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Comment #49218157
It's not about kids imo. They're purposely designing things to be as addicting as possible. To me, that is morally wrong, akin to what gambling and "prediction" markets do. Beyond …
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Comment #49181101
I find it a rather offensive that the suburbs don't have walking/bike path cut-throughs. They're cheap. They can cut down on non-car travel by a ton. They're just damn nice .
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Comment #49169472
XP and 7 were only good because it was based off of 2000/NT.
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Comment #49139993
A lot of rural areas you really just gotta discount the ratings, both on Google maps and yelp.
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Comment #49034064
Why not? Ive been doing it for years, when I worked in office. Get someone to go with you. Or walk to get food/coffee/whatever.
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Comment #49028207
It's written by AI
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Comment #48962124
Does it matter? When has capitalism cared about fair or free
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Comment #48893009
I think you'll find as soon as you codify something strict, people will do their absolute best to work around those rules in any way possible.
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Comment #48689029
The onus is on you to prove the claim that AI is equivalent or better. But if you're not a troll, from the very fucking start of it there was a boom of products. Like it's practica…
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Comment #48688656
Where is the glut of food and consumer products from AI?
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Comment #48687392
Do you think that happened bloodlessly with everyone very happy about it? The industrial revolution came along with massive production of goods that people need and desire. Even th…
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Comment #48608933
It's insane to me that this isn't the default view. How are you supposed to follow the law if you don't know what it is? Putting a price on it just makes it is basically criminaliz…
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Comment #48608864
I think there are clear benefits to having neighbors and your general community not lead poisoned. So yeah, I think that cost should be split among the entire municipality. I find …
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Comment #48575642
Hey guys, we don't have ebola or malaria ok, shut up and go back to work.
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Comment #48569149
> work which burns through money repeating things we already know (racism is bad! poor people are sicker!) and accomplishing exactly nothing Why do we need to study the sun? We alr…
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Comment #48548255
Are the new jobs in the room now? Or perhaps they're somewhere in West Virginia.
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Comment #48532785
I feel like AI fails the XY problem constantly. And it's one thing that I know people hated so much on Stack overflow.
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Comment #48526898
Why not when it's so trivial?
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Comment #48481280
They should clearly buy e-ink price displays! /s
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Comment #48443691
Maple syrup is a big one. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to even fancy breakfast restaurants and had real maple syrup. Cracker barrel used to, decades ago no…
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Comment #48439267
Auditing is assumption of blame or responsibility to another party. They are incentivized to strike the best balance of certifying (who wants to go to a place that never certifies)…
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Comment #48438791
I imagine it goes over about as well as trying to get people to be more vegetarian. Protein has become pretty tightly associated in culture with healthy.
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Comment #48416520
Why would anyone spend time reading something that someone couldn't even spend the time to write themselves?
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Comment #48368957
People have seen others make insane, life changing money at this slot machine and are wanting to take their chances. There are no fundamentals. There is very low signal to the nois…
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Comment #48292311
I download an attachment from a colleague. I edit it and save it. I try to send the updated file back via outlook... And it says the file is not available. This is one of the most …