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> I'm still trying to square how 98% of American voters went for candidates promising to continue arming the world's most live-streamed genocide, even with all those protests; even…

I am going to adopt the phrase “toxic negativity”. I’m not yet familiar with “virtue spiraling”, however.

I could not agree more. Finding succinct written information on the internet feels more difficult every day.

Learn everything you can about cleaning/standardizing datasets and the boots-on-the-ground process of labeling data and training algorithms. These are fundamental, and are often ov…

Interesting and interested. I’ll be following, for the learning experience if nothing else.

> Of course, in the developed world, bikes are more luxury things I’m not sure where this notion comes from? I wasn’t rich as a child, but I had a bicycle, and I grew up in rural A…

That one jumped out at me, too, but I was thinking the Apple IIc.

Now there’s a term I’ve never heard before. I’m somewhat afraid to look it up, but here I go…

All the time.

This a really strong, and very good breakdown of the problems with the prequels. They essentially take the complex, developed characters of Frank Herbert and turn them into into tr…

This is one of the many reasons I do not miss working for a bookstore. A large percentage (but not the majority) of our customers were either grifters or thieves.

Internet Explorer is the browser, Explorer is the file manager. Not that Microsoft has made it confusing

I enjoyed your take. I didn’t agree with every point you made, but I was sympathetic enough to appreciate them.

I agree, and this plot point unsuspends my disbelief more than any others.

- Apple will release a display-less fitness tracker based on the Apple Watch.

Good luck with the mirtazapine taper, and I mean that with all sincerity. I recently finished mine, and it’s been fascinating to watch the weight drop along with it. I’m glad that …

As someone who despises internal combustion engines I would love to get a battery-electric vehicle, but the delta between what I owe on the car (zero, fortunately)--and what I'd ne…

I’ve used and liked Genius Scan for a long time. Roughly six or seven years.

Perfect summarization, in my opinion.

Indeed. I cringe each time I see the phrase.

A: How long have you been doing this? B: How old are you? Not that you have to answer these questions in public, they’re just illustrative of at least two factors that may affect y…

I’ve found that when it comes to their cars, people seem to get offended very easily (at least in my part of the U.S.). Case in point: I suggested physical traffic-calming solution…

It makes me think of “How Doctors Die”: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/

I have to agree with the author’s experience with Metafilter.

And, arguably, data cleaning is the most overlooked part.