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Not sure “thankless” really applies here. She enjoyed a sort of celebrity status for the past 40-50 years and was universally loved.

Ball spin would be trivial to simulate. The only way I could see the physics getting at all expensive is if they went overboard with fluid dynamics

What is the significance of the article/post title...?

AWS has a denied party screening team and absolutely restricts access to services based on the BIS entity list and other sanctioned parties.

I believe Musk was wealthy basically from birth…

Whether MS deserves credit or not, he's a very senior SW engineer at Microsoft so this should at least provide some reassurance that the company has technical leaders who are looking out for these sorts of security risks...

TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.

Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There's been some speculation that this reversal in safety was tied to the rise of smartphones and a corresponding increase of distracted driving.

How so? The submission you linked is a different article?

Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.

This seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place of "browser" would have made that sentence more accessible to the "rest of the population" you're describing.

That seems like a leap -- there's other foods that can provide sufficient iodine (e.g. fish, eggs, milk)...

You didn't really make a comment -- you just dropped in an Asimov quote. And xNeil's interpretation of the relevance of that comment matched my intuition. If you had some other intent with that comment, maybe you should clarify?

The USG isn't setting out to make money on major ventures. Publicly traded companies are.

Can you share the palindrome?

A Google search suggests that person may have been talking about the Black Dahlia killer, not the Zodiac killer

Would be nice if they linked the study or at least an article about it.

Wow, TIL you can use sed syntax in vi. I'm not a heavy vi user but that's still a handy trick. :-)

That's not really true, at least not in the same way being discussed above. Jobs already owned millions of shares in Apple stock, so yes, he profited from the stock but AFAIK that was only from the appreciation of existing stock, not from new grants.

10-15% of car accidents are cause by mechanical failure. Some of those could certainly be blamed on large corporations cutting corners, so my question still stands.

Makes sense, but that still doesn't explain why we ignore tens of thousands of auto deaths per year but talk about one Uber ATG death for 5 years...

Absolutely someone would buy a house with blemishes like that! Most house buyers look past that stuff, especially when the housing market is hot (which it still is). Get your house on the market without worrying about that stuff before the market cools off!

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I'm inclined to agree as I'm extremely skeptical of NFT's but I'd note that your "stone" thought exercise could also be applied to things like trading cards or other collectibles, which also have no objective value but often preserve their value over time (though not always).

I usually look to r/science for this sort of skepticism. This particular thread doesn't seem especially negative...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ren6cc/japanese_sc...

The second sentence explicitly tells you what the graph is showing. The first sentence doesn't contradict that, it just seems to provide some context. (?)

And it may just be that happiness and video game playing are both correlated with something else, like having a lot of leisure time and/or a lot of discretionary spending money.

Probably in large part because their book came out before Java was even around. :-D

Not relevant for your "Hey" example but I often do submit successive thoughts as separate messages rather than one less disruptive message because it allows readers to add reactions/responses to the individual thoughts.

Analyzing the doppler shift to calculate speed only works if you know what the unshifted audio spectrum should be. Trains generate a ton of noise at a wide range of frequencies and that noise probably varies significantly based on a bunch of factors.

Well, the article does conclude with that exact tweet...