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> One of the most serious examples is her health insurance. Prost receives coverage through AXA, the French company that provides insurance for the court. She says the company has refused to pay her claims even though it is not legally required to follow the U.S. sanctions.

Then it is high time to make the company legally required not to follow the U.S. sanctions.

Re:Dutch computer museums (2022) on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:30PM (#49936171)
And just last week they opened a store diagonally across from the museum where you can buy their surplus.
Re:DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:07AM (#49905888)
Dating apps are a Cursed Problem: If they worked well, they’d be out of business. Therefore they must not work well.
Re:DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:58AM (#49905833)
I just don’t understand why casino’s feel the need to do that. They already have the edge, they would still turn a profit.

Same goes for banning advantage players. Why? The people that can successfully do it are a vanishingly small group, and even if every single one of them picks your casino because it doesn’t ban advantage players, the sheer amount of incompetent advantage players that would try alongside those would make it so you still turn a profit.

The name FM always bothered me. You're not modulating the frequency, you're modulating the phase. PM would be a better name.

If you were to modulate frequency, well first of all you'd have to define a reference point or you'd just get glitchy sound. In practice that means most FM implementations just have a highly oversampled single cycle of a sine wave in memory, and it's the speed at which the sample pointer consumes the looping sine that's set to correspond to some frequency, and then that value is modulated. In other words, phase modulation.

Re:An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:11PM (#49869224)
No, just tried that. In this case it’s blocked on the recipient side, not on the sender side.
Re:PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:24PM (#49868756)
Actually I didn’t sign anything. And I will watch online content however I want to. You’re free to paywall it or not put it online at all if you don’t like it, someone else will fill the gap.
Re:An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:44PM (#49809796)
It’s actually trivially easy to detect if someone isn’t verified adult: If you DM them something normal it’ll go through, but if you try to send them any image marked as spoiler it’ll show you an error, and they don’t see anything.

So yes, it’s super easy for groomers to focus on children with this update.

Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @06:07PM (#49677716)
You simply do not say something like “we don’t record continuously” if the reality is that you only record when voice control or speech to text is active. Given the entire industry’s track record, the only sane thing to do when confronted with weasel wording is to assume the truth is the worst possible interpretation that isn’t a blatant lie, and even then, sometimes it is just a blatant lie.

Here’s some examples:

- We don’t record continuously -> We record nearly all the time, only stopping to upload the recording.

- We do not sell your data -> But we do “share” it.

- All your data is protected from unauthorized LLM scraping -> But we define all the big tech companies as authorized scraping.

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:19AM (#49621380)
Of course you can. Stockfish plays very different compared to a human, and it never ever blunders or makes mistakes.
That proves what data travels between your computer and the API server, not what data may or may not secretly get shared within processes at the API server.
Valve has in the past given refunds for something that was changed to deliberately no longer work on certain systems. Given that this involves their own hardware devices in this case they're likely to do so here.
Except nobody can prove that those subagents aren't secretly sharing information with the main agent in the backend, and frankly I don't trust Anthropic not to do exactly that to cheese benchmarks.
Given how often dang replies to an @dang post, he clearly has a running search for it. Expecting us to go out of band is ridiculous and won't happen.
Re:The safest job from AI may be writing on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:31PM (#49516092)
There's already been one case where the prompts were allowed to as a subject of discovery, and lying about it is perjury. Lawyers really are probably safe.
Yes, sociopathic tech bros making everything insanely expensive for regular people is indeed incredibly disrespectful!
You’re deliberately bringing up irrelevant minimal counter examples in bad faith.
Yes that is one part of how dog whistles work. Disguise it well enough to get rubes to run interference for you. You’re doing that very well.
This is why you do not disclose anything until the contract is signed.
Re:Norway Should Buy OpenAI on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:03AM (#49358486)
Doesn't change anything. If you buy something for a certain price, regardless of whatever reasons you have for doing so (including but not limited to, being rich and irresponsible, being insane, or doing it for the memes.) Then that thing has that value to you at that point in time.

Whether someone else will share your judgment of its worth is highly unlikely, but it is also entirely irrelevant. Worth has never meant "objective value to literally everyone."

I think you and I interpreted "this site" differently. I interpreted it as the site being linked to, this referring to the subject of the comment. I think you're interpreting it as hacker news?

At this point I'm not sure what was actually meant. The website of the article doesn't set any cookies on my machine, and HN's session cookie likely doesn't need ePrivacy directive consent since it's actually functional.

I did not see any cookies on my machine. Maybe it sets cookies outside of the EU?
It doesn't set cookies so it doesn't have to ask.
Re:EU enforces labeling AI generated content on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:55AM (#49155162)
"May contain X" labels are usually not allowed here with some exceptions. This has some downsides (like deliberately adding allergens to food because it's impossible to make sure there are absolutely none) but in general you can't just hedge your way past regulations.
Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:58AM (#49109382)
Long time contributors risk expulsion. First time contributors will face additional scrutiny. Slaving over your LLM extrusions to make it appear human made, thereby reading and reviewing it, is an acceptable outcome.
How is saying that a model “causes terror” praise?
You’re right though. It is terrific. (Btw you might want to look up what that word means.)
Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:17PM (#49025892)
Not a single person is unaware if their projects are handwritten or vibe coded. Nobody is actually confused or concerned, you are just jaqing off.
Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:15PM (#49025877)
That's fine, you're not welcome there anyway.
Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:03PM (#49025698)
No, the question is a classic case of jaqing off. Not a single person is in actual doubt which side of the line they fall on.

Your second paragraph is a strawman.

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