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I'm curious if the people who are using AI to summarize articles are the same people who would have actually read more than the headline to begin with. It feels to me like the sort of person who would have read the article and applied critical thinking to it is not going to use an AI summary to bypass that since they won't be satisfied with it.

Really going to have to disagree with you on that one, 3 hours SF to LA is well within HSR times (4 hour is considered the max), and will still be time competitive with flying because of how long it takes to check in and what a nightmare LAX is. Serving more people is absolutely higher value then the 50 total minutes lost going the route it's going.

Look at any HSR map in Europe and you'll see the same thing, the major city service is great, but it's the smaller regional service that makes the system and drives ridership. With remote work on the rise, people already are moving to smaller towns in between SF and LA, this gives them an alternative to driving when they need to go into the office. Once SJ to Merced service is operating, you could even reasonably do a daily commute, <1 hour.

The next major investment is the capital corridor route needs to be purchased by the state and then electrified between San Jose and Sacramento via Oakland. That would give CAHSR a route to run on between SF and SAC once there's a second transbay tube with standard gauge tracks.

It was the right choice in the end though IMO, it avoids an even harder to pass set of mountains and serves yet another high population town (175k people) and provides a potential transfer station for getting to Las Vegas bypassing LA for people in Northern California once Brightline West comes down I-15, only needing to build a branch line between Palmdale and Victorville.

You mean Snapchat?

Reading this statement all I can think of is this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

Ultimately, printing money doesn't make anyone more productive or produce anything. All it does is redistribute wealth from those that were first to get the new free money away from those that were last to contact it.

I look it as raising taxes on the rich is too hard, and too easy to roll back. Just give the people who need it most the money, devaluing rich people's money. It's just a more efficient form of wealth transfer, and inflation isn't an issue as long as the deficit growth doesn't exceed long term growth.

At the moment we have new money being created by central banks and given to privileged institutions who get access to free money.

Also, did you forget about fractional reserve lending? Banks don't need the fed to create money, they do it on their own all the time.

Having worked for several tech companies in the valley, this is absolutely the case, calls are made all the time that screw a small number of users to unblock progress.

I mainly use an Amex charge card that functions like this, don't spend money I don't have, and only don't use a debit card for things because our financial system is very insecure and don't want to give the number out because getting my money back is a lot harder than just calling Amex and reporting the fraud.

We've been doing this for 20 years, it's only gotten worse. Good speech is losing and information reality has forked. We can't fix this by letting it ride.

Personally I think this is for the best, keeps extremism at the fringes instead of easily accessible.

I last logged into FB in 2017... never going back.

Maybe building on proprietary platforms was a bad idea from the start and a poor investment of public resources.

You want your mind to really be blown, your brain manages to do everything it does on around 20W, even less than that mac mini.

Yeah, I live a block from my grocery store in SF, and I still only go 1-2 times a week unless I need something fresh for today / missing ingredient, which is rare since I plan ahead and only buy things that will last at least a few days.

Living in a dense city like SF is great for somethings, but it sucks when you want to leave, and paying almost $400/month for parking isn't good either. Both lifestyles have their advantages and I think it really comes out to personal taste and choice.

I was very careful to word my previous comment to say the US Government represents the voting population. In 2016 there were only 157M registered voters, and only 138M voted in the presidential election that year. The population of the US was 321M in 2016 making the US Government represent approximately 43% of the overall population at best, most elections have a far lower turnout.

I didn't say the system was fair, but it's still not a fair to compare a private company to how a government is supposed to function. Governments enforce laws and provide public services. You want things to change? vote for it.

The banking system deals with it by just reversing the transaction so the end user of the system, the consumer, doesn't care. This ends up screwing the merchant most of the time, causing the price to be paid by higher prices, but people don't seem to care.

And most people don't store value in currency long term, they typically store value in assets such as precious metals, securities, or real estate. Cash has a purpose of exchanging value in the modern economy, nothing more. It is manipulated by design to bring stability to the economy to allow for a more favorable business environment.

I think crypto has a place in the world... but it's not as a general purpose currency. Using anything but a fiat currency for commerce is way too unstable for long term sustainability.

The US Government is representative of all voting American citizens, you cannot compare it to a private company that is run by people who are not elected.

Duo integrates into the latest Android like FaceTime integrates into iOS, it would be nice if Apple made FaceTime / iMessage available on Android (lol, never gonna happen) or allowed Duo to integrate into iOS like 3rd party apps can in Android (like WhatsApp video calling does). Probably the biggest feature I miss from Android since moving to iOS.

Apple is probably doing more harm than good at this point for themselves by keeping iMessage/FaceTime so locked down to their hardware since their revenue stream is trending more towards services and less weighted in hardware.

I just finished the book "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" by Stephanie Kelton. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard of MMT and wants a good intro with examples of how MMT could help today.

I've been asking myself the same question as of late, I haven't come up with a good answer yet.

I moved to an X1 2 years ago when I refused to get the new keyboard and my 2013 MBP was on the way out, very happy to have Linux as the native OS for dev work, but I don't love the added time I do have to spend maintaining my own OS now.

Also slack and zoom for linux suck :(

Honestly as a dev, this would make life a lot easier for a lot of engineers. People who care about openness will still have Linux and it's variants. The general population does not need that level of flexibility and just adds to the cost of developing / managing software. Web browsers wouldn't have taken off if writing thick apps and distributing them for Windows/MacOS was as easy to support as writing an iOS/Android app is today.

Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.

Signal (or Keybase), with expiring messages.

I've become quite paranoid about my digital communication, I've worked in the field long enough to know all of them are being scanned. I'm not even doing anything illegal, I'm just uncomfortable with it.

Or just never talk digitally, only talk IRL. All these guys lived near each other and worked at the same company, could have easily just dropped by each others desk with a wink or a nod.

I completely agree. If I ever find myself in the situation of one of these stories, aka the victim, I will be going straight to an employment lawyer before HR to discuss my options. Hopefully meeting with HR with my lawyer present.

Where's the catch?

I also have 3.18 on my Pixel XL. I assume the unreleased Pixel 2 devices will be running kernel 4.4 if that's what they targeted.

They probably wanted to back port it to 3.18 but it was too much work. I'm pretty disappointed they didn't move the Pixel forward to a new kernel though, this seems to be one of the biggest issues with Android.