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> redefining terms and norms. > AKA rhetoric and persuasive language. I think you've just engaged in it. While norms and language are a little mushy, they're not meaningless. Human culture has long held traditions around bas
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> Tracking everything people do isn't a "business model"—it's a crime. Could you point me to a law that codifies this as crime? I have yet to see convincing proof of widespread or significant harm caused by tracking&#
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It is telling that this “Treehouse Insider” declines to take credit for their writing, while also maligning this CEOs personal life. Also, this picture caption: > August 25: Carson enjoys a climate-related disaster (#hurricanehenri) two
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> As Netflix becomes a producer of award winning content, the studio and content creation needs are also pushing the envelope of technology advancements This is a truly bizarre motivation. Should not the needs of the customer be the moti
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I heard a theory on some podcast that the ulterior motive here may be to try to incentivize more R&D into Alzheimer's pharma. This approval is thus a green light signal.
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Interesting. Where are you getting that 1% figure from? I'd like to learn more.
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Anecdotally, I live in rapidly growing, tech-friendly metro and track housing data in the area. The county assessor's office exposes homeowner's names and you can easily spot the "private equity" owners. They are very fe
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This startup founder’s last name is Quitter. There is a “who’s on first?” joke in there somewhere.
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In a descendant comment to this, you wrote: > if we used more compassionate language to refer to these people Which implies a greater interest in the politics of the language vs. semantic precision/grammatical precision. The "i
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It is telling that the euphemism “undocumented immigrant” is considered less polar than the factually descriptive “illegal immigrant”. “Undocumented” suggests ambiguous legality, which is plainly false in the vast majority of cases to which
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DeepMind tried to break away from Google(archive.is)
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If Chomsky’s solutions are bunk, what is the value of his argument? See also: the last 250 years of economic history.
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> oversimplifications that helped sell semi efficacious drugs YES. Anyone who has rotated through the kaleidoscope of antidepressants seeking help knows this in their bones. Current pharma options barely work and come with many unpleasan
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> recently reached the threshold of (mostly) supported everywhere: the .webp file format. Why has google (via lighthouse and pagespeed insights) been pushing webp so hard if it has only recently gone majority green?
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You're blurring terminology. Yes, "more fun to watch" is entirely subjective. "Peak excellence" is much less so. It is indisputable, if one is being honest, that for almost all sports, the top woman/women'
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by xibalba 5y ago
> ...saying that women aren't at the peak of sports excellence...I don't think the author has watched any women's sports games before writing this piece. Women are not at the peak of sports excellent in literally any spo
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Thus far, this is all information Andrej has presented elsewhere. Edit: Wow, Ashok's section was amazing. It does seems as though their ability to simulate (on top of their fleet's data collection advantage) could allow them to ra
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As another HNer responded: cred screens are given the appearance of being your financial institution, so I assumed an api auth token being issued after “logging in” with the institution. Still, shame on me for not inspecting more closely.
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> YNAB (You Need A Budget) use services like Plaid to...take my username and password and impersonate me to get my banking data WHAT. THE. F. I'm a longtime, happy YNAB user. I had no idea this was going on until just now. I always
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by xibalba 5y ago
The data do not agree with you. 55% of housing units are owned by their occupant in California[1]. That statistic is trending up. There are estimated to be 13.3 million housing units in California[2]. This means 7.3 million of those units a
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Those are not mutually exclusive sets. In fact, one is pretty close to a subset of the the other.
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A true story... Me (Last month): "Apple is taking privacy very seriously. I'm going to vote with my dollars and switch from Android." Me (This month): "..."
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So don't live in Southern California? This is exactly the type of sacrifice people refuse to make to which I refer. "Avocado toast" is a metaphor for conspicuous consumption at the expense of savings and investment. Ex: $20
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> He didn't splurge on excessive travel, electronics, cars, etc. lived a modest life. This, I think, is the biggest hurdle for most people. Everyone wants to be a millionaire, but few are willing to sacrifice the short term pleasure
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Between this and the infrastructure bill passing, are U.S. politicians actually starting to do their jobs (aka finding common ground, compromising, and passing meaningful legislation)?
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> pseudo-nerd businessman I find this attitude towards Musk so, so odd. Where are you getting your info? He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (a
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This is an important difference, and, for me at least, the difference between disagreeing (“ban the tool”) and agreeing (“make non-consensual nude distribution illegal”) with the proposal. It’s a shame the headline communicates the former w
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This exactly. The U.S. economy doesn’t exist in a competition-free vacuum. This “solution” would hurt those at the left side of the income/wealth distribution the most, but would hurt all of the U.S. to some degree.
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Takano and other well meaning legislators reveal they have zero clue how economies work or how wealth is created. It is fairly terrifying that these sorts have become so influential.
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Perhaps at least some of the blame should be borne by your government and what some (clearly) view as onerous, economically nonviable, misinformed, and poorly executed regulations?

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