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ANA is good but isn't even the best airline in its' own country. LH isn't the best airline in its' own group (Swiss and Austrian have better seats/service, and Swiss has equivalent…

The British were engaged in the slave trade, then worked to outlaw slavery but replaced it with indentured servitude that was basically like slavery with a trivial income. That and…

Processed foods usually refers to packaged snacks, food with lots of added ingredients, corn oils, artificial ingredients, etc or fast food/junk food ordered at restaurants/fast-ca…

In the past, he had call options that he could've sold for profit but instead he exercised them to get even more GME stock. It's literally the opposite of dumping. The whales manip…

Disclaimer: I work at Google on related stuff Veo is the name of a video model. VideoFX is the name of a new experimental tool at labs.google.com, which uses Veo and lets you make …

Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a m…

That's not even close to true. Look at the massive growth of slavery and religious violence under Arab and Muslim conquest across Asia and Africa. Arab and Western conolialism have…

Archibald sells a vicuna sweater for $3.1k, and they say the at cost price is $1.9k [1] Given maybe $500-800 in production cost, shipping, duties etc, the cost is probably $1k. It …

So sad to hear that. QDB brought me so much joy to read.

Love this book, and looks like stripe.press has some other really good books like Hamming's The Art and Science of Doing Engineering. That being said, the UX of this page is horrib…

I've read most of Matt's "Notes on [X]" In general they are well written and interesting. In some cases though it's too simplified and at times insensitive. In particular, I've tal…

Have you done the math, even at a ballpark level? Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is estimated to have ~$500B loss in 2023 and nearly the same in 2024 (different from debt repayment) …

That's a good point. I agree it's not clear cut one way or another and we gotta let it play out.

disclaimer: I work on GenAI at google, but views are my own The question is, how did the model create Mario&Luigi or Scrooge McDuck without training on copyrighted data? It can't j…

After reading your comment, I checked their history. The account has 7k+ karma, and if they're professional marketer they are promoting: * DALLE * Stable Diffusion * Tabletop RPGs …

A good PM doesn't have to know the differences, but should understand that mixing encryption protocols is going to break things. Ideally an eng lead would be flagging these issues.…

"On June 9, the day of the alleged poisoning, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation conducted an inspection at the restaurant and conducted a follow-up ins…

I agree but want to correct you on the public school point. Excluding the service academics, there are 2 or 3 schools with sub 20% acceptance rates, and every other public school i…

I read the comments and many are in this vein: "Agreed, moderators with a power complex are the worst thing about this site. Don't even care about this API crap." Never realized mo…

Madoff was arrested fast because his sons went to prosecutors and admitted to the fraud. That's very strong evidence + direct witnesses vs. here where they have to prove fraud and …