"People are used to giving consent for everything" - are there really people who accept non-essential cookies?

"So in order to teach an LLM Taarof you have to teach it to lie". No, just as we don't currently teach them the truth. LLMs are models of text, not the world. They say things that resemble what they have been trained on, without any connection to the facts of the world.

Yours perhaps. I have never even considered my protein intake.

What does this word mean in the Microsoft world?

.. of the IBM Microdrive, which fit in a Compact Flash slot and contained an actual spinning magnetic disk.

"300C, less than half the usual operating temperature"

If you're going to add editorial comments, get an editor who knows some physics.

... that they put an AirTag in the packaging.

Whoever controls the first super-intelligence controls the world.

Of course they should take cryptocurrency holding into account. I would never consider lending money to someone who had substantial cryptocurrency "assets".

A term meaning nothing more than paying extra to show off.

And this is a particularly stupid example.

... the people they ban will form a new splinter group, who will in time start banning another subset. They're really all just as mad as each other.

It's not vehicle owners they should be compensating, it's all the pedestrians who were ever passed by one of their cars.

There haven't been any significant solar flares in the last 6 days. In fact the X-ray flux has been unusually low for this point in the solar cycle.

"users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them"

I don't want advertisements that are relevant to me.

I don't want to see any ads - and mostly don't, because I use an ad blocker. If ads get through, I'd prefer them to be irrelevant to me, so that I won't inadvertently pay any attention to them.