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What if you "complied" and released your personal version/fork with age verification that no one would use?

What does "stacked" mean in this context?

Can such policies be implemented individually by cities?

David Heinemeier Hansson reports excellent battery life on 2026 Dell XPS 14 with Panther Lake https://world.hey.com/dhh/panther-lake-is-the-real-deal-4bd7...

I'm thinking more of situation where definitions of mass-media are extended to cover individual bloggers. > Professional influencers with over 500,000 followers fall under the Dutc…

My concern is that when we succeed making "our own web" popular, the Big Cos will lobby for legislation that would put burden on all operators, such that it would be unreasonably c…

I'm using a separate app for 2FA with both Google. What forces you to use YouTube app?

> At the time, they were right; it was as good as society had ever been. Debatable. Proponents of "original affluent society" argue that agricultural civilization was a major step …

On the other hand a cotton bag won't contribute to a spoon's worth of plastic in a brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

I have a silly take on this: to avoid rocking the floating city you throw the rocket overboard, let it re-orient itself upright, then use the main thruster to slow down the fall an…

My workaround for this is to always log in from porn/incognito mode where it doesn't remember cookies. Each time I have to type password and go through 2FA.

I'm somewhat disappointed that the article did not describe how you must be crazy to enjoy programming.

That makes sense. Either knock down the walls all the way and empower developers to make decisions, or keep the walls and let all requests go through the pipeline.

> Resist the urge to build walls between people/teams/departments Do you often have to deal with support staff reaching out directly to developers on Slack to investigate some prob…

TIL "babbling idiot" is a technical term https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797603 > failure condition on a computer bus or network in which a malfunctioning node sends data at inappro…

They'll figure something out, some ideas: 1. The cash doesn't have to be withdrawn all at once, it can happen over the course of months 2. The cash can come from earlier cash trans…

unless the kickback takes form of cash or favors

> My stint as a EU McD worker did give me a feel of how well scripted low skill labour can feel like pleasant work. Would you care to write some more about this? I was under impres…

A "verified app" is an app that has been verified not to compete with platform owner's products, doesn't bypass their subscription processing and doesn't in any other way cut into …

I meant that if you have two separate substances, we can reasonably assume they will also be used individually, giving bacteria chance to develop resistance. Then strains with diff…

Bacteria can develop resistance to individual antibiotic mechanism. Then two strains can swap resistance genes to produce a super-bug: https://asm.org/articles/2023/january/plasmid…

Would those companies be able to compete in a global market?

One challenge is that people who must work full-time (or more) can't participate and benefit from free education. At the same time they are forced to fund this free education throu…

I imagine restaurant chains could make this their competitive advantage: "No hidden costs. Service included. No tips expected. What you seen on the menu is the real price" I'd be i…