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Actually if you'll read the fine print, you're obligated to be friends.

By "create new markets" they've always meant "Become useless middlemen by displacing the existing bridge between makers and consumers" Usually their new bridge is modestly more con…

I can't agree. Because my netflix subscription is cancelled specifically because the "Finding something I want to watch drains my energy" phenomenon. Gradually over the course of l…

So... immigration services in the US don't use criminal language when discussing how they handle people accused of immigration offenses, because there's a whole legal structure to …

No, I think that's unfair. I, as a user, could very reasonably want a parody or knock-off of Indiana Jones. I could want the spelunky protagonist. It's hard to argue that certain p…

Oh, yeah for sure. Children's television is seems more oriented toward addiction than genuine education more often than I'd like.

Sure, but also as an adult, you're expected to have learned some resilience to failure. You're expected to be able to be able to withstand some criticism and see negativity as a ch…

And preschool teachers talk this way because they're desperately afraid of hurting parents' feelings

Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children. There's subtlety to this, high demands are not high expectations. If there's consequences for not meeting som…

This is what I want to do as an engineer, but I know damn well it's a waste of time and money.

It's a heuristic for understanding why you don't need to take some people seriously with your limited time available to approach new concepts. Credentialism should never be a funda…

I mostly agree, but struggle with saying this with perfect certainty. Understanding in the "have mental model of the world, apply it, derive thoughts from that model, derive words …

The press release writer was a bit shit at understanding basic scientific jargon. The research only finds epigenetic markers. There are no genetic changes. There are detectable cha…

Not really? It's a lot of work, a multi-week project, but reading a couple hundred word speech can be done in 5 minutes, following a checklist in hand, probably 10 minutes. Times 1…

I use python repl as my primary calculator on my computer. 1. I don't have problems like the IOS problem documented here. This requires me to know the difference between an int and…

I was going to say, this is what SPARQL was designed for and it's much better at than SQL.

Part of me wonders whether it is sincerely possible to violate someone's constitutional rights "in good faith". I feel like being a functional police officer should entail knowing …

No, this is a very recent development in science policy.

I'm sorry, correcting a story with recent factual information doesn't strike me as undermining the fundamental credibility of a source. Given that they correctly source and attribu…

And it's an interesting time to think about this problem. Because we're about to see how all the structures that were put in place to enforce those ethics react to being told they …

There are thousands of historic hackernews news items from MotherJones, which has a long history of serious news reporting, and this seems to be researched reporting as well. I can…

It costs over $100,000. That is a decision you do not make for no reason.

And my guess is there's a touch of ideology to this person that questioning Tesla and FSD's fundamental safety would hurt. "I screwed up" does a lot less to cause cognitive dissona…

A lot of companies don't actually sell a product that does anything useful, though. They sell an idea that sounds useful to management, and obscuring the truth earns more money.

But, of course, it would be better if we could generalize and let users describe in conversational language the specific things they don't want to see.