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They used to be real friends. At this point, if you only know someone online, they might not even be a someone let alone a friend.

There is absolutely no chance I would allow a 5 year extended exposure to an LLM.

The sad thing is it happens in real life too. You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tr…

If the job does not require a person to be able to fizzbuzz, it probably doesn't require a person at all.

One thing that would help, and that I don't see addressed here is "avoid taking public positions on divisive issues that are not absolutely clear and directly linked to your area o…

I have only seen "go do X" result in CC adding "TODO: X" to the working file on one occasion. When it happened, I noticed that the file contained a very similar todo for a similar …

I wonder if it has to do with how often TODOs appear in the existing code.

If you value art as communication with another human soul, then it matters whether a human was involved. "Who cares if that 'I love you' voicemail is really from your mother. As lo…

'When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would…

I think belief in the rapture is pretty rare among denominations that practice infant baptism.

They should bear in mind that someone they consider an authoritarian will inevitably be elected.

Because people prefer their objects to lose value more slowly? Not sure why this would be hard to understand.

I don't think any of these are ambiguous. My point is that sometimes right wingers take the nonsense position and sometimes left wingers take the nonsense position. Neither side re…

I guess it depends Is climate change driven by human activity? Do males have a natural advantage in sports? Do vaccines cause autism? Does rent control make housing more available?…

No. Because it's inappropriate to treat adults like children.

Yes, that's true. For most of human history we feared starvation, not bankruptcy.

The actual numbers are surprising though. 1. Most of the decrease in the middle class was driven by MC people moving to the upper class So 2. The ratio of lower class to upper clas…

Sure. The poorest people in the world are as poor as always (starving), while the richest people are richer than our ancestors could have imagined.

It's popular with middle class suburban families. So, snobs (who don't realize that's what they are) like to sneer at it to demonstrate their sophistication.

Can data be reviewed retroactively to track someone that wasn't a suspect at the time the image was captured. E.g., "we now suspect john doe was involved in a series pf bank robber…

Call me old fashioned, but I think the constant monitoring of citizen's movements is bad even (especially?) when the state does it. If we're going to live in 1984, the involvement …

But they would also decrease the utility of the cars.

You probably spent a lot more time on the details of TX history than they did in Mass

I don't know that it's relevant in this case, but I think sugar is often added to make packaged food last longer.