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I saw this and thought it was MinecraftOnline that shutdown. MCO has a great community, and is pretty much the anti-2b2t. MCO is also German.

Most likely more effective data harvesting. Individual user level AI isn't the end goal I don't think. It's just a nice byproduct. This just means they can embed more data collection, and use your device to crunch the numbers for them.

I only ever see this speak from people on the sending end of marketing campaigns. I can't think of the last time I saw someone say anything positive about corporate content. Personally, I go out of my way to not buy anything that I see marketed towards me.

Link 404's out now..

This very thread is under attack by spam bots...

The dodgy AI product spam attacks have been escalating recently, or so I've noticed. I don't think I've seen this with any other product class here.

NATO has nothing to do with technology regulation.

It sounds like this comes from a misunderstanding of probability and how it applies to physics. Can you explain what you mean?

> Genuine question - what does that phrase mean to you?

Jumped the shark means roughly the same thing as "lost the plot". In that, the current state of affairs has entered into absurd territories.

Yep, exactly why this is not brutalist web design. The site behaviour is unclear and rather frustrating to use. The breaking of the back feature is also bothersome.

Confuse, conflate, insinuate, obfuscate. It's the way of psudoscience pushers and apologists.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to engage in a hypothetical conversation about possibility that unimaginably small gravitational fluctuations affect brain composition to a noticeable degree.

> who knows what happens in the long run

This is simply an appeal to ignorance, who knows indeed. But that does not mean "anything in possible".

> Well, the gravity alone definitely affects us, so also our personality.

You're talking absolute micro-units of G force difference. Within a margin of error of most sensors. Orders of magnitude lower than we can detect as humans physically.

And even if we were not, how is there an obvious correlation between these two?

This is the exact sort of pseudo-scientific nonsense that's being spewed everywhere these days.

You are being downvoted, but it is completely true. This is going to be used in the gurusphere in the way Deepak Chopra abuses the language of quantum physics to justify quackery. While things like this are always interesting, part of me can't help be be depressed knowing it's going to go into the firehose of nonsense we're being sprayed by every day.

It's happening in this very thread in a few places already...

You do realize dang is the moderator for this website, right? You're getting a universal negative reaction to your comment, and it has been flagged to dead. Maybe reflect on that and consider that you might be in the wrong here. If you disagree with this rule, and the opinion of the community at large, you do not have to participate.

Please don't do that, it's no-effort posting. If everyone started posting AI generated comments, this site would become worthless really quickly. Part of why I come here is to avoid the AI and botspam junk that's taking over everywhere else.

In Canada, at least, you have to go to specific stores that only sell either alcohol, or cannabis. So the just having a bill from there would be enough.

Of course, that's the obvious way to prove it. But it _would_ require you to be Satoshi, which he is not. Frankly, the fact he has not done that should be damning enough.

I knew a guy who worked in Finance. Whenever he would buy alcohol, or cannabis (legal where I lived) he would only pay cash. His concern was that, if his credit card usage data were sold, it could increase his premiums.

Third result is a far better StackOverflow post as well, without the irksome formatting of the posted link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/348792/how-do-you-tell-i...

I remember learning Python for my first time, and being constantly inundated with this junk. That or absolutely decade outdated W3Schools. My fear with ChatGPT is that someone's going to set up a no-effort spam generation machine that will make it harder for beginners.

Poor formatting aside, this feels like a blogspam tutorial. Feels like a weird article to be this high on HN. I don't see what's notable here in the vanilla JS features that the author is pointing out.

Indeed - there's a lot of "UX features" in books that make them ideal. Something as simple as jamming your thumb between where you want to go back to, and where you are going. Another point for notebooks as well. I prefer a paper journal to a Notion document for the same reasons.

> In contrast, an uncensored browser is hosted remotely, streaming its interface as video to the user, effectively bypassing Internet filters and blocks, which is particularly beneficial to users living in countries with stringent government controls.

So we stream our browsing habits to a third party who can collect all my data, including which sites blocked by my ISP or national firewall I am accessing. No thanks. I'll stick to a VPN or TOR.

Yes, they must have been a member of the Norwegian Foreningen Svartehattehackere. They are a very strong union.

Instagram does this too on the Explore page. Really graphic things like you mentioned. I'm guessing they're tricking the algorithm by being "high engagement" since, for Instagram at least, you have to click the offending post to hit "don't show me this".

This explains why some of them have missing information. Such as this one:

> Suppose that one digit, indicated with a question mark, in each of the following ISBN-10 codes has been smudged and cannot be read. What should this missing digit be?

It's not on Threads itself, it's the promotion in Instagram for threads. I suspect they're just displaying the top posts of the day. Always political, today they were all about the "Iowa Caucus".

I keep getting "join threads to see more posts like this" notifications on Instagram. Each time it's been entirely filled with people ranting about American politics, or carrying out the same sorts of discussions that kept me off Twitter in the first place.

As a non-American having American politics, or the American viewpoint of world issues, shoved in my face every day gets exhausting.