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mm, good point!

at that point, why not just have someone from overseas control the robot?

have you considered not buying apple products?

I would have thought this, if not for Microsoft's turnaround.

you really can't see any benefits to the technology they are creating?

I am generally not very fond of unions, but prevent wage theft is a very important function Unions have historically done very well. If there ever was an argument for unions, better contract enforcement would be it.

Think of all the poor unsuspecting stars! Have we not drained enough heat from our own already? When will plants learn to stop appropriating energy that isn't theirs to take?

actually, 'Touchy Subjects' would be a decent name for a site like this.

lead paint is the other big culprit.

For those looking to hasten the end of lead poisoning, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (https://leadelimination.org/) does great work.

Of course the Falcon can be compared to the SLS. Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

The figures are easy to compare as well. Just include these factors in your comparison! Even if we don't know exactly what those factors are, we can make a ballpark estimate the total difference and add that as a percentage to spaceX's final figure.

The idea that things can't be compared because they are different is nonsense. When things are different is the only time comparisons are meaningful to make!

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...

It's a well executed website, but there is no good reason for it to exist. You shouldn't be on a quest to find high yield dividend stocks in the first place.

Whether a stock pays dividends really shouldn't factor in to your decision as to whether to buy it. Any dividend a company pays out makes the company worth that much less. Whatever you stand to gain from the dividend, you stand to lose in the value of the stock you own.

When buying a stock the only thing that matters are its fundamentals. Ie. is the company's assets and future earning potential worth more than the current price of the stock to you? Unless you have information that the market doesn't, this is not a question whose answer you will reliably get right.

Why not? In abstract the argument is:

"I want this product to be better"

The reason we don't want companies to gain market power (the feared result of mega-conglomeration) is because it allows companies to charge more for the same or a worse product.

If this person believes that Blizzard being acquired by microsoft will result in a better product, then they expect the net benefits to outweigh the negatives of Microsoft's increased market power over the video games market.

Acquisitions that produce a consumer-surplus should be most welcome!

Very sad about this decision. Blizzard has shown itself to be entirely incompetent, and seeing how well Microsoft managed the Minecraft IP I was looking forward to seeing what they could have done with the excellent blizzard IP.

Used to have huge three screen set up, arch linux, all sorts of complicated nonsense.

These days I have a 14 inch macbook, which I put on top of a few books and control with a keyboard + magic trackpad. Can't say it's made me any more or less productive.

The biggest improvement i've made was acquiring a desk treadmill, hasn't affected my productivity but now I'm getting 10-20k steps a day without really thinking much about it.

I sincerely think that if you lived your father's at life your age for a few months, you would come to the conclusion that your life is better.

I hate that there's no easy way to run the experiment, but when I talk to my parents about their life at my age, I'm often astounded at how much wealthier my life feels at $27k a year (though I am fortunate to rent a room for free, so my living standard is effectively ~10k higher than it would be for others at the same wage as me).

For what it's worth I'm from Denmark, so maybe its totally different in the US.

It depends on the context, but the standard smiley face has effectively been replaced with the following two:

https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face/

https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/

because it's incredibly interesting

Huge development for the legitimacy of prediction markets. As a regular user of manifold, I'm really looking forward to the day this becomes available in Europe.

Prediction markets have incredible potential and I really hope that we one day will look back on this launch as we look back on the launch of the New York stock exchange.

That said the whole predictit thing strikes me as really shady. I hope it was a necessary evil to gain the authorization of this market and not just a move to secure a monopoly position.

While I was pretty sympathetic to the EU law, I am very strongly against this for India.

The reason many of the lowest end phones don't have USB-C is because switching to usb-c would make the phones more expensive to produce. Forcing producers to switch will drive up the cost of low-margin smartphones, hurting many Indians for whom affording any smartphone is an issue.

It is simply insane to make a regulation that drives up the price of the cheapest phones, such that the richest people of India get a slight convenience.

I was very unhappy until the day I dedicated my life to helping others.

