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The issue with that is that it's a very slippery slope. Same laws could be used against people recording police interactions in public, for example, or other interactions where a private citizen is harassing another private citizen. It really needs to be carefully worded to avoid those pitfalls and I have a feeling that a lot of lawmakers would want to keep it intentionally vague.
I'm sure you can guess why Breitbart is blocked so much...
People in Audio Science Review forums do scientific studies of headphones: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?forums/he...
Reminds me of: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
(There seems to be a lot of death-related stats in there, so beware if that's triggering)
As the article points out, having a choice, and not being pressured by society into having kids one doesn't want, certainly is a good thing. On the other hand, as the article notes:
[...] cannot afford to have more children, or because of other policy failures, such as housing shortages [...]
the financial aspect is a huge blocker for those who want to have children. We live in a world where the majority of young people can't afford to live in a city center without 2+ roommates, let alone afford a lifestyle where they have any amount of disposable income, of which a lot is needed to have children.
This policy and societal failure of squeezing every bit of wealth out of the new generation and not giving them anything will eventually drain cities of young people and those cities will be left behind as times change with the newer generations. The cities will miss out on culture, societal change, modernity, eventually of sheer people. See San Francisco, New York, Seoul, etc. It doesn't seem like countries are treating this as the problem it is and I fear for the future of all these currently-popular cities.
Amazing work! Also, thank you for making that feed on the main page, been laughing for a while here :D
(Not the author) Maybe they leveraged https://knowyourmeme.com/? But that can't possibly have all the random memes, could it?
That sounds like a pretty big abuse of their power and potentially raises anti-trust concerns. They could easily wield that power for nefarious reasons and I don't think any of us would want that. We can change laws. Companies should abide by them, however insufficient they may be at a given point in time.
Honestly, I think Jonny Ive makes good industrial design (minus the far too extreme "minimalism" push with the butterfly keyboard MacBooks; they really need an "editor" like Steve Jobs) but their UI/UX design has really not been good. Alan Dye is way worse.
I find modern Apple software UI/UX design to be really devoid of functionality, information density, etc. I'm not the only one with this opinion (just listen to any Accidental Tech Podcast episode where they talk about it).
I don't think the example you gave holds. This is how I would characterize that:
Blocking someone = not buying Wired magazine so you can't read it yourself
Banning someone from the internet = banning Wired magazine so no one can ever read it
This is often the unspoken part but I agree that it's one of, if not the most important aspect for our energy needs. I understand economics can't just be thrown out of the window but I feel like a lot of governments don't see the big picture and invest in these solutions "at a loss" now so we can not have climate catastrophes that make our planet uninhabitable, at least to large chunks of the population.
I see a lot of parallels with Sri Lanka and Turkey. Dwindling foreign exchange reserves, crashing value of the Turkish Lira, trade deficit, arbitrary decision making, etc. Makes me scared for Turkey's future...
If you like Brazil, I would also recommend The Zero Theorem. It's sort of a spiritual successor to Brazil AFAIK. It's maybe not as memorable and iconic as Brazil, though, but worth at least one watch.
Came here to say this. The book is fantastic in itself too and I view the movie more as a "visualization of the parts that Kubrick found the most interesting". I see those two as slightly different art pieces and love them both. The second book was also great but I think it lost a bit of what made 2001 special by the 3rd and 4th books.
The books are actually quite easy to read and as much as I adore the movie of 2001, I think the book's ending is even more visually spectacular. Highly highly recommended.
This is easily Google'able [1], but here you go: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-is-tpm-705f24...
Turkey actually has a very good online portal [1] for a lot of interactions for the government. Anything from obtaining official letters to checking statuses of court causes, etc. can be done over it. Pretty decent iOS app too. Credit where credit is due. Wish the US had as decent of an online portal to all governmental things.
[1]: www.turkiye.gov.tr
Fun fact, there's vodka made from San Francisco fog: https://time.com/4317269/fog-vodka-san-francisco-hangar-one/
Like many people here, I share the negative sentiment towards yellow taxis. It's simply a sordid experience. Arguing with the drivers to not get figuratively (and actually on one occasion in NYC) robbed, trying to convince drivers that where you're going is worth their time, the rudeness you endure, the list is just endless...
As long as taxi drivers resist any improvements to their behavior, companies like Uber will pop up to serve those who can pay for it. I, for one, am fortunate enough that I can pay for it and would continue to use Uber over taxis even if it costs 2x. I cannot overstate how much I hate taxis.
The biggest success of Uber, for me, has been that they raised the bar and showed everyone that this experience can be better.
Also Mari0 (Super Mario + Portal) exists: https://stabyourself.net/mari0/
It really doesn't seem slim to me. This article [0] (which was previously discussed on HN [1]) found that "just 0.1 percent of miners (about 50 operations) are responsible for half of all mining output". So it seems like a very real threat to me. I rarely hear anyone pro-crypto talk about this implicit assumption they make about the mining being "sufficiently distributed & diverse".
[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controll... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29008910
If it doesn't work why ban it?
Precisely because, as you said, "it doesn't work." There's not a good amount of evidence that IQ tests (which vary wildly, BTW) are a valid measure of cognitive ability or an indicator of aptitude toward a task (perhaps other than mental arithmetic or something). It only causes people who may be bad at rotating shapes in their mind or whatever to be discriminated against.
The same way that Google improperly handling quoted searches and returning pages _without that exact string_ is somehow a feature, not a bug.
Couldn't find it now but that was refuted by Danny Sullivan (I think) in an HN thread about the Google search results quality. They gave a pretty convincing explanation of why that may happen (spoiler: it has something to do with the tokenization of words on the website) and I, for one, believed them.
*Edit:* Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30356382
So wake up and smell the Javascript...
The same "scroll-to-load" thing is on Apple News' article images as well and it drives me up the wall. It's nothing but bad UX.
If you'd like to remind yourself of the original demonstration video of a monkey with Neuralink, playing a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXrGH52aoM
So crypto is immutable, "code is law", decentralized, whatever, until people need to roll back transactions and use centralized exchanges because "they already solved these issues"? Seems like a whole lot of global warming just to re-invent a terrible imitation of banking...