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by jimt1234 10mo ago
Not sure if this qualifies as a "stranger", but a nurse at the UCLA Cancer Center in Santa Monica helped my family and I when my sister was on her last days, dying of cancer. It was a bunch of little things: she got us into a sing
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
IANAL, but this sounds like being charged for flushing your cocaine stash down the toilet while the cops are trying to bust down your door...except cocaine is illegal, whereas a cell phone isn't. So, beats me. I'd love to hear an
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
If we're gonna stick with private insurance in the US, we should detach it from employment. The current system has created a society of indentured servants, not for money, but for "health insurance". The current system is exp
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
The healthcare system in the US is, indeed, the best...if you're rich. If you're not rich, you're gonna spend a lot of time on the phone, arguing with bureaucrats and getting treated like shit. A friend of mine is rich. We
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
Years ago, a friend and I were kicking around startup ideas. We weren't coming up with anything good, so we flipped it and decided to come up with the worst/dumbest idea possible. We landed on a social media site dedicated to poop
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
If hunger and poverty was somehow impacting corporate profits, then yeah, they would ban it.
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving! ... I just wanted to express my gratitude to the Commodore 64 personal computer I received as a Christmas gift in 1982 (or maybe '83?). I didn't know it then but it set the course for the remainder of my life.
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
I've always wondered why on-site child care generally isn't offered as a perk through employment. Many large companies, like the F500 I work for, offer various on-site perks, like subsidized cafeterias, exercise facilities, garden
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
Not exactly. More like, "The world can suck major at times, so we should make sure kids are prepared to deal with it when confronted." It's kinda like teaching kids to look both ways when crossing the street. Ideally, drivers
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
I drive back-country roads all the time to go hiking and camping. I guess that makes me an outlaw now. Great. /s
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but embrace and enjoy your elderly mother buying random, useless crap. My mother has Alzheimer's; she's not the same person she was just 2 or 3 years ago. She frequently doesn't even remember who I
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
For every person fired for posts, there's a lucrative Fox News commentator gig.
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Intuit signs $100M+ deal with OpenAI to bring its apps to ChatGPT(techcrunch.com)
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by jimt1234 11mo ago
https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-dat...
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Cisco's Intent to Acquire NeuralFabric(blogs.cisco.com)
1 points by jimt1234 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> Modern iPhones don't come with a music player. They come with a music store, that you happen to be able to put your own music into. But it's not structured to help you play your music, it's structured to sell you what th
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Where I work, we get tons of feedback from customers, basically saying, "How do I disable this new AI feature? I never asked for this." Yet, the guidance from leadership is very clear: "More AI!" I suspect it's
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by jimt1234 1y ago
You're not wrong ^^^
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by jimt1234 1y ago
It gets even crazier. Latest: he's got a lawyer that says if he plants trees on a certain percentage of his property, it can be classified as a farm, and then exempt from the power utility hook-up requirement. But that comes with its o
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by jimt1234 1y ago
A friend of mine is trying to build a house in a remote area of Southern California. He's planning to be completely "off-grid", generating power exclusively from solar. However, local regulators insist he hook up to the local
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Latest excuse: sustainable energy is a scam. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ending...
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by jimt1234 1y ago
IANAL but I'm curious about court challenges for these facial recognition apps/systems used by law enforcement. I knew of a guy years ago that caught a DUI based on a breathalyzer. His lawyer challenged the case and got it dismiss
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by jimt1234 1y ago
And Justice Kavanaugh said that even if someone is stopped and question by ICE, all they have to do is prove they're a citizen, and everything will be fine; there's really no inconvenience at all.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Regarding the specific issue of using facial recognition apps to identify criminals, and using those apps as justification for detention/arrest - has this ever been challenged in court? I know there's caselaw that supports using c
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by jimt1234 1y ago
This ^^^ What is the point of having an ID in the first place, if they can just ignore it?
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Don't tread on me. ... Tread on them , just not me.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Asking a "kid" for his ID? Kids aren't supposed to have IDs, much less carry them around. I'm confused as to what the kid was supposed to provide.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
For years, I've taken the position that intelligence is best expressed as creativity - that is, the ability to come up with something that isn't predictable based on current data. Today's "artificial intelligence" a
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> in Australia [a kilo] can reach over $250,000 WTF?! Why is it so expensive in Australia?
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Cash Money Millionaires!

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