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The sensible thing is to abandon these bills. AB1043 is short; you can read it for yourself: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3273385 ``` (b) (1) A developer shall request a …

You are arguing with something I did not say. Yes, it would be nice to know with certainty who is behind these bills. It sucks how much opaque money influences American politics. J…

o_O > Firstly, you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means. I posted that word exactly once in this thread, and I was quoting someone else. But I like…

I'm confused by how my point got so lost. I think Facebook is behind these bills. I think that from personal experience working at Facebook. That an LLM may have arrived at the sam…

No. I think LLMs are garbage. Separately, and unrelated: I think Facebook is behind these bills. The LLM may be garbage and still sometimes produce a correct result.

Thank you for the laugh in these dreadful times. :D

> abolishing anonymity on the Internet. This is what Facebook wants.

Is that an option? Tell me more. Yes, I am looking to sue to stop this insanity. If you're a lawyer reading this, please reach out.

I share your wariness of the LLM garbage, but I believe the conclusions are correct. This has Facebook's stink all over it. I worked there and know of what I speak.

I can understand the "baby mode" desire, but as the other reply pointed out, this does not need to be legislated. The big OS companies can easily offer this feature for those that …

This. If your child needs a helmet to use the internet, as the politicians announcing HR8250 seem to think[1], Apple or whomever is free to offer that as a feature. There is no nee…

Like the authors of these bills, you appear not to understand the technology. Consider AB1043. It mandates that applications check the age of the user each time the application is …

Polar opposite of my experience. To achieve the technical equivalent of changing a lightbulb, spend the entire day wrangling a dozen tools which are broken in different ways, maint…

The point is that some arbitrary number of weeks of vacation isn't the business-destroying choice this founder makes it out to be. Use your PTO. You earned it.

This is unbelievable nonsense. Your employees accrue PTO. If you can't handle them using their PTO, maybe you shouldn't have employees. If three consecutive weeks is a lot to ask, …

What convention? Your manager is a bad manager. Sincerely, A Former Manager

> We're giving billions to Ukraine with zero strategic interest to the United States. This is a bewilderingly head-in-the-sand assertion.

> What other similar books would you recommend? "Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman and "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland occupy roughly the same space in my memory.

My pet theory is that Bitcoin was created by a Five Eyes intelligence service.

Sad this was downvoted; it was the first response I related to. When you're strange, faces come out of the rain.

I forgot the question.

> Living on a Torus I can't help but hear this in Bon Jovi's voice.

This was an uncannily accurate characterization of my time at one of these companies.

You absolutely can host your own email. I do and have since before Google existed. Antispam hurdles do exist but clearing them is just a process. For most people it isn't worth the…

Genuinely not sure if you're trolling or not, but.... > Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings/awards. ... > Edit: why disagree with this? You're asking interne…