> Obviously there should be some limits on what teenagers and children can access

Is it? The only people who should be deciding those limits are parents. If they fail to set and enforce those limits then any negative outcomes for the child are due to their own negligence, and can be adjudicated as child abuse per those laws.

I agree fully. Limits should be on the shoulders of parents, not the government or any other institution.

Jane Street was also banned from trading in India because they couldn’t stop manipulating the market

Intent is immaterial if the output doesn’t match. The very nature of the product in attempting to coach commenters to argue in the “correct” way goes against your stated goals. This will encourage the kind of algo-speak self-censorship now common on TikTok etc, just more effectively because it at least tries to explain the rules.

The sky’s the limit. The politicians are the ones who set the asking price, and it’s not just money. The cost is a function of how much they think they can squeeze you for discounted by how fervently you prostrate yourself to the throne.

> US 'diplomats' are campaigns big donors, or primary supports.

So in this administration, that would be Epstein clients and co-conspirators. Truly sending the best.

So this isn’t really capitalism then. Crony capitalism is closer to a planned economy then it is to a free market.

This is condescending and fails to clarify your point at all. Are you saying there is no oversight or regulation in governance? Or that there is no oversight on AI? That a government pressuring a private company to change a policy is not regulation or oversight?

When we ask for regulation and oversight from the government, generally we mean regulation and oversight designed to help consumers or citizens and align the interests of institutions with that of the citizens. Yes the US trying to force Anthropic to let them use Claude in mass-surveillance and auto-kill robots is technically regulation, no its not good regulation. It seems to be designed to hurt the average citizen not help them. The oversight that might help here is say the courts or congress stepping in and facilitating a public discussion and legal review on the kind of surveillance the DOW intends to carry out. Is that so hard to understand without being spelled out?

Are you serious? It increases brand recognition and customer loyalty precisely because it is good for the consumer

The comment read as if it implied that companies are doing it for the consumer's benefit, instead of their own.

Which is a false dichotomy. Trade is supposed to be mutually beneficial.

I work in IT and can’t tell you the number of talented software engineers I’ve worked with who were just as bad (or worse) than the most tech illiterate HR person you could imagine. I’d add basic troubleshooting methodology to this list. So many engineers assume they know the problem and start headbashing a fix without bothering to evaluate the scope of a problem, form a hypothesis, or validate that their assumed fix actually worked.

Depends on the instrument. Anyone without experience or instruction is gonna make a fool of themselves picking up a wind instrument. You need to train the muscles in your face and mouth to form the correct embouchure needed to produce a clear note.