Don't worry, plenty of people are willing to talk about vaccine safety, even if they have no idea what they're talking about and don't understand rates or per-capita figures (lots of crossover there!)

Most problems that aren't reduced to poverty can be reduced to people who can't read graphs and only understand linear functions. Alternative wording "it's normies that are the problem"

I'd argue that normies understand rates and per-capita figures. The people that don't are a noisy minority (and are disproportionately powerful).

How is it that the entire rest of the world has managed to move on, yet North America is still going on with vaccine conspiracies 6 years later? And we got the same vaccines as you guys.

I don't understand the hate about Oscar, even Stallone himself seems to believe it was a bad idea career wise, but I always liked it!

That works well for controlled devices like phones, tablets, and TVs, but it’s much harder on desktops unless you expect parents to become IT administrators.

What's wrong with asking the user on account creation and OS install?

It'd need to be vertically integrated from OS to user space apps, and restricting what can be installed.

I'm not sure to understand the proposed solution here, but it seems someone could just use a different web browser client who don't inherit these restrictions.

> You know the conservatives are supporting this bill as well... right?

That is not true at all.

https://www.conservative.ca/cpc/stop-online-government-surve...

Fair enough, this was not the case when I looked last week. They were "concerned" but had not posted anything in opposition.

And when I looked this morning all I found was they'd asked it to be split into two bills. Implying they want to support some but not all. Which is worrisome.

EDIT: wait, the thing linked here by you only says they want to amend it. That's a far cry from killing the bill. So, no, they're not opposed. The want to split and amend it.

Conservatives are against the whole surveillance on citizens aspect, that is the "Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act" part of this bill about electronic devices and service providers, the core controversial issue of this discussion, which they want removed.

Conservatives have been very critical about it since the beginning. You can find plenty of sources where they discuss this.

This isn’t going to generate billions in additional revenue. That is a huge exaggeration.

I do agree with your underlying argument, though. It will likely help them gain market share for hosting web applications, which is increasing with LLM usage.

Perhaps "potentially billions" is justifiable? In that it's a "change the scenario entirely" level of change.

Certainly if you compare it to another likely scenario where Vercel buys them and fast forward 2 years, it's plausible that a huge number of projects went one way or the other because of what the AIs defaulted to.

It's basically the confidence and being blunt.

Pretty much like that Office Space scene when main character meets the Bobs.

Looking back it seems like a very bad deal.

Limits are beneficial. They should be treated as a design feature, not just a stopgap.

When something is abundant, people tend to waste it.

I’m perfectly happy with my base subscriptions. I have Claude Code and Codex monthly subs, plus a yearly Google AI Pro account because it was a logical upgrade from the cloud storage plan I already had. I think it worked out to something like an extra $10/month for the AI features.

I constantly rotate between them during the week, managing tokens carefully, cleaning sessions and contexts as soon as possible, and being intentional about usage.

I honestly don’t understand the appeal of these ultra-expensive max subscriptions.

It reminds me of that flying orb toy I bought for the kids a few years ago. The battery only lasted about 10 minutes, and the kids would go ape shit crazy while it worked. Then it needed a 30-minute recharge, which created a natural cooldown period.

I actually considered that a good feature. I would never want the thing running nonstop.

I pretty much only use Google for news searches these days. Even then, it’s mostly just to get a surface-level view before cross-referencing with other engines for anything important.

There’s so much content getting buried now.

If you’re looking for anything remotely niche or legally gray, like sports streams or ebooks, you’re often better off using Yandex or you’ll never find it.

The old Google search engine that used to properly index and surface the open web has been gone for a long time.