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Yeah, understandable. The problem for me is the desktop app sucks. I need both for browsing sync, passwords and adblock and 3rd party search. Brave works best for me on Mac and iPhone. Most of the extensions I would use are built in, but I dont think it fully supports 3rd party extensions. I am not sure, is that possible on iPhone?

I understand that, and I kind if alluded to this being a concept less than a well thought out policy. If it was strictly profit, then all expenses of the business would be written against advertising and miraculously there would be 0 profit. My general point is that advertising revenue is insanely easy to get, especially with auctions and technology from google. Some of the problems and perverse incentives: - negative engagement in media - advertising screens at gas stations - popups everywhere - hardware devices you own display ads - software you purchase has ads - streaming services you bought without ads have ads added later

You all participate in society, so you get it. Advertising has become a tragedy of the commons and 2nd order effects are things like negative engagement and body dysmorphia. There needs to be a vice tax for advertisements to stop them from being bolted on everywhere. Lobbyists, smart policy makers, economists and lawmakers can come together to find the right mix. However, we should disincentivize it AND use it to make up for budget shortfalls.

While unlikely, I personally believe that advertising revenue should be taxed at 50%. This would do a lot to align industry incentives. Advertising revenue would be looked at less as a free cash stream that can be bolted on everywhere. In this case, maybe the app could be monetized directly instead of whatever the fuck is happening now.

Does anyone know how this can be enforced?

The ruling and situation aside, to what degree is it possible to enforce something like this and what are the penalties? Even in GDPR and other data protection cases, it seems super hard to enforce. Directives to keep or delete data basically require system level access, because the company can always CRUD their data whenever they want and whatever is in their best interest. Data can ask to be produced to a court periodically and audited which could maybe catch an individual case, I guess. There is basically no way to know without literally seizing the servers in an extreme case. Also, the consequences in most cases are a fine.

I guess we reached the preference cascade where the media can finally report on the obvious thing basically everyone has known and thought all along. OpenAI the ethical open source mission driven non-profit is actually......a closed source highly capitalistic company pursuing nearly the exact opposite mission it was founded on.

I don't really see this as equivalent at all. Scammers, spammers and botnets etc. degrade the quality of life on Earth for many people with 0 consent. You could say that this product is disingenuous but ultimately it really only has an impact on dumb rich people. As a more general rule, it depends on the level of deception and the claims being made, but ultimately you are simply offering a product into the market. The other examples you mention are an extreme nuisance in general, but also have huge negative knock on effects from things like mitigation and general behavioral changes.

So it's really small potatoes to me. If some idiot willingly buys a cord for 50x the market price, that is largely on them.

This makes 0 sense. Democrat and Republican "values", to the extent they are even real, no way represent the full spectrum of values one can have.

Further, the Democratic party has a 27% approval rating and the Republican party had like 47% and I bet its falling. So even within your narrow framework this is a bad proxy because both are clearly unpopular.

This is primarily for US citizenship right? Do you offer US citizens help with emigrating as well?

Ah, I fell prey to the double negative and reread the article. I'll leave my comment for histories sake.

Seems to be a positive thing coming out of the Trump government, all other things being so.

Maybe they are just catering to what the market wants? It could be that people who are early adopters in online immersive virtual reality want to see or be men with "ta tas".

I agree, however they probably assume it's their fault or something to do with this arcane black box they use but don't quite understand how it works.

For me, I bought a single DRM book against my better judgement because it was the only available way to get it quickly at the time. Predictably, I eventually lost access to it and never bought another one since.

Why? The Democrats are on track to not see the inside of the executive office for the next 12 years. If the Trump term is moderately popular and he anoints a successor like Vance, it will be pretty unlikely the Democrats will win for 12 years. Democrats are really unmoored here and they have an insanely weak platform. I also generally think DEI, race based stack ranking and identity politics are widely unpopular. So I don't think you will see these pages come back broadly.

Driverless taxis already exists?

I think we'll have a decade of chaos but not because of this. A lot of stories during the election cycle in news media and on the internet were simply Democratic or Republican "fan fiction". I don't want to make this political, I only illustrate this example to say, that I was burned in believing some of these things and you develop the muscle pretty quickly. Tweets, anecdotes, images and even stories reported by "reputable" media companies already require a degree of critical thinking.

