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The UK offers aggressive discounts for advance purchasing tickets on long distance routes at quiet times, which works well.

Probably meant 'cycle' in the sense of instruction cycle, rather than clock cycle.

They can set the rules however they like before the vote, but the Electoral Count Act prohibits states changing the rules around how they appoint electors once the votes have been cast.

According to the article the 1/4e10 circumference definition came second

It's a different kind of ugly, but you can use the Visitor pattern to get the same exhaustiveness checking at compile time without a library.

The problem is the subjective definition of "succeeded", it's never going to succeed on all counts because the problem rent controls is dancing around is not enough supply, and so the solution it's offering is just to change who the winners and losers are in a way that is more acceptable to voters than the status quo. So by that measure they're a success in all the places where voters keep voting for them.

When you take away the government's monopoly on power you get what subsequently happened in Russia, a handful of oligarchs who have all the power instead.

Not sure if it applies in this case, but yes the exact typesetting is a separate copyright.

Seems like they're getting around the complaints about the previously overturned laws by just going after the feed order while not banning access to the underlying content via conventional means.

Lots of people have never experienced depression but don't feel the need to claim that means it's not real.

It's a classic lazy narrative that if you don't understand someone's reasoning behind a position it must be because they're just bad people.

You need to be back at your Mac to install a new profile to circumvent the whitelist, you can't do it from inside your phone.

Yes the whole of Safari can be white/blacklisted, although the way I have it set up if you're in an app with a webview it's still using Safari under the hood, and if that web view lets you browse to an arbitrary site then it can be circumventable that way. You can presumably lock it down further to prevent this, e.g. force the phone to use a specific VPN that you can then control to whitelist certain domains.

It's going to keep coming back for as long as social media makes it easy for adults to find kids' they don't know's accounts.

It's designed for in the road/track, not the vehicle. For train tracks in the UK the recommended max jerk is 0.35 mm/s/s/s. The jerk is limited by using 'Euler spiral' sections to join up the straights and the curves. Travelling along an Euler spiral at constant speed means you feel constant jerk laterally, so can be scaled to keep the jerk below any arbitrary value.

Google is an ad company, listed on Fandom's GDPR notice, they're not going to block a site that is sending them a ton of user data in favour of the official wiki that isn't.

Shout out for "Apple Configurator" for Mac, if a dumb phone appeals to you but can't because there are some apps you really need, I hardly ever see it mentioned in articles like this. It's designed for IT departments to configure all their company phones, but you can also use it to dumb down any iPhone by whitelisting a specific set of apps, it's way better than the parental controls / screen time options.

The problem with 'the content' on 'the phone' specifically is that you always have it with you so (a) it's always there for a dopamine hit at a moment's notice whenever you're bored and (b) creates the societal expectation that you're always online. You don't take TV with you when you leave the house.

Unlike social media/smartphone usage, divorce rates don't suddenly spike in 2010 to match the spike in childhood mental health problems. Despite social media companies best efforts, there is no reasonable alternative hypothesis for what happened globally in 2010 to cause the problem.

If you've got a Mac to hand, Apple provides a free tool "Apple Configurator" that can be used as a more powerful but less slick version of this.

Would that more governments set up app development companies with broader remits under a PSB model to act as a break on enshitification.

> The US doesn't have a history of oppressive government

largest prison population in the world, slavery, Manzanar, Jim Crow laws, McCarthyism, police brutality…

I’d say it’s more analogous to the debate over whether cigarettes or leaded petrol are harmful.

It’s not just hysteria because previous hysterias were from a position of ignorance, whereas with TikTok, etc. everyone has experienced the negative effects of social media, and secondly no teens ever said that their listening to rock music was a problem for them, but when surveyed most teens agree social media is bad for them.

Researchers use “Artificial General Intelligence” to mean what you’re talking about. AI has always been a bit of a nebulous term with moving goalposts that tends to be used to mean “something that humans were significantly better than computers at until recently”. Not that I’m suggesting marketers haven’t deceptively confused the two.

Doesn’t seem like regulatory capture is the issue, if the market was totally free to new entrants and you brought in a low fee card with no rewards then it’s going to fail in an unregulated environment because merchants won’t go to the hassle of offering tiered pricing to low fee cards if they’re not already offering tiered prices for cash, so no-one’s going to give up their existing rewards to still have to pay the same prices. Deregulation just ends up stuck in a local minimum where everyone’s effectively paying for the highest fee cards that the merchant will accept.

Property rights in general are a thing made up by people, we're just arguing over where to draw the line.

asteroid - something that looks like a star, rule checks out.

Intel is a product of Shockley, which was a product of Bell Labs, which was a product of “punishing” AT&T for “being American”.

AT&T would have zealously guarded the transistor patent and never have licenced it out to Motorola, TI, etc. if they only cared about maximising shareholder value.

You can just leverage the “second brain” crowd — for every vaguely well-known non-fiction book someone has written up a summary for themselves and posted it on their blog.

Seems like an odd comparison to make rather than looking at the value of the electricity * total throughput over the life of the product. Tesla Powerwall would break even within the warranty period. Pumped storage has a similar number of charge/discharge cycles before it would break even, it’s just cheaper because it lasts longer.