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1. Why should harming a million people identically reduce their right to a fair legal evaluation and possibly compensation for damages? <-- maybe it makes sense for large corporations to carry insurance to pay for the potentially massive legal costs they could impose on governments? 2. Shouldn't we be able to quickly resolve these cases assuming there are no substantially different pieces of evidence?
This is why you fundamentally cannot rely on private companies to build the "town square". This will _always_ happen because every company has a profit motive (even if its a loooong tail via SV-style funding). The problem behind the problem is people want great communities and tools, but don't way to provide any effort to build them.
This was both a new topic to me and a remarkably succinct (and well-cited) comment. Did you happen to do this research independently or do you reference a more comprehensive source?
The core issue is those red light cameras create a persistent database of who is where, which is then sold at a marginal cost to whoever wants it to advertise to/manipulate/track a population. Adding cameras everywhere invites a dystopian nightmare vs better urban design and occasional traffic police would solve the same problem.
I wish they'd go a step further and offer this for adults too. Facebook has become the lowest common denominator communication platform (at least in my family/friend circles). It would be great to have a site to log in and periodically scroll through family photos, hear about milestones, etc. without influencers and video shorts. I'd even pay $ to have that feed without ads.
I'm not a doctor, and I couldn't give you medical advice if I was, but tinnitus can be caused by health conditions you really should get checked out. High blood pressure etc.
Those global sales are a bit skewed due to China's industrial dumping of EVs that are sitting in lots rusting.
This is an excellent ponit, and I don't know where to exactly draw the line ("I know it when I see it"). I personally use "auto" (probably heuristic, maybe soon-ish AI-powered) features to adjust levels, color balance etc. Using AI to add things that are _not at all present_ in the original crossed the line into digital art vs photography for me.
As an eng manager, I always make it super clear (many times) when new engineers onboard they're always welcome to say "this doesn't make sense" ask for more details. Sometimes (maybe even often) they're right. I also enourage them to "assume good intent" from other devs and managers. Fundamentally no one manager knows everyone and no one engineer is right about everything.
Yes. A simple fine for each verified instance prominently displaying a clearly fraudulent advertisement seems like a reasonable solution. Maybe instead of spending engineering cycles thinking of how to jam a larger volume of ads down our throats, Google can develop better ways to detect and reject scams. Win/Win.
In practical terms this is like saying "you're welcome to decline food". Part of the argument for limiting federal government in the first place is to prevent this kind of arm twisting.
I'm about at the threshold for wanting to de-google my life. Do you have an alternative email provide you recommend?
Not if the veracity and rules for creating these labels is held to a strict regulatory standard. We can certainly argue if the current food-based "nutrition facts" really provides all the information it should, but knowingly printing false information has clearly defined punishments.
Hopefully AI starts to bend the cost curve. Just like a huge chunk of doctor visits could be handled by a nurse/NP, probably AI could do a lot of triage work and/or improve labor productivity.
Very fair. I wanted to address a more general point. This is not the first reddit controversy, and likely won't be the last. If this is the "Digg" moment for reddit, I'll leave up to Manifold markets :)
GDPR only applies to EU citizens though. If the data is truly valuable, I could imagine some work-arounds as well. E.g. maybe each reddit post is automatically a copyright work which you immediate give a perpetual license to reddit inc. You also automatically transfer copyright ownership to reddit inc and they license back your ability to share your comment.
There are multiple projects to actively crawl and preserve reddit posts/comments. I think the old adage still applies: once its on the internet, its there forever. In my view a better, more sustainable solution is to treat commenters as humans who are flawed but grow and change over time. I don't think it is reasonable e.g. to take the comments a 13 year old makes during a Halo match as indicative of their views (or behaviors) as an adult.
As a recent lawn owner/steward of a small strip of ground, this is my approach as well. My view is if you want a more or less monoculture of grass, you should have to physically work for it (no fuel-powered tools either). In this sense, I treat the grass portion of my yard as a garden and do end up spending some time every week troweling out a few dandelions and other unwanted plants. I _do_ make sure I compost all the "weeds" I pull. Overall this seems environmentally friendly, and I do get a good chuckle every time someone asks me which herbicide I spray.
You clearly fell for BigBanana's propaganda.
More seriously -- challenging "US standard" dietary norms often leads to fruitful discussions of nutrition and how off-optimal most "common sense" tends to be.
The concerns are valid, but I find setting a "suggested minimum" amount of PTO (in my case, I suggest 1 week/quarter on average) and _actually taking time off yourself_ helps model better work/life balance. If you have "unlimited PTO" but the high status people never take PTO, you effectively have no PTO at all.
You just articulated why I kept getting really obsessed with, then extremely pissed off at Rimworld. It also didn't make much sense to my why you could build all this advanced future tech in-game but then needed to tame alpacas to leave your settlement...
I wish they provided some justification for that target. IMO, "broadband access" should be defined as sufficient bandwidth for a family of 4 to simultaneously work/learn over video call with some slight overhead %. Ballpark 100mbps down 25 up.
Based on some extremely back of napkin math (e.g. doing one of those activities where you cycle to power a light bulb) that seems pretty far off. Was the flow rate extremely low? Have a link?
When you plug a new one in, you have the option to run through a "layout detection" process. Typically it asks you to press the keys directly adjacent to the "shift" keys and goes from there. Also, IME, there is not a "mac" keyboard on a hardware level - the key directly to the left of the space is alt on Windows or Command on OSX.
Are startups the closest you can still get to "punk rock in tech"? I would love for the dream of the 90s to still be alive somewhere...
As an i.reddit mobile user, it retains the old iphone/mobile optimized css of reddit. There are actual html buttons with minimal js nonsense and not a to of a useless whitespace. On desktop I'm a fervent old.reddit user and sincerely hope they don't deprecate the, (imo better, more info dense), style.
When you consider the large # of people who _pay money_ to play Farm/Driving simulators, this might actually be an ideal job for some folks.
Northeast US is in a mild to mid level drought depending on where you live. Higher temps are causing more evaporation and consequently more water usage (also rising population).
It seems like that, for most partisans and politicians, is exactly the point.
Re the "no meaningful feedback" - this may be laziness or negligence, but in my experience is almost certainly related to liability. "Takes too much time" as a value probably varies widely between engineers. I personally like a system with a take home designed to take 1 hour (we've said so explicitly) but we don't actually cap the time. There is an entirely other camp of engineers who don't want _any_ time limits so they can approach the problem in whatever way they want. At the end of the day you have to make a call re the most efficient use of your team's time to find new folks.