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Bing. Not that it works well. Also, spending less time on the computer. The more time you spend on the computer the more money google makes. They don’t want to help you find the thing you need, they want to do the opposite so you spend all
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Deja news did so much better than google. It was the first and only lesson I needed about google. Good software is not the business they’re in.
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Yes! That’s exactly right! So then the question is, are all facts the same? The answer I’ve come to is that some facts are more useful than others. The fact that America is a great power is a very important fact. The fact the great powers a
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Yeah and it’s still not very useful for certain things. Like I was shopping for toilet paper the other day. The prices seemed outrageous but trying to compare price per square foot is meaningless when some paper is thick, some extra soft, s
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Great idea but there’s a slippery slope problem. Report on shrinkflation packaging and companies will switch to other less transparent means (ie changing ingredients) and so this adds a bit of perverse incentive. I suppose companies already
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Prices should come down. They have not. I will not pay these prices. I will go without a cellphone before I pay that sort of money to make calls, send sms and read hn. I can’t understand why people buy these phones unless they’re rich, in w
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This is almost the offensive realist viewpoint were it not for the intense American exceptionalism. Great powers are going to do what they do. Accept this and everything becomes more hopeful. Otherwise, the world will always seem to be rule
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The premise of the Bible is salvation from human’s fallen state through love, compassion and self sacrifice. Many people can read the same book and get different things from it, which is an interesting point to consider wrt the lindy effect
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I guess reputation can be valuable but I’d rather have my Twitter account compromised than my email or banking.
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Most good video presentations include a ppt or the equivalent. A video is just a spoken presentation that’s recorded, like a live spoken presentation it can include visual aids or not, it’s still a spoken presentation. You may confusing ca
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Yep. I think things like Jupiter are really just imitating ppt. It’s generally the same concept, a linear series of information chunks, mixing text and graphics, the formality of written prose stripped away, just enough for one sitting. PPT
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Because you compete with other businesses. If labor regulations allow companies to do X, and one or more companies actually do X, then others have to follow suite and do X or be undercut. It’s simply the prisoner’s dilemma but the prisoners
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I don’t know, the advice in that link is, don’t take a multivitamin because there isn’t a lot of evidence it will do a lot of good. Instead they say you should just have a perfect diet, and to consult with a dietician if you feel you aren’t
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“I blame the people.” Psychology is a science that studies human behavior, and like all sciences it works mostly. As a result, human minds can be easily hacked by those with the motivation to do so. Psychological science can be employed, th
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1-2%?! Do you sleep in your clothes? And while many of us don’t by habit take video calls from strangers when we are disrobed, at scale in India it’s sure to happen.
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Better yet, don’t install apps. Cell phone apps are the enemy of good software and ethical computing and a threat to human freedom. They are well established as national security risk and the source of emerging health problems for our youth
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It’s the interest rate. When rates are low, devs are paid to build complexity, new frameworks, tools, languages. If the interest rate stays low other devs will get paid to play around with those new frameworks, build more complexity on top
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This would really be something if you could just give it voice commands. Typing is absurd amidst all this wonderful automation!
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If you’re shocked by lack of push-back, you are in store for a lot more shocks going forward. People that build things and people that gatekeep, regulate, etc… are mostly disjoint sets. They are the two sides to upcoming war. Progress vs sa
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Nobody mentioned crime. It will increase crime, a lot. Healthcare is another area that’s going to get hit hard but not getting enough focus.
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I don’t find it particularly so. I sort of like that style captcha as it requires thought. One has to figure out to quickly estimate and not actually try to sum/count the exact numbers. Maybe you have to do it twice, but it’s not very
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I might get downvoted for saying so, but the internet is a dangerous place. If you aren’t alert enough to solve a captcha, much worse things can happen to you than having difficulty signing into GitHub. I’d prefer GitHub to remain secure, e
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I’m talking appearance which is not necessarily the same thing as reality. Public trust is about appearance.
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And then sue anybody who questions the machines security.
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Buried: “Due to the changes in the CDC, it is not easy to track the rise of covid numbers.”
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Many would assert that the lack of cash is the root problem. Sort of the thread theme here.
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You should clarify, most identity groups have an other/out group.
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While I agree with the truth of your first statement, your view seems rather black and white. Companies don’t only see patients as profit centers, most investors probably do. Anthropomorphizing corporations is of little value, arguably a
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Private companies over the military and sovereign nations, isn’t there a famous Zuckerberg quote about that? Ah yes… “Companies over countries,” he told me once, as we discussed a blog post about Facebook’s goals. “If you want to change the
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Yes. Education should be and is free. Anybody who wants it otherwise is morally confused. The universities restrict education, to extract economic value from the essential human experience of learning. It’s a trillion dollar industry bui

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