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The use of Signal or other disappearing message apps for government communications violates records keeping laws (that date from the age of memos) unless the user diligently screen…

The vast majority of federal spending is tied to programs like social security, Medicare, and the DoD which DOGE didn’t cut. DOGE actions appear to have been largely based on the c…

“Could” is doing a lot of work there I think. I suspect most problematic American drivers already know they aren’t supposed to text, drink, or watch or record TikToks while they dr…

I think an copyright/IP assignment contract is standard in many or most U.S. software jobs, at least when working for a big enough company that they have a lawyer who handles the N…

So they would rather be homeless? In a market without landlords, everyone who couldn’t afford to buy a home would have to live in their car or camp on the street.

Verification and validation of LLM output in this context would mean doing all the same research, training etc done today for human staff and then comparing the results line by lin…

I came from a middle class family (both parents college educated with white collar jobs) and received significant financial aid offers from multiple colleges (2 decade ago). A mix …

If DOGE is going to spend the USAID-allocated billions on some other foreign development aid, they are saving zero money. Their claims of cost saving contradict a defense that they…

Catching the flu virus also gives a high temperature and fever and results in 100s of kids dying each year from the flu[0]. Vaccines have been shown to be much safer than exposing …

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/house-vote-protect-o... The House passed this Act in 2021 to reduce the presidents power, but Biden never asked the senate to act on it. Red…

Early retirement can be done through https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/substantially-equal-per...

Gun and weapon detection is still useful to stop shootings and stabbings that arise out of fights, where one member may suddenly present and use a previously concealed weapon. Agre…

The fact check page you provided seems clear that as early as March 5, 2020 (when the fact check was published) experts believed and were stating publicly that the IFR was not 3.4%…

The U.S. has never signed the treaty creating the ICC anyway.

Studies showed it decreased infection and transmission against the original strain of Covid.[0] It lost effectiveness against delta and then became nearly ineffective against Omicr…

“supply” is controlled by government regulations. When laws state that the only housing supply can consist of single family houses, then the number of homes will be limited to the …

I’ve worked with several excellent Indian SWE colleagues in my career. That said, they had all moved to the USA. In the past, top engineers would come to the USA for higher salarie…

Since iOS 13 apps need to ask for location permission to access WiFi SSIDs because of this. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/411798/does-ios-hi...

News reports say that Israel had copies of the Oct 7 plans but found it impossible to believe and were convinced hamas didn’t want all out war. Similar to Pearl Harbor where we als…

The app makes it so your food is ready soon after you arrive. You can spend all the time browsing the menu and ordering before arriving at the physical location and then the food i…

NYT is the premier digital news outlet. Why should a principal SWE there get paid less than a senior SWE working on Google News, for instance? If NYT has the money it makes sense t…

“Education for pedestrians” is very difficult, maybe impossible. You’d have to reach and convince 100% of the population, including homeless people who we can’t even convince to st…

Cabs cost significant money and will continue to cost relatively more and more due to Baumol's cost disease preventing productivity increases (1 driver can only drive 1 cab at a ti…

> Also suspicious is that protocol is missing. For example, how do you use bug spray Realistically, the people who do not read the instructions literally on the side of the bottle …