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Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:15PM (#50134128)
See California Civil Code § 3342(a).; https://california.public.law/codes/civil_code_section_3342

“…regardless of the former viciousness of the dog or the owner’s knowledge of such viciousness.”

Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:59PM (#50133972)
Yes, you are. If a dog mauls someone, it’s the owner that’s responsible. This is basic common law, long established.

See People v. Knoller, 41 Cal. 4th 139 (2007). https://capcentral.org/case_summaries/people-v-knoller/

Wow lots of supermarket managers on hn today
Re:The Mathocalypse on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:57PM (#50034790)
It can be summed up as ‘put your money where your mouth is’.

Turnabout is fair play.

Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:29PM (#49903285)
Pretty amazing to see enshitification happen live with a product still in development… Truly web 4.0
Re:OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:47AM (#49867092)
They were never charged, it was just posturing: https://krcgtv.com/news/local/no-charges-for-st-louis-post-d...
I think the shift is in part from learning behavior indicating an ability to apply (‘I wanted to do something so bad I went to the library/college/etc.!’), to the free availability of knowledge leading to a delinkage of knowledge v.s. the ability to apply knowledge and get a desired outcome.

AI can really help the outcome part (by just doing it for you), so for better or worse I see that delinkage continuing.

People who bother to actually learn while using AI will have an edge on those shovel slop, but there’s clearly a difference from previous eras.

Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:27AM (#49685074)
Yep, they are setting themselves up for that. He’s already shown he doesn’t understand how to play DC politics. Maybe he’ll learn, but he and Sam have played this so poorly (and greedily) that public sentiment is clearly soiled on AI at this point.

I could see how standing up an independent body could be an easy win in the public eye, it’s becoming low hanging fruit, socially.

Re:Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:08PM (#49673834)
If ever there was a time to insert a few key visuals to illustrate your point…
Seems like the perfect place to install a credit card scraper… I would not tap anything on that.
Yeah… what was the point of that?
Sounds good! It was a waste to begin with. They can handle first-class.
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:07PM (#48140551)
It’s not crazy… the wages are below food prep. What would be crazy is paying to help someone else’s career. That’s why a well known rule of thumb for graduate program evaluation is whether or not they pay their grad students.

If they pay their grad students, then at least the time the grad students spend creates enough value to offset the cost of paying them.

If not, stay far away from the program.

Also, regarding the career comment: If graduate school is not at least the first step in a given career (it should the second, undergrad being the first), how/why do you expect gifted intellectuals to spend their prime wage earning years doing it?

Most people do not have access to enough wealth to spend prime wage earning years toiling to help someone else’s career with no return on investment.

The chemical differences between PFAS and vitamin A and B6 are beyond vast.

Comparing them betrays a complete ignorance of the molecular properties that, in combination with biological system processes, make A and B6 healthy at small doses and poisonous at large doses on one hand, and those that makes PFAS linearly poisonous at any given doses on the other. (And yes, you can be exposed to small amounts of toxins and be fine. That doesn’t change the toxicity of a given substance.)

Struggling to see how this could be anything but a bad faith argument.

They really are… and it’s just one person too, right?

They’re doing the lord’s work.

If you have to make that trade off you’re already in trouble.
> “…reverse-engineering the computational dynamics of a biological brain and reproducing them in real time…”

Is not an anti-AI argument, it’s an open and unsolved question. Your optimism is appreciated, but the dismissal and assumption this is already solved is foolish and naive.

Mid-tier or not is a judgement call.

Regardless, Lia went from not being in the front of the pack, to being in the front of the pack:

“By the conclusion of Thomas's swimming career at UPenn in 2022, her rank had moved from 65th on the men's team to 1st on the women's team in the 500-yard freestyle, and 554th on the men's team to fifth on the women's team in the 200-yard freestyle.”

65th to 1st in one category, and 554th to 5th in another.

It is fair to say there was a significant increase in rank post-transition.

