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Lazy is not bad, and bad writing doesn't mean it's not valuable or insightful.

Using LLM as a writing assistant to properly format your ideas, while lazy, is not the same thing as a slop bomb. They're highly rated because the original ideas are good, even if …

The problem, in my experience, is that most PMs don't add anything when it comes to drawing up the acceptance criteria. In your example of an order placement - the PM has no specia…

There's no way to perfectly forecast demand; all things equal I'd prefer that companies overproduce and we live in an age of plenty with a bit of waste (which companies are already…

It's a terrible idea because approximately 90% of the cost of clothing is not in producing it, but in the supply chain - keeping it in stock, transporting it to and from warehouses…

If you are actually asking a serious question: while a patron is primarily motivated by whatever catches his interest, a corporate conglomerate funding the same investments is moti…

Imagine you're asked with building, say, a train network within your country. Domestic regulations demand that, because other countries are not certified up to your country's safet…

US healthcare costs are nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. The reason is two-fold: US is subsidizing the rest of the world's medical research, and US healthcare bureaucrac…

Economic growth is a measure of how much goods and services are available to everyone. If that isn't improving, that means your quality of life is lower, ceteris paribus. It means …

They can but they shouldn't. Replace phone ownership with race or social-economic status and it should be obvious why profiling shouldn't be done.

You're hurting yourself when you tip. You have, objectively, less money than before. Ergo, tipping is self-harm.

>> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. > And the US is full of Christo-fascists who believe they have a religious duty to "defend" Isr…

As an amateur home-cook, I find current LLMs incredibly useful as a sounding board for the on-the-fly recipe modifications - for allergies and food sensitivities, adapting preparat…

Windows actually has a built-in remote assistance tool now called Quick Assist. It provides a simple way to remotely control another Windows machine with user consent, without requ…

I'm not American and haven't done the calculus here. I'm just pointing out that from an outside perspective, what the American right is doing here is +EV in terms of American lives…

They're doing this because the expected value on lives saved is positive, not negative. It's the exact same thing as "defund the police" except applied to the entire government. If…

> But you cannot doubt that a trans woman is "really" trans. Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans" literally means. Breaking it down, trans has two parts…

OP wrote: > A few days ago, Paul Graham published an essay on “Wokeness”. I skimmed it. I couldn’t finish reading it, it made me too upset...I’ve been feeling quite anxious ever si…

I read Practical Guide to Evil to the end. It started out amazingly strong, but suffering from increasing worse pacing problems as the series progresses, where the plot progression…

Audit is not a foolproof guarantee that no fraud exists, the same way that locking your door doesn't guarantee that no crime exists. It deters opportunists by making crime more dif…

Because a minor coordination failure across an enormous company is...not worth chastising them over? Because if you cry wolf too many times about trivial innocuous issues, nobody w…

In theory yes, it's more secure. In practice personally auditing the installation script for every program you're going to use and the installation script for every update is gross…

Speech can be injurious if they cause someone reputational damage through slander, but I'm not sure that's what's meant here.

Tit-for-tat makes perfect sense from a game theory point of view, even ignoring the egregious abuse of data for nefarious purposes by the CCP.

I cannot understand why you would think so, even in a first world nation. Who would grow your food? Who would make the tools and fertilizer that enable the farmers to grow your foo…