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It's a so-called hot-button topic and unfortunately HN isn't quite the paragon of pragmatic technical discussion that it was in the past. C'est la vie.

Discord start as "your private place for your friends to talk" during a time where there were a lot of privacy issues with other communication methods.

Discord started as a way for gamers to chat with one another. Initially the developers even wanted to sell games directly from the platform [1].

I think it would be incorrect to position Discord as a privacy-oriented platform when the desktop client needs to be run in a sandbox because there's no real way to disable data collection.

1. https://www.pcgamer.com/the-discord-game-store-is-now-open/

There’s a fuss because people want something for nothing. This is not at all surprising or interesting.

That's entirely your opinion, but I do agree it is neither surprising nor interesting. It's almost a trope at this point that a company providing something like this ends up milking the consumer to the point the consumer just stops caring.

I don't think there's a productive discussion to be had here. There are obviously two camps and neither are going to see eye to eye anytime soon. What will happen is YouTube will keep trying to milk their users for attention as much as possible (since more attention = more ad time). At some point in the future there will be a tipping point where people just lose interest. And when that happens people will again blame people "want[ing] something for nothing".

They’re not making it worse, they’re monetizing it in a way that’s palatable by those that can’t afford to pay.

If it were so palatable I don't think there'd be such a fuss about it (which there clearly is). Most people don't like ads at all.[1]

1. https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-repor...

According to Tom's Guide[1] Microsoft Edge beats out both when it comes to RAM utilization but Chrome just edges out Firefox when loading >10 tabs. That was in 2021. I'd be interested to see any other comparisons or benchmarks.

1. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-compa...

Could be. We were also on the other side of an entire range of mountains so that may have also had something to do with it.

In the US around 26% of houses use electricity as their only energy source, compared to around 9% for the UK.

Something that was interesting to me when I moved from California to central Oregon was that nearly everything was powered by electricity. I didn't even know anybody with a gas stove in Oregon.

This feels like something straight out of Disco Elysium.

Nobody tell Ted Faro.

The term is clearly used here for marketing purposes.

I think most uses are for sensationalistic purposes. I'd wager almost nobody in the general public really understands what AI is or can pin it down. It doesn't help when so many different media outlets abuse the terminology by using it to refer to different things. What's even worse is that whatever ideas people have about AI tend to come from Hollywood.

There's a great kids magazine called Cricket that I cherished as a child. It's still in print here in the US.

I'm on a laptop (using Firefox). I see a remove result option after I click the dots next to the respective search result. I experimented and I can see it regardless if I am logged into my Google account or not.

I just searched for the term "foo" and clicked on the second or third result.

By all means please let it motivate you to get regular cancer check-ups. I had a basal cell carcinoma removed from the side of my nose a few years ago. I recently went to a dermatologist for something different and was told that I should be coming in at least once every six months for a cancer screening (because I had previously had cancer and because I am whiter than the whitest freckled ghost).

There's currently hullabaloo regarding the Global Privacy Control HTTP header as a spiritual successor to Do Not Track. It's already enforceable in California under the California Consumer Protection Act and the specification suggests they are also targeting GDPR compliance (although I don't know how close/feasible that is).

If it were to see widespread adoption then all you would have to do is change a setting in your browser.

uBlock Origin does this. Enable the "I don't care about cookies" list.

I see, thank you.

I hope this isn't a preview of the future chaos in store for anybody trying to use a device not certified by MS for use with Windows.

Their client is terrible. You can't prevent it from snooping on your processes without putting it in a sandbox.

It's certainly a dream. It would require some type of worldwide disarmament agreement since any power that had a military could ostensibly bully the ones that did not (and just take what they wanted).

Excellent work, thank you.

Just stick them with the Beanie Babies.

I appreciate you including the DOI link in your comment. I like the fact that ACM has released some articles but as someone not entirely familiar with all the different ACM publications I am unsure as to how to sufficiently limit my search query to find downloadable articles. Perhaps they will add a specific "open access" filter to their search (I unsuccessfully tried searching "open access" but perhaps none of the articles are indexed by their availability). Thank you very much.

Do we have to register on the site to get download access? I found something from 1963 I'd like to download but there's no download link[0]. I'm sure I must be making a mistake. I found the article through the dl.acm.org search engine.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1147/rd.24.0289

Oh frabjous day! I have been waiting for this for literal decades.

According to the Facebook statistics page [0], there are over 400 million users on the site. The same page states that about 70% of those users are from outside the US. That suggests that 30% of Facebook users (about 120 million) reside in the US. Let's assume that the entirety of her fan base is within the US. That means her fans only represent (at the _most_) approximately 5.59% of US Facebook users. I wish I had data per state so I could pin this down more thoroughly (wrt to ratios of Megan Fox fans to state populations), but going on just what I have seen so far I am admittedly suspicious of the gentleman's data.

[0] http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

So far it seems that every state I click on has "Megan Fox" in the interests list. I wonder if he cherry-picked his data. :P

Traditionally the Republicans are just contrary to anything the Democrats propose (as far back as I can remember). All of the Republicans I know personally are pro-lifers and this bill specifically addresses the use of government funds with respect to abortion.

So it's probably a bit from each category.

What's interesting to me is that the thing passed with absolutely no Republican support whatsoever.

This insane partisanship cannot last.

Steve Rambam said it, too, but I still don't believe it.

Nope. Delete it here: https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_a...