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Ehehe look how downvoted you are - which literally proves the point.

Humans are a bunch of greedy selfish tribal bastards, aren't we?

Don't worry, I've had similar down voting whenever I've suggested that owning more than one home in a broken housing market shouldn't be allowed.

People make noises about being all in this together but will work against it actually happening, especially Americans (see: your tragic healthcare system).

Actually laughable that in 2026 we could automate most if not all basic human needs to the point that they're free. But you know, we don't.


>Shouldn’t there be a huge market opportunity here for parental control systems

Requires parents to be invested and unlike the OP (appreciate you btw) many parents are not.

No money/use in it unless people actually care enough to invest personal effort into it (which they don't, hence forcing solutions that fuck everybody over, like UK requiring id for adult websites).


Tbf the majority of per individual Internet use is on a phone. Countries other than America exist...plenty of Asian countries where having a phone is far far more common than a laptop let alone a desktop.

Oh I would absolutely love this.

It would prove that many, many parents are incapable of being the responsible adults they should be and will just cave to their kids tantrums about their phone being unlocked so they can watch tiktoks for (sometimes more than) 8 hours a day.

Everyone in the UK is now using a vpn for everything because of these "won't somebody please think of the children" smucks. Now let's see if they make good on their end and lock their child's phone...


Lmao no. You cannot use your common sim card for that. It's for an individual and they will cut your service and justifiably so, if they figure out that's what you're using it for.

If you buy a sim card built for that purpose sure, but then you'll be paying...biz prices!

This isn't really that hard to figure out people. So much outrage in comments on this. Self entitlement to the max from people who really haven't lifted a finger to stop the corporate overlords anyway.


So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned? Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

If you deployed it in a way that did multiplexing such that multiple users could use it at once, then sure—-Business time. But otherwise…


> So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned?

Probably not - you'll get billed or hit a FUP

> Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

The difference is that it is perfectly acceptable to enforce a "no-reselling" or a "no-3rd-party" for services.

I can't think of a single service provider that provides a consumer tier permitting reselling or 3rd-party use.


I can do it pretty easily. The restriction in both cases is so easily overcome it is ridiculous to build your buisness model around it and disrespectful to the customer's intellect.

> it is ridiculous to build your buisness model around it and disrespectful to the customer's intellect

Many things in business are easy to defeat if you’re willing to break the rules. Enforcement is handled through audits, flagging suspicious activity, and investigations.

It’s ridiculous to think that because you can temporarily circumvent a restriction that the rules don’t apply.

I don’t agree with the excessive enforcement used, but there is a lot of tortured logic in this thread trying to argue that the contract terms shouldn’t apply to service usage because the customer doesn’t like the terms.


> restriction in both cases is so easily overcome

We’re like one comment away from HN discovering that insurance fraud is both easy and punishable.

> disrespectful to the customer's intellect

Murder is easy. It’s not disrespectful to anyone’s intellect to then punish it.


I mean it's easy to get away with. Murder, presumably, is not

> The restriction in both cases is so easily overcome

And? Being able to easily bypass a providers rules does not make that rule invalid.


You couldn't Google this?

I mean, even ChatGPT is capable of doing that.


> TFA most commonly refers to Trifluoroacetic acid, a highly persistent, mobile "forever chemical" (PFAS) found globally in water and soil, widely used in organic chemistry as a solvent.

You must be one of those “AI can’t possibly make anyone more productive” folks.

Don’t know about your parent, but I am certainly on of those “AI can’t make anyone more productive”.

Well, at least I would say that while being a bit hyperbolic. But folks like us who prefer to see claims by corporations trying to sell you stuff backed by behavioral research before we start taking the corporation’s word for it.


When I searched for "its in the tfa meaning" this was my third result on Duck Duck Go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

When I searched for "tfa internet meaning", The fifth result looked helpful so I clicked it, and it was:

https://www.noslang.com/search/tfa

Searching the internet wasn’t hard before AI, and it isn’t hard today.


I just googled "what is tfa", and none of the results on the first page were related to the current topic.

Try “TFA acronym Internet forums”.

But surely your search engine must have given you the answer within your first three clicks, if not, perhaps you should consider a better search engine.

The irony is that web searches for an explanation of something often lead to a discussion thread where the poster is downvoted and berated for daring to ask people instead of Google. And then there's one commenter who actually actually explains the thing you were wondering about.

As a Kiwi this is great

Gotta say I haven't seen anything relevant from "top AI" people in a while now.

I think as soon as you get involved in the MBA C level world of finance and shareholders then your life as a scientist is over.

It's now all just self marketing. I suppose we'd all do the same...


They did do it yesterday.

And it produced fake headlines and summaries including the threat of lawsuits from involved person(s).

Apple usually waits until somebody else has refined a technology to "invent" it, but I guess they couldn't wait for this one.


*the whole server uses 2.2kw or whatever, not a single board. I think that was for 8 boards or something.

Oh does it? Thanks for the clarification then. Their home page said 2.5kW so I assumed that's what it is.

To be fair, 2.5kW does sound too much for a single 3x3cm chip, it would probably melt.


More powwwwaaa!

Yeah, though I suppose once we get properly 3d silicon I would not be surprised at power rating for that, 3cm^3 would be something to behold.


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