I haven't really believed in aliens existing on earth for most of my adult life. However, I have sort of come around to at least entertaining the idea in recent years but would need solid photographic or video evidence. I am now convinced that aliens could basically land in broad daylight in 3 years while being heavily photographed and it would easily be able to be explained away as AI. Especially if governments want to do propaganda or counter propaganda.

> This argument ignores the fact that there were other alternatives to Uber at the time, ones that didn't break the law!

Yes, and they owe their current existence to Uber paving the way for them.

Well, as we have just seen, California doesn't have a handle on risk management or insurance pricing. So I wouldn't look for them to set the standard for the industry.

I know nothing about this field, but if the main claim is personnel shortages, it seems like reducing your workforces hours by 75% would not be optimal.

A lot of naive uninformed people who had no expertise and were told by experts how they could never contribute to a problem or field have successfully built businesses funded by the very people who created this community.

This is kind of like the argument that communism is great but no one has been able to implement it correctly yet. "Setting targets" having highly paid DEI consultants, and identity based hiring is what DEI is. Lowercase diversity and inclusion are good ideals, which I think is what you are saying. Uppercase DEI are the exact policies we are talking about here.

> I know, I know. The evidence is unambiguous that the bar was lowered, deliberately, over many years and with direct knowledge. The evidence is unambiguous that a cheating scandal occurred. The whole thing is as explosive as any I’ve seen, and it touches on a lot of long-running frustrations.

This is likely the most common complaint about DEI, it provides grounds for race based discrimination and lowers the bar. I am sure this was not the only government agency that did something like this and it will really hurt the Democrats chances of success for the future. Their core messaging has really boiled down to "black and brown people, women and LGBTQ are our constituency" and predictably this has turned a lot of people off the party. Especially since they haven't really delivered much even for these groups.

Where are you buying this? Might be handy for a job search. Zoominfo basically doesn't have a b2c offering and I am not paying several thousand for an experiment in improving my career

This is really cool! Don't all the ladder test cases that achieve >~50 simply snap the PETG implements though? So isn't the test capturing the force to snap PETG at that thickness vs. the actual bonds?

Thanks. I'm not particularly for or against Mr. Beast but this is mostly the kind of thing I would expect from an influencer. Guess he is not as wholesome as advertised if this stuff is true.

Can someone provide a tl;dw? I don't have time to watch a 53min video, and it's tough to skip around the way one might in a structured article. Curious what the main claims are?

I share the general disappointment but to steelman a positive outlook: People in power have always done horrible things and orgs like wikileaks and some from the media counterbalance this. While this was a tragedy, if not for such a strong light being shined on Assange, he surely would've disappeared. At least he is getting freedom now, at least he exposed many important things with his organization and at least he inspired many people to do similar things. It's true I've never really felt worse about the future. Maybe because I was blissfully ignorant, or maybe because things are actually worse. I try (and struggle) to stay positive because it is so easy to be cynical and detractive and I think that ultimately makes things worse for the world AND my own mental health.

Yeah, I remember how it felt when I first used Google. You could search something like "xck-956-fg" and some obscure part would show up. Obviously they have amazing technology as some of that "magic" is still there when you can search items by just taking a picture, so this is a choice on their part to have horrible search.

I use Kagi now as I can tune my searches with rankings and the results are quite good. I am sure Google could create the best and most amazing search experience with little effort. I would happily pay $20 a month for that service.

For now, Kagi and LLMs have brought some of the utility back for search and I am optimistic as the technology of AI improves that information retrieval will significantly improve as search providers will be forced to compete and the technology will evolve

Thats a pretty cynical take. The likely overly optimistic take would be that it would provide a level of usefulness of a highly paid and highly competent personal assistant.

To be fair, in the post he estimates it would be 85% of his net worth but says, please don't worry about us we are fine. The headline is disingenuous because he didn't lose 85% of his net worth he just passed up the opportunity to make a lot of money. The difference is that it is framed like he nearly went bankrupt and had to liquidate everything, when in reality he just passed up a massive payday to eschew and NDA. Still admirable but not quite the same as taking an 85% loss on his current assets

I dislike censorship but I dont mind* moderation. Twitter is impossible to use because you have 0 buy in and common ground. I have no problem with a subreddit that wants to show beheading videos that moderates non-beheading videos from being posted. This is how I believe the town square should work. There is room for everyone to have a space, but it's NOT the SAME space.

Moderation of bots and some content makes sites useable as long as everyone agrees what is OK and what is not OK. Thats how HN functions