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You can have a kid, that kid can grow up to be a musician inspired by Taylor Swift, likely with some of their musical output having depended on Taylor's input. That's perfectly leg…

I tend to think this is a pattern with needless subscription models. They likely have a semi-bimodal distribution of users: full-price payers vs. discount/promo payers, so they pro…

Waking up in the mornings helps reset my mental state sometimes. I wonder if it's related. If I have an early morning, I usually find that I'm more productive and have more energy …

> Matchmaking only "works" in places where women are denied autonomy, and it results in them being sold off like cattle. This is not a desirable state of affairs to anyone but the …

Totally worth it if you think of a family as a multi-million dollar investment over the course of your lifetime. $100k is actually nothing in comparison, and could mean the differe…

I agree with people who say fine-tuning and "human AI alignment" is actually what's going to make AI dangerous. The fact that we think we can "align" something taught on historical…

Angstroms are used pretty commonly in molecular/nuclear physics.

Creating dichotomies is central to mathematics and science. Humans tend to think of things as being either "in" or "out", and apply this distinguishing ability to every facet of li…

You're creating a false dichotomy. Poker is a skill and it is gambling.

Poker is a skill. It's one of the only casino games where you can consistently make money. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other people. There's no suc…

Effects are way too easy to use improperly. I used to be a fan of useEffect when it came out because of its concision, but after working with countless devs/agencies, it's clear th…

The cost of pursuing dead ends in science is NECESSARY and much greater than the cost of pursuing fraudulent results, albeit the latter being unnecessary. Probably 70%+ of time is …

How? Peer-review, re-review, journalism, and reproduction of results are the systems the scientific community is built upon. The system does its job of finding the bad apples, as i…

Every other frame is "penis" text, a drawing of a penis, or something similar. I believe it's a work of art nonetheless, definitely cool. If they did it "right" the result would ju…

It can work well for restricted inputs, like Twitch Plays Pokemon. The FREE Movie is too open-ended. They should do a simple distance check to throw out frames that don't overlap m…

Only if they all were competing in the same market. Since they aren't, I like to think of it more as them competing for which one becomes the base meme. When people think of "dog" …

Finished in 5 years, 10 months, slacked off for the first two years (prepared for exams twice).

The US trends are very telling... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=... It coincides exactly with when Down Detector shows the Reddit report spike... http…

That's my point. It's so highly covered that it might actually bring more people to Reddit today than the number of people who fled. Imagine all of the people who don't use Reddit …

My unpopular theory is that the Reddit blackout increased Reddit usage, having the opposite of the intended effect.

Tech stocks have high volatility. If, for example, I joined Amazon at peak in 2021, and the stock crashed 50% over the next few months, it would still totally be worth it to stick …

Lay-off fear negatively feeds into stock upside as well. I would be stressed about getting laid off before my cliff and getting nothing...

The Reddit mobile app has a few big issues for me: 1. When I click a post, sometimes it goes to a different post's detail page. The only way to remedy this is to refresh and visit …

If you think the far future (100s of years) involves being able to talk to a synthetic humanoid using spoken language, then Chatbots are almost certainly a point on the curve.

If you don't like Bitcoin, you could always just get an address and if you get tipped, sell immediately. I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy a…