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Perhaps I'm being uncharitable but this line "each person will be more load-bearing" reads to me as "each person will be expected to do more work for the same pay".

Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety …

Remember, the product is the stock and the customers are the shareholders. And oh boy do the customers want AI.

Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's some…

Branching in Subversion was fine, but merging was quite painful (at least at the time I was using it, around 2008ish). From my recollection, SVN didn't try to figure out the base c…

Minor spoilers ahead: I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because y…

Food is heavily regulated though, in a large part because markets failed to prevent food-borne illnesses.

Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably …

Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though: * Self-satisfaction * Sense of identity * Belief in the company * Desire to improve the world * Puritanical w…

Fortunately owners will forever remain entitled to the profits of others' work.

It was my understanding that many of the studies on moderate alcohol consumption included people in the study who could not drink for medical reasons (or were former alcoholics) wh…

The best way that I've thought about it is like this: You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win. Obvio…

The `ac` in `actime24` probably means `arrival city`.

I do like this (and the way you phrased it!) but I do think it has a dark side - there will come a time in your life where your skills plateau, and another time in your life where …

A lot of addiction is caused by social issues or mental health issues, but it's really hard to deal with those issues when someone is also dealing with the effects of addiction. A …

You are correct, the US has very few rights for workers, at least federally. Different states have different work protection laws, California has a lot of well known work protectio…

I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product. Outside of the tech world Google still has a stellar reputation. Most people don't …

I feel like this would end up with a bunch of interns in prison for the crimes of executives. It would be too easy to find a scapegoat.

I worked for a New York based company once, and I was moving to Washington State and planned to continue to work remotely. I told my manager, he told his manager, everything was ap…

A friend of mine built a device specifically for using a digital camera to "scan" 35mm film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEDWeAbd6J4

I worked for a while on a dating app (that was never released). It had over a dozen gender options and allowed selecting more than one gender. In the case of a dating app allowing …

OCaml isn't indentation sensitive, BTW.

I doubt I'm going to change your mind on this, but I think you are under-estimating the difficulty of getting ID in certain parts of the country, for certain people. For example, p…

Doesn't sound like they controlled for it or even considered it. While they did have a control group that excluded non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, that was solely to control for b…

I think the major problem with CICO is that advocates for it present it as if it is a diet when it's actually just an explanation for why diets work (or fail). I've seen a lot of t…