I figured California would have been against the age verification on the adult sites like Texas and some other states are doing but then they go and 1UP them and decide to require age verification on the whole OS
This is a weak read of the situation. I’d sure as fuck rather enter a date of birth or age profile on my computer than send my photo id to random websites to verify my age. One is clearly better from a privacy standpoint.
What’s doing the actual verification? Just entering date of birth as verification is pointless and just adds complexity. The original idea was stupid enough, no need to add more stupid to it.
> 1. You don't have to successfully explain the phenomena to demonstrate the claim is false.
Sometimes I feel like this is taken to the extreme for non-scientists that say that lack of evidence is in itself evidence. Depending on the circumstance and the tests, that could be true but its often a default mode.
> Sometimes I feel like this is taken to the extreme for non-scientists that say that lack of evidence is in itself evidence.
But of course, the lack of evidence is itself evidence, if you have a sufficiently large data sample and haven't seen the thing you're looking for. Keep pursuing the increasingly unlikely outcome, and you're just engaged in science-flavored religious catechism.
I see the fallacy routinely misapplied by all sides of most hot-button science-meets-politics issues. A great many scientists will regularly substitute their own pet theories for conclusions, and strenuously ignore the lack of supporting evidence, citing the old "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" saw. Then they turn around and mock "non-scientists" for doing the same thing. Neither side is right, of course, but dressing in a lab coat doesn't make it better.
Just to circle it back to the topic of science education, I'd love to see a science curriculum at the middle- and high-school level that equipped people to reason through this kind of thing by focusing on tearing apart pop research. A "science fair" is actually hard to do well just because most science fails, but a "scientific bullshit fair" would have almost infinite fertile ground from nutrition studies alone.
If they'd put a screenshot, that would then have been immediately clear to casual visitors.
My initial assumption was "this is gonna look like a typical OSS product, and not as polished as iOS or Android". A single screenshot would have dispelled that notion.
The one I don’t see that often used is color-scheme and light-dark. Both of those with css variables are so helpful with theming and having light and dark themes. Plus it works in all of the main browsers and the effect happens immediately, so you have your page up and switch your system from light to dark, you see it transition without having to refresh.
Interesting, the main and probably only reason I know this is a legitimate site and not some random person's blog post is because I heard about Frommers from the movie Eurotrip.
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