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I'm looking into reducing loneliness and providing companionship for aging parents with an AI powered talking companion. If you have faced any issues with providing companionship t…

Open source development needs time and effort, which often means people need to get paid to devote their time. Popular business models include corporate sponsors, individual donati…

Note that most registrars participating in EAP or landrush charge a non-refundable fee, which is major chunk of the price increase from day 7 to day 1. It doesn't seem that there i…

Apart from all the questions about the camera, resolution and culpability, we need to re-think what it means to be training and evaluation of autonomous cars with respect to the ra…

As far as analogies go, I'll rescind my analogy based on the difference you have stated. However, it does not negate the point I was trying to make, that the problem lies not with …

I think there are two orthogonal issues in the discussion which I would like to untangle. Some of the proposed solutions have been about maintaining a "social distance" ( https://n…

I don't think the problem lies with feedback. I think it lies with willful ignorance of it. I believe that most people in group 1, are in fact aware of the problem of their behavio…

I like nuanced comments and you make cogent arguments. However, I believe that most people in group 1, are in fact aware of the problem of their behaviour and are willingly ignoran…

Curious about why this article went missing from the first few pages in a few minutes it took me to read it. Is it by design or intervention and if intervention then the rationale …

I have a counterpoint for discussion against taking the flu vaccine based on the facts we know, and a two independent assumptions I make. We know that influenza is different from o…

Thanks. Should have googled. However, upon closer inspection, it seems like there was a wave of research during 1960s which looked at Copper ion concentration between 0.02 - 10g/L …

> and were proven long ago. Can you back up your claim?

Anonymity of poster doesn't render the poster's experience unworthy of thought. If it did, I would be ignoring this comment from a throwaway account. Cartoonish and poorly written …

* There is no proof in your statement that currrently 9X% of their users have fast internet connection. * Even so, it would simply be an artefact of them never bothering to optimiz…

As the comments point out, apart from immediate use to consumers, it can also help understand underlying temporal trends and perhaps with some data analysis suggest healthier subst…