Pichai admits Google's AI isn't competitive. He hopes that his new found competition gets regulated to death, and he is doing his part to make sure that happens.

You are certainly correct that I don't know how to get into or recognize positions where tactics will be possible, and I have no idea when to sacrifice pawns. That said, my lichess chess analytics say I'm only seeing tactics 55%-85% of the time, depending on the day. In games I lose, I'm only seeing 34% of the possibilities, so a computer that vibrated when something was possible on the board would help me a lot.

I like to do chess problems for fun. I can spot tactics that are up to 10 moves deep, but in an actual game, I rarely spot anything. If I know a tactic is there, I'll sit there until I find it, but in a game, unless I see something trivial, I assume nothing is there and try not to waste my clock. It'd be a huge advantage for me to have a computer in my pocket that vibrated if there was a game winning move on the board, and I'm terribly rated.

I've never been a fan of bitcoin, and while I'd like to see it die, this has been going on long enough that I still think there are people out there that will buy it at some price.

Are there any prices that would be actually fatal to bitcoin? How low would the price need to go for it to no longer be profitable to mine? If the miners quit, bitcoin would no longer be able to be transferred, right?

You're not wrong, but what is a better solution?

When Russia invades Ukraine, we'll want to discourage that without going to nuclear war. What do you propose?

I run a small support subreddit (forum) on reddit. We have 40,000+ subscribers, and it would be completely worthless to everyone if I didn't censor (ban) all the trolls and spammers. Reddit has some sitewide rules that I'm supposed to enforce, but other than that, they don't directly influence my subreddit (albeit, they have the keys to the kingdom if they want to take over). My ban list spans hundreds of pages (more than I care to count) and it has 25 bans per page.

That's true of most (all?) social media. Your favorite subreddits, forums, facebook groups, slashdot, youtube channels, etc. are all censored by small guys, and they wouldn't exist in a usable form without it.

I realize this article is talking about the parent companies' censorship, but you can't take the stance that all censorship is bad if you want social media to exist and not be a cesspool.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that road damage scaled with how massive the vehicle is. Like most of the road damage done to highways is done by semi-trucks.

A gas tax scales with the size of vehicles because bigger vehicles guzzle more of it, but if we're only changing to price per mile, it shifts the tax burden unfairly towards consumers and away from the corporations fucking up the roads.

Apple is doing nothing but rent seeking on the app store. They don't deserve anywhere near their cut for what little they provide.

I moderate a smaller sub with 30k subscribers. We get a fair number of trolls. Most are trivially dealt with by banning them, but occasionally you get a troll that decides it's their life's purpose to waste your time.

One guy I've banned over 100 times. I'm pretty sure he's around 12 years old. He always posts about fortnite and fortnite streamer drama. He keeps making new accounts. Since ban evasion is a site-wide violation, I've had the admins "deal with him" multiple times. Whatever they do never slows him down.

I'm sure reddit would like to do something about these racists, but the tools aren't really there.

I also cannot write functional code nearly as well as I can write procedural/oop code.

That said, how do you know imperative code isn't easier to maintain because you have more experience writing imperative code?

I know Microsoft has been shady as fuck pushing it, but since Microsoft seems to think it's the last operating system they'll be releasing, I'll likely be forced to upgrade eventually anyway. The last day to upgrade for free is July 29th. Should it be taken advantage of, or is windows 7 the Alamo until they stop releasing security patches for it?

Tilt Brush is just a creative paint program. Plenty of people paint for hours for fun.

I more or less stopped reading Slashdot years ago because all of the news articles appear days behind when they first appeared on the front page of Hacker News. The discussions are much better here, but a slightly better discussion system doesn't justify rereading the same arguments.

Would you expand on this? It sounded like a reasonable assumption to me. If you're saying there are situations where it's not reasonable, it'd be nice to know what those situations are.

but why does Pocket matter?

When they first introduced it, I right clicked it and removed it from my toolbar. I haven't thought of it since, yet there are people threatening to boycott Firefox over it.

I've never about:config disabled it. Is it selling my privacy? Doubling firefox's memory usage? Supporting terrorism?

Why is it news worthy?