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That's my biggest fear after LLMs can pass the pelican-riding-a-bicycle test... Corporate Memphis art is a half step beyond and there's bound to be a _lot_ of it in their upstream …

It's a mass jobs program with a powerful set of unions behind it.

Schwab still does voice passwords. "At Schwab, my voice is my password" https://www.schwab.com/voice-id

Same. I'll read and listen and watch anything related to Shackleton. One of his last discovered ships being entangled in fishing nets has an element of poetry to me. The few photos…

But what if your v12 was fueling an entire economy based on miles driven?

I got mine at a tiny off-chain pharmacy. I just lied about my age. They didn't even check my ID. I did it in my early 30s, definitely did not look 50. Very happy I did so, have see…

And a few decades ago, Carter put his family peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid the mere suspicion of a conflict of interest.

Even with Flock, police aren't solving those crimes.

I tried health-tech twice. Opted out both times as there are too many misaligned incentives and useless rent-takers supported by Congress and other entrenched players. At this poin…

$12 in tokens and the OP wasn't even at the computer. OP was working on a personal matter, arguably way more valuable than fixing a CSS scrollbar.

The short film version of the original is great, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg It stars Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey!

How much more software does Uber need? Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs?

And gas stoves, why wind turbines are bad for golf courses, the effects of nuclear weapons on hurricanes, the favorability decline of Robert E Lee, invisibility for stealth fighter…

Sub-companies are owned by companies. Don't cap liabilities to the limited assets of a sub-company that actively violates the law. Or cap them to a reasonable standard: 100% of rev…

Now label AI ads and let us filter them out. Leading up to tax day, every ad was a terrible AI slop Turbotax ad.

Same. I hope Apple continues to come down on these companies -- and their customers -- that abuse the trust that Apple has built up with iMessage. Sorry OP. Not all products need t…

I don't think that technology exists. Sorry.

Subversion pre-1.5 was a nightmare. Branch merges were by convention in commit messages. To merge 20 commits from your branch, you would do `svn merge -r 125:140 /branches/my-featu…

If NYC schools can do it at scale (1,600 schools this year banned cell phones), Princeton could certainly do it. Students either leave phones at home, or the school provides pouche…

Read r/teachers for 20 minutes and you'll understand why some teachers in the US don't do anything. (And then mute r/teachers because it's depressing as all hell.)

Then hold back a portion of funds in escrow.

How would this impact medical professionals? Especially for outside of major metro areas?

Go pull your account transcript for the years in question.