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Yes, defamation. Many such cases are dismissed; this one was not and resulted in large punitive damages being awarded.

Less relevant to this case, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress can also both be against the law in the United States.

That hugely depends on the circumstances.

Most people who have this opinion going in tend to change it when the learn the particulars of the case. Jones absolutely knew he was lying, he did it deliberately, the lies caused incredible real world harm, he knew they were causing harm and he kept doing it because that’s his business model and that’s how he gets rich.

It’s sad that people think this way. As a young child growing up in the 90s in a rural part of a small country, being able to access the “speech” of people around the world via internet forums was a revelation.

Are you really so scared of China that you’d throw that all away?

Isn’t every government putting out a policy paper making AI a focus area? Why is it suddenly nefarious when China does it?

What about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average length of popular non-music YouTube videos over time.

I don’t want to download a random executable from some unknown source. However, I trust the browser sandbox.

But what’s stopping you just using the web page (in a browser that it works with)? Yes, they want you to use the app, but you can still do what you want.

This seems like a much better reason to be suspicious of Opera.

I’m curious, what’s the rationale for this? Is it corporate espionage? Or do you live in China/have family there and engage in online activity that might cause problems?

Is this sarcasm? Globo has never missed an opportunity to be virulently anti-PT.

Yes and that was either because the Clinton administration decided that shrinking the money supply was the right macroeconomic policy, or that they decided that a Democrat president delivering a budget surplus was good politics. At the time both were plausible.

Only because policy makers choose to do so. They could just as easily create the money the pay off the debt out of thin air. But doing so wouldn’t make sense. Governments will never pay off the debt because doing so would not be good macroeconomic policy. The debt doesn’t exist to be paid off.

Governments don’t handle national accounts in the same way households manage their budgets. Don’t think about them the same way.

No, but it might be able to organize a fleet of humans to stock a grocery store shelf.

Physical embodied (generally low-skill, low-wage) work like cleaning and carrying things is likely to be some of the last work to be automated, because humans are likely to be cheaper than generally capable robots for a while.

By that standard, nothing is stable. New features are added to HTML, the Linux kernel, x86, PHP, etc all the time. In fact, building on top of higher level abstractions can sometime insulate your application from this change too.