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I'm curious if the people who are using AI to summarize articles are the same people who would have actually read more than the headline to begin with. It feels to me like the sort…

Really going to have to disagree with you on that one, 3 hours SF to LA is well within HSR times (4 hour is considered the max), and will still be time competitive with flying beca…

The next major investment is the capital corridor route needs to be purchased by the state and then electrified between San Jose and Sacramento via Oakland. That would give CAHSR a…

It was the right choice in the end though IMO, it avoids an even harder to pass set of mountains and serves yet another high population town (175k people) and provides a potential …

You mean Snapchat?

Reading this statement all I can think of is this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

> Ultimately, printing money doesn't make anyone more productive or produce anything. All it does is redistribute wealth from those that were first to get the new free money away f…

Having worked for several tech companies in the valley, this is absolutely the case, calls are made all the time that screw a small number of users to unblock progress.

I mainly use an Amex charge card that functions like this, don't spend money I don't have, and only don't use a debit card for things because our financial system is very insecure …

We've been doing this for 20 years, it's only gotten worse. Good speech is losing and information reality has forked. We can't fix this by letting it ride.

Personally I think this is for the best, keeps extremism at the fringes instead of easily accessible.

I last logged into FB in 2017... never going back.

Maybe building on proprietary platforms was a bad idea from the start and a poor investment of public resources.

You want your mind to really be blown, your brain manages to do everything it does on around 20W, even less than that mac mini.

Yeah, I live a block from my grocery store in SF, and I still only go 1-2 times a week unless I need something fresh for today / missing ingredient, which is rare since I plan ahea…

I was very careful to word my previous comment to say the US Government represents the voting population. In 2016 there were only 157M registered voters, and only 138M voted in the…

The banking system deals with it by just reversing the transaction so the end user of the system, the consumer, doesn't care. This ends up screwing the merchant most of the time, c…

The US Government is representative of all voting American citizens, you cannot compare it to a private company that is run by people who are not elected.

Duo integrates into the latest Android like FaceTime integrates into iOS, it would be nice if Apple made FaceTime / iMessage available on Android (lol, never gonna happen) or allow…

I just finished the book "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" by Stephanie Kelton. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard of MMT an…

I've been asking myself the same question as of late, I haven't come up with a good answer yet.

I moved to an X1 2 years ago when I refused to get the new keyboard and my 2013 MBP was on the way out, very happy to have Linux as the native OS for dev work, but I don't love the…

Honestly as a dev, this would make life a lot easier for a lot of engineers. People who care about openness will still have Linux and it's variants. The general population does not…

Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.