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"Not guilty" does not mean "did not do it" - it means "the state didn't prove that they did it beyond a reasonable doubt."

"Disturbing" to be able to economically provide cooking, cleaning, laundry, yard maintenance, snow shoveling, etc., for an elderly parent who lives alone (by her choice)? Why is th…

As a person in my 50's with a parent in her 80's, this would be incredibly useful right now. And I've got many, many friends in similar situations.

>> Only one specific device can ever login > That's entirely service dependent, and the standard doesn't mandate "Service must not allow multiple passkeys" Unfortunately, given the…

Yeah - and as a user, I don't want my device manufacturer to have that level of influence or control over the authentication that I use for unrelated services.

Stronger than "don't care about" (at least if I and some friends I've discussed this with count as normal people): this is actively what I don't want ! I want control over my authe…

Yeah - for sure I found it a bit strange... I guess the use cases (and maybe target users) are different: Merlin - Use lots of data, storage, and analysis to help me identify what …

And their eBird app! A masterpiece of design for a user base that they deeply understand. Something of a learning curve, but extremely efficient and useful for advanced / expert us…

I spent around 20 minutes arguing with ChatGPT when I asked the question and we eventually came to this conclusion... It's a visa that's not a visa.

There are many examples of important paper records (property, birth/death, etc) being lost in fires or floods, so it's not the case that "everything worked perfectly fine" in those…

Podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/

>> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job >> If knowledge and prestige is all that matters I disagree. The primary purpose of the college degree is the job. If you don't need…

When all the "simple solutions" are "not that simple," maybe it's a problem with the regulations, not the solutions...

Which is actually a good reason for entities subject to GDPR to forbid use of personal messaging apps on work devices... (And to forbid users to use work / official apps for person…

So... I used to work in the "digital movie & TV selling" industry. Our product detail pages, like pretty much all our competitors, had language on the call-to-action buttons that s…

You can fit about 8,000 MacBook Pros into a 40-foot container in their retail packaging. If the cost of shipping a container went up by USD8,000 (a very large amount), that would b…

A strategic reserve of a commodity that (historically) depreciates at ~50% per year is a terrible trade for occasionally avoiding demand-driven price spikes.

Is that relevant here, given that Google was creating an official thing quite close to his thing at the same time? (And why are we writing like this?)

Pretty sure that the agreement that Google employees sign (a "contract") when hired reflects exactly that. At least at did when I joined (I left > 3 years ago, speaking here only f…

I mean, if you look at it that way, it's already named 100% after a single company...

>> how can a general purpose robot perform them better Better than what? It seems that as long as they perform the tasks "better" (cheaper / faster / lower-error) than the humans t…

You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years

Sorry, but why is that a problem? If they didn't find someone, they closed the posting, then reopened it later, what is the issue? Or, as in some cases, perhaps they did find someo…

There's a story along these lines about all the scientists / physicists involved in the Manhattan Project, ending with the answer being John von Neumann.

While rocketry is older than Newton, even in 1920, it was widely believed that rockets would not work in space (and therefore couldn't get us to the moon). https://www.astronomy.co…