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Explain why any for-profit enterprise would ever take any action that wasn't in it's own interest, unless compelled by law.

The only excuses for bad corporate behavior are bad corporate laws and weak enforcement.

I am saying that half-assed measures that rely on the imaginary goodwill of megacorps is getting us nowhere, fast.

How long can we keep trying to put a finger in this particular dike? In five years, most people will be able to run a local LLM capable of whatever nefarious purposes they choose.

The locations of the detonations were indiscriminate, the intended targets were not.

I wish this country had a libertarian right that cared one iota about widespread suppression of civil liberties instead of only whining about taxes.

This is the thing people seem to sleep on when it comes to EVs - they simply drive better than other cars. More responsive, better pickup, smoother drivetrains, etc.

If a home isn't the sole primary residence of a person, it's essentially "vacant" and should be taxed, imho.

Utilizing vacant properties is easier and cheaper than building new ones, by a massive margin. We should do both, but ignoring perfectly good homes in desirable locations being used by nobody is silly.

Tax vacant properties. To high heaven.

UI and UX have decline dramatically in the last 10 years across the board. Most of this can be attributed to hamfisted security measures and data collection/dark patterns to abuse consumers. But why cars? I only drive rentals, so I deal with a different car almost every time, and the lack of simple, physical buttons is a straight up safety hazard.

I learn a lot more from informative posts that add something than critical posts that tear something down, largely because the critical posts are basic and repetitive while the informative ones are often novel and offer insider/professional observations.

That you could come up with one reasonable-sounding explanation while they offered nothing makes me wonder if the administration is too lazy, or too inept.

I've been waiting for large-scale molten salt/rock batteries to take off. They've existed at utility scale for years but are still niche. They're not especially responsive and I imagine a facility to handle a mass amount of molten salt is not the easiest/cheapest thing to build.

This sounds better in every way.

> if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.

This is the way. I wonder if we'll ever see the day that consumers get a fighting chance.

The more China advances domestically, especially in this area, the less it has to gain from invading Taiwan. China is getting to the point where the conquest is finally doable (rapidly advancing and massive military, plus a weak US president), but the potential gains are diminishing year to year.

I'd speculate that if they don't invade during Trump's term, they never will, and will pursue a different course down the road. China is nothing if not patient.

Non-verifiable by what standards?

> I can understand culturally incompatible, but what on earth is "racially incompatible"?

It's racists, being racist, and likely conflating skin color with cultural differences.

The real tragedy is that we don't already have regulations already on the books in response to the endless data-hoarding that's been inflicted on us since at least the first tracking cookie.

What does it mean to "leave" the US? I know several people with advanced degrees in the sciences who had children in Europe and raised their kids there for years, but eventually came back. One family returned to Europe a second time. When you have a company or university sponsoring you it's not too difficult to move freely, so "leaving" feels like a moving target for this particular socioeconomic group.

It's all the shareholders care about. These are not research institutions.

Apple's policy is to submit to nearly all requests made by the federal government, though they get substantial credit for resisting some requests. This of course depends on the decisions made by current leadership, which can and will change (while the phone in your pocket remains the same).

Subscriptions.

I agree about immigration, but the world has a large amount of very fertile land in places with very high costs of living. Bringing in large numbers of new immigrants at ultra low pay will have big consequences in most high-cost countries. It's worked well in the US, but that's because of our (former) identity as a nation of immigrants and the massive overlap between US and Latin American culture. In other nations, the outcome could very well be a racially/culturally incompatible underclass working the lowest paying and least consistent jobs, with little-to-no chance of fully integrating.

That's thanks entirely to government-required safety features, not skilled drivers.

Why would they? There is virtually no congestion pricing in the US outside of a few major metros and a huge portion of the population live in areas where the lack of density makes the entire idea moot.

It's because Trump made it one of his obsessions for a period of time, putting it on the MAGA radar.

The literature on this is clear cut. People absorb, metabolize and experience drugs differently, which has a big impact on how addiction takes hold. It's obviously not the only factor! But it's a big one and somewhat quantifiable.

Personally, I wasn't a "trigger" smoker, I was an "every chance I got smoker". I assume my nicotine metabolism is higher than average, which is linked to frequency of consumption and hence propensity for addiction. I also assume I have fast caffeine metabolism since I consume it at all hours with no consequence, but unlike nicotine that's linked to a lower propensity for addiction, which matches my experience.

I want to see more autonomous driving news here and everywhere, because I think people are sleeping on it, but this isn't new it's a series of sloppily integrated dark patterns in a trenchcoat.

Not an expert, but the standout thing about ketamine in particular is that it targets an entirely different neurotransmitter pathway than almost all traditional anxiety and depression meds. Traditionally, people treating serious depression or anxiety rotate through a variety of drugs that all hit same small set of neurotransmitters and settle on the one that works the best/sucks the least.

This is why people get excited about ketamine and psychedelics as therapeutics. Otherwise, we're just sitting around waiting for the next round of "new" drugs that manipulate the same pathways as all the old drugs (and carry much of the same risks).