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I can live with the tears of Google and Elon, frankly. The adtech industry has, time and again, proven they cannot self-regulate to any decent capacity. At this point, the only rea…

China is being very careful to provide enough support not to be seen as abandoning their trading partners/allies, while keeping the support at a low enough level to not get entangl…

Some laptops had them, and came with IR remotes. Some of the marketing was around using those laptops as "media centres", and you could control them from the sofa while it was plug…

Football is extremely popular, and football clubs (and their owners) are quite influential (socially and politically). But it's a little bigger than that. EU is pushing for measure…

Thank you for your openness here - and yes, it would be nice to see this kind of reasoning in the changelog, even if it's tucked a little out of the way! Those of us who care will …

Your comment highlights some tensions in deterrence theory, but it also oversimplifies over a few things. If you notice, most countries with nuclear weapons also have published and…

As someone who suffered from deep depression, but never alcoholism - the way alcoholism is described by alcoholics always rings true with how I experience (and hear described by ot…

There was a lot of inter-community conflict in the years (decades) preceding the formation of Israel, so it wasn't exactly peaceful. That there were some groups (on both sides, tho…

When Iran directly, materially, and openly, supports groups or organizations that have as an overt stated goal to destroy Israel, and actively work towards it (both with indiscrimi…

I'm by no means defending throwing the baby out with the bathwater - which is what's happening when someone abandons a less-aligned company for a completely unaligned one - but I h…

This has been my experience, effectively. Sometimes I don't care for things to be done in a very specific way. For those cases, LLMs are acceptable-to-good. Example: I had a networ…

Just the UK? Not, say, Iran? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._White_(U.S._veteran... Or maybe China, for a US citizen who posted while on US soil, in a US website? https://…

There are Jewish communities within Iran, yes. But peacefully? https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2025-06-27/ty-... (archive: https://archive.is/0qEg9 ) One could blame …

Frankly? I think this is a whole mix of things. There isn't a "real" reason, there's a smorgasbord of them. Why do "FAANG"s RTO? Because they're massive people-movers, and cities t…

This is already the expectation from our leaders. It is the belief of a good % of EU leaders that, if Russia were to push into Poland and the Baltic states, and Article 5 was invok…

Could we not - for the sake of argument here - surmise that, since these AIs need prompts, and usually a few rounds of refinement, and then a selection for uploading to (in this ca…

>I predict we’ll see other vendors removing similar bonehead “features” very very quietly over the next few months. If indeed this happens, I'd hail this event as a victory overall…

>the EU government, as well as our own, wants to eliminate encryption, VPNs or add back doors into systems to some degree. This is a continuous concern - some sectors of the EU ind…

I believe "code" here is being used in the sense that you retrieve YouTube (the website - made of code) with the intent of watching X video. But you don't want some parts of YouTub…

It is an unfortunate reality of how the Internet is built. There's quite a few people like you, that are fine with self-hosted analytics, either because you believe the principles …

When was it not? Telemetry - the act of collecting logs/"metrics" and reporting them back to a remote (tele) station - how could this not be considered telemetry?

You should vote to join the EU, maybe it'll work!

I'm not saying we should discount Putin's viewpoint and others like him, it is after all one of the very few tools we've got to analyse what he'll do. But just because we acknowled…

>But couldn’t you argue the same thing is happening to Ukraine under a US sphere of influence? Isn’t that bad too? I fully agree with you - NATO -is- the US Sphere of Influence mad…

The problem there is that you (and Putin) are viewing NATO's expansion as a curtailing of "Russia's sovereignty". Doing this probably means you take the view that the Spheres of In…