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Did you get any interpretation of the imaging? It sounds cool (I'd take an ultrasound selfie) but it has to be medically useful for something before enough doctors grade enough ima…

LLM/AI growth is the major driver of usage growth on all the clouds.

Actually no, LLMs (preferably tool-using LLMs that can themselves do web searches and price lookups) are a great way to shop, especially if you're looking in a category and don't k…

At what point does the use of clues to uncover the identity of a criminal cross the line from solid detective work to doxing? /s

Can you explain the joke in that username?

I totally agree, but it is reflective of a shift in how cultural products are designed and selected that is in my view the more interesting story here. When selection is personal, …

It would make sense to expect some ramp up because immigration is a stronger electoral issue than it was previously, and because a second Trump administration will probably be more…

I'm particularly impressed by your choice of "up there with Euchre" as a metaphor to explain Crokinole. It's like you wanted to make it relatable for people in a larger geographic …

In many cases, a simple off-the-shelf smart plug would suffice.

On what factual basis can you claim that adverse events are primarily driven by genetics? On the face of it this seems ludicrous. A baby born to a mother living in a high-risk envi…

Yes they also typically buy reinsurance (insurance that covers individuals whose claims exceed some amount in a given year, like say $150,000). The company will have some people in…

Almost every sufficiently large employer does this. Instead of paying premiums to an insurance company which owns the risk (and also makes a profit from that) the large employer pa…

Insurers don't want to pay for unnecessary treatments, including equipment. Maybe your provider could have done a better job selecting the right mask or settings for the CPAP? Mayb…

I think the Android approach is: the back button usually does what you want, unless what you want is consistency. Thoughtfully designed apps tend to set up clear expectations and d…

Yes, it's often hard to identify this as an outsider. But people inside the company know, and if you've worked in places that handle conflict in healthy ways and in some that handl…

The used/refurbished market for Chromebooks is great for buyers, too. There's not much demand for used Chromebooks so you can get something quite nice for personal/kid use around $…

If you're going to make a symbolic gesture you don't cloak it in so much secrecy that nobody can even reasonably guess what you're trying to symbolize.

You say this as if it does something other than reinforce that Microsoft has figured out how to do this effectively and demonstrated that capability multiple times.

Thanks for elaborating - that sounds really cool.

Interesting technique. Are there some similarities to the Venetian Plaster technique? (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGbryICt0A )

I'd love to do something like this with my family someday. Any advice based on your experience?

What was your AC repair? Did it involve dealing with the refrigerant system or just other electronic components? If so, I'd be shocked too -- AFAIK most commonly-used refrigerant c…

I agree, the scale problems seem to outweigh the scale economies at N=2. At some point you get positive network effects where the older ones contribute to the care of the younger o…

Yes, the point is that for most classes of merchants this behavior is not allowed by their contracts with their payment processors.

You're still generating a lot less trash than replacing the whole laptop, but I have a hard time imagining how you can get the level of consumer-upgradeability you seem to want in …