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technobach··on European content removal laws are scrubbing the internet of legal content
Yes, that's the primary complaint of the article, but the actual report just doesn't back that up. There's no mention of false positives or negatives. Probably because, as the report notes, it doesn't know who removed the comment, let alone what the rationale was. So it could be that they are attempting to comply with broad and vague laws, or they could just be against hosting MLP memes.
technobach··on European content removal laws are scrubbing the internet of legal content
Given that 99% of the removed comments were legal, it doesn't seem like it's the governments that are restricting what people are seeing.
technobach··on Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
Tesla claims FSD is in beta. Subjecting unwilling children into this beta testing seems at the very least reckless, if not other less savoury words.
technobach··on The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked
The US adult population is ~250 million. With Bitcoin's ~300k transactions/day, it would take over 2 years for each of them to simply open a LN channel, if we dedicate the entire network just to onboarding.

Lightning will definitely not solve it.

edit: tps -> transactions/day

technobach··on New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs
Even after reading your comment it took me an embarrassing number of tries to read it correctly.
technobach··on The Onion quits print
I happened to stubble upon one while I was walking in downtown Toronto. I was just as surprised as anyone.