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The meat industry at least has a useful output. Horse drawn carriages have no meaningful benefit and a long list of drawbacks.

That’s what happens when you have lots of trees on or adjacent to your property.

If that bothers you, don’t buy property adjacent to 200ft tall trees. They will fall. That’s what trees do. They grow, then die and fall over.

But how do you know the unnecessary treatment isn’t necessary? There is likely always something happening in your body that would suggest an unnecessary treatment. So if you start doing scans when you have no outward reason to, you’ll always find something that looks like it needs treatment.

There’s no perfect information in medicine.

The more scans you do, the more times you’ll make the wrong choice and unnecessarily treat something.

Having the maximum amount of information assumes you know which information is useful and relevant. That isn’t always clear in medicine.

Treatments you don’t need can be worse than no treatment.

In many American cities it definitely was about race. If you look at cities like Chicago you can still see today the effects of decades of overtly racist policies that have shaped the demographic layout of the city today.

Ah, so they hired them.

In a sense, all life on Earth is only variations of a single organism.

In the same way the color of the sky being “pepperoni” isn’t that outlandish at all. Food items are used to describe things all the time. All variations of the same idea.

No, a biscuit in the US almost universally narrowly refers to a flaky, buttery, savory pastry typically eaten at breakfast, either with a sweet jam or a savory sausage gravy.

“Biscuit” is not a category of foods in the US, while “cookie” is absolutely a category of desert with many different kinds.

If you ask for a biscuit here, you’ll get the same thing every time. If you ask for a cookie, you’ll be asked “what kind?”

There is nothing that guarantees they will exist perpetually. In even a slightly moderate global crisis (man made or otherwise) LLMs and the like will probably one of the first things to go.

And yet people still do it.

I think the article explains why.

But then if what Flock (a private company) is doing is acceptable then what this guy is doing is acceptable under the same standards.

After all, they are doing the same thing: recording license plates in public view.

A related but different question is if police use of a private dragnet violates the fourth amendment. I believe that it does.

Then can you give an example of what you would consider a solution, whether hypothetical or real?

Because the scammers are instructing victims to use methods that are difficult or impossible to reverse, such as gift cards or cryptocurrency.

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic but that’s not really comparable.

Police do have privileges that ordinary citizens do not. That’s understood, and part of the reason they should be held to a higher standard of conduct than ordinary citizens.

Using their emergency lights and ignoring traffic rules in order to get to a real emergency is one of those privileges.

Widespread, automated mass surveillance is not one of those privileges.

At every UX job I've had we generally ran usability tests with 6 participants. This was before the online usability testing tools proliferated and we had a lab in our office (one way mirror with observation room and everything). Every UX researcher I worked with said based on the available research and personal experience it is as you said: more than 5-6 participants would hit diminishing returns pretty hard and wasn't really worth it.

I also wholeheartedly recommend it. In the beginning, the narrator is warned that after embarking on his journey he’ll never be able to see the world the same way again. I definitely felt the same after reading it.

The point is that there is no objective measure one can use and the definition at any given time is dependent on the cultural and societal context.

Something that might have been considered pornography 100 years ago might be considered tame today.

This sounds exactly like UX usability testing. Sit down with someone and watch them work through whatever process you’ve created.

It’s normal to compensate them for their time.

Normally though you don’t modify it after each participant. But for something very niche like following a README (as opposed to an e-commerce flow targeted to the general population) it might be fine, if less rigorous.

Might be stretching the analogy too far, but look what happens to remote places that become easily accessible. They become commodified, crowded, and polluted.

There is something about a place requiring effort to visit that makes it special, and it loses that quality when it can be trivially accessed. The air isn’t quite as fresh when there’s a parking lot there.

What is “sth”?

Many things we eat and drink are mostly water. You’re mostly water.

I think then a better worded question would be simply: why isn’t this done for every star observed?

There are several stars in the sky.

Any amount above $0 is too much, for a coffee maker.

In simple terms: short fibers overlap to make longer ones.

It uses energy paid for by the homeowner.

If you’ve got a paid-off house, some savings, social security or a pension, and only another 10-20 years to live then you’re far better off than many Americans.

It didn’t take me 15 years, but I had a similar experience with the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra. I first heard one of their songs used in a Flash animation (Bak et Hallelujah) in 2003 and I just loved it, but I had no idea who it was nor did I understand Norwegian.

I listened over and over trying to hear the lyrics and transcribe what I was hearing as best I could until I got something close enough to correct that I could search for it. The song was from their first album and came out in 2001 so finally I got lucky a few months later and found a Norwegian site that had the lyrics.

I’ve listened to every album of theirs since and they’re still one of my favorite bands. I even got to see them live when they toured the US last year. It wasn’t a huge audience but me and few of the other obvious diehard fans in the audience were glad they came over here.

Oops, yikes.