Linguistically, it meant your control structures looked the same as native language control structures so there was never any dividing line visually between your code and the system.

It also made it really easy to ingest code, and do meta programming.

People aren’t comparing today to the ancient past. They’re by and large, comparing life to when they grew up.

So on HN, that’s the 70s through the 90s.

Since then maternal mortality in the USA has only increased. The reasons vary, but this still supports your comment as less people ought to be willing to risk having more children.

I would add, that this stat also pairs with the prevalence of hard pregnancies in the USA, so people may become more protective of their children since they suffered more to have them.

Other countries don’t have this issue, and also have more free range child allowances (e.g. Japan with low mortality, low number of children, but highly independent children supported and watched by adults in general and not their parents).

It’s not really impossible to do refunds to consumers. Businesses wouldn’t have to be compelled to cooperate either. If they are suitably enticed, they will go through their own records, find rationale for higher prices because of tarries and submit individual records to the government.

Businesses are already basically forced to do KYC on direct to consumer imports so they have the information on file.

It’s only for the wider market, where items aren’t imported to be sold direct, that it’s harder to tell because as you said there is a chain of actors.

I don’t know why anyone would do the mental backflips to defend this.

They posted charts with logos for Claude and others. You had to read the fine details to realize they weren’t comparing to the latest offerings from those companies. They were counting on you not noticing.

There’s zero reason to compare to old models unless you’re trying to mislead.

This door lock doesn’t even work against people speaking French, so I think they could have tried a mite harder.

The up-side of the US market is (almost) everyone there speaks English. The down side is, that includes all the well-networked pearl-clutchers. Europe (including France) will have the same people, but it's harder to coordinate a network of pearl-clutching between some saying "Il faut protéger nos enfants de cette vulgarité!" and others saying "Η τηλεόραση και τα μέσα ενημέρωσης διαστρεβλώνουν τις αξίες μας!" even when they care about the exact same media.

For headlines, that's enough.

For what's behind the pearl-clutching, for what leads to the headlines pandering to them being worth writing, I agree with everyone else on this thread saying a simple word list is weird and probably pointless. Not just for false-negatives, but also false-positives: the Latin influence on many European languages leads to one very big politically-incorrect-in-the-USA problem for all the EU products talking about anything "black" (which includes what's printed on some brands of dark chocolate, one of which I saw in Hungary even though Hungarian isn't a Latin language but an Ugric language and only takes influences from Latin).

I just went through quite an adventure trying to translate back and forth from/to Hungarian to/from different languages to figure out which Hungarian word you meant, and arrived at the conclusion that this language is encrypted against human comprehension.

dark chocolate is "étcsokoládé" literally edible-chocolate in Hungarian.

i heared the throat-cleaning "Negró" candy (marketed by a chimney sweeper man with soot-covered face) was usually which hurt English-speaking people's self-deprecating sensitivities.

En toute honnêteté, je pense avoir dit "damn it" plus d'une fois à chat gépété avant de fermer la fenêtre dans un accès de rage

Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère.

It's like wiping your arse with silk.

The reverse incentive is used by match makers. It works well for people seeking marriage since there is a legal endpoint to be reached that can’t be faked and is meant to be permanent.

We already have administrative punishments for the police when they incorrectly assign blame and cause a public relations mess.

Is the termination of your career and/or potential retraining and social embarrassment not already an incentive to cover up?

If the punishment fails to correct the behaviour, it is insufficient punishment or the wrong punishment. In this case, I'd say that individual punishments are the wrong tool to correct systemic behaviour. It should be career-ending for brass and prosecutors to be effective.

Considering number over outlets versus population served is exactly the wrong way of looking at it.

Fewer outlets serving larger populations means stricter control over messaging, and a better propaganda base.

As a platform operator I think end to end encryption does no good in free products. It just makes you blamed for liability that you couldn’t foreseen or mitigate.

AFAIK, it works with subdomains, so you can use something like employees.example.com as your domain, and capture over that.

The org I work for just makes alias's - @ourbrandmdm.com for ABM that forward to their @ourbrand.com emails.