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BRICS and OPEC are two very different things. Except one country in BRICS, the remaining ones are oil importers. They would gladly get rid of that dependency for national security …

> How often have you read a headline, and then not clicked on the link? Somewhat related - I have clicked a lot more on Axios articles which I know are 2-5 minute reads, compared t…

Same thing doesn't happen to say lawyers? Or any of the other white collar jobs?

I'm genuinely curious how does that data help. What would the prompts be like? "Help me design an addictive UX"? How do comments like birthday wishes or people posting their beach …

Whatsapp chats are encrypted, how can they be used to train the models? Also what kind of training can be done on Instagram data, is there anything of value there?

In Parliamentary system this is somewhat equivalent to "hung parliament" and usually results in re-elections. Governments must prove minimum support to pass legislations before the…

Don't bank apps require logging even explicitly even if the phone is unlocked?

Can you elaborate on why you chose Macy's over others?

I used to own a pixel phone and loved it. What made me move was the data collection, and to some extent lack of security updates on older models. Feature wise, I still like Android…

Aren't Insta images heavily edited?

> hoping that turning cars will see you and not mow you down. Pretty sure this is what is going to kill me I saw an accident in front of my eyes where this played out - a turning c…

> Maybe you come back saying "it's somewhere in this eldritch spaghetti, and when I stared into it the abyss starting back at me sent chills up my spine and the pictures on my wall…

> For larger groups and families I have used other services where I can communicate directly with the owner Which are those services and how do they differ from Airbnb?

Two points - legally, caste based discrimination is illegal. From a cultural aspect - cultural changes are much slower in non-western countries. For example, compare how quickly th…

> Why don't people just change their names to the caste they want to be For an over-simplified explanation, substitute caste with race/nationality and rephrase the question in a se…

Isn't the opposite also true?

Add to that if you have food restrictions, the $40 meal might not even taste worth it but you have to order for some reason (like not being able to cook on that day, etc.)

There is LitRPG genre in which tension is not as key an ingredient. Also, there can be consumers of the writeup who don't particularly "buy" a book - so the writeup doesn't have to…

If they don't involve you at all, perhaps you can convert it into a LitRPG novel - something like CivCEO [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/CivCEO-Lit-Accidental-Champion-Book-e...

> If I make a trip to (for example) Target, it feels nothing like Target of 20 years ago. I'm curious how did Target feel like 20 years ago?

> because they seem to come from a place of... very high expectations You can see housing prices for whatever areas people are talking about and how much the monthly mortgage comes…

> Propaganda, though? Misinfo campaigns, astroturfing, where you hide behind sockpuppets and shell companies anyway? Why just limit there? The chatbot companies can introduce ads w…

That assumes the chatbot creators don't introduce explicit bias of their own. What if they start doing that? For example a search for nutritional information about some foods might…

This brings an interesting question - will the various chatbot products bias towards the owning companies lobbying efforts (parroting their lobbying points)?