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When you give any tool to any law enforcement agency, you give it to all of them, that's just reality.
So the dummies just gave Apple a competitive advantage?
Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:41AM (#48831858)
Things like this is why I no longer support the EU at all.
Agreed, it should be open standards only.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:22AM (#48569384)
Nearly 40 trillion rollers in debt.
Addition has always been very profitable, why we allow it to be done out in the open is beyond me.
Its exactly this kind of stunt being called "art" that has devalued the word out of any positive connotations.
Re:This map is not upside down on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:48AM (#45300148)
Its just a pointless waste of time.
Wind is only useful up to a point, once it gets above 20% of generation capacity ensuing grid stability becomes expensive either through huge price swings or grid level energy storage.
Re:The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:37AM (#43240423)
The people in the 10% changes wildly over time, on average people about to retire have way more than people about to start their first job.
Re:I Had $100k in Debt So I Moved into My Car on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:25AM (#41924289)
Not only is part time work a financially good idea in the short term but it also looks good on a CV even if it's not strictly relevant to the area you want to work in after graduation.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:38AM (#41033694)
Communism is great, don't you know...
Nuclear could have done it, but then the Soviets and Greenpeace came along and ruined it.
Uncontrolled immigration and welfare states don't mix well.
Unfortunately, like most silicon valley companies, Meta has spreading disinformation as a core principle of business, they are only interesting in filtering out certain kinds that are inconvenient truths in the current political climate.
Re:LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet on Sunday April 14, 2024 @11:59AM (#40032053)
If you live off of formulaic click bait, you are in trouble.
Re:Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @09:45AM (#39766403)
I thought fabs require massive amounts of water to function, isn't AZ a pretty dry state?
Re:Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis over $15 minimum wage on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:10AM (#39743932)
Minimum wages just removes opportunities.
Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:51AM (#39510223)
US labor unions are communists where they are social democrats in Northern Europe and Japan. Extreme antagonists vs coorporating partners.
If they cannot get insurance at a reasonable rate they have to react this way. Insurance companies are in the business of knowing risk, and they are pretty good at it.
Re:China solar module prices keep diving on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:16PM (#36451698)
Once the Chinese run out of money or they have killed off the last competition the price will increase again.
It's great for the Chinese to support their military buildup, it's terrible for the environment and the economy as a whole.
This has been known for decades. It's hard to resell a weight loss program that works so the marketing budget is quite low.
Correlation does not imply causation.
The unintended consequences of laws often vastly outweigh the benefits. I am a big proponent of time limiting laws as well as requiring higher levels of support upon renewal, that way laws that have serious unintended consequences will be removed automatically.
Re:Red Scare on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:03AM (#34981405)
100 million dead.
Lockdowns never made sense which is why WHO recommended against them until China started doing them.