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The House Passed the KIDS Act–The Senate Should Reject It

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Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery

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Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

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New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery

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The Local Universe's Expansion Rate Clearer Than Ever. But Still Doesn't Add Up

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Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion

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Our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk

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A New Linux Kernel Driver Wants to Catch Malicious USB Devices in the Act

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LIGO data hints at supernovae so powerful they leave nothing behind

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Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of "anonymous" crime tips

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Call between POLITICO journalist and EU official was intercepted and published

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Supreme Court Wipes Out Record Labels' $1B Piracy Judgment Against Cox

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Observation of the doubly charmed heavy proton Ξcc+

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Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM

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>The article says congress should pass a privacy bill to protect kids.

No. The article says:

   Protect Privacy For *Everyone*

   There is a better way to protect young people online. 
   Instead of encouraging a complicated system of age 
   checks, more monitoring, and more restrictions on access 
   to information, Congress could finally pass a strong, 
   comprehensive privacy law[0] that benefits all users. A 
   great place to start would be to ban behavioral 
   advertising that tracks us across the web—again, for 
   users of all ages.

I'm trying to read your comment in the most charitable way, but it doesn't reflect the article's verbiage or the EFF's position. The best I can come up with is that you badly misunderstood the article and/or the proposed privacy legislation for everyone linked in said article.

Or am I missing something? Do tell.

[0] They even helpfully link to the privacy law they advocate here[1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-onli...

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Play the game here:

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>the result of changes made in the 80's, like gutting anti-trust.

The '90s didn't help a lot either. cf. the repeal of Glass-Steagall[0] which, arguably, did much more to damage the US economy (there's a direct line from its repeal to the 2008 financial crisis) than a lack of anti-trust enforcement.

That said, dismantling anti-trust enforcement (which was pretty hit or miss anyway) didn't help either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla...

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I know, right?

And those fucking cardiac surgeons are forever telling you that your brother in-law, the roofing contractor, shouldn't be performing your triple bypass surgery and that your only option is a "board certified" (whatever that bullshit means -- a couple grand every year, maybe?) heart surgeon. amirite?

And don't get me started on how useless dentists are. I have my own pliers. Geez Louise!

Please.

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You can go find the linked video[0] which long pre-dates any advertisement around it.

In fact, the video is 14 years old and doesn't have anyone[1] from the law firm that linked to it in the video.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joseph_Duane

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>and the retired cop is earning money by giving his "don't talk to the cops" speeches.

Actually, the "retired cop" (he was not retired at the time of the video) was also a law student taking part in the law school lecture at the law school he was attending.

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>It absolutely is. In theory, staying silent or getting a lawyer shouldn't hurt you in court. But it could lead to the police focusing their investigation on you and/or making your life difficult.

This is addressed explicitly and at length in the video linked in TFA.

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>That's the bit that sounds odd. Surely they can't just claim you're not a suspect yet and therefore deny you a lawyer?

IIUC, In a non-custodial situation, they are not required to provide the Miranda Warning[0]. However, the rights mentioned in that warning exist and are in force regardless of your status (custodial/non-custodial). One may invoke them at any time. I recommend doing so loudly if you're within two or three meters of law enforcement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

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>Oh right. I'm entitled to a lawyer if I'm ever taken in for questioning. I didn't realise it was so different.

>Can the police just question you and you have no right to legal representation?

No. You always have the right to legal representation -- at your own expense and, in criminal cases, depending on your financial situation, a court-appointed attorney. In many places, the state will only provide an attorney if you're indigent -- and can prove it.

The Miranda Warning[0] (not Miranda "Rights") is generally required if you're being arrested and/or detained for "questioning."

However. the rights mentioned in those warnings (right to remain silent, right to an attorney, etc.) don't magically appear when the warnings are given. They apply regardless of whether or not the warnings are given -- whether you're a suspect, a witness or the object of a police officer's lustful desires, etc.

What's more, the police are legally allowed to lie to you (e.g., "we have your fingerprints on the murder weapon." to get you to waive your rights).

As I understand the primary change over the past 20 years or so is that if you don't positively, verbally/in writing unequivocally invoke your rights to remain silent and have an attorney present, the police may ignore less unequivocal assertions.

N.B. IANAL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

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>The term is older than Trump. Suing everyone who criticizes you is a classic example of lawfare. The goal is not justice but the chilling effect created by your legal actions.

According to[0] the (aptly named) Lawfare Institute:

   Since the term “lawfare” is controversial in some circles, and subject to a 
   variety of interpretations and uses, a bit more explanation about our 
   understanding of the concept is in order. Going back to the 1950s, the term 
   has frequently been used in contexts wholly unrelated to national security, 
   ranging from divorce law to courtroom advocacy to colonialism to airfare for 
   lawyers.

While the term is often used to do as you assert, it can also have a different remit. cf. some of the topics addressed[1] by the aforementioned Lawfare Institute.

[0] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/about/our-story

[1] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/

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>This is really more about raising revenue for the city than increasing the housing supply.

It is. Increasing the housing supply[0] is a different initiative.

[0] https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/05/mayor-mamdani...

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>Taxes has no income tax. NYC plus ny state has income tax at close to 10%.

That's as may be, and for residents of NYC that's impactful.

