They said exactly that they do not think these are double bad.
They are presenting them as examples of things that a lot of people do say, and many laws are written this way, and many cops, prosecutors, & judges treat them as double bad.
Speeding without a seatbelt is two separate infractions so it should be double bad. Just like robbing a bank and shooting someone is double bad compared to either individually.
And intentional killing is generally considered worse because it means you thought about it and then did it, vs when it's due to acute emotional disorder. Intentional crimes are usually treated more harshly
I'm not talking about two crimes together... I'm talking specifically about changing the punishment based on intent or secondary effects.
Owning a gun is legal, but if you've ever smoked weed it's illegal for you... murder is bad, but if it's because you hate a protected group it's a much harsher punishment... in some places, you can't be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, but you can be charged with it if you're pulled over for anything else. It's just to attach additional charges for prosecution.
I don't like the idea of excessive charges as part of the prosecution process in general. It creates/extends what I consider an unfair asymmetry between the state (prosecution) and the individual. That's not to say there aren't similar examples in the other direction, such as a clerical error resulting in dismissed charges altogether.
Are their hooves, though? The fossil record clearly shows a progression in their ancestors from having feet with many toes to the single "toe" they have now.
How is this a bad thing for them? Now they don't have to pay for clicks from people who aren't interested in their services. People who want to hire a lawyer will still click.
The idea for all this content marketing spam is that writing those articles (eg. "how can I dispute a speeding ticket?") is cheaper than buying ads for "speeding ticket lawyers" or whatever. If people don't click on those articles, the whole strategy falls apart.
I have been noticing this myself for the last couple of months. I cannot get the agent to stop masking failures (ex: swallowing exceptions) and to fail loudly.
That said, the premise that AI-assisted coding got worse in 2025 feels off to me. I saw big improvements in the tooling last year.
I keep finding myself saying “stop over complicating things” over and over again, because even the simplest questions about how to load a file sometimes gets a code response that’s the size of a framework.
Good news. Been using Cursor heavily for over a year now (on the Ultra plan currently). Hope we get access to this as part of our existing subscriptions.
Agree and disagree. It is also possible to take a step back and look at the very large picture and see that these things actually are somewhat inevitable. We do exist in a system where "if I don't do it first, someone else will, and then they will have an advantage" is very real and very powerful. It shapes our world immensely. So, while I understand what the OP is saying, in some ways it's like looking at a river of water and complaining that the water particles are moving in a direction that the levees pushed them. The levees are actually the bigger problem.
We are the levees in your metaphor and we have agency. The problem is not that one founder does something before another and gains an advantage. The problem is the millions of people who buy or use the harmful thing they create - and that we all have control over. If we continue down this path we'll end up at free will vs determinism and I choose to believe the future is not inevitable.
We aren't the real levees though. The system we live in is. Yes, a few people will push back and try to change the momentum to a different direction but that's painful and we have enough going on each day that most people don't have time for that (let alone agree on the direction). Structural change is the only real way to guide the river.
I get your point. I'm merely pointing out that some things, even though they aren't technically inevitable, are (in practice) essentially inevitable because larger forces are pushing things in that direction.
Through a very complicated, long, and ardous process.
Its mostly by design (at least in my country) so one bad actor (e.g. a failed painter) cant change the whole system instantly
Control is the ability to make decisions. The ability to make decisions depends on knowledge.
Without knowledge, you have no control, only the illusion of it. With fast food, we did not know the harm. With smoking, we did not know the harm. With tiktok... we did not know the harm, and still do not fully grasp it.
ISPs are so heavily regulated that the will give any federal or government agency free access to future and past internet connection information that are directly tied to your real identity.
Meanwhile reputable VPN provider like mullvad offer there service without KYC and leave feds empty handed when they knock on there doors.
For the same reason you trust your ISP? It handles all your internet traffic; and depending on where you live, probably has government-mandated back doors, or is willing to cooperate with arbitrary requests from law-enforcement agencies.
That's why TLS exists, after all. All Internet traffic is wiretapped.
Well, if someone want to cover a large set of psychological profile, they can always have a full range of virtual brands, going from freemium+ to luxurious-esthetics.
And that's why I, personally, rent a VPS, run "ssh -D 9010 myvps" in a background, and selectively point my browser at it via proxy.pac (other apps get socksified as needed; although some stubbornly resist it, sigh).
> I don't understand why so many people are using [Cloudflare].
> "Let us handle all your internet traffic.. you can trust us.. []"
TLS does not help, when most Internet traffic is passed through a single entity, which by default will use an edge TLS certificate and re-encrypt all data passing through, so will have decrypted plain text visibility to all data transmitted.
Yeah, and in your contract with ISP you explicitly agree to file any lawsuit against them in small claims court only. Although you can probably go and complain to FCC about them?
The use case is people that are urged to view something that is blocked (torrent / adult / gambling). They want it now, and they don't want to get involved with some shady company that slaps on a 2 year contract and keeps extending indefinitely. These people instead find "free vpn" in the web store and decide to give it a try.
VPNs are just one example. How many chrome extensions do you have that you don't use all the time, like adblockers, cookie consent form handlers or dark mode?
Only if you've added a signing certificate the VPN controls to your CA chain. But at that point they don't have to do anything as complicated as you described.
TLS means “there’s a certificate”. Yeah, if a VPN/proxy can forge a certificate that the user’s browser would trust, it’s an issue.
But considering those are browser extensions, I think they can just inspect any traffic they want on the client side (if they can get such broad permissions approved, which is probably not too hard).
Why would either of those be double-bad? They're the same thing as the original.
If you don't want to wear your seatbelt and you like to risk your own life, then that's on you. Just like riding a motorcycle.