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To be frank, in my book, relative to inadvertently being fingerprinted and tracked wherever I go, I consider being consistently faced with “let’s confirm you’re not a robot” popups…

> Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard > Zuck: Just ask. > Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS > [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd y…

Use a different browser altogether. Chrome is never ideal for anyone who cares even a little bit about privacy. Use [Brave][0]. [0]: https://brave.com

> But also yes to the cops arresting a kid who posts on social media that he’s gonna kill all his classmates tomorrow morning. I think that everyone (yes, literally everyone) would…

> That is to say I broadly agree with the notion that speech should be relatively unfettered, but I do believe there must be exceptions for speech that actively aims to fetter peop…

Hard agree. I’m always trying to get my fellow young Americans to understand this and it seems to go right over their heads a lot of times. My parents lived through multiple oppres…

> These governments that block social media or control/monitor the internet to avoid critics of government or dissent, whether that be Nepal, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, Germany, China, E…

> Bold of you to assume the majority of developers can read code. Haha. Bold indeed.

As much as it’s true that there’s stochasticity involved in just about everything that we do, I’m not sure that that’s equivalent to everything we do being a stochastic process. Wi…

I think that both of you are right to some extent. It’s undeniable that humans exhibit stochastic traits, but we’re obviously not stochastic processes in the same sense as LLMs and…

> You aren’t specifying your point of comparison. A nightmare relative to what? You might be saying a nightmare relative to what we have now. Are you? Very fair point. And no, it’s…

> If a piece of work lacks such signature, it should be considered AI-generated by default. That sounds like a nightmare to me.

Congratulations on getting hired in this garbage market! I wish you well!

> he's 100% the type of person to lean into the controversy it creates Except, objectively speaking, he actually did NOT do that. He basically just ignored the “controversy” becaus…

Exactly. It’s so obvious that Musk didn’t do a Nazi salute that I can’t believe that anyone who considers themselves to be a serious person would still be pushing that. There’s no …

If an American company chooses to enter a foreign market and do business there, they should be subject to the laws and customs of said market. The complexity that comes with it is …

Even after years of not building anything substantial with PHP, it still maintains a soft spot in my heart. I remember how it felt writing PHP code ~15 years ago and feeling so pro…

> If anything bun proves that both worlds can go together despite what proponents of web standards says Sure, but Bun's implementation is a confusing mess a lot of times. I prefer …

> Hasn't AsyncIterator been available in Node for several years? I used it extensively—I want to say—around 3 years ago. Yes. It's been around and relatively stable in V8/Node.js f…

> And let's be honest, how many of us meticulously read through every single permission pop-up? Most of the time, we just tap "Allow" to get to what we want to do. I do. I also, wi…

> This is why regulating AI is needed, otherwise you're putting life decisions into the equivalent of the magic 8 ball you shake for an answer. I don’t think that regulation is the…

X isn't going anywhere.

Based on all available evidence, I tend to agree with X that this "investigation" does, in fact, appear to be politically motivated. I don't see any substantive evidence to the con…

> Maybe those people are right, though? I think the discussion starts from a place that assumes other people are wrong. If you start there, you will fail to convince people of anyt…