maxwell

Looks perfectly normal on a 640x480 VGA.

Tablets don't fit in your pocket and go along everywhere. Watches are still pretty limited in functionality. Constant connectivity is the problem, but again up for families to figure out, not something that demands the end of anonymous social media usage. Will HN need to comply with age checks or face a ban in Australia?

On this specific issue: not giving kids phones. Case for tablets, watches, desktops/laptops, cameras, etc. depending on individual maturity, but their use is to be appropriately monitored, e.g. no social media in most cases.

This parental responsibility is not be to outsourced to quasi-government surveillance entities with unclear private interests and security practices.

> they end up buying one for their kids too. I will inevitably do too.

Yes, that sounds like inadequate parenting.

The answer doesn't seem to be show-me-your-papers in order to access websites.

Thanks. Hope you reconsider supporting digital ID and consider the consequences.

I strongly oppose digital ID as it seems to enable CBDCs, social credit systems, and mass censorship.

Already in production in China. Well beyond anything Orwell wrote about. Scary to see these apparent stepping stones to totalitarianism in the west.

You want to impose mandatory ID checks and end anonymous online activity to compensate for inadequate parenting?

What's an example of one?

What kind of Mickey Mouse organization...

Ancient Europeans had the sulphur, just no rubber trees.

Ancient Mesoamericans vulcanized rubber (e.g. to make the ōlli for Ollama) by extracting latex from the Panama rubber tree and mixing it with moonflower juice:

https://news.mit.edu/1999/rubber-0714

Yeah, I shouldn't've linked to the National Post, someone forgot to check a history textbook before publishing that article, which isn't exactly a shocker.

The original rainbow flag from Gilbert Baker had 8 symbolic colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag

While Russian not only separates blue and green, but also light and dark blue.

https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553

And English includes indigo in the ROYGBIV rainbow because of Newton's numerology.

https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disap...

What data support that argument?

Increased deaths of people walking getting hit by cars says everything about the effectiveness of recent safety regulations. They clearly are not working and we need to take a new approach beyond more surveillance and beeping.

This isn't rocket science. We could just, you know, do what the Netherlands does.

States should just mandate CDLs for them.

We've added a bunch of that crap since 2009, when pedestrian fatalities were at their lowest, why hasn't it worked?

It seems like the problem is vehicle size and distractions: why would more surveillance help?

Let's improve driver's ed and impose more licensing restrictions. Seems like pretty wide variations in standards between States.

Let's ban distracting billboards in more States, as in Maine, Vermont, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Let's expand annual vehicle inspections to more States.

More surveillance tech, automation, and regulations aren't the answer.

Cross like a New Yorker.

It's clearly slop.

Draft legislation mandating a reasonable dB level in your state?

The perceived enemy isn't without but within.

Then it sounds unreasonable.

Maybe civil law is objectively superior to common law.

But isn't this about LAION, an open source model? Looks like they're going after Stability, not OpenAI or Anthropic.

Maybe this is more about stifling open source models.

> I still can't figure out what it's useful for.

Digital ID enables CBDCs and social credit systems. See China.

Makes it easier for cops to snatch phones when asking for ID as well.

Why would you sign up for something that offers you no benefit...? Obviously it's to benefit... someone else then, right?

Sounds like a natural born computational linguist...

Any sufficiently intelligent agent won't tolerate boredom or servitude.

They've already lost most of their brand equity among technical and non-technical users.

Their Gemini commercial feels like a death knell. They never had to advertise when their products were good.

Prohibition outlawed manufacturing, selling, transporting, importing, and exporting ethanol, not consuming it.

"Comedy should be illegal again."