Interesting Links for 12-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Teen Monitoring Apps Don't Work and Just Make Teens Hate Their Parents

(tags: teenagers parenting surveillance internet phones fail )

Head of copyright committee wants to deny EU creators the right to share

(tags: copyright europe OhForFucksSake )

FTC: Warranty-voiding language like Nintendo’s and Sony’s is illegal

(tags: technology law usa )

Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

(tags: technology japan materials )

Gulf Stream current at its weakest in 1,600 years

(tags: globalwarming doom ocean OhForFucksSake viajoexnz )

When you let a Jew write your Catholic passion play, the results are...interesting (and heretical)

(tags: funny Jews writing catholicism )

Male 'relationship break-up suicide' tackled by awareness group

(tags: suicide relationships men )

Software Engineers Fired for Attempt to Unionize

(tags: usa software union OhForFucksSake )

Barnier: UK can change mind on single market until end of 2020

(tags: uk europe )

Why Trump Is Panicking

(tags: politics law usa GoodNews )

Marriage doesn't reduce depression in couples earning more than $60,000 per year

(tags: marriage money happiness psychology )

Baby born four years after parents’ death in car crash

(tags: babies Technology )

Use inheritance tax to tackle inequality of wealth

(tags: inequality inheritance tax )

Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84,000 alternative

(tags: medicine GoodNews )

Comments

FTC: Warranty-voiding language like Nintendo’s and Sony’s is illegal

[jack]

This is the sort of thing that makes me realise how *complicated* an economic system is, and how "which choice has more freedom" isn't always obvious. Like, in principle, they could do this with anything. "Buy our car! But you can only buy X brand of coffee for the next five years." That's ridiculous, but it's not immediately obvious that it's wrong. But it is, because companies *can* always leverage one position into advantages in other positions. And if it's a small enough part of buying a car, ALL car sellers will do that, because being the "ethical car seller" isn't profitable enough and people will just put up with it. And "use our parts to maintain a warranty" sounds superficially plausible, but our instinct that it's a bit of a scam are right.

Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[jack]

I wonder what was translated as "semi-infinite"? I know what they mean, but I'm used to that meaning something else :)

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[andrewducker]

There's clearly *almost* a 1:1 mapping between the deposits and the natural numbers.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[danieldwilliam]

I wonder if the Japanese need any underwater robots to help them mine their semi-infite motherlode of rare earths.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[andrewducker]

I hear that burrowing robot dolphins are the future.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[danieldwilliam]

With big mouths.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[jack]

I feel like I'm missing a joke?

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[andrewducker]

Dan works for an underwater robots company.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[jack]

Ah, cool! I was trying to figure out what it had to do with infinity :)

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[danieldwilliam]

The company I work for does software engineering for maritime and subsea robotic control systems and autonomy.

We'd be keen to talk to the subsea mining operation about selling them some software.

Re: Japan team maps ridiculously massive trove of rare earth elements

[jack]

No, that would be "almost infinite" (which I'd understand as "the time this will last" and "forever" are about equally long from our perspective). It's clearly a 1:2 mapping.

[skington]

Why would you take a twitter thread and turn it into a series of blurry images‽

Here's the cautionary tale about letting teenagers too smart for their own good write theology without oversight.

[elf]

I wonder if the EU copyright law people think they're going to get Google to pay a link tax on every search result, instead of getting Google to shut down access in all of Europe - or demand a monthly subscription fee, with the explanation that it's to pay the link taxes.

Or, of course, Google could just remove all European results from their search engine. I'm sure that'd go over well.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. If people don't want to be scanned by Google then they can just set up a robots.txt file. They want to be scanned, they just want to be paid for it too, and that's not going to happen.