Now I am the founder of a non-profit and despite taking a much lower salary, working many more hours and feeling much more stress, I have become a very happy and fulfilled person.

Once the center of your life revolves around helping others, rather than yourself, it becomes a lot easier to endure all the crap life throws at you.

My issue with reddit is the polar opposite. It's not moderated remotely aggressively enough!

Any interesting subreddit immediately falls to the lowest common denominator without aggressive moderation. /r/askhistorians is a good example of the level of moderation a subreddit needs to remain sane as it grows.

People like to complain about gatekeeping, but societies build gates for a reason. I would like a forum that actively encourages gatekeeping and bans users who consistently post low quality comments.

That really doesn't seem like the core issue to me. Once child is born parents have tons of obligations towards them, and severe neglect can cause a prison sentence.

I'm not American, so forgive me for barging in, but it seems to me you have two core issues:

First there is the debate over when a Fetus should be considered a person and receive the rights that come with it.

Secondly there is a debate over states rights and what topics the federal government should get a say in.

Fair enough, I agree.

I actually didn't intend for my comment to be an argument in favour or against, and I am a bit surprised it is the most upvoted of the section.

I agree that there's a pretty interesting discussion to fair-use and the limits of copyright, and that my original comment was not conducive to having that discussion. In my defense, neither was the tweet this thread is about!

Sorry for the unproductive tone of this comment, but there's something about the attitude of this tweet that really grinds my gears.

Any time someone invents something new and incredible, there's always a crowd of negative nancies eager to discredit and explain why the invention is nothing new and a detrement to society.

I don't understand why someone would willingly share their code on github where it is publicly available just to complain when others make use of that knowledge.

'co-pilot just sells code other people wrote' is such a ridiculous understatement of what co-pilot does. Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating it, they sneer at the audacity of openAI to do something without first asking their permission.

As someone who is pretty decent at go (6k OGS, for those who know what that means), I teach go in a pretty unorthodox way, which has so far produced much better results than the way I see other teach it.

The way I teach both the rules and basic strategy of go is to start with the smallest possible board 1x1 and work our way up.

on a 1x1 board, it's impossible to place any stones because it has no liberties. Great now the player knows about liberties.

Then we move to a 2x2 board, where it is possible to place a stone and capture the opponent's stone. Great now we know about captures and ko.

Then we move to 3x3, where we find ourselves able to create our first live shapes, and get to score the board. Now we know when the game ends and how to score it!

Then we move on to 5x5, where we play our first 'real' game, now knowing all the rules.

yup, I'm 24 and single which probably gives me a lot more free time than many on this forum.

That said I think you can get very far with a 35 minute workout 2-3 days a week, if you do the right compound exercises and push yourself.

My god there are many people in this comment thread who trivialise weight loss, clearly having never done it themselves.

I'm a healthy weight, do heavy workouts 5 days a week and am in very good shape. When I cut my body fat down to ~10%, I go through hell in terms of hunger. There's not a minute I'm not thinking about how hungry I am, and how much I want to eat. I'm completely unable to do productive work, spending a majority of my mental energy restraining myself from getting food.

It's very clear to me, that the only difference between me and someone obese is at what point our brains start telling us that we're hungry.

The only purpose this article serves is to make people who have never struggled with diet feel superior.

like for example, after writing this comment I just tried creating a new account again (using my facebook to login).

Half the videos are in dutch for some reason (I'm from Denmark, I don't speak dutch nor have I ever lived there). I tried searching on some topics that interested me, and found some of them pretty compelling. Then I went back to the feed, and it just kept showing more dutch content.

Every time I've tried tiktok it's more or less been like this, except with less dutch.

I tried on multiple occations to get hooked on tik-tok, but each time after spending an hour scrolling through the feed with absolutely nothing interesting appearing I gave up.

Was I doing tik-tok wrong? I am a sociable 23 year old, so it's not like I'm way out of their target audience or anything. I am a bit confused as to why the algorithm seemed to be so poor at finding anything interesting for me, when have needed to disable youtube-recommendations because they take so much of my time.