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worth checking out. ideogram has the best creation of english text out there. Nightcafe ( https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ ) sturck a deal with them recently and added support for…

In case you missed it, the authors were pretty smart to include that folded section in the middle, "Prompt for prompt-enhancement". I slapped that into gpt ( https://chatgpt.com/sh…

> I had to think twice about this reply Good :) > The Economist Magazine, where factual snippets I have nothing special for or against the mag, but I will point out that economists…

You are aware that disruption has been the human condition for 1000's of years, yes? Why do you posit that life expectancy will continue to fall? Not sure it's rational to expect a…

> In the 1930s America there was mass unemployment Sure, but these are temporary disruptions. Now it's true that the pace of change feels immensely faster than ever before, and I b…

Your life or death scenario is an edge case with its own special complexities which should not be lumped in with discussions of the vastly voluntary choices we can make. Healthcare…

Well, the “right” workaround is an opt-in system. But that would drastically reduce the number of qualified ad prospects, reducing their wholesale value, killing the online ad busi…

While of course this problem exists, SO didn’t create them, but maybe enabled them at most. What created them was a big cycle starting with the internet leading to digital transfor…

What I do has worked great for >10 years: - Direct deposit paycheck into checking account 1(the main account) - automatically transfer spending money to checking account 2 (I call …

> And that’s what the internet has become. Full of gossip, junk content, paid posts, con articles, click bait links, sock-puppetry, spam, regurgitated spam, free e-books, self aggr…

Most people I know hate taxis. Uber can nearly raise prices to parity with cabs.

I'm not even going to send an angry tweet. I'm going to keep ordering. If a driver takes the job, at the price Instacart wants to pay, it's on the driver, of course. And this works…

It made me sad that the Evernote migration wasn't full fidelity. Been a few months, but I recall it didn't bring over pictures.

> Seems like a weak market to go after, given that people likely to respond to a "cool" financial services brand may be a poorer demographic that maybe doesn't have any prior exper…

This is the best way anyways. 50 experiments will lead to a better outcome.

> the cat litter I just purchased is $17.89 at Amazon, $13.49 at Walmart. Last week I bought a chair mat for $21.95 on Ebay - identical item on Amazon was $33.95 (both including fr…

Super polite legal notice tho!

> Now, it's just a giant subsidy for Amazon. But it's not. This line is reasoning is very outdated. They have built a massive network of warehouses all over the country, and that's…

I liked the aisle, but have a lot of issues with it. This is one of my main ones: IP addresses and information security. Quoting you: > Storing an IP for a limited time for securit…

> It's not protecting your interests, it's protecting Google's interests. But you can always install (or develop) another browser that might do this job better for you . > If it wa…

I'm "old" and I remember websites, and Bulletin Board Systems too, for that matter. But technology changes, and you gotta keep up, man. Don't let the kids bother you--they're just …

Wah? I mean, it's a giant step up from a non mobile optimized website, hands down. The article downplays Facebook and Apple despite them doing the same exact thing.