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Do you know if anyone has looked at what kinds of task lists are better handled by Ralph versus giving the LLM the list and asking it to implement everything in one session/prompt?…

> To make this enforcement cost effective, it needs to recover more than the $80 Billion budget increase annually, no? Improved enforcement can deter tax avoidance in addition to d…

This is, of course, a major philosophical debate. I will just say that there could be reasons this is the government's business. One issue with modern food production for consumers…

Great question. The answer might be not that soon, and the effects will be confusing. Search "Solow paradox," "productivity paradox," and "IT productivity paradox," and you'll enco…

Great overview! I think 1Password's Linux support has been improving [0]. I use 1Password with an Ubuntu desktop and have been happy with it. [0]: https://support.1password.com/exp…

The goal is to estimate the proportion of accounts that are bots. Let that number equal p. The variance of the proportion is p(1-p). The highest that can be is (0.5)0.5. Then, the …

I recently had Intuit delete all my personal data, across all their products. Doing this was exhausting. Their online process for deleting an account did not work. Contacting custo…

Not sure I follow your question. An example of something that's not human subjects research would be emailing people who have websites and asking about their privacy policy. An exa…

That's not the definition of human subjects research. Not everything that involves a human responding to questions is human subjects research. A lot of comments in this thread are …

This is incorrect. It's only human subjects research if the researcher is obtaining data about a human. This is the "about whom" requirement. A classic example is calling a busines…

My high school history teacher recommended his book to me when I was junior. I loved it, and even wrote to the author regarding a mistake I thought I found in the book (pretty arro…

I got this email and started to transfer my library only to learn it requires also creating a YouTube channel. The message says... > On YouTube Music, playlists are stored on your …

I decided to look this up and it seems you’re wrong about this [0]. What is your source? [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm

Anyone interested in the exchange can watch the whole thing in 8 minutes and make up their own mind: https://www.c-span.org/video/?473393-1/covid-19-response-reo... Starts at 1:15:…

Store owners, at least in the US, are not 100% liable for injuries on their property. Their liability depends on several factors, which include the reasonableness of their behavior…

> "In the crazy scenario that I had to participate in drug trials, I would instate a pretty simple rule: I would only accept those substances if everyone involved in the drug creat…

The effects reported in that study are probably not real [0, 1]. [0]: http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges [1]: http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html

The injustice is actually larger than this paragraph makes it seem. First, people can pass their low property taxes on to their children using trusts, creating a sort of landed nob…

There are great videos for understanding how it works [0]. I watched a couple of those and after that was able to do exactly what I needed. For me the trickiest thing is rememberin…

Economists strongly agree that rent control does not have positive effects on the amount and quality of affordable housing [0]. [0]: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control

I wish grocery stores near me had better bulk goods sections. I notice the ones that exist are currently presented as upscale choices, and are often more expensive than the package…

Cooperating might make it harder to fight your battles via the legal system. "Sure officer, come into my house/car and look around, gather or plant whatever evidence you feel is ap…

Yes, the IRS will pay you interest under certain circumstances. Two examples are when they are late processing a refund or when a prior return is amended. I got a 1099-INT from the…

This story reminds me of this recent NPR interview with an anthropologist on vaccine hesitancy [0]. The upshot of the research is that "skepticism of vaccines [is] 'socially cultiv…