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The product is Alexa the voice assistant, not the tiny speaker+microphone. Amazon makes this product. When the child spoke to the device, Alexa made a deliberate decision to look u…

> In the US, we lean toward less regulation than many European countries and we reap different outcomes as a result. Yes, when laws are friendlier to wealthier people, wealthier pe…

Why are you okay with sectoral bargaining on the employer side but not on the employee side?

What the f*** did I just read?

Yeah, that doesn't excuse using Vietnam as a stand-in for Vietnam war.

Also, Vietnam is a country… since when does Vietnam refer to the Vietnam War instead of Vietnam?

You might have a point if China was the only country that was able to keep their case numbers low, but dozens of countries did even better than China. Perhaps South Korea or New Ze…

“When HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s, it was alleged, with a little Soviet help, that the virus had been developed in an American lab. Between Washington’s inaction on the epidemic …

> It’s not really about interesting for most people, it’s about is there a market for this and ultimately can I pay my mortage with this? This is so asinine. Just because some R&D …

you don't need to invoke a concept of area to justify this. you can just think of a grid of dots. since multiplication is repeated addition, each row represents one step of the rep…

2 + 2 + 2 = 3 + 3 becomes much more obvious when you think of a 3x2 rectangle and rotate it by 90 degrees to a 2x3 rectangle.

They meant 3^2 = 9.