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Agreed, I doubt that a mega-behemoth like Google or Microsoft could emerge in Europe. Especially not on a compressed timescale. But if they really wanted digital verification witho…

We need to remember how to operate without the Internet, and de-risk our dependence on it. Whether that's reducing the use of computers in our daily lives, or getting more open-sou…

What are the "AI gods" going to do in this scenario? AI is about many things, but a big factor is enclosure.

I don't understand where the all the EU anti-trust and anti-corruption regulators are here. _Governments_ enforcing that you have a Google or Apple account to participate in societ…

It's been dark since the Grimms, and likely long before! I just rewatched it (link in sibling link). It's mocking Farquaad, but I think is clearly meant to be taken as slapstick. I…

I'm referring to this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcm_9YELQE At the opening of the scene, the gingerbread man is being drowned in milk. You see from the shadow, and the …

I was horrified by the literal waterboarding scene in Shrek. Granted it was a year or two before the USA started trying to normalise that form of torture. I don’t know what was in …

I imagine their maths is fine. Their objective is to tackle climate change through raising awareness. That happens at the macro scale.

Luddites were campaigning against child labour and dangerous working conditions, amongst other things. Pick which side of history you want to be on!

Yet here we are talking about the environmental impact of Microsoft data centres in NL. We wouldn’t otherwise be.

I'm sure there was some passive agreement involved, and probably some "politician's syllogism" too. But the null hypothesis is that there is no new legislation to vote on. It must …

You can survive and be exist in society without both.

I doubt those representatives gathered a sufficient mandate from their public given the huge consequence. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but it does seem that there’s an international…

There’s a huge amount of stuff that the EU does that no one consented to, or had a realistic democratic avenue to influence. I’m in the UK and very anti Brexit. But were we still i…

The challenge is to retain an ordering over the result set. How would infinite scroll behave any differently in this case? The changing results seems to be an orthogonal concern to…

Infinite scroll evolved alongside algorithms that incentivise addictive content. So it’s “good” UX in that it’s effective for consuming addictive content… When I’m trying to do som…

Yes. "I rubbished his proposal", i.e. "I criticised his proposal". (I can't imagine what an intransitive 'rubbish' would mean!)

"To rubbish" is a very common verb, at least in British English.

I wonder if it’s malicious compliance on the part of the manufacturers. They can trivially determine if their tech is effective. Making it mandatory, despite the problems they must…

Luckily our investors helped us out with the regulatory capture, so we don’t need to worry about the safety, just the palatability.

Maybe it's the cause of our "bad teeth". (I heard the rumour too. But no-one I know fails to rinse the "washing up liquid" (as we call it) off their plates)

Wow! (No, from dry-cleaning)

Too late, already been done! https://stroodles.co.uk/collections I bought some edible cups out of curiosity a few years back. Nice for coffee. I did end up eating them all, althoug…

Thanks, I might try and reset that 'trust'. I don't recall if it popped up or not originally.

It's a quite old, third-hand car. But there are plenty of people reporting the same thing. But why can't my iPhone let me set permissions for the thing I plug it into? It's unreaso…