How might you inadvertently download illegal content while searching for legal content?

Oh come on, the vast majority of LW meetups are about as racy as the IRL comment section of HN.

> Paid and provided by "Pay to win games, targeting kids, not preventing fake news

Guess what? New iOS features and YouTube videos are paid-for and provided in the exact same way. Both Apple and Google are complicit in spreading misinformation, advertising to kids and profiting from lootbox/microtransaction revenue. But nobody consciously objects to Apple for partnering with Taboola, or Google for supporting extremism on YouTube. No sane critic lashes out at Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai demanding they donate their life savings to offset the obvious damages they've created.

I think Meta and moreover Facebook is a purely detestable platform. It's absolutely hilarious how unwilling this website is to apply the same criticism to their other favorite services. The cognitive dissonance is arresting.

> Approx half the casualties are civilians

Citation needed for that. None of the news reports, even the heavily biased ones, have reported mass civilian casualties.

> Even obesity can be cured.

Eating less isn’t all that much of a breakthrough, but it certainly highlights how hard it is to get people to do something they don’t want to do.

Exactly. I've found that even with a greenfield project, there is the tension between keeping things simple and avoiding fully-engineering code so as to quickly get to an MVP, and the fact that code that is under-engineered is creating technical debt that becomes more ossified the more you build on top of it.

My current thinking on a solution to this conundrum is this: try to craft the best architecture and engineering you can up-front _vertically_, but drastically reduce the workload by paring things down _horizontally_.