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They can already see that on Android. Let's be honest, no one cares.

It's the volts that jolt, but the mills that kill

44 billion was around 25% of his net worth. That's a lot of money, even for Musk. If his current actions cause Tesla to be viewed less favorably and sales to decline, it could cost him a lot more than that

He's demonstrated he's generally in favor of speech he likes. I don't think there's any obvious connection between those accounts getting banned/unbanned under his leadership other than "does Elon like this account?"

There's a tension between allowing more things and being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I don't think anyone really knows how things at Twitter will land yet.

I rarely take mine to the park for the reason you mentioned.... It's boring. I just tell my kids to go play outside. They're 7 and 8 and are each other's best friend. Just find something you and your kids enjoy and do that

Out of curiosity, for Indians working in America, how hard is it to hide your caste or pretend to be of another caste altogether?

Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians? Do names tend to correlate to you caste? And if so, do people change them as a way of hiding their family caste?

When does a person die? When the last synapse fires? When the heart stops? When your brain is too far gone for you to be responsive?

The truth is there is no bright line. Dying is a process, not an event. So is coming into being. Personally, I don't see a zygote as a person. But a 32 week pregnancy is pretty close? Close enough that I wouldn't condone an abortion except in extreme cases.

I would argue horses are different than dogs. Dogs a are bred to attach to and love humans. Horses.... tolerate us. They'll fall in line if you demonstrate you're the leader, but they don't bond like dogs do.

How could both be compatible? US plugs are meant operate at 120 volts, EU at 240. I don't see how both could be supported safely.

Isn't the fact that it got shut down by higher caste Indians proof that the talk is important in some way?

We use a cell service called Tello for my kids phones. For $5/mo you can get a plan with 100 minutes of voice calls, sms, and no data whatsoever. It's perfect for my kids, since I don't really want them to have mobile data anyway

Gas stoves get hot faster and respond quickly when you turn the dial, that's their big advantage. But electric is hotter. Even plain resistance coil electric elements put out much more heat than gas. Try to boil a pot of water on gas vs electric and it's no contest, electric wins.

And of course, modern induction electric elements are better in every way as long as you don't mind throwing out all your cheap alluminum pots

As someone who is self-taught as a programmer, I came into the field with a serious case of imposter syndrome. There was so much theoretical stuff I didn't know. Then I got into my job and it turned out it didn't really matter and my practical experience doing hackathons and personal projects set me up for a lot of success. There are times and I wish I had a better theoretical underpinning, but it's honestly pretty rare

I don't know what the textbook definition is, but I think libertarianism (in the US, in my experience) is more about being against government regulation. Even if regulation would increase freedom (for, say, a minority group) libertarians will tend to be against it.

Just because it was done by design doesn't mean it's a non-issue. The Senate is an extremely undemocratic organization. The population discrepancy between States is much higher now than when the country was founded.

Nor do the reasons the founders did it this way exist anymore.

Pizza is like sez: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

I often wonder why Netflix is willing to pay so much for the Office and Friends but isn't trying to make a new show like that. Every new show is an 8 episode season of "prestige" TV.

Plus everyone, even dogs, can have a bad day. I feel I'm a pretty judge of dogs, having grown up around them all my life. I know when a dog is barking to alert an owner vs when a dog is barking and is about to bite.

But even with that in mind, I remember the one time my dog was playing with another dog, and suddenly the play turned to aggression on a dime, and I had to pull those dogs apart, and one ended up with a piece of it's ear gone. Neither dog had a history of aggression, neither has done anything like that ever again. There was no warning, it just happened.

Why? I have no clue, and I never will, because dogs aren't people. I can't even know what another human is thinking when a violent outburst happens, much less another species.

So are drug-sniffing dogs reliable? I bet they are, but just like people sometimes they can be wrong, or they can have a bad day, or they can give the answer they thought the trainer wanted. Who knows? We don't know how they experience the world enough to even make a guess.

I don't know, do we really need a whole department devoted to Classics (ie, Greco-Roman literature)? I feel like it can comfortably be out inside another department.

I don't see why two people experiencing red differently causes a problem for consciousness. Can't we both be conscious even with very different qualia?

Firefox on Android here, the badges flash on the screen for an instant and then disappear

Holding police accountable for unreasonable killings is not being anti-police.

If the level of lead is higher in black communities, that certainly falls under the umbrella of "systemic problems." I also think a lot of this is interrelated. Without any sort of trust in a law enforcement system, of course there's going to be higher drug use.

With a large number of black people being incarcerated due to systemic justice problems, of course you're going to have a higher rate of single parent households (and this is something that can propagate through generations).

Those things you listed aren't really "other forces" that can explain disparate murder rates. They're all part of the same issue.

That doesn't make the epoch weird, just different. The Unix Epoch is itself weird. I personally like it mostly for being a neat little historical artifact, but it's not interesting in any sense. What epoch would your hypothetical programmers settle on if they all had their minds wiped of any existing epochs.

I bet you'd see a lot of Jan 1 1900, 2000, or year 1. Very few would pick 1970.

Other fun non-Jan 1 ideas might be December 26, 1791 (Charles Babbage's birthday) or February 5, 1944, (the date Colossus came online)

She wasn't retired, so I'd guess in her early 60s and didn't have any other major health issues from what I understand. But I'm glad you laid your cards on the table about not caring. I mean, it was already pretty clear.

Laws exist to protect innocents from people like you.

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with thinking of children (or the immunocompromised or handicapped or any other group). "Think of the children" is an argument where you use children to justify an absurd, overblown, or bad faith argument.

You seem to think it means "I shouldn't have to think about other people's well-being because freedom." I think that's pretty callous.

The optimal power ratio is one person equals one unit of power.

The problem is any change to the Constitution would require 2/3 of the states to agree. Many of those states require supermajorities to pass an amendment. Generally any change that's big enough to go into the Constitution is big enough that a few people will oppose it. A few people is all it takes. We can't even pass an "equal rights for women" amendment now in the year 2021.

Hell, we probably couldn't pass the 13th amendment today if it were required.

1) I didn't mention children at all. I'm certainly not making a "think of the children" argument. That implies you think COVID is overblown and not a serious threat. But it is, and it's killed millions.

2) I don't give a damn about dumb opinions, and it's not my job to "educate" people that, let's be honest, don't really want to learn. The solution to stop deaths by DUIs isn't to try and convince people that they're wrong for driving drunk. The solution to stop deaths by lead poisoning isn't to try and educate consumers about the danger of lead in food.

Framing that as "hating freedom" is disengenuous. It would be nice if people did the bare minimum to not endanger lives, without requiring the force of law. Sadly, that's not always the case.

How do you feel about "scuba" or "laser?" Acronyms that are pronounced like they're spelled (eg, Nasa, gif, taser) tend to end up being spelled like words sooner or later instead of being in all caps.