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My first thought was of the 2 major US political parties and their mission of promising things they have no intention of ever doing to get votes so they can win elections, take away more of our freedoms and redistribute more wealth from the
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That's basically my understanding of how we got into that mess. There are still significant tax subsidies for employer provided health insurance and most people don't realize that the COBRA price is the actual cost of their "
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That's actually what the History Channel airs on cable in the US. It was originally a serious channel that covered history but now shows conspiracy nonsense and shows about pawn shops. It's one of the most infamous examples of net
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According to the US Supreme Court, the police have no duty to protect citizens[0], even if they obtain a court-issued protective order. Cars are insecure on purpose because people accidentally lock their keys inside all the time so locksmit
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Now is probably not the right time to buy because interest rates are at the highest levels in recent memory. Nobody in their right mind is selling right now unless they are being forced to out of financial desperation. The commercial real e
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Supposedly, the market for it is people who want to play their PS5 but can't because somebody else in the household is occupying their TV. But that begs the question of why they wouldn't just go buy a bedroom TV instead and move t
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> Thick plastic bags are “not what consumers demanded when they overwhelmingly voted to support California’s bag ban at the ballot box when the policy was challenged,” Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) told reporters recently in reference
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A cheap USB drive sells for under $10 and you can seal a book in plastic so I'd imagine it'd be feasible to just add the $5-$10 to the price of the book. People who buy books, especially programming books, generally aren't ve
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Wikipedia policy will hopefully prevent LLM generated garbage from corrupting it because some random web site is not a "reliable source" to add "facts" to articles. Today's Wikipedia is also remarkably effective at
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An easy first step would be to not hold a sci-fi conference in a totalitarian dictatorship. Why couldn't they have just held it in Japan or South Korea or Taiwan instead?
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Even putting aside Wickard where the Supreme Court dubiously decided that a farmer growing wheat on his own land for his own personal use was "interstate commerce", I'd say that companies that sell products outside of their h
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The general public doesn't care about "open source" so marketing a product as "open source" is pointless unless you're marketing it to a purely technical audience. The ability to modify the source code of Linux
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It is definitely still happening today. The most famous recent example would probably be Maria Butina[0], a Russian woman who infiltrated the National Rifle Association and the US Republican Party during the 2016 election cycle to influence
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Why can't they just release it on Max and let some intern spend 15 minutes writing a description for the movie?
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If you ask people what they want, they're going to tell you they want a slightly better version of whatever they already have. That's if you're lucky. If you're not, they're going to tell you they want whatever they
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Asking which kind of politicians you vote for is pretty obviously about discriminating. But I'm not surprised that this is happening in health care because that space is highly politicized in the US and strong right wingers are likely
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That anybody believed the media's claim that refrigerators had computers in them in the 1990s seems like a case of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[0]. Smart refrigerators didn't even exist until LG released one in June 2000 that was
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The solution to the year 2038 problem is to upgrade your time since the Unix epoch fields to 64 bit integers. Hopefully this won't be an actual issue 14 years from now because it's such a simple fix.
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LLMs are not capable of replacing developers anymore than Google Translate is capable of replacing professional translators. It's also much more dangerous to replace developers with an LLM than to replace your translator with Google Tr
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> The next most naive suggestion is to stop downranking memes, dumb jokes, etc., often throw in with a comment like "doesn't anyone here have a sense of humor?". The fact that forums that don't aggressively moderate f
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I see the "fraudulent" thing as a hyperbolic way of saying "I strongly disagree" but I'd say that is a debatable point that reasonable people could disagree over. In American political debate, it is common to throw
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It seems like the main issue in the case was the completely uncalled for comparison of the climate scientist to a convicted child molester not disagreement with the results of his research. You have a 1st Amendment right to say that the ear
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes (fully since March 2020), strongly preferred. Flexible on time zones. Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/
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This strategy works because investors will demand that companies support a popular platform. I don't know if this will work for Vision Pro because there's still no evidence of mass market appeal for VR or AR technology. Even Faceb
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Employees working exactly 9 to 5 is absolutely the opposite of what employers doing RTOs for "productivity" want. They want them putting in unpaid overtime and are suspicious that they aren't when they're at home because
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I don't think there is such a thing as an actually independent hospital anywhere. In most countries, the medical system seems to be a government monopoly. In America, it is an oligopoly that egregiously violates the anti-trust laws and
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One major way to keep this out of your company is to come up with an interview process that can't be gamed or BSed. I suspect that people who are good at gaming their way through interviews are also likely to BS-ify your company.
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Society can't figure out how to stop the most toxic, corrupt and incompetent people from becoming high ranking politicians so it makes perfect sense for the same kind of rot to be endemic at large corporations. Rotten people gravitate
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The only reason I can imagine that somebody would genuinely like a long commute would be if they hate their home life and are trying to escape from it. They'd probably be better off just getting a divorce instead.
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The solution to that problem is to count the travel time and any required breaks as part of work hours while also reimbursing all travel expenses. That would require employers to pay the full cost of unnecessary in-person work on both ends

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