The new law targets second homes, which are generally defined as a residence which is not your primary residence. Meaning that the folks affected are generally not NYC (and often not NY state) residents, so the NYC/NY State income tax is irrelevant, as the folks affected don't pay those income taxes.

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>Ok. Where is crypto currency used in a way that fiat currencies cannot be, and is adding value to the world?

>I can think of nothing.

Buying/selling drugs, weapons, hiding bribes/extortion transactions, pretty much anything that the issuers of said fiat currencies would put you in a cage for doing.

That's not to say that fiat currencies aren't also used for such things, but relatively untraceable coins like monero make it easier to do those things across large distances, while fiat currencies need to be physically exchanged.

Addenda: Replying here to Cider9986's (now dead) reply[0[ to the above, where they said:

   So Signal or Tor is only useful for criminals? Privacy is 
   a human right, financial privacy is no exception. 1000s 
   of legal service accept Monero.

   Buy Italian cheese with XMR (https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/LJ4F/)

I'll ask you, where exactly did I say anything about Signal or Tor (I use both, BTW, as well as using monero for the stuff for which it's useful -- to pay for my VPN subscription, among other things)? In fact, I didn't mention either at all. Don't put words in my mouth.

As for your Italian cheese link, GP asked "Where is crypto currency used in a way that fiat currencies cannot be, and is adding value to the world?"

Am I unable to purchase Italian cheese with fiat currency? What additional value is there using Monero to purchase such cheese rather than fiat currency?

I'd also point out that since you replied to me, I cannot mod you down, nor would I have done so if I was able. That said, you're not making a very good argument for monero by railing at (really bad) strawmen, especially since I think monero is a good thing, because governments love to put people in cages for really stupid reasons.

Not sure why you're so bitter/angry, but it might help to talk to someone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101518

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>Can you provide a reason to care for someone that has nothing to do with religion and nothing to do with a personal/societal gain?

Yes.

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>The obvious solution is to reuse the same plastic cup for all customers each morning. Voila, now you save 309 plastic cups/day.

Mysophobes[0] are quite common in the US, so multiple people touching the same cup wouldn't fly here.

That's why many folks won't take mints from a dish at restaurant cashier stations if they're not individually wrapped. Many folks take an extra paper towel in public bathrooms to use on the door handle as they exit.

And on and on.

The US is, mostly, a center-right to far-right country. And as many studies have shown, there's a correlation between higher "disgust sensitivity" and right-leaning folks.

Isaac Asimov drew that distinction pretty starkly in comparing (robot stories and later Foundation follow ons) "Spacers" to "Settlers".

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22436-mysopho...

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>At the US hotel I stayed at they had a waffle machine so that you could eat waffles for breakfast. To make waffles you took a plastic cup to the "faucet" of the waffle machine, filled it with paste and then poured it into the waffle frying pan. Then you threw the cup away. Apparently, there was no need for a more efficient way. Americans seem to be very, very good at working very, very hard but not so good at efficiency.

I suppose that depends on how you define "efficiency." Using disposable cups and self-service dispensers/waffle irons eliminates the need for an employee to stand there making waffles and/or another employee washing reusable dishes.

If you compare the ongoing costs of disposable cups vs. the cost of at least one employee, one might conclude that it's more "efficient" to use disposable cups.

From a societal/global perspective, it may well be more "efficient" to use employees instead of disposable cups, but the corporation that uses the disposable cups can't increase their profits by using employees and reusable cups instead.

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>Only 60% of US households earn enough to pay federal income tax.

That's the problem. It's not a spending problem per se, but the market's misallocation of resources. Too many resources are concentrated in too few hands.

That's not to say we should abandon capitalism, but rather we should change the incentives to support higher incomes more broadly, as we did in the 1950s and 1960s. It's not a coincidence that deficit spending/public debt skyrocketed when we cut the top tax brackets. That changed the incentives from encouraging paying good wages and investing in business growth to hoarding capital and the financialization of everything.

Feel free to disagree, but the historical numbers support that.

tl;dr: change the incentives to broaden the distribution of resources across the economy, strengthening the economy (70% of which is consumer spending) and increasing, in a broad-based way, tax revenues.

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>IPv4 requires a DHCP server.

Windows[0]: Static IP configuration is as simple as typing an IP address into the pretty dialog box. No DHCP required.

Linux[1]: # ip addr <ip4 address> <subnet mask> <device> will set a static IP address

>It requires assigning a range of addresses that's usually fairly small, and requires manual configuration as soon as you need more than 254 devices on a network.

Is 65,536 (172.16.0.0/16) or 16 million addresses (10.0.0.0/8) "fairly small"? Are DHCP servers unable to parse networks that "big"?

>Compare to IPv6: Nothing. All of these just go away.

They most certainly do. But they're not "problems" with RFC1918 addressing and aren't "problems" at all with IPv4.

There are many issues with IPv4 and the sooner it dies, the better. But the ones you mention aren't issues at all.

If you're going to dunk on IPv4, then dunk on it for the actual reasons it needs to go, not made up "problems."

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>Please don't be rude.

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Interestingly, I saw this linked to on Mastodon just now and immediately thought of you.

Check it[0] out. I think you'll find it illuminating.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-a...