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USA is the exception here. In most countries, even people who are not football fans are pretty aware of how it works. I don't often watch football outside the world cup. I don't su…

You can own and appartment and live in it. For some reason ownership every discussion with USAmericans seems to come with the premise that home ownership implies houses. The vast m…

Many (all?) EU countries have a national ID card, and most (all?) IDs has a chip that can be used for secure document signing. I don't know if it can be used by itself for age veri…

Customer protection absolutely is regulation. Saying otherwise is a No True Scotsman. Good regulation is good. Bad regulation is bad. Being anti-regulation is dogmatic.

> Which raises the question, why would you work hard to create value for others in a system like that? Because creating things for others is a fulfilling way to live your life, and…

> I read on HN that AI's can just interpolate the data they have seen in training No. That can be said about LLMs, but not about all forms of AI. The technique used is not a LLM. S…

Because you can inherit capital. You can also inherit talent, but "the descendants of those worthy are worthy" is a belief humanity spilled a lot of blood to get away from.

The study that defined the 10x engineer defined him as 10x as good as the worst engineer. If there is a 0.1x engineer, and a 1x engineer, that 1x engineer is the very definition of…

> Lines of code has always been a terrible metric. But all else being equal it is a measure. A terrible metric is _worse_ than no metric. A terrible metric can _only_ lead you in t…

Just because it's impossible to solve a problem 100% doesn't mean that it's impossible to improve the state of things. Perfect is the enemy of good. There aren't that many people d…

Freedom of speech is not defined by the US constitution. Free speech is an ideological stance, not a legal definition. US laws protects some forms of free speech and not others.

Same, none of the ones I worked on. But I did more work for Nickelodeon than CN, so I'm not really surprised. I only remember one CN one I did, but I might have worked on two or th…

It's easier (or at least different) to say to your friends "let's go to a phone free bar" than it its to say "let's go to a bar, phone-free". In the first case, a third party came …

Government regulation has mandated USB-C in all devices, which helps me every day. Just to name something in the realm of what the article is about.

A system where this can happen is healthy. The alternative is a system where once legislation fails to pass you are forbidden to modify it and try again. _That_ would be a broken s…

The point of PRs is not to avoid mistakes (though sometimes this can happen). Automated tests are the tool to weed out those kinds of mistakes. The point of PRs is to spread knowle…

I think you are discounting the mental, physical and social toll of being locked up for 10 years. Without autonomy, without privacy, without access to your loved ones (some of whom…

At no point in my life would I choose to spend 10 years in jail for $400m. Only if my current living situation was very poor and this was my only way out of it. I can sort of imagi…

The title doesn't match the article, and it's also not true. The term may have become more widespread after the 2013 book mentioned in the article, but it certainly existed prior t…

Do we know that we don't see adverse health effects on those populations? I couldn't find any studies on the subject. I think it would be very hard to measure, since you can't real…

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape, than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long & generally approv’d" The amount of damage these cam…

The first word of UBI is universal. The entire concept relies on that characteristic.

I think if you materially support the nazis, you are a nazi, regardless of what might be your internal justification. This is a distinction without a difference.

This is not my experience at all with Facebook. Since six months ago or so, Facebook is saying my three option are to pay them a subscription, accept tracking, or not use their pro…

That would fall under Reuse rather than Recycle. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are in the order of best to worst. Recycling is the last ditch effort to not completely waste something. …