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New comment by viscountchocula in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

viscountchocula — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:23:03 +0000

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?

New comment by viscountchocula in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

viscountchocula — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:19:52 +0000

Genuine question: are non-citizen users within the US considered an "export"?

New comment by viscountchocula in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

viscountchocula — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:14:09 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

viscountchocula — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:58:20 +0000

And probably bought a pizza at some point, too. That's not studying. Shameful liar.

New comment by viscountchocula in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

viscountchocula — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:24:21 +0000

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

New comment by viscountchocula in "Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update"

viscountchocula — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:14:16 +0000

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?

New comment by viscountchocula in "“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams"

viscountchocula — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 01:36:10 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes"

viscountchocula — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:17:28 +0000

What was the safety they cared about?

New comment by viscountchocula in "The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What's Behind the Government's Black Lines"

viscountchocula — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:37:53 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by viscountchocula in "Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it"

viscountchocula — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:03:10 +0000

Presumably the salaried people weren't clamoring for more hours?

New comment by viscountchocula in "GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont"

viscountchocula — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:19:08 +0000

Isn't their layoff a tacit admission that they should have grown more slowly, though?

New comment by viscountchocula in "What if I’m wrong? (2023)"

viscountchocula — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:59:24 +0000

Out of curiosity, what might that evidence Christianity is wrong be?

New comment by viscountchocula in "Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update"

viscountchocula — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:29:09 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard"

viscountchocula — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:53:13 +0000

Elon only wishes

New comment by viscountchocula in "Unity's oldest community announces dissolution"

viscountchocula — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 03:12:59 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "Is Math Real?"

viscountchocula — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:49:33 +0000

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

New comment by viscountchocula in "Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla"

viscountchocula — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:13:35 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship"

viscountchocula — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:27:16 +0000

Can you give an example of a lefty state government aggressively pushing for censorship?

New comment by viscountchocula in "Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge"

viscountchocula — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:26:33 +0000

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.

New comment by viscountchocula in "eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive"

viscountchocula — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:58:49 +0000

Not is: can be