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> I think the distinction between political appointee and scientist/researcher stands. I agree with this. I'm a civil servant and I know (personally; my work is nowhere near the la…

Europe is implementing a law that requires software made for profit to hit at least industry security standards. Punishments include the purchaser being able to sue the seller as w…

I've seen coworkers do this to each other when their expertise is in different domains. I find that AI can be incredibly useful, but just text dumping its output into a conversatio…

It was partially completed lowers before this, and general machine tools before that. I support gun control. This feels like theater, not gun control.

They don't want perfection. They want to move things forward, for their definition of forward. If they ban bog standard VPNs and find out they're still being used, they'll punish t…

What would happen if you honestly listed your earnings on your tax forms?

I live in the desert SW after living in far more humid climates. Two weird experiences: Standing outside talking to friends after the sun set, where it's still over 100F outside: I…

Solar power is not free. You can decide to not fix the panel that was being used to power a GPU. Or you could sell the power back. Or you could put it in a battery bank for when th…

I have no clue. But I do think that this is a much better start than letting companies ignore the impact to software consumers or having open source devs be on the hook for volunte…

How so? I'm thrilled that companies are liable for crap that ends up hurting other people. I don't think they should get an easy way out, and I also like that there's a carve out f…

That's apparently already changing in the EU, where software vulnerabilities mean the company is liable for damages. The only way out is to straight up not make any money (not just…

Only referencing America, but professional liability for doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc isn't based on perfection. It's based on a reasonable effort. So Google could, for example…

Are "your guys" a guerrilla force or something? Because the military doesn't give soldiers rifles with guard rails. They give the soldiers intense, rigid training, and then try to …

There are simpler ways to disrupt a flight.

The vast majority of people aren't aware of open versus closed protocols. If enough people they want to communicate with are using it to counterbalance how frustrating it is, they'…

That's the past. Why does Google think it's a good idea to make that the case even if you don't block their crawlers?

A not thoroughly thought out response: Those people would heavily incentivized to protect their ability to vote.

If you sell something to someone and they do computer crimes, you're going to have to prove that you couldn't've known that they're a computer crimer. It's the same thing with sell…

I don't think that using LLMs for medicine is an appropriate fix for the US's healthcare issues. Unless healthcare businesses decide to improve patient care with AI instead of incr…

Calling people dogs by analogy is not great. That aside, corporations and groups don't make decisions. People do. We can understand and empathize with what led them to that decisio…

As other commenters pointed out, rubber/plastics fail. Littmann sells repair kits.

Bike lanes exist to protect cyclists from drivers and to limit how cyclists affect the flow of traffic. Cars stopping in the bike lane shit all over that, just like they would if t…

Your points seem focused on the bottom line and short term extraction of labor from employees, versus actually building a long-term community of healthy, productive people. Like th…

Doctors are continually interviewed every time a patient gets pissed and sues them or files a board complaint. If there's any fault they're (very publicly) assigned remedial traini…

If I had a roommate who spent huge swaths of our monthly budget on house cleaning we didn't need, I might tell them to go find another place to live. Or to stop stretching metaphor…