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I agree. Since moving back from California a decade ago, Australia has felt more and more American.

Big cars, the slow incursion of American sports, more American brands popping up (including Starbucks actually getting a foothold), Gen-Z using American terms like math and trash, and a rise in the “screw you” style of American individualism.

I don’t think any of this is making Australia a better place to live.

If 100% of new cars were EVs then there might be feedback loops that accelerate the long tail. Like gas stations becoming leas profitable, less prolific, and more expensive.

You might also see battery prices push the price of new cars well below that of second hand ICE vehicles.

Even if the replacement window for existing vehicles doesn’t change, the environmental impact would run ahead of the adoption curve. High volume use cases like delivery and Ubers would be the first to switch to EVs.

The OS could draw an ugly censoring block over the sensitive information. That would protect the user's privacy when needed but also prevent apps mis-using the feature like this.

Just ban it. The only defense for our lives being flooded with advertising is that it helps markets be more efficient.

But the most efficient gambling provider is the one that extracts the most money from its customers. Helping gambling companies be successful is a net loss to society.

Your illustration is really long winded.

If you invested a billion dollars at a conservative 5% interest rate, you could employ 200 people at 250k a year on the interest alone.

You should watch Harrow, too. It’s a bit cliched as a police procedural, but they show a “TV version” of Brisbane: everyone lives in beautiful big Queenslanders, it’s sunny all the time, etc.

Do we? For commanding use cases articulating the action into English can feel more difficult than just doing it. Direct manipulation feels more primal to me.

The 0.001% case would really benefit from this though. For example it helps me to know if requests are failing or are just slow. There is a difference between the application trying (loading indicator) and failing (0% success).

Install PowerToys, hold dash and then press space. This works for all the variants for any keyboard character.

Construct is great. I used it to make a game with my daughter. The way it jumps straight to the fun bits and then gives opportunities to learn about programming concepts is great.

I couldn’t bring myself to pay the hefty monthly fee though, knowing my kid’s interest would wane and then her creation would be forever inaccessible unless I continued to pay.

One thing I would have gladly paid for is asset packs, being able to adapt some great sprites and background art would have been a killer feature.

Price caps always seem like such a transparent political move.

I wonder why they didn’t do the obvious thing for a crowd sourced site and introduce a manual way to define this content.

CMS’s for news publishers have distinct fields for link title and thumbnail images (appearing on the linking page) and article title and hero images (appearing on the destination page).

This seems redundant until you consider that the context for linking pages and the article page are different. Having clean summaries for each page on Wikipedia seems like it would be useful in many places.

The legislation for social media and alcohol sales are completely different.

There is no expectation of “reasonable effort” to not selling alcohol to minors. It’s flat out illegal and heavily penalised. Nor is there a requirement for companies to find a way to sell alcohol to adults without asking for ID.

I get the concern you have, but you’re arguing against a scarecrow version of the legislation.

The legislation is literally

> A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users having accounts with the age-restricted social media platform.

It doesn’t specifically require them to collect IDs. However it does say the opposite and that the site can only collect government ID or a digital ID information if:

> the provider provides alternative means [not involving IDs] for an individual to assure the provider that the individual is not an age-restricted user; and (b) those means are reasonable in the circumstances.

I’m not going to argue that the legislation is perfect. But it doesn’t actually do what most opponents are accusing it of doing.

Where does the legislation say that? My reading is that it specifically says that social networks have to provide an alternative verification mechanism that doesn’t rely on government ID.

I’d argue that vested interests in oil and coal have done more to damage the US’s ability to invest like this than any regulatory red tape.

Huge parts of America hate EVs. There is endless debate about nuclear vs clean energy vs coal, which prevents any change from happening.

In my experience, most of the time this can be solved by resetting expectations. Once people learn that asking basic questions won’t open them up to mockery, things move a lot smoother for everyone.

