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> The despair of the the unemployed skilled laborer is that losing his livelihood imperils the things he does value, family and the ability to provide for them. Isn't that exactly …

> callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive information or updates, and if…

It's standard policy at most major corporations even for low-level employees to not discuss anything legally sensitive over company e-mail or chat.

Having airworthiness certification done by an independent organization not beholden to Boeing's shareholders makes much more sense to me. Giving the authority to Boeing to do its o…

> One health problem has me hitting 75% of my full-price, high deductible... and this doesn’t even include my much more intensive second surgery yet. I'm confused, don't you want t…

Female circumcision is often more brutal, but I agree with the stance that any mutilation of children is bad. No matter what you think about circumcision, elective surgeries should…

> There's no silver bullets here. Because it's a trade-off, just like stability is, they're both software bugs in the end so mitigating them has similar pros and cons.

Who determines the specs?

This is a big difference with much of the U.S. and Europe, Japan doesn't subsidize car ownership as heavily. There is no on-street parking in the city, businesses aren't required t…

The problem is that a lot of people have a very binary view on life. Either something is a complete success or a complete waste of money, rarely do we accept that most projects fal…

I always found advertisements for AI to be so strange, why would you advertise your AI to the public as a danger for humanity that will also put everyone out of work? Such advertis…

By that logic an abacus has human-like attributes. Just because it can simulate the processes involved does not mean it is at all practical to compute them. Besides, LLMs are not a…

I guess we're ready to blame anything but work hours, no one has time to take care of kids anymore. The correlation between industrialization and falling birth rates has long been …

Then stop using the roads and everything else that tax money paid for. If you keep using things that's been paid for using taxes the government will only feel more entitled to coll…

It's mostly just about getting the data out of the news cycle. If you don't have new data on the oceans warming then there's no news story, so less pressure on Big Oil to greenwash…

That stretch of ocean is closer to Canada than it is to mainland Europe.

Since very few types of plastic are actually recyclable most of it ends up being burned despite being separately collected, so I don't think you can simply discount the recycled pl…

Because the startup is going to buy $2 billion worth of services from IBM.

When your labor force makes gains in productivity you can choose to do one of two things: 1. Reduce working hours 2. Grow the economy Guess which option was last picked in 1868 and…

I learned what a crossover cable was as a teenager because I was in an electronics store buying an ethernet cable and I picked the cool-looking black-and-red cable. Then the guy be…

So the United States should step in because it knows better than our elected representatives? Are you sure you're on the side of democracy here?

You may not have complete immunity beyond 10 years though, so the recommendation is that you get a booster every 10 years. But I don't see your point? Are you arguing that the COVI…

This is not public scrutiny though, that comes from the public and their institutions. This is simply a nation meddling in the internal affairs of other nations.

You need a booster every 10 years to maintain immunity.