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From the state of Duolingo, I think we've already passed that point by a bit. And I'm not even a huge AI-replacement-alarmist. It's more that Duolingo is not optimal (or even good/great) at teaching language. I will give it its due, it does help with vocabulary memorization.

(Blameless) 'Post-Mortems' are crucial and certainly help improve process.

I've only flow Southwest a couple times, but that is basically it. Usually someone comes in and places items on the other two seats in a row.

They're not actually reserving them, they're just trying to cause enough of a fuss that no one wants to deal with that they will get their way.

Edit: You could be strong-willed enough to spar with them on it, but it is so draining most opt to just not engage.

I agree, and this is definitely not a solution, but have you tried using the genre codes to look through more targeted genres? I saw it originally somewhere else, but it looks like there is https://www.netflix-codes.com/ that has the current list.

Definitely not a solution to the problem, but it provides some semblance of a workaround when I just want to look through other options.

What is this trick?

What are you using to measure this?

(I'm sure I could do my own research, but was more curious since it seems like you've already got a setup.)

Maybe they're more asking for the whole breadth of opinions available from the HN community?

This is kind of a tangent from the article, but I wonder if this also holds for watching cute/small animals? My dentist has TVs that are almost directly above the dentist chair (so front and center when you are reclined, but not in a place you're worried about them falling on you) and they play this mindless channel that is just cute/small animals doing things. It is mesmerizing and time passes really quickly. If this study holds true, I wonder what other items on the spectrum of existence can reduce pain when we watch them. Such a curious part of the human experience.

Maybe? Or this might be a case of the 'Frequency Illusion'[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

> Stuff like recourse mechanisms for mistakes; courts; and prisons.

> Once that’s done it’ll end up almost indistinguishable from what we already have.

Wild thing is that since it is all digital, it allows rogue state actors to be the ones pulling the heists (not exactly saying that is what happened here). So it seems very unlikely there will be actual recourse mechanisms outside of what is already happening (embargos, trade bans, etc), at least anytime in the near future. This isn't as simple as creating some laws and enforcing them, this requires global diplomacy/compliance which is a much taller order.

Care to give a TL;DW for those of us not able to watch this at the moment?

> 2 to 4x speed

Wow, how do you even process it at that speed? I normally listen at 1.2x, but feel like if I hit 1.5x, maybe 1.8x if it is a really slow narrator, I'm maxing out. I mainly am listening to it while I'm running though, so 5-20% focus on that depending on traffic or if I have to cross streets, the rest of my focus on the book. Are you just sitting and listening to it at that speed focused in on it, or are you just abled to digest it at that speed?

Huh, in my head I was reading it 'twit-text' (this is not meant to be a pejorative comment), but I guess that is ascribing it another 't' where there isn't one

This is an interesting article (list-icle? It is pretty short and aggregate list like).

It is from 2022 and mainly focuses on pandemic times, so I'd be curious to see what these trends look like compared to pre/post pandemic. I'm sure I could do more digging and find the answers to this, but still I appreciate this, it is interesting.

One thing I think I would push back on though is the remark of 'soft generosity like tipping culture' which isn't mentioned at all in the list. I also would not consider US tipping culture generosity, but more of a social contract/obligation. Someone that does not tip anywhere, except for where they received great service, isn't normally seen as a non-generous person, they're seen as not abiding by the social contract that you have to tip.

Not trying to argue, more just curious, what drugs are you referring to with this comment?

So I agree with all of this, but will add we do know the long-term effects of obesity, diabetes and a host of the other things it is showing some potential signs of helping with. And because of the serious damage being done by those issues ([0] heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US), it just needs to be good enough to help resolve those issues without introduction anything too major as far as long term side-effects.

This is all to say, because of the current state of health norms (at least in the US), it just has to not do too much damage long term and the pro's can still outweigh the con's of its use.

[0] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demograph...

> There are an estimated 10 million Americans living overseas

Curious how you found this number, have a source?

This made me pretty curious, but I couldn't find any official numbers. The closest 'official' numbers that I could find are from the Federal Voting Assistance Program [0] and that lists 4.4 million people, but only 2.8 million of those being adults.

[0] https://www.fvap.gov/info/interactive-data-center/overseas

I don't fully understand your question...

I feel like something must have changed, because when we went to cancel ours on a previous car ~3 years ago it was a long-ish process, but only because they kept offering more and more discounts until it was essentially free.

A couple months ago when the trial ran out on a different car it was like you said, over and done with in 5 minutes.

This is an interesting take, that I think might hold some water. With a budget of $59 million (according to wikipedia), they are definitely a small entity in the grand scheme of the US Government. Big enough to run their reports, but not big enough to stop them from being ignored if they are the only (or one of the few) going against the popular consensus.

Also, while I am not anywhere familiar with them enough to know their overall track record, even if they did correctly predict the topics listed in the article 'correct', that is three items in 60 years? I'd be curious to know how their intelligence has compared with the numerous things inbetween. That would be a huge lift though.

Still fun/interesting to learn about these agencies, even as someone who grew up in the US and took higher level classes on US Government, you never really get a complete view everything.

... They definitely can be. When I worked for a small biotech company all of my options had a tiered vesting schedule.

But for that scenario you normally still get booked on a later flight plus the vouchers, as measly as the value of those might be.

>It could be that US investors are less willing to invest in co-ops. But then, why? Is there something about them that makes them less competitive?

My, admittedly uninformed, guess would be it has to do with 1) there are more worker protections in the EU than in the US and 2) Co-ops tend to pay employees better wages, have better benefits, etc.

Shareholder corps will try to drive down their labor costs as much as possible. Walmart goes so far as providing advice to how it's employees can best apply for food stamps, all the while keeping them under the 32hr/week threshold that would require them to receive benefits. This can provide a price advantage against co-ops who are not running these same practices. It the EU the labor protection laws are better so the potential difference of labor cost is diminished between sharecorp and co-op.

Yeah, I had to do a double take at that... Or maybe we both somehow missed an episode. I will say it has the americana filling of violence/gore though (if gore is the right word for the boat scenes).

As an aside, the audiobook version of this is really well done. You'll probably get more out of the actual book, but I really enjoyed having this on my long runs.

I decided just to google Beijing air quality and both results came back... Not so good.

"Dangerous Any exposure to the air, even for a few minutes, can lead to serious health effects on everybody. Avoid outdoor activities." https://www.accuweather.com/en/cn/beijing/101924/air-quality...

"Very Unhealthy Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected." https://aqicn.org/city/beijing/

So not sure I fully believe that.

I know it has something like 30 episodes, so I had to look; it appears to only cover the first book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body .

The book Make it Stick by Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, and Peter C. Brown includes a good deal about spaced repetition.

It also could have just been a joke, not one they were actually going to put into practice...

My understanding is rain/clouds don't drastically affect energy production, and sometimes the first rains can work to clear some dirt and debris off.