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We just went through institution of a union at my employer for one type of employee. The organizers did exactly this, and as an observer/affected party it was a little coercive. Bu…

I would love something as responsive as the Remarkable tablet in this form factor

There is a market for smaller cars and trucks but its probably smaller than for other countries. We don't have the smaller roads/spaces associated with e.g. Europe. But for sure I …

There is active propaganda against scientists and institutions; and scientists are decent but not excellent communicators. They lost the communication war and now the general publi…

Why the hell ARE they even valued that way?

There's definitely something to this idea. Our toddler absolutely loves her Yoto player, which is kind of like a tiny Walkman with cards instead of tapes. It's new but has that sam…

Even if you test a batch once, do people who get testing done do testing on all batches? The synthesis of peptides uses some NASTY chemicals. I would be worried about lax manufactu…

Clinical trials are not looking for fundamental mechanisms, they are there to ensure an effect is strong enough to say a product should be sold for that purpose. Otherwise you end …

Causality was not the point. The point was to refute the seeding hypothesis, and because they found those molecules, the effort to falsify the hypothesis failed. Now we can move on…

LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking dogs for fun. I und…

where did you hear this?

Your first post specifically stated: "I'm curious - do you have ANY idea what it costs to have humans write 100,000 lines of code???" which any reasonable reading would take to mea…

It is not possible to "dox" a public employee because that information is legally public information. Don't become a public employee if you want your job to be private. see e.g. ht…

Fully agree. Forums predate social media and are some of the oldest parts of the internet. And it's not quite socializing... it's more like, are you broadcasting and consuming cont…

As with anything, it is about trusting your tools. Who is culpable for such errors? In the days of human authors, the person writing the text is responsible for not making these er…

They may have meant grounded, not decommissioned. DC-10s were grounded alongside the MD-11s. https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/us-faa-broadens-md-11-gr...

What is the purpose of saying this? It's being unnecessarily antagonistic towards a genuine sentiment. It's not like you are offering any solution either. Are you proposing nihilis…

I would have thought the change to Calibri was simply because office uses it as the default font now

Ah yes, a great point. We must protect the freedom to heap shit on other humans

California had Fry's until a few years ago. Once they went under it basically ended the local market. I'd love to see more market-style parts locations a la Huaqiang or Akiahabara

But that occurred with a new form of media that people now use in more of their time than back before Google. It implies AI is growth in time spent. I think the trend is more likel…

If you visit Disneyland regularly, Snow White is just as popular for costumes as any other princess and has been for a long time!

It's not just about the economy, it is about freedom of choice. What does Max and Avery feel about their careers? Would they rather be working or watching kids? If one parent has t…