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Exactly. More power to anyone who wants to fight this. But if the goal is to win that fight, do a better job of fighting, rather than acting like "oh, I have a structure that preve…

Among many other things, privacy. If you know an age range that's more information about the user than you should have, and you can use it for marketing. And if you can ask for an …

Also, llama isn't even open source; it's proprietary, with the source available.

> The reason why llama is open source Llama has never been open source. It's source-available, but still proprietary, under terms that (among other things) say "no competing with u…

> I think that if these types of laws (illinois, california) don't hit a critical mass, we're going to see ID verification become the dominant method of age verification. You are a…

Two reasons people are arguing against it: It moves the Overton window, making worse things easier to pass in the future. And it enforces requirements on projects the state should …

Any advice on how to dismantle and counter such arguments, individually and at scale?

> I really don't think we're in a position of choosing between no age-based access mechanism, and age-based access mechanism. It is impossible to win a battle you stop fighting.

> I will never show fear "never show fear" and "never engage intelligence" are two different things. Understand what people will do in response to your actions, and act accordingly…

> Again, speak with your attorney. Do not try to "hack the law" yourself; many who have tried have regretted it later. Also reach out to the EFF, who may be able to help/advise, es…

It says that the browser must download "an HTML document that still contains the following text". I can see how either interpretation could work, but I would interpret "contains" a…

Personally, if I were interpreting the bet, and that browser behavior had been changed before the day of the bet, I'd interpret that as failure, because the browser didn't show an …

> or command line tool (like curl) Even if you interpreted the bet generously to allow for a browser to render the content using JavaScript, if I understand the bet correctly, the …

> entering the characters http://www.longbets.org/601 into the address bar of a web browser or command line tool (like curl) The part of this that's most likely to fail at some poi…

Exactly. See also statistics for "how many people are left-handed". The incidence of left-handedness didn't go up; acceptance of it went up, and people stopped trying to force othe…

Every system like that I've ever used has three fundamental problems: 1) It's optimized for the restaurant first, and the patrons second or not at all, and it shows. 2) Someone thi…

Articles like this always seem to ignore the case where the sheep is in fact the most salient thing about MacGregor, sending nudes to a minor is in fact the most salient thing abou…

I already said "combination of UBI and healthcare". And I fully expect that to do it properly, we would need to have a government-revenue-to-GDP ratio higher than our current near-…

> you don’t get lawyers fees back for winning a frivolous lawsuit Not automatically, but you can attempt to get them back through the court.

> that would eliminate the 60% or so of the federal budget dedicated to the aggregate of all social welfare programs The combination of UBI and healthcare largely should . UBI serv…

Bets on whether they'll harass people filing such requests?

We should establish UBI and universal health care, not tied to age, and then the concept of "retirement age" can go away.

It was a cute stunt, and it's fine for it to stop working so that sites stop misbehaving.

> why wouldnt you at least stop using the obvious AI-sign, i.e. the long dashes Em-dashes have a long literary history, which is where AI got them from, and they're genuinely usefu…

I genuinely like the trend towards invisible scrollbars that only become larger if you want to drag them with the mouse, and that don't affect layout. This seems like a win for hav…