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EA-3167 commented on End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

falcor84 · 4 days ago

> More than a quarter said that they’d first seen porn by age 11, while seven in ten had viewed it before hitting 18.

Am I the only one doubting that 30% of kids didn't see any porn by age 18? They're probably just uncomfortable admitting it, right?

EA-3167 · 4 days ago

All things being equal, I find it easier to believe in people being dishonest on a survey, than somehow never seeing a single article of porn by age 18.

EA-3167 commented on Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors thedrive.com/news/modern-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

SoftTalker · 6 days ago

Anecdotally, when I pass those roadside speed alert signs, the speed they show and the speed on my speedometer is rarely more than +/- 1 mph. I think modern speedometers are pretty accurate, as long as the OE tire size is used.

EA-3167 · 6 days ago

That my experience too, the speedometer, speed my phone thinks I'm going, and static radar signs all more or less agree. Plus the only times I've been nailed for speeding, I was speeding, not "just kissing" the limit. Point being I don't think +/-1mph really matters in practice 99%+ of the time, it's usually getting tagged when being overconfident in the passing lane or something like that.

EA-3167 commented on Predicted 'neglectons' hold promise for robust, universal quantum computing physicsworld.com/a/predic... · Posted by u/EA-3167

EA-3167 · 9 days ago

The original title had to be reduced to fit the character limit; it was, 'Predicted quasiparticles called ‘neglectons’ hold promise for robust, universal quantum computing'

Posted by u/EA-3167 9 days ago

Predicted 'neglectons' hold promise for robust, universal quantum computing physicsworld.com/a/predic...

Posted by u/EA-3167 10 days ago

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EA-3167 commented on Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors thedrive.com/news/modern-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

gwbas1c · 10 days ago

If anyone's still reading this: As I read this, I think it makes more sense for the police to replace radar with a high-resolution camera and a computer that can determine speed of vehicles.

Any thoughts on that?

EA-3167 · 10 days ago

It's hard to find exact stats because of how procurement and statistics works across jurisdictions, states, etc... but from what I CAN find it seems that LIDAR is more common than Radar these days. Over the whole country it looks like a slight majority lead for LIDAR, but in some (quite populous) states they almost only use LIDAR (PA for example had 93% of their tickets come from LIDAR, and I believe most of the rest used speed cameras or 'clocking' rather than RADAR).

Sources:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/TR/Transcripts/2018_00...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar_traffic_enforcement

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/lidar-sp...

EA-3167 commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

kbos87 · 11 days ago

The couple of times I’ve even done as little as fly through Heathrow it has been apparent to me that the UK is on its way to becoming an unfettered surveillance state, and I never hear anyone talking about it.

EA-3167 · 10 days ago

You say "on its way" as if it hasn't been at the forefront of this for decades. Until China and post-9/11 US ramped up facial recognition and CCTV projects MASSIVELY, the UK didn't just have more CCTV units per capita than anywhere else on Earth, they had the most in absolute terms. Even now last I checked the UK has about 1 camera for every 11 people.

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EA-3167 commented on Sam Altman now says AGI, is 'not a super useful term' cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-a... · Posted by u/belter

duxup · 12 days ago

Neither are most AI related terms. People talk about learning and intelligence and thinking. If it remained a technical term and everyone understood "not really learning..." its fine but it gets out into the wild and man it's not learning it's doing word math and stringing words and bits of words together.

I enjoy using it for programming, I read what it gives me, I test it, but a lot of the AI terms are wonky. AI clearly doesn't "know" what I'm saying or even what it spits back at me.

I suspect like all things marketing and hype, once the hype train leaves the station with a bunch of terms nobody wants to be the guy who says "uh no we're not changing the world, we're doing that we're doing something useful within the limits of the technology".

EA-3167 · 12 days ago

The question is how they get a reasonable return on half a trillion economic activity when the main products are... well what they are. If the real cost of running this ship is actually passed on rather than heavily subsidized, who will bother to use it?

EA-3167 commented on Anti-sunscreen movement sparks concern among dermatologists washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/rbanffy

cosmicgadget · 13 days ago

> “I am definitely a MAHA mom and voted for Trump so that RFK Jr. could get into office,” said Summer Whiteside, 31, an ER nurse from Wildomar, California, in a text message. “After listening to his podcast on Joe Rogan, I knew he was the man for the job.”

Sigh.

EA-3167 · 13 days ago

It's very hard to worry about the long-term health outcomes of people like that. As always the rub is what happens to their children, and it's a lot harder to be glib about them.

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