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I didn't suggest that people are good at making that effort. They arent. But the irony is that it's precisely in that difficulty that the act of verification lies. The fact that it's so difficult that it's not at all an efficient method for discernment suggests that it's either done on purpose or Google's UI is just not good for that purpose, or both.

From a user experience perspective it's interesting that it may be a worse experience to get a set of links and have to pick from them and use cognitive effort to discern which sources are reliable, than to simply use ChatGPT and get an answer. But this step is precisely where verification happens.

Oh man, I ate whale skin in Greenland. It was hairy and tasted like a decomposing car tire. You must have had the good kind.

Not that replace standard brushing, but I worked with a company in Denmark called Novozymes. They produce enzymes for a variety of applications including dental care. They have a set of enzymes that they license to Unilever for a toothpaste called Zendium, which has some market share in Northern Europe. The enzymes break down microfilm that develops on teeth, making brushing more effective. There was RCT done on it I believe, I read the paper years ago, can't seem to find it now though.

Good observation. This already happens within certain hospital systems, based on "protecting the numbers". So for instance a surgeon not wanting to take on a patient because it is a likely mortality on their record.

> Populism is democracy.

Wrong. A democracy, at least a functioning and legitimate one, is not judged by enacting the will of the majority, but by protecting the rights of the minority.

Interesting, why is Nestjs used by so many online casinos? Is that random or is there some specific feature or approach used that is particularly valuable for that use case?

Is a blockchain strictly necessary for decentralization at all? If the issue with decentralization is control and governance rather than technology, why not have a cooperative model that still functions on a centralized database?

Winner, and still champion!

I'll ignore everyone else here, but the comment on Dewey from that quote is absurd and a total mischaracterization (no doubt to discredit him because of ideological bias). Ironically, Dewey was the champion and creator of child centered, project based, and competency oriented education. Nothing could be further from either destroying people's reasoning capabilities, or deliberately undermining a person's potential, creativity and intelligence in service of the State. Dewey's rolling over in his grave!

"There isn’t good evidence that people overuse the ER"

Have any of the people quoted been in an ER? Even accepting the premise that hospital prices are outrageous for ER visits, walk into any hospital and it should be clear that a lot of the patient population is not there for an "emergency". In the US, the ER acts as a catch all for what often should be handled by social services (some of which don't exist). Drug seeking patients, homeless patients, and patients with mental health issues very often end up in the ER.

> you must also believe that most wealth concentrations arise more from things like theft, and less from things like value creation.

Maybe, maybe not. [1]

[1] https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/cybercrime-to-top-6-trillio...

As a side note I appreciate the urgency in the tone of the quoted here.

Very interesting idea, look forward to seeing it. I try to work this way, but using different desktop spaces, but it doesn't work quite as well as I'd like. This is interesting if it can just keep one desktop but easily switch in and out of context and "sleep" everything else. Also will be interesting to see how to manage the context itself.

This is the line that got me:

>And so we are fairly broadly deployed software and where we enjoy administrative privileges in customer environments.

There is a lot of talk about shoring up security practices by many of the people quoted here. But something that would be hard to admit is that maybe they should not have administrative privileges in customer environments. Maybe they should not install agents on your machine. They would never recommend you to do so with anyone else, except them of course, because you can trust them.

An old one:

Q: how many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: none they just change the standard to darkness.

For non-fiction, I'd add The Hell of Treblinka, by Vassily Grossman, a Red Army journalist who was one of the first to enter the death camp. One of the hardest things i've read.

"It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished."