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Douglas Hofstadter wrote an essay about this essay in the book “The Mind’s I” which I thoroughly enjoyed reading even if a lot of it is beyond me. There’s a somewhat janky OCR vers…

When I was taking ADHD stimulants I had my core dose (long release) and then a “top-up” dose (5mg instant release) every month. The guy who prescribed me initially may have been a …

RAV4 base model starts at $29k USD

Zuck gets presentations with slides that say things like “XYZ feed ranking tweaks added 50 million net-new hours of time spent per day” Numbers like that can warp a person’s perspe…

Well in the US we watch NFL games live, so there's really no way to cut out the commericals

Anyone else remember when wikileaks directly collaborated with the trump campaign, gave them advice, etc.? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/563996442... Also inte…

This only happened a few weeks ago so no one really knows how it will shake out. That being said— nothing seems to have changed with regard to pizza places offering direct delivery…

I don’t think solvency was an issue here but another way of getting to the same place is that he felt he could deploy the capital more effectively elsewhere. He made a bet on Netfl…

Just for context Ackman’s 1.1B purchase would be worth about 2.25B today if he hadn’t sold it for 700M Of course that doesn’t mean it was a dumb trade but his rationale in the lett…

Someone successfully did that! Tons of people that got demonetized on Youtube are doing great on Rumble. Including Russell Brand, as a matter of fact. He also just got a strong sta…

I think this is pretty much what the term "midwit" refers to

Not trying to be antagonistic but, so what? No one is asking you to.

Hey Dan Pretty surprising and sad that you would ban me for a comment like that. Reading it back three years later I’m not wildly proud about it but I don’t think it’s ban worthy. …

To be clear, the people who can run these models and worlds are also tethered to a PC. So the quest isn’t any worse than the competition. The complaint here seems to be that it isn…

Uh in this case the “extra device” is your car key

There’s also a healthy local trade in earthquake retrofitting. After the nisqually quake the city got pretty serious, a lot of old buildings downtown were severely damaged

I used to work at a big co on system like this. The appeal button sent your job for another review. Obviously it doesn’t cost anything to click a button so almost everyone did it. …

I agree. Lately it seems that people who lay their ideas out and accept criticism are being destroyed by those who refuse to admit fault a priori

This whole controversy strikes me as a sign of intellectual rot. YouTube has so many levers to control what you watch that getting mad about this is like getting mad the captain of…

What??

? Disneyland allows outside food. You see people eating McDonald’s or homemade sandwiches all the time

You’d be wrong. Ingredient quality wise McDonald’s is fine. The issue is how much oil/salt they use

Here’s one: in chrome dev tools, hidden behind two menu clicks, you can enable additional tabs including “media”. This is, afaik, the only way to get error messages from video deco…

Not sure your definition of pop ups but the brave ad units definitely “pop up” over my browser screen and I never opted in (iOS)

A funny side note here is that ~2018 Facebook was crushing it in terms of minutes/day/user due to auto play videos with good next-video recommendations. Then they decided explicitl…