DeusExMachina

Would you be saying the same if the numbers were different?

Pardons by American presidents:

  - Bill Clinton: 459
  - George W. Bush: 200
  - Barack Obama: 1,927
  - Donald Trump (first term): 237
  - Joe Biden: 4,245
  - Donald Trump (second term): 1,600

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gra...

But in that case your costs don't go up because of AI scrapers, as you don't need to scale employees with traffic.

The two are not comparable. In the US, the presidential candidate is known in advance and people vote mostly for the candidate they want, even if indirectly.

In the EU, no party runs with a candidate for the commission. Those are decided only after the election and are often people that would have lost a party votes if they were known in advance.

My understanding is that it's the same with higher resolution.

Be careful what you ask for. History has proven that such a group will exist at some point.

I would like to be able to filter topics I don't care about. My acocunt is older than yours so I guess my opinion holds more weight according to your metric.

I would expect these features to be opt-in. Even though I agree with it, I would be pretty upset if they just turned it on automatically on my website.

Except, you do.

https://www.howtogeek.com/more-ads-are-coming-to-youtube-pre...

> Perhaps you, a human, read this and think: Well, this world sounds kind of boring. Some of the machines think so, too.

> Most of the machines got bored of the project. But, all of a sudden, things began to get interesting.

> The result was like nothing the machines had ever seen. It was wonderful

> Machine society began obsessing over this development.

> The machines were impressed. And a bit scared.

Boredom, interest, wonder, obsession, being impressed and scared are all emotions that the machines in the story should not be able to experience.

I am an Orthodox Christian and I can tell you that to us, Protestantism definitely looks like a completely different religion.

Despite claiming that they follow Christ, our and their definition of "following" is so different that what they do and believe often looks unrecognizable.

The same can be said about the difference between Catholics and Protestants. Despite our disagreements, the Orthodox and Catholic churches still share a lot theologically. The same cannot be said about Protestants (although, that also depends on what denominations you consider).

It's not to say that we don't share any values. We actually do and there are many individual Protestants that behave in a more Christian way than some members of the Orthodox Church.

However, that is not a highly relevant factor. For one reason or another, there are many atheists and members of other religions that do as well. But those still remain clearly separate and would never be classified as Christians.

Reciprocal actions are not going to affect the whole 60%.

I assume there are very few locations like the UK that are going to be significantly hit by the tarifs and might react with countermeasures that will affect only a small part of the overseas revenue.

Since it's about movies produced overseas, I don't think the nationality of the actors or the overseas revenue counts.

But it probaby counts that it was shot in the UK. The reason why Disney does that is because they get tax breaks from the UK government, which I think it's what Trump is referring to.

You don't need an Apple developer account for Swift on server, Windows and Linux.

You need one only to ship apps on Apple platforms, but that's unrelated to Swift. It applies also to apps written in Objective-C, C/C++, and multi-platform language/frameworks like Dart/Flutter.

It wouldn't be that hard to keep users separated by location.

A data leak from earlier this year suggested that they do, although there is no definitive proof.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24167119/google-search-al...

They could sell a lot of the data that Google now gets for free and uses for its ranking algorithms, like Clickstream sells data to SEO tools like AHrefs and SemRush.

> By nearly every measure Twitter is doing a lot worse

> And Twitter being a private company it’s unlikely anyone can ever get the data support that claim

So, only the data supporting your point of view is reliable?

I recommend looking at your motives. Thinking that people who disagree with you politically want nothing else than other people to suffer, while being unfair and inaccurate, probably betrays your own desires.

The success of Android and Chromebooks is because of the investments of a for-profit multi-billion company.

Isn't a scam not an official taxi, though?

I don't know the situation in Sydney, but where I usually travel, it's the unlicensed taxis that overcharge and scam people, i.e., not the real taxis.

Licensed taxi companies charge standard fares.

I used to love Apple, but through these actions over the years they transformed me into someone who hates them.

Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including:

- Google

- YouTube

- Google Play

- T-Mobile

- X (Twitter)

- Discord

- TikTok

- Pokemon Go

- Snapchat

It looks like they all have the same failure point.

[1] https://downdetector.com

But this is not an algorithm. It's a trained neural network which is practically a black box. The best they can do is train it on different data sets, but that's impractical.

I usually do not like these moves from Apple. For example, I strongly dislike all the new guidelines they added to comply with the introduction of alternative payment systems.

However, I'm on their side in this case. I run a business. If having a feature comply with some regulation meant implementing a whole infrastructure I don't have to serve a minority of customers, I would also abandon the feature.

You are shifting the goalpost. You are now arguing about benefits and disadvantages.

Your original argument was that this is a conspiracy theory, and it isn't.

That is tangential. I linked to a scientific study with a specific conclusion, and it's not the only study to reach such a conclusion.

Science is not done by consensus or endorsement. Studies must be refuted on scientific grounds.

Studies that disagree with your opinion are not conspiracy theories.

> Face masks are harmful

Searching that sentence verbatim on Google produces, as a first result, a paper on the National Library of Medicine [1] that states in its abstract:

> Extended mask-wearing by the general population could lead to relevant effects and consequences in many medical fields.

How is that a conspiracy theory? At most, you can argue that it's not absolutely conclusive or that other studies reach different conclusions. But that's far from declaring something a conspiracy theory.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/

They sure are, but we can argue they shouldn't, or that they should be supervised.

Not that it's going to happen. Too many people slap a device in front of their kids with an unlimited data plan and no supervision.

It's a hard problem to solve, probably as unsolvable as any other wide-scale problem.

What you think are two sides of a spectrum, others might consider to be completely orthogonal.