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Yes, defamation. Many such cases are dismissed; this one was not and resulted in large punitive damages being awarded. Less relevant to this case, intentional infliction of emotion…

That hugely depends on the circumstances.

Most people who have this opinion going in tend to change it when the learn the particulars of the case. Jones absolutely knew he was lying, he did it deliberately, the lies caused…

It’s sad that people think this way. As a young child growing up in the 90s in a rural part of a small country, being able to access the “speech” of people around the world via int…

Isn’t every government putting out a policy paper making AI a focus area? Why is it suddenly nefarious when China does it?

What about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average…

I don’t want to download a random executable from some unknown source. However, I trust the browser sandbox.

But what’s stopping you just using the web page (in a browser that it works with)? Yes, they want you to use the app, but you can still do what you want.

This seems like a much better reason to be suspicious of Opera.

I’m curious, what’s the rationale for this? Is it corporate espionage? Or do you live in China/have family there and engage in online activity that might cause problems?

Is this sarcasm? Globo has never missed an opportunity to be virulently anti-PT.

Yes and that was either because the Clinton administration decided that shrinking the money supply was the right macroeconomic policy, or that they decided that a Democrat presiden…

Only because policy makers choose to do so. They could just as easily create the money the pay off the debt out of thin air. But doing so wouldn’t make sense. Governments will neve…

No, but it might be able to organize a fleet of humans to stock a grocery store shelf. Physical embodied (generally low-skill, low-wage) work like cleaning and carrying things is l…

By that standard, nothing is stable. New features are added to HTML, the Linux kernel, x86, PHP, etc all the time. In fact, building on top of higher level abstractions can sometim…

Agreed. I recently moved a production app from Zod to Valibot for exactly this reason. I still slightly prefer Zod’s syntax but the performance issues were absolutely killing us.

“Learnings” has a potentially useful nuance, referring specifically to whatever it is one took away from a lesson. I know the word “lesson” itself can also cover that meaning, but …

Oh okay, that makes sense, and I agree with you. That said, paying tax is still important for a number of reasons; and ultimately the national budget is a large bucket made up of s…

How can you be sure it’s not wealth trickling up instead?

Why do you care? The country has never paid back this debt, will never pay back this debt and no-one expects it to.

Some is also conceptually interesting and celebrated, for example the niceaunties project out of Singapore: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/19/auntie...

My partner is a graphic designer and now uses a lot of generative AI in her work. It’s very much an iterative process. She would run hundreds (sometimes thousands) of prompts over …

Netflix and Uber both created new product categories in their respective markets. And both where quite established before there was any real competition in those product categories…

But that simply follows on from a shift in consumer behaviour. It’s nigh impossible to sell literary prose at any significant volume unless you have a sizeable social media followi…

I have no idea what you could mean by this unless you have a very specific personal definition of “government intervention in the market”. The literature makes it clear that govern…