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viscountchocula··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
Sorry: serious question. What do you mean?
viscountchocula··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
What content shouldn't children be accessing? Is the content a 7, 11 or 16 year old shouldn't access different between age brackets? Who makes that determination? Is this access restriction at the whole site level, or per-post? Does safe-harbor apply, or is a site-operator liable for age-inappropriate content it hosts for its clients? On S3, for example, is each object tagged with an age category, or would it have to be a totally separate S3, like GovCloud?
viscountchocula··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Genuine question: are non-citizen users within the US considered an "export"?
viscountchocula··on Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
But a regular database can do that with PKI. Crypto isn't just a reliable ledger -- it's a reliable ledger between an arbitrary number of mutually distrusting parties. Which doesn't really describe banks in a regulated, functioning economy.
viscountchocula··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
And probably bought a pizza at some point, too. That's not studying. Shameful liar.
viscountchocula··on Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over
Certificate of Need: basically, prove to regulators that there is enough "need" before opening up new facilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

viscountchocula··on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
I wonder if there's a plan to prevent the spam/malware/csam issues of the previous iteration of Send. Maybe that it's a paid service will help stop that?
viscountchocula··on “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
Diversity tends to work best when there's alignment to a common goal, and diversity is adding perspectives on how to get there. Consider creating a product that will be used by people from different cultures or backgrounds. But when there's significant difference of opinion about the directional goal, as is often the case with political/ideological differences, then that diversity can be adding friction rather than insight.

Republicans will never be good at leading the EPA, basically.

viscountchocula··on Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
What was the safety they cared about?
viscountchocula··on The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What's Behind the Government's Black Lines
Can you elaborate?
viscountchocula··on Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it
Presumably the salaried people weren't clamoring for more hours?
viscountchocula··on GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont
Isn't their layoff a tacit admission that they should have grown more slowly, though?
viscountchocula··on What if I’m wrong? (2023)
Out of curiosity, what might that evidence Christianity is wrong be?
viscountchocula··on Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
If you're not yet updated to the January Google Play system, can you keep the phone from auto-updating? I know how to do this for a full Android system update, but not for Google Play Services.
viscountchocula··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
Elon only wishes
viscountchocula··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
That article seems strange. The example shows the opposite phenomenon. The upper layers change temperature quickly (going from 22°C to 6°C over the course of ~500ft. The lower layers change slowly (going from 6°C to around 1°C over the next 6000ft.

The graph makes it look like top changes slowly, but that's because the axes are inverted: the independent variable (depth) is on the Y.

viscountchocula··on Is Math Real?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?
viscountchocula··on Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
In Android, at least, it defaults the checkbox to allow contact and text message sharing. You have to uncheck it before hitting connect. It's not actually an allow/deny contact sharing button. It's an extra step if and only if you want to deny. Dark pattern.
viscountchocula··on State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship
Can you give an example of a lefty state government aggressively pushing for censorship?
viscountchocula··on Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge
Sure. There is definitely a googolth digit of pi. Computing what the digit is, however, is not necessary to prove that such a digit exists.
viscountchocula··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
Not is: can be
viscountchocula··on The entrance fee to America’s museums keeps rising
I love omsi! Have only lived here since 2017, though. What was so extra about it in the '70s that's lacking now (or at least was lacking in the '90s)?
viscountchocula··on “Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?”
The follow-up email was the real kicker.
viscountchocula··on Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it
What does it mean to pay in a funky way?
viscountchocula··on Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2.5k of mum's money without her knowing
Not an apple user. What does "the 10-year-old had managed to change the password to allow payments" mean?

What does one action have to do with the other?

viscountchocula··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
Is there potentially room here for the Librarian of Congress to bless CDL? Or would that require an act of Congress?
viscountchocula··on The Undying Holiday-Suicide Myth
What a poor word choice for the title: "undying", really?
viscountchocula··on The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
No, you need a Google account, but that can use an email address from any domain.
viscountchocula··on Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods
Is it, though? By making disclosure a requirement, the market for sesame-free items is highlighted and elevated. It may find a profitable niche or it may not, but consumers are now better able to choose.
viscountchocula··on Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority
Anyone who can mitm a site can mitm a caa record.
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