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Not the masked cops shooting people in the streets then?

Being “unenforceable” doesn’t stop them making your life a misery in the process, ruining your credit rating etc.

Can someone explain to me why any farmer buys JD? It seems like $1000 oil filters is something farmers would notice and talk about in that community?

I agree. Beyond scale and inertia against moving (and frontier AI models) it’s not obvious to me what would be hard to replicate in Europe given regulation that mandated non-US hos…

Even if these companies monopoly falters after IPO the disruption and distraction to a focus on producing can be a problem.

But now your argument also depends on no opportunity costs for doing unneeded mri, or infinite medical resources. As I said … we really don’t known how much harm billionaires are s…

As someone who was self taught as a programmer and has a reasonable high level understanding of some CS concepts but not lots of experience applying them, and no good mentor, I’ve …

A good harness and engineering is important no matter which model you use. But Sovereignty of hosting is also important because without it all pii is being leaked.

The EU economy has absorbed covid and the Russian war in that time. It’s pretty unsurprising that things are flat. The main thing Europe lacks is economies of scale in investment i…

First, many regular people are “stupid” in the sense that they do get anxious about things that ar slow probability and are not anxious about things that are high probability. If y…

I mostly agree with you by one small wrinkle is that the evaluation of screening is normally against a criteria of cost effectiveness as well as safety. So for some conditions, if …

This kind of thinking (that it’s an obvious lie, perpetrated by a cabal) is the sort of superstitious bullshit that is going to jet us all killed. Look up Bayes theorem. As yoursel…

Europe is currently hosed because we made the mistake of trying to develop economies complementary to the US and china. That was a big strategic mistake. In the US case it was born…

Support bots and question answering with access to sensitive pii?

But if a teenager says he’s going to spend 50k going to university to study engineering you might support then. I agree there is likely some hubris in this sort of announcement, bu…

The culture shift that has generated this is the same one that causes the other story on HN this morning about xAIs gas generators being a national security issue. Ie one towards c…

https://xkcd.com/1319/ I think there will be a lot of this going on for the first few years, till everyone remembers this: https://xkcd.com/1205/

Probably true. But that’s not the position we are in now. Apple is much better aligned with users interests than any one else, at least for short/medium term.

You’re shifting the goalposts somewhat, but the thing this misses is that the cookie banners are the least important aspect of EU data regulation. The principle of consent and of m…

It's shallow because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a real tradeoff. I share a lot of your cynicism about US tech companies, but I think you need to be realistic about the st…

For me, it's real regulations about what data can reasonably be hoovered, what it's used for, for how long. And a culture where the majority don't blindly click yes to all messages…

I do too, but in this case the choice isn't between apple and the EU. It's between apple and the your non-technical friends foolishly trust, without much understanding of the impli…

Yes, there's a lot of cargo culting in web development. Many US based companies also do this for US visitors, which is absolutely not required by the GDPR and related regulations, …

Nothing in the law requires the pop up. It definitely doesn’t require the obnoxious bullshit that most companies put up (aka the dark pattern to get you to agree to every unreasona…