Would be interesting if this gets through, though I imagine clickwrap agreements largely negate this anyway. Would be cool if informed consent required a snail mail agreement, might hurt adoption/growth metrics enough that big cos would stop being so greedy. Though that idea could backfire itself.
Readit Newsj-bos commented on SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses jurist.org/news/2026/01/u... · Posted by u/voxadam
Your rental car example reminds me of my own "pizza dinner for the team" example. A company I used to work for would order pizza on Thursdays for folks who were working late. No paperwork, no expenses, no manager approval--at 7PM on Thursday, 5-6 boxes of pizza would show up in the break room, and people would spend a little more time at work hacking away. Win win. As the company grew, of course, people being idiots, the free pizza got abused. People would walk into the break room at 7:01, take an entire box, and leave the office. So, sure enough, free pizza night ended.
Because it's easier to just forbid than eat the cost or (heaven forbid!) talk to people.
How much was this pizza costing the company? Pennies in the grand scheme of things. How much were the rental cars costing? Pennies. Probably a rounding error in even the smallest department's budget. You can afford to hire an army of engineers making $100K each, but $10 pizza is where you draw the line? $100 rental cars? Really???
> You can afford to hire an army of engineers making $100K each, but $10 pizza is where you draw the line? $100 rental cars? Really???
If anything it's a double loss. The guys stealing pizza are telling you who they are. Perfect for a paperwork trail to being let go.
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j-bos commented on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) newworker.org/ncptrory/19... · Posted by u/doruk101
It depends on one's definition of dictatorship. I personally do not believe, for instance, the British Crown is one such instance.
Besides that, multiple ways to read this. "Monarchies" could've been a reference to pre modern monarchies of which many made it through at least 3 successions. Or as a correction to the upper comment, saying that the Kim's are more monarchy than plain dictatorship.
j-bos commented on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook simonwillison.net/2026/Fe... · Posted by u/ck2
Facts are the enemy.
I remember reading books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 as a teen thinking, "Cool story, but the US will never look like that." Oof.
I feel that way everytime I go for a walk in a well populated neighborhood, and there's nobody around. Or at work hearing about how people spend hours with their glowing walls of faces that talk endlessly about nothing, they say soon the faces will be able to talk back to!
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j-bos commented on Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future garryslist.org/posts/stan... · Posted by u/gmays
I think by "third world mentalities" he just means devolving into "fuck you, I got mine" low trust societies where everyone is stealing and scamming everyone else because there's no upwards mobility, no social contract where hard work and honesty gets you ahead, it's either scam or be scammed by unscrupulous people who will take advantage of your hard work and trust in the system against you, so that they can get ahead and then rug-pull you.
I see the same sentiment from his comment on young people everywhere in the developed west US, Canda, EU, Australia, etc.
I like to say low trust-worthiness societies. High trust societies are often exploited by con artists and the like who if sufficient then become low trust.
j-bos commented on 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year vktr.com/ai-ethics-law-ri... · Posted by u/ohjeez
> Similar to how free speech doesn't mean you can yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater
While I appreciate bringing attention to ongoing changes in the tech/legal landscape, I'll get my rundowns from a source that doesn't blindly repeat this broken assertion. Doesn't speak well of their research practices.
j-bos commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
Related question:
Who is the highest-ranking US leader who would be able to understand such a statement and ponder it for more than 2 seconds?
Gotta be someone who read/reads hard scifi.