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Agreed! I had to do a double take and check the URL. I thought I am reading a press release rather than actual reporting.

At the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.

I am guessing that the Oman's share Homruz fees will also shared with Trump businesses (via loss making investments, or another plane etc)

Today morning, I was checking TSA wait times. Guess what, they want you to install their app to get the wait time. [1] [1]( https://www.dhs.gov/check-wait-times )

I also like doing that for topics that I am tangentially interested in. One minor thing that I find annoying is that the narrators switch roles in the middle of conversation. They …

The nation is one terrorist attack away from rallying behind the president. And sadly the chances of that happening have gone up significantly in recent days.

I think what we really need is Internet user's Bill of Rights. The power and information asymmetry is too great to obtain fair treatment for the user.

Unfortunately it is not browser based (as in being local HTML+CSS+js). It is web based, where they get all your data.

Yes, it is the unfortunate reality of the US. You either fork over all your data to tax preparation companies on the web or pay them to use windows/MacOS software. There is still p…

How do you do taxes in Linux? Install a windows VM? I don't want to use the web version. With Google docs being good enough, I don't really need windows for anything else. Last tim…

Only if you think living longer is bad. Till early 20th century, urban life expectancy was lower than rural life expectancy in Britain. It was dubbed urban penalty. https://pmc.ncb…

Sometimes getting a second pair of eyes to look at the problem helps and is usually not a judgement of smartness of the first pair of eyes. Seems like it also applies to coding age…

Today physical world is largely mechanized, we rarely walk, run lift heavy things for survival. So we grow fat and weak unless we exercise. Tomorrow vast majority of us will never …

Hmm, works just fine on my pixel 6a in chrome.

It depends on your citizenship. Some European countries reject 50% Indian Schengen visa applicantions. https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-...

The future of AI might be layering of various capabilities: Generative+Lookup+Deductive. I think the human mind works in a similar way. First thought is reflected upon. We search o…

One justification for dowry that people asking dowry used to give was till 2005, the hindu inheritance law did not have a claim for daughters. So dowry was a way to get that inheri…

After seeing ChatGPT and others hallucinate and make mistakes I was wondering if self-driving AI is inherently susceptible to similar behavior. Like hallucinating objects on the ro…

I think the charging network is going to prove to be the iMessage of Tesla. By keeping it closed, they will be selling many more cars. In Europe where they had to use the standard …

Rent increase has been one of the biggest contributor to core inflation [0]. That has caused fed to raised interest rate at a rapid clip and cause the market crash. So is an algori…

I think the following is much better paper on this topic. It discusses how the furin cleavage site occurs in lab and why ace2 binding could have emerged and why the virus was well …

Not exactly, but there is this [1] that shows how the binding strength varies with single amino acid change. [1] https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/

This is a great thread [1] that goes through the IFR estimation and relative risk of dying due to COVID for various age groups. Bad news for me (45-54 age group) my risk of dying g…

I simply did percent_dead times num_dead/percent_cases times num_cases. That leads to ~0.5%. I agree with you that IFR is unknowable without very thorough sero-survey. So all we ha…

My daughter's school has 2000 kids. 4000 parents. In Santa Clara county the death rate for 40-60 is .5% [1] That would mean 20 parents dead if everyone gets it. Many of the househo…