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There is a Chatbot AI product called character.ai that has suffered a marked decline in quality since its launch as they battle their users to maintain the AI’s safety protocols (similar to chatGPT “jailbreaks”). I wonder if something similar could be happening here.

Everyday Astronaut has some good coverage

I'm concerned about becoming dependent on medications I don't need.

I'm worried that if I go to any sort of medical professional they will succumb to "if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail" and I will end up on some sort of meds that I don't need.

I just have this impression that 80% of people could walk into any psychiatrist's office, describe their experiences, and walk out with a prescription or three.

I'd like it if someone could convince me that these are not legitimate concerns.

You do so by tapping the heart to like the video. If you want to jump-start it use the discover tab and search for something you like.

2560x1440 is often called "2k"

or even watch the movie the song was influenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film), or even the book that movie is based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

I was just thinking, why don't they install a steel beam at the same height as the maximum allowed, like 11foot8?

Obviously it would be set much farther back than theirs.

Here's a Smarter Every Day video on the topic. Live demonstration starts at 6min mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU&feature=youtu.be...

'Bethesda Softworks' is the publisher for both, but ESO was made by a different studio -- 'ZeniMax Online Studios'. 'Bethesda Game Studios' is responsible for the mainline Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, including now Fallout 76. I think this is their first multiplayer title.

NIMBY-ism mostly. The people lucky enough to already own property don't want further residential development. It keeps their property values artificially high. There is an unreasonable expectation that if you buy a house in a nice quiet suburb then it should stay a nice quiet suburb the entire time you are living there.

In California specifically, they voted themselves (via referendum) a law which also keeps property taxes down for incumbents

"The proposition decreased property taxes by assessing property values at their 1976 value and restricted annual increases of assessed value of real property to an inflation factor, not to exceed 2 percent per year. It also prohibited reassessment of a new base year value except for in cases of (a) change in ownership, or (b) completion of new construction. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

I'm not sure how unique it is to Iraq, but there were tons of photos of it on American news after that country was 'liberated'

https://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+voting&tbm=isch

Yes, we also have these screens in our office elevators. They show the weather, pictures of office views better than yours, and ads. I find the brand name "Captivate" depressingly accurate since you are trapped in a box with it.

My new card from Citi doesn't even have raised numbers. You could probably still write it down manually I suppose.

Console should benefit from the system wide 'Windows Sets' tabbing feature

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/tabs-come-to-every-w...

As a native English speaker, I can confirm you are not crazy; it needs an article.

"some 40,000 people per day are hit by "A" car". How can you possibly read this and think this was about the all cars on the road?

Sorry for being cheeky but the parent literally just addressed your question.

I wonder what their terms were when they signed up with the labels to be yet another Spotify clone. If it was any sort of upfront payment that would hit them hard since I don't think they have many subscribers to their SoundCloud plus (or whatever it's called)

There is a paywall, but only for the kind of music you can find everywhere else.

This is place is most likely an exception to the rule but here is a single counter-example; a long-standing commune near my hometown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia

Apple takes 30% of the purchase price for app sales on the app store.

a genie offers you a deal. "I will prevent all car accidents that cause death for an entire year. In exchange, at the end of that year, I will randomly kill people, one by one, until as many as XX% of the prevented deaths are 'repaid'.

The 1% safety people would take the deal at 99% repaid deaths. But I think most people would only be comfortable with a number much lower.

The orange square is to stop the current bidet function. The 9 dots is a big flush, as opposed to the one beside it which is a small flush and then an even smaller 'eco' flush beside that.

I don't get why more banks don't let you generate a unique card number per merchant so if it's compromised it affects at most one place.

A lot of them do. Here are some examples:

https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...

I only meant as a way to sort of crowdfund research, not as a long term solution. Re: your last line, does the US Earned Income Tax Credit count?

Why don't we do a basic income lottery?

- Anyone except previous winners can enter.

- You can only enter once per drawing.

- As the pool increases the payout does not, only the number of winners.

- Winners get a basic income for life.

- As another condition they agree to an amount of monitoring so that we can effectively study how they behave with the basic income.

- This one would be hard, but you might have to be made ineligible for other government assistance programs maybe?

State lotteries already offer annuity payouts and even better they sometimes have 100k for life lotteries. These aren't perfect as the amount is too high but it's worth studying anyway. The basic income lottery described above would be an even better approximation.

EDIT: I just did a bit of googling and it looks like this has been tried before [1][2] , but the amounts were time-limited and low. It would probably have to be state-sponsored to take off.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-basic-income-lottery-... [2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-my-basic-income-proje...

Yeah UPS is probably one of the better ones. If you want a comparison to Amazon maybe try FedEx

SUV = built on top of truck body/platform; these are almost extinct

crossover = looks like an SUV, but is built on a car body/platform and thus generally smaller

I've never heard that expression, what does it mean?

online shopping is a big one, self-serve kiosks, AI tier-one help desk, personal assistant technology built into every phone, fast food industry is actively developing automated replacements for line cooks, robo-investing, online learning courses, nearly the entirety of the transportation jobs.

I just wish the Skills weren't behind that unnatural syntax.

E.g. Alexa, Ask recipes how do I make an omelet? instead of: Alexa, how do I make an omelet?

I imagine it's to prevent conflicts but I'd like the option to put some services in the default namespace as it were.