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I'm looking forward to an AI assistant that can use my voice to make phone calls I'm sure some people with selective mutism that would like to use text to speech with their own voi…

That, on average, they would be worse off if they were born elsewhere. It's a predictor - nobody was suggesting that it's the only factor, or that it's deterministic.

Once you have unlimited physical access to the hardware, software protections are worthless. And that's ignoring that it could just be sold for parts.

It would still be possible to find a compact subregion of a large region where no girls were born. However, the fact that it was 132 villages makes this seem unlikely, unless the l…

A) We can't put a brain-equivalent computer in the car, and can't program it to be as good as a brain at driving B) We have higher standards for autonomous cars. The people saying …

Serverless is really the wrong term to use here. That refers to a specific way of handling cloud infrastructure (the point being that there are still servers, you just don't care) …

100% success, expected time until death 3-70 years with a 95% confidence interval

With kotlin, the final .toList() call can be removed

I could purchase a semi truck today and drive it despite the fact i'm not licensed. I don't see how it's any different - the thing stopping people from driving vehicles that they d…

A person taking a job in teaching benefits society as a whole but disadvantages them individually. We should transfer some of that benefit to them to make it an attractive option b…

It could be argued that it is similar to predatory pricing, where you accept a loss on your offering to drive competitors away before increasing the price. Amazon video as its own …

In an electric car the battery is essentially the only part that can catch fire. If there's flames, the battery is already burning and you can't really put it out. The only other t…

The percentage is very misleading because you can have a negative net worth. The average could be $1, in which case you get a 500% increase by giving everyone $5. That doesn't disc…

The people with the power to change the treaty don't materially care about the restoration and the people in change of the restoration don't have the power to change the treaty. Wi…

It's worth noting from the paper that this doesn't control for income, or any other factors that are correlated with early death.

The related articles at the bottom of the page make this bias laughably evident > Tesla Cost-Cutting Measures so Hardcore Employees Are Bringing Toilet Paper From Home > Tesla's Wa…

It's similar to colourblindness, in that it's really hard to tell because it's all you've ever known. Your best bet is probably to try an online test and go to see a doctor if it s…

The term is pseudonymous - the list of all transactions is available for anyone to look at but in theory you can't link bitcoin addresses to people. However, in practice, most peop…

Buying hedges against the market when you intend to live in the house. When the market goes up, your rent will increase, but the price to stay in the house you own is still zero.

Yes, both would work. Other countries have started with DNS blocks and eventually moved to IP blocks, which would prevent Google DNS from bypassing the block. For now though, chang…

Their "adjusted score" means that films with more ratings are rated higher. Older films have far fewer ratings by critics, same with smaller films.

This is because films with more ratings are rated higher. Older films have far fewer ratings by critics, same with smaller films. Add on the fact that each critic's review is disti…

They are retail prices. It's been known for a few weeks now that it would be ~10% more expensive than the model 3, where the standard range model is $35k pre-"savings"

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That seems like a fairly healthy thing to learn, no? Sometimes we need to acknowledge that our brain can cause us to do things we don't want to, and not beat ourselves up for it. O…