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Involuntarily inflicting second-hand cigarette smoke on a child is unambiguously harmful and there's no credible alternative interpretation or slippery slope involved here.

Those other forms of entertainment don't have nearly the destructive potential on a person's life and finances that gambling can have. A movie is a $5 one-time purchase, gambling is an endless recurring purchase that may not stop until the person is bankrupt, if they have addictive tendencies.

The contract Musk signed relinquished any right to diligence.

>It added another degree of uncertainty to whether Mr. Musk would complete the deal, even though he had waived his rights to do due diligence on Twitter when he bought it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/elon-musk-twit...

WHO claims 17 million long COVID sufferers in Europe total during the pandemic period, these are hardly 'paltry' numbers [1]

[1] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/13-09-2022-at-least-17-...

Just a guess if I were responsible for making the decision. All these methods will probably disappear or get much tighter on how they can be used: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkuserconte... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview/1...

They're going to heavily lockdown WKWebView after the Instagram and Tiktok revelations, probably in iOS16.1. They may even remove it entirely and force people to use SFSafariViewController (heavily locked down web browser, opaque to developers other than URL). Best of luck to anyone that was using javascript injection for legitimate purposes, others have ruined it for everyone by abusing user trust.

Dems attempted to stop gerrymandering entirely by creating an independent districting body with the bill HR1, but were blocked from doing so.

It's risk mitigation. Feature flagging everything is a pointless waste of time until suddenly you have to roll something back in production and it's not feature flagged. The value of feature flags increases with the greater the cost of a mistake making it to production.

For iOS builds particularly, that might have a 1-2 day review delay before you can get a new build approved, they're invaluable.

It's fascinating to see Facebook threatened by a company they can't just acquire to put down their competition. Their response in the form of Reels is consistently much worse at recommending quality content than Tiktok is and generally just comprises re-uploads from Tiktok, which is a bad look (people aren't making their content for Reels first). Tiktok is also addictive in a way that no competing app has managed to capture.

I'm still optimistic Facebook can recover based on the quality and abundance of talent they have working on the product, but it's been a year and Tiktok only continues to strengthen their position while Reels doesn't appear to have improved, at least from the customer-facing side. We may be witnessing the early stages of a shift in social media apps that Facebook cannot stop.

Isn't this punishing Youtube for their own success at achieving a dominant market position? They didn't position themselves as the de-facto public square so much as became one due to lack of competition.

People don't understand the difference between VC backed startups and public companies backed by institutional and retail investors

TikTok's recommendation algorithm is incredible, Instagram Reels is fundamentally the same feature on the mobile side, but the recommendation portion really lets it down and ensures TikTok is going to remain the dominant player in this space for the foreseeable future.

The early research emerging on possible brain changes from COVID is pretty alarming. Obviously further information is needed, but it's fairly shocking this can happen under any circumstances. https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/14056549901280460...

The fact that posters have to engage with a contradictory post instead of just downvoting it as on reddit has always been the strongest suit of 4chan. It's a great foil to the tiresome hivemind-eyness and tendency for only 'approved' opinions to be allowed to flourish on reddit.

Last time I was there, someone was openly defecating in front of city hall, next to multiple people shooting heroin. I had to step over someone who had collapsed apparently from drug use, in front of a restaurant entrance, and nobody seemed to care. It's about as close to the third world as exists in the west. I recognize there's extremely nice parts of SF, but most out of state/international guests stay around Tenderloin/SOMA and would never know that.

Market St in SF is what most Australians see when attending conferences. The homelessness, human waste, open drug use, and visibly serious mental illness is pretty confronting for anyone not used to it, and that's at daytime - it gets significantly scarier at night if you make the mistake of walking back to your hotel. I've never understood why all the hotels international guests stay in are in by far the worst neighborhood.

NYC is one of them. Still requires you relocate 10000 miles away from your friends and family, which isn't for everyone.

The mRNA vaccines have a turnaround of only a few weeks to produce a variant booster, so this is less of a concern than with older vaccine technologies. Moderna and Pfizer are currently trialing their SA strain booster that was formulated and produced in under a month [1][2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/24/moderna-covid-vaccine-booste... [2] https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/25/is-more-simply-better-wh...

>I write software and have no experience doing what I'm suggesting.

This should be attached to a lot of posts here.

Prefabs are interesting because a high quality house that would typically take a year to build can be constructed in 5-10 days. Huf Haus is one of a number of prefab house builders who do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2mfjMgn0tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5O_sKudq4k

A million dollars or some other significant sum of money doesn't nourish the soul the same way something you're actually passionate about does. You can fake it for a long time, but it's never quite the same, at least that I've found.

My point is that true freedom of speech of already only partially possible on the platform owing to moderators selectively taking down millions of posts daily that violate the 'community guidelines'. Extending this to anti-vaccination rhetoric seems like a small expansion of existing policy, and addresses a problem causing real harm in society.

Cities are paying millions to stop outbreaks of previously defeated diseases like measles and counteract disinformation primarily being spread on social networks [1]. Should social networks not be somewhat culpable for their quantifiable externalities on society?

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/09/us-measl...

Allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to proliferate on the platform is fairly unambiguously harmful to society, especially during a pandemic that may rely on a vaccine to escape. It appears to be choosing engagement, which drives clicks, page views and ad impressions over being a force for good and then dressing it up as free speech, when moderators selectively remove millions of other posts per day.

Social networks have proven themselves so powerful, it seems unlikely their ability to wreak havoc on society will remain unlegislated forever. One day social networks will be legally responsible for the content published, and we'll see an end to the laissez-faire attitude of allowing disinfo to spread unhindered.

You would hope that the custodian of the world's most popular communication platform would have a greater sense of obligation to the social responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately we don't live in that world, and Zuckerberg continues choose dollars over lasting damage to the standards of discourse. He is the Murdoch of the 21st century, tearing at the social fabric in pursuit of profits and facilitating the spread of foreign disinformation if it increases engagement metrics.

They are being affected, just not as publicly as the transportation example https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-d-a-chesa-boudin-takes-action-t...

What is particularly egregious is how traditional taxis are being ignored, despite having most of the same labor problems as app-based transportation services.

The RideShareGuy is the most prominent blog for drivers and their annual survey seems to reflect that [1]

>66% of drivers said they wanted to be independent contractors vs 15.8% who wanted to be an employee

[1] https://therideshareguy.com/uber-driver-survey/

The definitely assume it's the same person. I get advertising clearly targeted at other people on my internet connection (eg. ads for property in a certain suburb, when I don't even actively look at property while another family member does).

Sky News is almost more virulently ignorant and hateful than Fox News. I'm shocked Australia - a generally 'nice' country - is capable of producing something like this.

Murdoch's News Corporation and the currently incumbent Liberal party are very cosy with one another, so it's not surprising the government is legislating to prop them up financially. It's beneficial to consumers to have a well funded fourth estate, however I doubt this is being done out of public interest.

AB5 imposes an ABC test on businesses after the precedent set by Dynamex [1]. The specific point of contention the judge has is the B of the ABC - that is whether drivers 'perform work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business'. Uber argues it is a technology company first, and drives/delivers second, whereas the judge argues the opposite. Convincing arguments can be made for both sides.

The modifications discussed in the top-level post address the A and C portions of the test, but not B unfortunately. The B clause is very broad, so likely has ramifications for many tech companies.

Taken to its furthest extent, AB5 makes Airbnb hosts Airbnb employees, Amazon marketplace sellers Amazon employees, eBay sellers eBay employees, Twitch streamers Twitch employees, etc.

[1] https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/2019/03/unders...