The EU really has managed to compromise itself into an absurd position where the regulation is both incredibly annoying (everyone hates cookie popups) and achieves nothing (publishers ignore your answer and this has no consequences).

Anything that says 2028 or 2029 can't really be assumed will actually happen, I think? Just throw something in to make the numbers work at the imaginary five year horizon.

Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.

A good rule of thumb is whenever the weirdos are screeching "That's communist!!!" the loudest, it's just the most boring and practical and common around the world policy.

Yes it's just, every neighborhood should have a store that sells food, and we'll be operator of last resort if the market doesn't provide. Which is mostly already city policy, just currently they pay a store chain to open a branch instead of operating a store directly.

Yes yes, chosen by the editor, not the author, I don't care, it's dumb.

Good news: only really, really dumb people thought they really wanted free speech on campus

Bad news: There are a deal-breakingly lot of really, really dumb people

It's not even clear that LLMs are a step in the right direction and not a curious side quest.

I'd be careful with “cannot be” here. The evidence only supports “haven't yet.”

I'm not aware of a strong argument that what evolution did with neurons fundamentally cannot be done with transistors. We're just not close to figuring out how.

www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

Not fully guaranteed, however, if they fail to build or energize the site on time. Then it's just a money shredder.

But that couldn't happen.

Doesn't get much more managed decline than find a fiver between the couch cushions to survive six months to the next budget review without a technical default, every six months, forever.

Don't know about the voters, but the promise I'm thinking of most often these days is the one that we're done with managed decline.

A hopeful message to finish. The problems with the UK economy are many, but most of them are solvable, because they are the result of sustained poor policy choices. These policy mistakes have left scars, and some of the damage is irreversible, but the majority of it can be recovered.

Perception is distorted by hysterical UK coverage making it seem like every migrant in the world is currently on a beach in Kent.

Seems important to look at relative numbers: of migrants arriving in France, *almost no one* tries to cross to the UK in a boat. It's like 1%, which matches your intuition that it's not super attractive.

Any other approach is just absurd.

“Here's a menu, you can tick off specific conditions to exclude for a small discount each time. But then you better pray you'll never have any of these conditions! Good luck!”

The negotiate your coverage approach is like something from a Saw movie.