This sudden battle for morality and ethics came quite all together didn't it?
I guess someone is trying to maintain their control...
Readit NewsSmar commented on Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy items.gog.com/freedomtobu... · Posted by u/HelloUsername
Smar commented on YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens techcrunch.com/2025/07/29... · Posted by u/speckx
What signals could possibly ID teenagers without having hopelessly high false positives?
Google probably has enough pictures taken with the person's phone's camera and recordings taken with the phone's micrphone, along with all other standard data sources like browsing history, searches and so on. There also likely are similar recordings from friends, allowing to properly profile them, with their respective positions in their networks.
So I think they can do it pretty accurately.
Lies, I haven't talked with anyone yesterday.
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Revenue isn't taxed. Profit is.
I suppose you could tax a proportion of your profit at a higher rate, according to the proportion of your revenue that came from advertising.
But advertising isn't a "free cash stream that can be bolted on everywhere". It's part of a business model that either is sustainable or isn't.
If you taxed it that much higher, a lot of businesses would simply go out of business, because people aren't willing to pay a subscription instead. Especially businesses that survive on a lot of users who use something only occasionally. Is that really what you want? Think carefully about how much journalism would be even further eroded...
There cpuld be harmful substance tax, akin to alcohol.
This caught my eye:
> reverse is true for that twin in Finland where rye is more predominant than wheat
Calling yield of 26 mtons predominant over 869 mtons[1] seems like an exaggeration and maybe barley was meant instead of rye? Or I'm misinterpreting something.
[1] https://vyr.fi/app/uploads/2024/01/inengl_1ca381b_Production...
I had thought rye was used for sourdough starter outside of Finland also.
Rye based starter can be used for wheat bread without problems, but it may make sense to feed it some wheat beforehand.
Also if you can find Finnish (== white colored) rye flour, consider baking some sourdough Finnish rye bread.
Smar commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
> No mention of whether the feature is available now on a stable release
> Looking at some of the 20 year old bugs that still exist?
https://gbhackers.com/google-to-patch-23-year-old-chrome-bug/Maybe browsers should be wholly rewritten in Javascript to give a modern refresh ...wait.
Smar commented on Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/kor... · Posted by u/geeknews
Less than 6 bars a day is pretty doable! :-p
Isn't comma the decimal separator ;)