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by smt88 2y ago
I think it's perfectly fine to assume that it's a form of extortion to profit from life-saving products, which is why some people agree that pharmaceuticals shouldn't be a for-profit industry at all.
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by smt88 2y ago
Julia doesn't count because it wasn't named after a person. Even then, neither of those would fit the theme of the list above because they aren't named after their inventors (even though Ada is technically an eponym).
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by smt88 2y ago
First, Soylent names their company after a famous product made out of humans. Then iRobot and now an aviation company named after the most famous dead aviator. Seems... not ideal.
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by smt88 2y ago
Interesting. It sounds more like you're on the autism spectrum or have OCPD. Technically you can't be diagnosed with OCD if your behaviors aren't anxiety-driven and negatively affect your life.
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by smt88 2y ago
It seems mostly harmless to do this for yourself, but I have no interest in it. I find that cataloguing and quantifying life takes all the joy out of it. If quantifying your life is actually negatively affecting you or people close to you,
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by smt88 2y ago
It sounds like you built it to indulge your OCD, not to fix it.
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by smt88 2y ago
So say you're mixed and move on. This is a bizarre question.
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by smt88 2y ago
Millions of Americans identify as "mixed" and leave it at that. People don't discuss or act on race very often here, at least not overtly. You may be reading too much reddit or Twitter.
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by smt88 2y ago
If it's still true that both generations are poorer, more stressed out, and more sedentary than previous generations, this seems like an expected outcome.
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by smt88 2y ago
> * Something else Martin does which is unlike other voice assistants is it can have full text conversations with your contacts on your behalf from its own phone number. For example, you can tell it to plan a lunch with a friend, and it
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by smt88 2y ago
You can't whitelist and also have a consumer-facing service. There is no reliable way to differentiate between a legitimate user and the AI company's scraper.
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by smt88 2y ago
In what universe is Trump better for Tesla than Harris? Also, his views about trans people, minorities, and right-wing conspiracies are perfectly in line with Trump. They are at odds with advertisers, so this is clearly a stupid personal de
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by smt88 2y ago
> Do the American people vote for these Muppets/Puppets? No. Due to quirks of the Senate and Electoral College, the judges with unpopular opinions were appointed by politicians that were elected by a minority of Americans. The jud
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by smt88 2y ago
> The nation is supposed to have state to state differences This was the argument made about slavery and then Civil Rights for minorities. It was wrong about that, and it's wrong about people's right to a private relationship
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by smt88 2y ago
tl;dr Blockchain isn't transforming this or any other industry (other than crime)
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by smt88 2y ago
No, plenty of investors still willing to gamble on them. Saudis love a stupid Silicon Valley investment, for example.
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by smt88 2y ago
> I was talking about future possibilities, not the past. Why would anyone want to do an audio-only interface? If there were a need or desire for it, it would have popped up somewhere else in society. It hasn't. > you are not
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by smt88 2y ago
> how about IVR? or an advanced, literally voice-only version of it, where you don't even have to press any digit keys to respond to voice menus? Again, no one buys things using only such an interface. I am middle aged and have
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by smt88 2y ago
People who can see and read almost never use voice-only to shop. Restaurants and catalogs have menus. Street vendors show you their goods. You don't need to take my word for it. No one uses Alexa this way. The proof is in the outcome
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by smt88 2y ago
Alexa shopping was intended to be voice only . Of course people order things with their voice after they've seen them or read a menu.
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by smt88 2y ago
What's wrong with it is that it was a stupid idea. People don't shop with their voices and never have. They need to see things.
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by smt88 2y ago
So what should have told those CIOs not to use Crowdstrike? Who should they have used instead?
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by smt88 2y ago
Yes, Dept. of Transportation is already investigating Delta[1]. 1. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049792/deltas-airlines...
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by smt88 2y ago
While often true, this entire comment is completely unrelated to this issue or article. The CrowdStrike failure was an issue of quality control, not susceptibility to an attack.
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by smt88 2y ago
> The hospitals, airlines, police, etc. that bought into CrowdStrike should have primary responsibility This is ridiculous. None of these business can (or should) handle all of their infosec internally. They must use vendors. And bec
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by smt88 2y ago
A former president added 3 justices to the Supreme Court and hundreds to the federal judiciary, and those appointees are now shielding him from prosecution for his crimes. In his current campaign, he has discussed discarding the Constitutio
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by smt88 2y ago
It does , however, mean that Amazon should inspect every single return and err on the side of selling something "used" rather than "new" even if it looks new.
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by smt88 2y ago
You didn't read the article. Someone returned one of their diapers used. They trusted Amazon to handle returns and labeling of inventory. Amazon labeled the used diaper as "new," and consumers assumed the diaper company was r
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by smt88 2y ago
I have found hallucinations to be bad enough that I can't use it as a search engine. Even Google's AI search is awful. How do you deal with its likelihood of being convincingly wrong, even if it's small?
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by smt88 2y ago
This is exactly the argument we were all having about crypto a few years ago. "It's early days!" they told us for 10 years. Now crypto is used primarily for crime and speculation, which is exactly what we'll be using Gen

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