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The only situations you can't stop seeing someone you don't like IRL are: 1) School 2) Work 3) Very small town If you live in a major metro area, it's pretty easy to not see people…

For me, it was a Twitch chat community. It started with everyone showing up the same time every week to watch a couple of people who streamed together. They eventually started a Di…

> Option 2 represents only a single moment in time and seems to have little bearing on everything past that initial contact. It has bearing indefinitely because it means you likely…

I think having to travel (and doing it) in order to see people you initially met online is different from knowing people in your physical area and choosing to sometimes interact on…

My dad worked for the United States Postal Service for decades. He never joined the union, but he was still legally required to pay union dues, and the union was still legally requ…

> They followed the process for forming a union in the US. They followed a process. Secret ballots are also an established process. From your own link: > Since the National Labor R…

Eh, closer to "they pointed a gun at someone and dropped it so it fired at them to promote their cool new self-aiming gun," from the perspective of the skeptics here.

For what it's worth, I have had brief one-on-one contact with Porkbun support once. Their checkout was failing when using PayPal one day, and a seemingly real person emailed in res…

I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it see…

Be careful, I assume there are laws on the books that normal people wouldn't know about but a large enough target could use if you tried to pull this on them (or you could find you…

There's a demand for data centers, but maybe not a demand for actual usages of the data centers. That's the distinction I think they were trying to make by pointing to existing dat…

From reading the article, it sounds like one of the three items passed was an extension of a moratorium on data center building specifically for the area around the zoo. Another it…

What do you mean? With so many average users hopping onboard the LLM train to do what they could basically already do but with less effort (and less control), it seems like the slo…

...which is exactly what the featured article is about. But 2032 > 2027, so I have to assume the person you replied to already knew that and was providing additional advice.

Mainly because the colon from the original was omitted, imo.

The GamersNexus documentary ( https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI ) on the semi-underground GPU trade in China, while a little amateurish in terms of depth and general atmosphere, is an i…

> Your apps are now available via focused waffle menu for centralized access to all your apps. It reduces distraction and uses the interface space efficiently as your your library …

I think jobs that can't be done remotely is where the universal childcare services they mentioned would come into play.

Of course, "If you want to have children, you can find a way to afford them." is a very nuanced statement for you to have made. 4 kids on a lower-middle-class income in the US make…

Sounds more like it's a matter of attitudes about personal economics than attitudes about having children. If you want to wallow in poverty (and don't mind if your children do as w…

Use cases besides software development exist. Even relatively simple video editing can easily run past 16GB, and so can photo editing if you're working with more than a few high-re…

You quoted the very first sentence. They acknowledged your point later: > Sure, I could switch to a different mail client and never see any of these language model features, but my…

Heck, I order pizzas online regularly (one of the only types of account I haven't migrated off to other email addresses, because it's not very important), and my ASAP pick-up order…

> Consumption has risen, inflation adjusted wages have risen for blue collar and white collar alike. My wages haven't risen for nearly 5 years, while inflation has occurred over th…

I think they're saying that inflation means the $6B is reducing in buying power.