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by yesfitz 2y ago
Always (usually) fun to read an expert talk about their field as it crops up in unusual places, at least when it's done without an ego. I've avoided the YouTube clickbait "real bank robber reviews movies" videos, but ma
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Boston where? This article is about Latin America. If you're interested in e-bike delivery in Boston, Massachusetts though, there was a pilot program starting in August of 2024: https://www.boston.gov/departments/t
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I think the title promises something that an otherwise well-written, enjoyable piece doesn't deliver. At no point does the author say or really allude to what her father's emails (specifically) taught her about the craft of writ
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I’m a happy Kagi customer, but that’s an interesting use case for a search engine that I hadn’t previously considered. Is there a “golden era” of search engines returning results for discovery? I use forums, wikis, and content aggregators (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card "Needle Card", "McBee Card", "Indecks", "E-Z Sort", "Cope-chat", "Keysort", "Flexisort", "Velom
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Gotcha! The issue isn't what happens to the individual robot, but the impact of the action on the actor and witnesses. To take it to the extreme: We have a perfect simulacrum of a dog that we know does not suffer, but will appear to
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What action (or inaction) would you propose? As I read it, your comment seems to either be an argument against creating any new laws in the existing framework, or an argument against worrying about logical justifications for new laws.
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This article contains references to studies and talks that have only become more relevant as we continue to approach machines that appear to be alive (Large Language Models). I agree with Kate Darling that we need to provide protections for
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Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? (2013)(bbc.com)
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That quote shows that "NIMBY" is especially proper and fitting! They support the idea in theory, but don't want it to be close to them. Like it should be in someone else's backyard.
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Looks like @surge called it back in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631748 I have to imagine AWS reps have been pushing Chime customers to Wickr over the past 3.5 years, and now they're down to their holdo
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Anecdotally, I've noticed an inverse relationship between ability to read and preference for oral communication. My takeaway from this has been to prefer short, highly-formatted emails over meetings and chat. I put the "Bottom Lin
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Current title is "Amazon is shutting down 'Inspire,' its TikTok-like feed for product discovery", which comes off as ideally neutral, compared to the submission title. Unfortunately, Google has set the bar incredibly hig
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The announcements of paywalled subreddits and supporting intra-subreddit commerce seem like a recipe to compete with Patreon. If Reddit offered community management, payment processing, and content hosting, and undercut Patreon's 8% fe
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It's not a counterpoint. The Feynman excerpt and the paper support each other. The paper's abstract ends, "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal math
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Lenders of money want to get their money back. They try to minimize the number of factors that threaten getting their money back. Those factors are called "risks". El Salvador wants to borrow money. The IMF is willing to lend it,
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The CityNerd, Ray Delahanty, just published a video on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcn77OwF9XE (You can safely increase the speed of the video to 1.5x. He speaks slowly.) If you don't feel like watching
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How is that more relevant?
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I'd invite you to reconsider the geographic scope and distribution of Carnegie libraries. They were not mostly "largish towns in the northeast". Here's a list of all Carnegie Libraries in the United States: https:&#x2F
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The Associated Press (AP) is continuing coverage on this. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants... Besides causing chaos for grants that are regularly awarded (i.e. annually), the AP also said, &
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I agree. AI images communicate "low effort" at best and "untrustworthy" at worst, neither of which remotely describe Bits about Money.
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I understand why you would continue driving because of the lack of alternatives, but why would you be happy about doing so?
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If the muslim, altruist, and monagamist from your example knowingly continue a behavior that is antithetical to the definitions of their stated identities then they are not a muslim, altruist, and monagamist. They may like to be or strive
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To keep it from devolving, I invite you to search for existing arguments in a search engine of your choice. However, in a show of good-faith, here are 2 answers to your question: 1. Male chicks of laying varieties are ground in a macerator
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You are incorrect. Vegans absolutely define themselves by not consuming any animal products, myself included. "Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of explo
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What “places” would Apple be able to match that aren’t either obvious or irrelevant? (e.g. “The Grand Canyon” is obvious. The interior of a home is irrelevant.) Maybe the interior of a restaurant? I hate to jump to conspiracy theories, but
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What's your point? These questions seem to be statements masquerading as questions. If you're interested in making a survey, I apologize and would recommend using a survey tool instead.
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What do you use instead?
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Suppressors are not equally easy to legally procure! Suppressors/Silencers are federally regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA) and are treated similarly to machine guns and sawed-off shotguns (the import/manufacture of thos
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Microsoft refuted this claim: https://x.com/Microsoft365/status/1861160874993463648 "In the M365 apps, we do not use customer data to train LLMs. This setting only enables features requiring internet access l

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