Im not a Max user, but I remember Netflix having account tiers for different amounts of streams at once or whatever.

After that, it seems simple, just use a FIFO. If youre allowed N streams, have N streams going, and another person logs in with the same credentials and starts a stream? You just disconnect whoevers been on the longest. Maybe pop up a little message saying "your account allows N streams; a new stream was started from [IP, Geolocation, sub-account profile, whatever] so youve been logged out." If the person who got booted is smart enough to log right back in, whoever connected right after them gets booted. And so on.

The problem would resolve itself very quickly, although it would temporarily result in a huge increase in the sentence "Police said the victim and their attacker were known to each other."

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It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

yes - apologies - you are correct - I was thinking of Merkel

I was a bit surprised to be modded down as a Troll for introducing Popper into a debate on the philosophy of science / epistemology!

The essence of current scientific philosophy was nailed down by Popper:

Popper essentially said that you cannot prove anything, all you can do is try to disprove it and if you fail it is probably true.

Explaining Popper to the great unwashed is difficult but must be within the bounds of a great communicator. Teaching of science in schools does not explain this important point. It must be possible to change the school curriculum to help children discover this and maybe they will help educate the adults.

When future generations look back, they will not be able to believe we had a situation where a failed lawyer with a strong brandname was in charge of healthcare policy of the largest and richest country in the world, and who clearly has no scientific understanding.
It is very uncommon for politicians to have a scientific background : in the UK Margaret Thatcher was the last top level politician who did: she had a PhD in chemistry from Oxford.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

If Palmer really wants to make a difference, rather than trying to copy an American company's product that is currently manufactured overseas for price reasons, he should try to copy the overseas manufacturing processes, capability, etc. I'm pretty certain CNC lathes, laser cutters, EUV lithography equipment, et cetera are all available in the US for anyone willing to spend the money. US-based flexible contract manufacturing capability, immune to tariffs and ITAR, could definitely be a thing.

Yes, this. UNESCO doesn't "do" science, it promotes international cooperation in science. About twenty years ago, when George W. Bush was President, I went to UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the "Third Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands," convened by something called the "Global Ocean Forum," led by the late Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain. At that point in time, the Forum was hosted at the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy at the University of Delaware.

That was an age when the US saw value in having a leadership role in global policy on things involving Education, Science and Culture, the ESC in UNESCO.

We now have a President and administration that sees Education, Science and Culture as things to be attacked. Times have changed.

I've bought a "modern laptop" for $299, for my mother-in-law who didn't use computers until she was about 60.
An "HP Stream 14" or some such. CPU was something Celeron-like, 4GB RAM, Windows in "S mode" (unlocked to run the real thing easily enough)
Took far longer to do anything than the C64 my parents got back in the 1980s.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Yeah, no one reads their product names before launch any more.

I'm not a CS type, but I work in STEM, and having tried numerous times to bring obscure scientific stuff over from Unix or Linux and get it to build on MacOS, I absolutely agree with what you just said above. That sort of stuff is better left to experienced developers who focus on MacOS. I do use Linux, Windows and MacOS every workday, but I don't use Windows on weekends. I'd pick a Mac laptop 10 times out of 10 for general use, presuming I had access to networked Linux systems.

"Seven Fingers of Death."

All hardware sucks.
All software sucks.
Some of it sucks different.

For at least five years now, I've seen scammers leaving fake customer service numbers for major brands all over the web. Q&A sites, open comments, wherever. The usual tip-off is that they list the SAME number as customer support for Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Or for CoinBase, PayPal, and whoever else. Obviously, call that number and you're getting scammed.

I had thought they were just trying to game search results -- put a number enough places and some non-zero number of people will find it. But in a world where AI bots are scraping the web, this approach is even more effective, because the AI bots aren't going to think critically about what they're sucking up.

Wonderful, just wonderful.