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mparkms··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
It does not sound like the possibility of death was properly conveyed to the parents.

>But nowhere did the form explicitly indicate that any of this could end in death, nor did that come up during any conversations with Qiu or the other doctors, Jason and Linda say.

mparkms··on South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
Awful Korean-developed MS Office clone.

edit: for more context, it was initially adopted because it had better support for Korean language features, but now it serves basically no purpose other than be a pain in the ass for anyone who has to deal with their proprietary, incompatible with everything file formats.

mparkms··on South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
If the implication is that the left is more willing to violate freedoms, you're leaving out that the right-wing president was ousted for attempting to subvert democracy by instituting martial law for no good reason.
mparkms··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Chasing trends and it's now cheaper to have a single touchscreen with software controls than to design and manufacture physical controls.
mparkms··on Banned in California
The creator of the website is the CEO of a battery-powered induction cooktop company. (https://x.com/sdamico)

He clearly has an agenda against what he perceives as onerous environmental regulations: https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026536815902208479 https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026552845294792994

mparkms··on Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
You definitely shouldn't hold your breath considering the CFPB effectively doesn't exist anymore.
mparkms··on Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
This is why I remapped the shortcut for AI autocomplete to Option-Tab.
mparkms··on Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps
What makes you think the Korean apps don't do the exact same thing?
mparkms··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
FIFA tried to make a movie to whitewash their reputation during one of their many corruption scandals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Passions

It didn't work because it was a terrible movie and blatant propaganda, but I could see someone doing this successfully if they were more subtle about it.

mparkms··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
The most difficult part, and one that Youtube has struggled with since the beginning, would be content moderation. It's a technical, legal, and PR nightmare and there's no reason for Netflix to wade into that mess.
mparkms··on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices
There are lots of places in the US where if you don't have a car your only reasonable options are an Uber/Lyft or calling a cab that may or may not arrive.
mparkms··on Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
This is pretty similar to the Japanese "flick" keyboard that's fairly commonly used on smartphones. Instead of 3 possible directions per button there's 5 (up, left, right, down, and neutral): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5UEsHEZWII

It's pretty intuitive because Japanese kana is a syllabary that's organized by their starting consonant and one of five possible vowels in the Gojuon system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goj%C5%ABon

I never got used to it but people who use it swear by it. Google even made a mechanical version for an April Fools a few years back: https://youtu.be/5LI1PysAlkU

mparkms··on Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
That would explain why their receipt scanning is so damn slow even for easily scannable PDF receipts.
mparkms··on Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
Looks like 73% of freight is moved by truck in the US vs 77% in the EU. Not a big enough difference to really matter I think.

https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1068592/eu-road-freight-...

mparkms··on The hijacking of rare Japanese KitKats
So this guy whose job it is to hire truckers to move goods fell for the same scam twice in a row? Fool me once, etc, etc...
mparkms··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
They cheaped out and didn't include a basic security feature that 96% of all other cars have.[0] This isn't a problem in countries outside the US because they have regulations requiring immobilizers in new cars.

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2022/09/129_336571.htm...

mparkms··on Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
Stripe started issuing RSUs ~7 years ago and the first of those are set to expire next year without a liquidity event, which is why they're doing this.
mparkms··on Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries
It's a travelogue, not a Wikipedia article. People read it for the fluff and prose.
mparkms··on Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai
Someone I know was rehired to Ford from Argo and got an extremely generous offer. He seems pretty happy about it.
mparkms··on We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone
That revenue is almost entirely from Google, their biggest competitor. I don't think it's any surprise that they want to diversify from that.
mparkms··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
You do if you're on a work visa and don't want to leave the US.
mparkms··on Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
Sounds like you're talking about the Vancouver Special: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Special

Tons of houses in the 70s and 80s in Vancouver was built in the exact same style because of zoning laws and certain regulations at the time. I couldn't tell you why they chose stucco but they basically all follow the same template and they're basically a signature of the city now.

mparkms··on Walking the World: Seoul
A common perception of Jews in Korea is that they're a formerly oppressed minority who are now rich and powerful. I think some Koreans see a parallel there given the history of their own country and its recent ascension to the world stage. I believe the Talmud and "Jewish education" is touted as one of the reasons that Jewish people have been so successful and people in Korea are seeking to emulate it.
mparkms··on Update on Hiring Plans
According to his Linkedin he's working at an undisclosed startup. Who knows what his compensation is like, but it's not as if going from Google to an early-stage startup is particularly uncommon.
mparkms··on Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
I don't know how much you think D-League players make but the current base salary (for what is now called the G-League) is $37k a year, and I imagine it was much less when he was playing in the late 2000s.
mparkms··on What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative
"Kenyan" is not a language. I see Swahili in the list of languages, which along with English is one of the lingua franca of Kenya.
mparkms··on Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room
Sarariman (adapted from the English salary man) is the Japanese term for white collar worker.
mparkms··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
The US had very little to do with democratization in South Korea and were perfectly happy to prop up authoritarian regimes for 30 years before mass protests finally led to free elections. The Korean War was fought to stop communism, not spread democracy.
mparkms··on Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
My Amex card does this for purchases at Square terminals. There's a "view receipt" link next to the transaction on my statement that opens the Square receipt. I haven't seen it for anything else though.