john01dav

That post that I replied to requires identification of the bot too, even if running the bot at harmless rates, which will result in enough hard blocks of all bots to be a problem, thus creating a moat for those who do more work to get around said blocks in legal or illegal ways.

This model is the exact wrong direction for a healthy society. It will just make it harder to use information that's already available to the public, on a public website, and thus just create moats around training data.

Instead, I'd like to see a comprehensive copyright modernization bill that addresses training data, fair use, and copyrights of generated assets, in a fair and balanced way that minimizes moats and tries to address a reasonable compromise of each stakeholder's conflicting wants (being clever to satisfy as much as possible), and then ban websites from discriminating against traffic based on if it comes from a bot or a human. You can set rate limits, even at the network level, if you want as long as they apply to everyone, or charge per request as long as the price is the same for everyone, and so on. But, if I'm allowed to do it manually I should be allowed to do an identical task automatically.

> Well that can't be entirely true, the desktop experience on Windows 10 improved on Windows 8 by leaps and bounds.

In large part, windows 10's ui is more like that of windows 95 because it undid the changes away from the windows 95 paradigm that windows 8 did. Furthermore, those changes away from windows 95 in windows 8 were the exact kind of thing that might be called "mobile first".

What country is this?

Usually when I hear about health insurance being unreasonable, it's the united States. However, denying health insurance for a pre existing condition is illegal in the United States under the affordable care act, and I'm not aware of any exception to this that would explain your situation.

I would be a lot more interested in Proton Mail if it had a better way to do compatibility with Thunderbird (i.e., without a local SMTP daemon, and without fees to access this; I am aware of the technical trade-offs in why this solution may be chosen) and had working notifications on degoogled android. Lacking the latter is especially shocking for a privacy-focused company. You can even get working notifications with Gmail on degoogled android via an app like fair email.

Kia trucks and similiar classes of products (cheap, robust, no fancy features, intensely practical) are very common in some places (notably some parts of Asia) but are also extremely hard to find in the US, primarily due to regulatory reasons. BYD cars are also often cheaper than US options, but are also not available in the US.

Regulatory capture (occasionally outright banning a superior product, but usually just raising the cost of competition) as well as anti-competition wrapped up in acquisition culture severely impair this.

I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this.

(I use Firefox generally, but my employer forces Chrome for many work tasks, and is also very concerned about data security from 3rd party extensions, so Dark Reader is not readily accessible. I use Dark Reader with Firefox at home, and find that it much more frequently has a reasonable result. Another issue with teh Chrome flag is that it is inconvenient to toggle when encountering such a broken website, or when you want light mode.)

I think that T3 Code tries to do something like this, though I do not use it and have not used it, and I have heard good things about this.

I thought that the many provider pay as you go product from OpenCode was Zen. Also, how does OpenCoe Go fit into this?

I agree with the points about wanting to have access to a full disconnect. Reading your message also concerns me about such things becoming socially unacceptable, analogously to what happened with cell phones making disconnection already less socially acceptable than it once was.

However, at the same time, when I am explicitly doing work, I may find it to be preferable to do so in a very physically comfortable environment, like a bed, so I see value in such workflows. However, from conversations about this preference with others, it isn't a common one it seems.

This model assumes that the number of positions is fixed at any given time, but that is not true. Instead, it will fluctuate based on what must be paid. So, to extend your example, without H1B or a similiar program or de-facto state that does the same thing, then we'd get roughly the 900 jobs that are willing to pay the most to be filled, while the rest are not worth the cost of employing someone in this hypothetical market. The result, then, is a higher wage for those 900 citizens.

This is not to say that such programs are bad. To consider that, we must ask questions like:

- Is citizens being able to make much more than non-citizens a desirable outcome? (it's electorally incentivized, since citizens can vote in the relevant elections but non-citizens can not but that is not the same as being desirable in a more broad sense) - How big is this effect? - How badly do we (meaning society at large) want these final 100 jobs done? - How will this affect competition with other countries? - What about outsourcing?

> What real solutions are there?

For starters, in the general case, try having a larger threshold to go in guns blazing, like trying to verify with the residents first, or just knocking on their door normally to address whatever it was instead of a full on raid. The trauma of being subjected to a SWAT raid is obvious, so they should recognize that and more properly balance it with the harm of not doing one, rather than simply doing it.

Looking at the article's specifics for this specific situation, some options are:

- don't violate the constitutional rights of the victims as a court ruled retroactively happened in this case

- ensure that all officers are professional, as the article says that only some were

- add them to the swatting house list

- have basic dignity, like facilitating the person covering up instead of cuffing them naked on the curb; police and prisons seem especially happy to engage in forced nudity in a general case -- it's part of a concerningly high fraction of police abuse news

Paternalism?

Overall, in the United States, I think that prescriptions are far too broadly required.

For example, I get extreme nausea for about 6-8 hours when I get a viral infection. It's truly miserable, and to the point that I must lay down and can't walk for even a few meters (standing up makes the nausea worse). But, the last few times I had this, I had to go completely without treatment (meaning, for me, ondansetron/zofran) because it takes a massive fraction of that time to see a doctor and it's quite difficult to haul myself to an urgent care when I can't walk, and the telehalth doctor that I saw via my insurance company agreed that ondansetron was indicated but his telehealth company didn't have that drug on the allowed prescriptions whitelist, so he refused to prescribe it. This is despite me knowing the exact needed dosage, the exact needed drug, and being reasonably sure that it wasn't a symptom of something more dangerous. Yet, the law says that this knowledge is irrelevant, and I need someone else's permission, resulting in me being in completely unnecessary misery for a day.

And, in that story, it's just a day, and has no lasting consequences. It gets much worse for other people in some cases.

And, could loosening of prescription paternalism result in people making mistakes? Of course. But, I'm allowed to go and buy power tools, to drive a car (licensing requird, but it's realistic to get this license, while the same isn't true for a medical license and even then self prescription is heavily discouraged), and many other dangerous and complex things.