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Indeed. My point, however, is that Congress cannot pass legislation to compel European governments to share data with the US if/when they decide not to. OP is making a weird claim …

I am pretty sure that European states are already storing data that is out of reach for the US government, and I don't understand how Congress could legislate against this, short o…

> Yes it's always the evil Russians and the stupid people are influenced by TikTok so we need to tell them what they should vote! I didn't call anyone stupid. I have been deceived …

Yes, it sure did. Read my comment on your original post.

What actually happened was that former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton publicly stated on French TV in January 2025 that if the AfD won in Germany, elections there could also be ann…

I am old enough to remember variations of this conversation from 20 years ago. If you scratch, you always find ideology underneath: an antipathy for regulation that puts people bef…

IANAL, etc. but this risk is usually exaggerated by people with a political agenda. EU legislation takes into account the size and purpose of websites. I have never heard of any sm…

If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me, I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it. We ar…

> Maybe not psychologically healthy for the individual, but likely provides some social benefits. I never understood this line of reasoning. What good are "social benefits" if the …

I was raised catholic and I now consider it a form of abuse. Someone close to me was raised evangelic and thinking about this makes her want to puke. The psychological damage from …

Did you even read the declaration? It is precisely about commitments to spend more and buying a string defense. Also, despite what some sources in the US claim, Europe has been con…

Singapore has not managed it by being a "much smaller state", it managed it by being a highly repressive and authoritarian state. Myself, I prefer the junkies on the streets. I act…

Introspection is "looking within". Why should science not be interested in that? It is an aspect of reality. It is not more or less real than galaxies or atoms. I know that it is a…

> Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined. I will give you my favorite definition, given to me by my friend Bruno Marchal, a brilliant mathematician from Brussels w…

Bathrooms need icons because they have to assume users who can't read, or don't know the local language. None of these two problems apply to language selection 99.9999% of the time…

Come on now. Can you point to one single case of something close to this scenario having happened in real life to a small self-hosted WordPress blog? Or even a big one? Governments…

I wonder if advertisers feel the same way. If I was buying ads on YouTube, my least favorite audience would be the people who go out of their way to not see them.

To be clear, I didn't tell OP that he has a bad personality. I don't know OP, how could I know that? What I told him, and do know, is that in my set of experiences this is usually …

Try to find out why, and please avoid Internet "red pill" stuff. I'm not telling you this as any sort of political statement nor am I trying to fight any culture wars here. This is…

My somewhat snarky point was that there is no magic distinction such as: > These were not AIs but rule-based systems with if elses. I believe I already made my point with the ReLU …

It's almost like a chose the example on purpose ;)

You mean functions such as: if x > 0: return x else: return 0 ?

> These were not AIs but rule-based systems with if elses. What is fashionable to call AI these days are ultimately rule-based systems with if elses. It just so happens that it's a…

> This is something I often tell my friends who complain about Calibre: his project his rules. It is hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this. I certainly don't, nor di…