After all, a culture on 1:1 communication has a lot of downsides. The same question gets asked repeatedly, replies don’t become searchable, the same people (usually the most experienced) end up being constantly tapped for answers

But humans aren’t either. We have to install programs in people for even basic mathematical and analytical tasks. This takes about 12 years, and is pretty ineffective.

One thing that's struck me since Trump was announced the winner is how many Replublican voters are determined to invalidate the opinions of people who voted for the Democrats.

I'm left leaning, but I think jobs in rural areas, inflation, cost of living are all valid concerns that should be addressed regardless of who is in power. I disagree to varying extents with Trump's stance on abortion, immigration and gun control. But I also understand why people have a different opinion to me.

What I see online is a continuing anger towards the left and a determination to not only discredit their opinions, but also punish them for their dissenting views. There is this gleeful perception that it's time for payback.

Can you please explain to a non-America what is that message is? I hear this refrain all the time and all I get is a vague insinuation that people are not being listened to.

The article is criticising the “you can be anything you want” mindset and highlighting the lack of reproducibility in research around student academic results.

But the reason a multinational like Microsoft might promote a growth mindset are different. Employees who are open minded are able to work with others and collaborate more effectively. Employees who actively seek new data and try to invalidate their preconceptions can be more successful in large sprawling organisations.

The creators of Mechanical Turk no doubt made money from it in 1770. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

The thing that takes this into scam territory for me is Elon’s comments that “we started with a person in a robot suit and improved dramatically year after year, so if you extrapolate this we’re going to have something extraordinary.”

This statement is deliberately worded to avoid making a promise because Elon knows it is effectively a big fat lie. To date Tesla have solved the same problems that others have already solved. You can’t extrapolate progress because what comes next are the really hard problems that no one has solved. Even if Tesla is able solve those problems, there is zero chance that they can move at the same speed. They have 50% of an autonomous robot, but the next half is going to take 90% of the effort.

This is the usual smoke and mirrors. Elon shows off a tech demo using incremental gains and falsely represents how long it will take them to deliver on a revolutionary product.

You have a meta header that sets a strong blue theme-color on the top of the browser. I feel like this might be biasing the results on iOS Safari because, compared to this blue, turquoise appears comparatively green.

Edit: it looks like the theme-color is meant to stay stuck as whatever the initial green/blue colour was. But for me, it shows as white if the initial choice is green.

The problem is that we are told to reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order.

Instead people are told there is a solution for recycling. They feel like the problem of plastic waste is solved. So they don’t make any efforts to reduce or reuse their waste.

REDcycle was everywhere. Almost all supermarket-bought packaging included a REDcycle logo. A giant scam that was greenwashing single use plastics.

This data is sketchy to say the least.

The chart showing home ownership rate is broken down by "generation" but each cohort becomes skewed towards older members of that group as we move towards the present. If you look at boomers and millennials at age 25 that's a fair comparison. But if you compare boomers and millennials at age 40, you're now comparing all people born 1946 to 1964 (18 year range) against just the millennials born 1981 to 1984 (3 year range). This group of older millennials were in their late 20s when house prices tanked after the financial crisis and in their mid 30s by the time home prices started rising dramatically in 2020. This selection bias means if there is an overall downward trend in home ownership, the boomer line will stay fixed but the millennial line for ages 28 to 43 will move down next time the data is analyzed. This is almost certain to happen.

The second bit of fudging that's going on is that this chart is looking at home ownership. But a home is not a house. Millennials and Gen Z are more likely to buy an apartment than previous generations. It's not fair to say that a boomer buying a free standing house is equivalent to a millennial buying a two-bedroom apartment. The quality of life and the opportunity for capital gains are much lower.

I had this with Duolingo. Their login fails if the browser can’t connect to recaptcha.net. But it just shows a generic “incorrect username/password” message.

It was $800 so far.

Your point is valid for normal usage patterns where there is a direct relationship between active users and cost. But an attack meant OP’s costs were sky rocketing even though usage was flat.

It’s not really a hack, it’s more the obvious implementation when you’re doing any pixel art.