I use GP, would recommend as well; it generates great color codes tree maps of your storage. Once you get used to navigating it that way, you won’t go back.
Isn’t it more of a reflection of the current law? Age gates have long been self service (e.g., “enter your birthday”), and we have laws on the books for quite some time barring minors.

There is certainly a risk of what you’re describing with KYC tech that coming online, but I don’t know if that means it will happen.

To play devils advocate; It’s a reasonable demand from parents to control what their children are exposed to. This seems to support that.

Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:18PM (#47154457)
So, the premise is high drug costs in the US subsidize drug prices in the EU.

Presumably this conclusion was arrived at because pharma companies sell drugs at a higher cost in the US than they do in EU, Canada, or anywhere else. Therefore elevating profits in the US relative to profit margins in other nations. (Note: they reportedly use the profit to develop new drugs, so this is where the subsidization comes into play, as higher profit markets will drive increased revenue and future drug development.)

And your argument against the premise is: 1. The EU is not at fault, and 2. Drugs cost more in the US because of the poor healthcare system.

Argument 1 does not attack the premise: Undoubtedly the EU is not at fault, the EU does not set drug prices in the US. Pharma companies do, within the context of the US economy, of course.

The premise does not assign fault, it’s an assessment of where profit comes from.

Argument 2 is more direct in addressing the premise, but still misses the point: you might be right, mostly right, or you could be wrong. I lean toward agreeing with the point you made (US healthcare system sucks), it doesn’t address the profit differential across different nations.

So, what about the premise is weak and incomplete?

Pharma shareholders want profit, and the US supplies that at a greater rate than the EU (likely due to the regulatory environment). They’ll take a lower profit margin vs. no profit at all, so they operate accordingly.

None of that goes against the premise that the extra profit from the US market is subsidizing the research costs for drug products that enter the EU market.

Re:A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:33AM (#47108494)
That’s a great question… Currently we’re in the main Chinese holiday period with the Lunar New Year/Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, so perhaps people traveling back home from foreign lands might use the service more during this time?
Re:European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:40AM (#46734569)
America great? Lol… I didn’t say it was a good thing.

Regardless, most EU nations do spend relatively little on their military compared to the U.S., hence the reliance.

Sorry to break it to you.

Re:European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:25PM (#46708644)
That would require a military arsenal. The EU outsourced that to the U.S. a long time ago.
Re:IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:37PM (#46545429)
For Power BI + AI work, you can use the JSON formatted .pbip report and semantic model files. Just fyi.
“almost nothing” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Stalking someone from your desk vs. IRL is a whole different ball game. Not sure why this needs explanation… anyways, the main difference is how easy it do things from your desk. For example, no one see you when you’re stalking someone from your desk. Think of the success of 4chan investigations vs. those in authority to actually do so. It’s empowering.

We live in a world of strangers, and unfortunately a % of those are the type to kill/rape other strangers. Why enable them?

Not sure who else would be empowered by making all public camera accessible at the click of a button, but I’m interested in who you think that population is.

Certainly we can agree most normal folks will not spend their time looking camera feeds of strangers?

I’m fascinated by people who stick to their theoretical principles (‘all data should be public’, etc.) no matter the real world implications, but we all have our own interests :).

It’s anonymity of the viewers combined with mass open-access surveillance that enables an unheard of level of stalking capacity.

Most people don’t like the idea that strangers could easily stalk their child remotely.

It’s the easy of access to surveillance technology that is different. Has nothing to do with the park being safe or not.

Try to think like an evil person with no life and very specific and demonic aims if you’re still having trouble seeing why this would be an issue.

Yep. Until we start holding decision makers responsible for the consequences of their decisions, they will always choose the selfish option.
Yeah it seems silly.

Why is college the primary group factor…? Is there some sort of health effect of sitting college classrooms for 5 years? Seems unlikely.

College education is highly associated and predicted by income/access to wealth.

Wealth inequality seems like a more likely explanation. Not seeing how they controlled for that across college vs non-college groups.

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