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541.
by CivBase 3y ago
The problem isn't that taxes are complicated. For most people, they're really not complicated. They're simple enough for most of us that - like OP suggested - the IRS really could just send you a bill calculated from the info
542.
by CivBase 4y ago
Heaven forbid you want to replace a blown capacitor.
543.
by CivBase 4y ago
Actual people are also likely to tell you if they don't know something, aren't sure of their answer, or simply don't understand your question. My experience with ChatGPT is that it's always very confident in all its answ
544.
by CivBase 4y ago
Do people really put that much faith in the output from a chatbot? Or is this response just overblown? I've seen a lot of alarms rung about ChatGPTs propensity to lie, but I have yet to see any serious issues caused by it.
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by CivBase 4y ago
> If you can find one manufactured recently that isn’t smart, I don’t know that I would trust it to be worth what you’re paying for it, because it’ll likely be missing several other salient features that you may actually want, like Bluet
546.
by CivBase 4y ago
I used GPM for that exact reason. When Google announced they were killing it for YTM, I setup an Emby server and never looked back. YTM is an abismal service. Supposedly Jellyfin is pretty good now, but that wasn't an option at the tim
547.
by CivBase 4y ago
Is the problem really "social media" or algorithm-driven content feeds?
548.
by CivBase 4y ago
Except Facebook will still show news. Just not news articles from Canadian outlets. Unless the plan is to turn CBC readers into BBC readers, I still don't see how this is supposed to work out. Is Canadian news so superior that a signif
549.
by CivBase 4y ago
Genuine question: Why would most users engage less with Facebook as a result of this? I'd expect most users to continue what they were doing before, but now their feed of headlines will come exclusively from international sources. I do
550.
by CivBase 4y ago
I don't get it. People were content only reading headlines before. They couldn't be bothered to click the link and read the articles. I get why that's a problem. But now that the users aren't even being given links... th
551.
by CivBase 4y ago
> Sooo, VDOM can improve performance? This article doesn't really argue against that. They say the VDOM is a "means to an end" and is "generally good enough". The thrust of the article seems to be that a virtual
552.
by CivBase 4y ago
An engineer's job is to design solutions to solve problems. Difficulties with maintenance, debugging, and developing are problems. Those problems are generally a symptom from complexity. A good solution results in fewer net problems. A
553.
by CivBase 4y ago
Some of these are pretty funny, but is there really a "right" way to prompt someone for their gender? Maybe a selector for "male", "female", or "other" along with a textbox for clarification that is o
554.
by CivBase 4y ago
...or a job ...or a business ...or a family ...or a disability ...or an ongoing education ...or economically valuable connections ...or long term contracts etc. For many people, there's much more to moving than just physically relocati
555.
by CivBase 4y ago
> If it wasn't "worth it" to them - for whatever reasons that may be - they'd be living elsewhere. Moving can be extremely costly and people who don't earn a "living wage" probably aren't traveling
556.
by CivBase 4y ago
> "60% of new yorkers are not earning a living wage" is inaccurate Sure, but "60% of New Yorkers break the law to make a living wage" isn't any less scathing. Either way, the situation looks pretty bleak. At this
557.
by CivBase 4y ago
I think the hate comes from it not being very "noob friendly". It's designed for power users who are familiar with how git works. In my experience, most git users don't really know how git works fundamentally. They just
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by CivBase 4y ago
> but vegan is a dirty word for some people, likely because a lot of the early vegan meat alternatives were ghastly Probably more to do with stereotypes of vegans themselves - ie. condescending, arrogant, self-righteous hippies. As a non
559.
by CivBase 4y ago
Sure. I don't mean to downplay the value of educational institutions. I just want to stress that they aren't the only method of learning. Everyone needs some mix of self-guided and instructor-lead learning to succeed.
560.
by CivBase 4y ago
I generally agree. But it's worth pointing out that continued learning is more important than continued accreditation . There's probably not much economic value in a new formal degree past 70 years of age. I'm a little frust
561.
by CivBase 4y ago
Maybe it has something to do with my location, but my experience has been that SWA is normally much cheaper than other airlines. I recently cut 70% off a trip I'm planning in May by switching from Delta to SWA. That's probably a u
562.
by CivBase 4y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable for laws to enforce some level of risk mitigation for consumers making purchases as significant as houses. But a line has to be drawn somewhere and I firmly believe that fining neighbors for having
563.
by CivBase 4y ago
Does anyone still make phone books? I can count the number of phone numbers I have memorized on one hand. Without access to a phone number registry of some sort, I think these would have extremely limited value to most people. It's a n
564.
by CivBase 4y ago
I sympathize with parents, but I can only accept the naiveté argument up to a point. It's one thing to be naive. It's another to make your naiveté a problem for everyone else. At this point, it is simply not reasonable for a paren
565.
by CivBase 4y ago
> as someone who has created multiple free cloud services only to have their costs or development requirements exceed my ability to maintain them I am weary of anything that would legally require me to maintain a cloud service past my de
566.
by CivBase 4y ago
At some point we have to consider it the parent's/guardian's responsibility to restrict a child's access to any service that provides access to online, user-generated content without supervision. Despite all my problems
567.
by CivBase 4y ago
Man, I bought a dozen songs for Rock Band just a year ago because I brought it out to play with friends. Guess I'll never get to play those again :/ I know it's not reasonable to expect companies to keep their online infrastr
568.
by CivBase 4y ago
I dislike how much many markets, including gaming, have been consolidating just as much as the next guy... but this justification from the FTC reads like nonsense to me. I think what's really happening is the FTC (as they have shown fo
569.
by CivBase 4y ago
I would think they would implement a whitelist rather than a blacklist.
570.
by CivBase 4y ago
When I say "small" I don't mean "tiny". But past a certain size things start breaking down. Layers of management get introduced to keep the top from being overwhelmed, but the funding doesn't scale to account f

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