The requirements for home schooling in the US vary wildly from one state to the other and can be almost devoid of any practical oversight in some circumstances. In most cases, parents have autonomy to choose their curriculum

yeah, this is the surprising part for me, but i guess in the land of individualism it makes sense. thank you for the answer

well that would be fucked up for sure. are you suggesting any existing program works like that, or are just speculating what if?

no malicious update can force you to generate a text and file it in court as your own work.

To really be sure would require knowing what software is actually doing

i am pretty sure you do know whether you wrote a text, or it just magically spawned in front of your eyes out of thin air - you don’t need degree in computer science for that.

as a person from across the ocean, i don’t get this. why would there be need for some different curriculum for homeschooling, and why would the choice depend on the parent? how is it possible you just get to chose? don’t you have to comply with some general standard? here, home-schooling is extremely rare, but if someone undergoes it, they have to use the same textbooks as everyone else and from time to time pass some exams in school to be sure the kid is not behind its peers.

one billion kilograms has the same problem - it is ambiguous, because you have to guess whether you are using short or long scale.

you could say million tonnes, but ton is not SI unit and is again ambiguous, because there is many different tonnes.

correct presentation that isn’t open to interpretation is 1 x 10⁹ kilograms.

I assume you mean one octillion of femtograms?

What?

How does sharing xenophobic bullshit on twitter “harm global tech community”?