing blocking a child of 5 from porn is age verification of some type. There are lots of blockers today for 5 year olds to get access to porn.

> I also acknowledge that there is a reasonable debate to be had if the disadvantages to adults and businesses from imposing these rules are worth the harms prevented

Nobody on the "we need age verification" side wants a debate. They want to run face first in to dumb legislation giving governments and companies even more power to track every movement and know exactly who you are.

Wouldn't this mean we don't know what age these 10% are in?

Same code for all people for 1 hour and you don't think we'd immediately have rotating codes to pass the gate?

Doesn't 90% successful mean you are stepping on 10% toes???

1 assumes that some "private entity" gets to decide what is crucial infrastructure and what is not, what gets the opportunity to be patched and what doesn't.

I'm not ok with that and don't know why anyone would be.

I haven't seen anyone suggest that a company can't do this, they absolutely can within certain frameworks of the law. That doesn't mean consumers have to like it and continue to business with companies such as these.

First of all, these products are "legal". I think the point is more that we pay for your top subscription but you've decided that a handful of companies that you pick get access to the best of the best now and everyone else has to wait and perhaps they may be allowed access at some point...if deemed worthy.

You want the few leading AI companies in the U.S. to work under the model where they (and potentially the U.S. gov't) gets to decide who gets access to what compute? If you are fine paying into that model, then good for you...just a matter of time before they cut you off and you have no ramifications.

The issue is that the people enforcing this have made a huge amount of money doing the same thing, but with a full on war!

> I don't understand why Americans continue believing that democracy is the only way for every population in the world

They don't! The majority voted for the guy who wants to, admittedly (multiple times), be a dictator and is huge fan of other dictators. If he finds a way to stay for a 3rd term his most loyal followers along with all the republicans in Congress will be just fine with it.

Hasn't almost every model created a paradigm shift lately? Maybe it's you who has moved the needle on what a paradigm shift means?

I'm not an economist but if you listen to Gary Stevenson talk about this very issue he discusses it in depth. But, when it comes down to it if EVERYTHING is getting more expensive that looking at on variable in one market can't be the crux of the issue.

When you have large transfers of wealth and the wealth gap grows significantly the only thing for rich people to do is buy up assets. Assets are fixed, so the share of assets owned by rich people are drastically increasing. This is inline with the # of houses owned by private investors and #'s of assets owned by other investors will reveal the same thing.

That's because it's not. That's a cop-out. Wealth inequality is the crux of the issue.

> but firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t. It shows you who is really critical.

Maybe for companies (although I'd argue it's extremely bad there as well), but for Governments this is a terrible idea!

Yes, and this example right here tells you how much research DOGE does (with anything they are doing). Highly inept people if measured by what their stated goal is...although we all know what the real goal is.

> that probationary employees aren't needed

Remember that "probationary" doesn't mean new. I just learned this, but apparently when getting a promotion it puts you back into the "probationary" period at your new role. So people with 10+ years of service are being let go because they had recently been promoted.

The fundamentals are not changing that often so the knowledge is extremely applicable.

I joined it back in December, not realizing that it was essentially a platform for right wing extremist. I simply thought it was a less restrictive Twitter, based on the conversation I'd heard. After joining and opening the app, and without following anyone, I was immediately slammed with extremist right wing content and outright lies. I'm not one to defend Twitter/Facebook (both should be broken up into smaller companies), but my god...neither do anything close to what I saw with Parler.

I actually prefer the interior of my Tesla's to any care I've ever owned. Combined with the technology and software, I haven't seen any car that competes. It is still absolutely amazing to me how much code goes into traditional ICE cars and they still can't create a coherent, usable, interface.

I will say that Ford has drastically improved in the last few years (I own a fairly new Explorer ST) but much of what they've done you can clearly see is copying what Tesla has done. Even still it is miles away from what Tesla has done.

1. I'd like to see your source for this.

As far as ICE companies competing, most of what we've seen so far is fairly limited and there is good reason for this. Their whole profit model is built on the dealership model and serious investment into electric cars is going to, essentially, nullify that model of doing business. Moving to electric cars is not just an incremental changes for current large automobile companies but an entire paradigm shift in how they do business.

I suggest you don't look at the oil companies and traditional auto manufacturers if you think this is just an Elon Musk thing!

Startup time for Clojure itself has become pretty fast. My guess is you were using something like lein or boot which involves more than just starting up Clojure.

Either way, for scripting uses there are tools like babashka or lumo with sub second startup times.

Definitely a market for this. There are so many events that like to use music as background noise but due to licensing restrictions in music you have to be careful what you use.

Because in the absence of regulation, companies will be driven by the market to do the "right" thing? This is not a problem in which the solution is likely to be highly profitable (or even profitable at all) so I'm not sure why you suggest that a free and unregulated market would lead to an improvement in this scenario.

You mention zoning laws in particular. Those were designed for specific reasons so what about them would you change? Surely you aren't suggesting just to get rid of them all?