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I never understood P vs NP until I say down with AI and just kept asking for clarification after clarification until it finally clicked. AI, used well, isn't just 'teach me this' i…

magpie - extracts book recommendations from reddit threads. I had a bunch of saved threads from 'books' and 'suggestmeabook' and 'printsf' etc., and I realized I could pull them do…

I was going though a problem I'm having parents - they are aging, decisions need to be made, that sort of stuff. Writing it out, thinking about it, reflecting further - I probably …

I agree, it's the public attitudes that are most disheartening and probably some of the reason young people are less inclined to have children. All over society people are seeing k…

> lack of time for parenting > helicopter parenting There is a contradiction here which commonly underlies 'problems in modern parenting' discussions and creates a "dammed if you d…

"Other large tech companies have also begun judging candidates by their abilities instead of their diplomas. Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco are among those dropping degree mandates." …

They will also be paying somewhere around 50k a year soon for heath insurance because contractors don't get benefits. Fun!

I'm currently job hunting and 'no shit'. I had better mental health 6 months ago by any measure. Its a ego destroying process, especially with the market now. I've got my first 'te…

We didn't always have bad actors directly injecting rage-bait into our blood streams.

I'd go further and say its a global weakness and unbelievably destructive. The bulk of current discourse today is: 1. Read a headline/tweet/instagram. 2. Decide whether or not it f…

FTA > Think of the Perry and Quebec experiments—two of the most widely cited in the early-education literature—as poles at either end of a spectrum Even The Economist acknowledges …

The financials of leaving the workforce rarely make sense to me. > There's tradeoffs in terms of career progression There's X years of lost income, lost retirement savings, lost ra…

> Compounding these issues is the omnipresence of cameras and social media, which has made privacy more precarious. Buried in an article about shifts in attitudes towards nudity an…

Or whoever was working on it said "Wait, this plane isn't ready yet" and the people in charge said "we've waited long enough, get it on the runway".

If you are talking about voting in the US than you haven't been following all the efforts to manipulate voting in the US. Turns out the party in power has all they tools they need …

I read an article about a similar WWII woman's service and more than anything these women's jobs were to be warm and friendly to a bunch of young scared solders who far from home a…

The majority probably didn't want to secede prior to the civil war. Fortunately for those who did want to secede, a massive proportion of the population didn't have the right to vo…

I'm intrigued by the premise - I have my own large burden of health care costs and my own suspicions about where it is going - but does anyone else find their charts unreadable? I'…

Looking for The Cause of autism and The Cure for autism is exactly as absurd as looking for The Cause of cancer and The Cure for cancer. I think most people understand that there a…

I'd be interested to know why you think that is? So far as I can tell all they've done is sprinkle characters here or there that are or might be gay. I haven't seen any shows criti…

> This very much looks like a hostile take-over of the American mind by a tech billionaire who just overtook Elon Musk to become the world's richest man. People should be talking a…

How do you end housing as an investment?

My ILs have traveled the world and have a home full of things they've purchased and loved. My FIL's parents passed away about 15 years ago. It took my FIL years to go through all t…

When my daughter was in middle school we were discussing some concept she learned in Biology that wasn't precisely wrong but wasn't right in all use cases. I told her that a model …