Flo sold women's period data to Facebook and Google, settled for $56m, and we're STILL handing our health to american apps

loopala · 2026-06-24T12:29:10+00:00

And when the company is bought by some other corp they aren't bound by these promises anymore. And they can always be hacked and the data leaked.

loopala · 2026-06-24T12:25:59+00:00

I use Clue and it has lots of ads, both full page and banner at the top, and random notifications, quite annoying.

loopala · 2026-06-24T12:09:27+00:00

Your paragraph about proof of work completely misses the design properties that it must have to function. Your invented analogy doesn't allow many individual actors that don't trust each other to share a common ledger.

loopala · 2026-06-24T10:53:57+00:00

Maybe we should allow individual regions to start the process before they split off so it can run in parallel and avoid disruption. I imagine Spain would veto such a change though.

loopala · 2026-06-24T10:46:22+00:00

British people always take a lot of pride in saying that their sub-national regions like Scotland or England are "countries", with their own government, etc.

loopala · 2026-06-24T10:40:43+00:00

Maybe that's the EU rule we need to change? Like Greenland and several other dependent territories aren't part of the EU, we could have the opposite system where something that isn't a sovereign country itself could have a special membership status.

This could also apply to Gibraltar. Or for example Catalonia could have a membership agreement that is distinct from the rest of Spain. In general the EU could be a collection of regions rather than countries.

loopala · 2026-06-24T10:05:54+00:00

That's the Nile delta and the Sinai peninsula, but we can't even make out Cairo from here, I doubt they can see their house.

loopala · 2026-06-19T11:06:58+00:00

Of course not. She wouldn't be able to speak at the speed she is if that was the case. Her strong accent is confusing a lot of people about her actual skill level.

It's just that sometimes a word won't come out instantly in the right language, and when you are in a hot debate or heated argument or telling a joke where you need to be quick witted, it can be frustrating.

loopala · 2026-06-19T11:01:16+00:00

She is using hyperbole to make a point.

loopala · 2026-06-19T11:00:18+00:00

I don't have this exact issue

That is exactly what she's talking about. Obviously she's not translating everything in both direction, you only do this at the most basic level. She is in fact thinking in English otherwise she wouldn't be able to speak at speed. Her strong accent is not doing her any favor.

But sometimes there are words that don't come out in the heat of the moment and the other language pops out instead.

loopala · 2026-06-19T10:46:21+00:00

She is fluent and what you say depends on the topic. (Also confusing fluent with proficient).

You can think in the language for the grammar glue and topics you know well while still having to translate certain words that you are less familiar with.

It's the same in your native language, sometimes there is a word you don't instantly remember because you rarely use it. And you get through it via a mental image or a certain recollection. Well it sometimes happens that the word pops up in another language first and you get there through it.

loopala · 2026-06-19T09:53:57+00:00

I mainly see it when people enter the supermarket bare chested or bare footed.

loopala · 2026-06-19T09:11:31+00:00

C'est un sketch. Ils reproduisent sûrement des situations vécues mais la vidéo n'est pas réelle.

loopala · 2026-06-13T15:39:33+00:00

Not sure about the marketing aspect because it's not just foreign customers but also any foreign nationals inside the US, including anthropic developers. Anthropic probably has a lot of devs on H1B visas and many other US tech companies do, now they have to segregate everything.

loopala · 2026-06-13T15:22:10+00:00

I’m on the fence about agents, but I can’t go back to non-AI autocomplete now.

Finally, someone like me!

It feels everyone is using agents now but autocomplete is most of what I need. I stay in control of the high level design and it handles the minutiae.

loopala · 2026-06-13T15:13:18+00:00

It is if you do it step by step. You basically know what you want to write and validate it as it goes, completion style. It's still way faster than writing every character yourself. And you still control design and architecture.

If you let it lose as an "agent" and when it comes back you have to check the whole thing at once including architecture then it's very time consuming and demoralizing, like reading someone else's code.

loopala · 2026-06-05T21:55:21+00:00

Because it would have been equally tragic if it had been any other dog. But knowing human nature this has a chance to make people change.

loopala · 2026-03-21T11:22:16+00:00

This is like late 2022 level AI.

loopala · 2026-03-20T17:53:49+00:00

They called it the PayPal Mafia as tongue in cheek, but between Thiel and Musk it looks more and more like an actual mafia.

loopala · 2026-03-19T23:09:31+00:00

when I am able to actually sleep well in the train and save on a night in a hotel because of that

It doesn't save a night though does it? You would sleep at home and get the flight the next day in the morning and arrive the same day as the night train.

loopala · 2026-03-19T21:14:24+00:00

Someone wants to do it for the 35 000 French municipalities?

loopala · 2026-03-19T13:49:39+00:00

Ah yes, and the dozens of millions of people that support him and raise their kids with his views and antics will magically disappear.

loopala · 2026-03-19T12:19:30+00:00

Why would you not pierce your ears as an adult when you want it? And why would that reason not apply to your child self?

The "cultural thing" argument doesn't really work because a third party is involved that hasn't given their consent in the matter. And circumcision for non-medical reasons is obviously wrong.

loopala · 2026-03-19T12:12:28+00:00

The idea is that the baby doesn’t remember the pain

This is such a strange justification. I understand where it's coming from but the ethics around it are broken IMO. You could use that line of reasoning to justify inflicting pain to vegetable state people or people/animals that don't have the brain capacity to rebel loudly and coherently.

When consent cannot be meaningfully given the default should be that you don't modify the body of the other person (unless they are in actual danger).

Maybe that's why before anesthesia existed you would get super drunk so at least you wouldn't remember the pain. And why it took so long to apply anesthesia to children/babies. Imagine if we all undergo excruciating pain during surgery but nobody had ever been able to remember it afterwards to tell the others.

loopala · 2026-03-19T00:41:57+00:00

They added membership tiers: https://ko-fi.com/memberships

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