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  1. In most countries the law doesn't say you have to log everything about your users, but it does say that if you log it and the police ask for it then you have to give the data to them.
  2. It was once considered that, but it was never actually that. Ever since it was founded it was locking up or killing the people with different skin colours, over and over and over and over and over!
  3. On the flip side, that's mostly because London takes all their wealth and crowds out wealth generation
  4. The web is now hostile. If you're starting a search engine, everyone else has written a robots.txt that bans you from starting a search regime. Should you just follow that and not have a search engine? Of course you shouldn't.
  5. Do you live in a place with consumer protections? Sue them - small claims court.
  6. In China you don't criticise the dictatorship and don't be a Muslim and your quality of life improves every year and you get many cool products and services. In the USA they are disappearing people at random and they are banning the import of products and services from the places that are producing them (mostly China).
  7. Well this particular bug was avoided in the C code but not in the Rust code, so if we're going the evidence-based route...
  8. Proton started banning journalists and political dissidents, so they're a joke now.
  9. By selling the default LLM slot, exactly the same way they sell the default search engine slot.
  10. It's stuff that obviously should not be in the web, that is Google EEEing the web...
  11. There's no law that says you have to do that. It used to be a sensible thing to do, in the early internet. In the current internet, obeying robots.txt is a self-handicap and you shouldn't do it.

    DDoS remains illegal regardless of robots.txt.

  12. The other side is a false dichotomy because it implies the only options we have are either blame parents or do nothing.
  13. "computing" is not what today's internet is about. I think you'd actually have more success teaching computing if the internet was turned off.
  14. Your stance is one of those thought-terminating stances. It's not as if parents somehow have more control over their children than the entire world. Yes, they may have a plurality of the influence - they are the single most influential factor - but it doesn't outweigh the entire rest of the world.

    Plus, what are you going to say about children of people who aren't very good at parenting? Do they deserve to grow up addicted to dopamine and groomed into fascism? Or should we try to help them too?

    I don't like the solution of age verification on every social media website, but the problem is real and must be solved if we want the future to be any good.

  15. Humans draw, but humans have been edged out of the business of drawing long ago.
  16. Isn't durable execution just another one of these frameworks that promises to make everything easy if you reorganise all your code into the framework?
  17. What good does that do though? They still have the bug, whether it's marked "unsafe" or not. You could mark every C source file as "unsafe" and that wouldn't magically make C a better language or have fewer bugs.

    This talking point needs to stop. Rust could be a better language but that would be because it causes fewer bugs, not because the bugs are labeled "unsafe"

  18. Isn't that legal in Texas though?
  19. The fact that we banned the better products out of spite doesn't mean they're not better products.

    Imagine if in 2010 the USA had banned itself from using computer hardware more powerful than they had at the time. Where would they be in the AI race? That's the situation the USA is heading for.

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