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"But commoditization!" exclaimed the corporate finance types and assorted growth hackers.

As someone who transitioned from law and finance to tech, it's apparent that a greater reckoning must take place. Trying to graft tech on to what is essentially an early 20th century paradigm bodes well for the entrenched interests.

Well said. Digital freedom is inversely proportional to digital fiefdom.

30% is about par for the course when it comes to contemporary controversial POTUS elections [1][2].

It seems to ebb and flow: each side takes their turn being the aggrieved party and then alternate next go around (2000, 2016, 2020).

Consecutive cycles of animosity on one side could be worrying.

The tapestry of dysfunctional patchwork that make up the American Constitutional Republic, while tattered and frayed before, has found ways to persist.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2000/12/01/many-questio...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/4687/seven-americans-accept-bus...

If your prompt falls outside of the "permissible boundaries," do you risk losing your Google account?

Yeah but it just feels like more of a snub to Canadians.

When looking at my old code my internal dialogue flips between "What an idiot I was for writing this code" and "So brilliant and performant! I could never write code like this now."

So sorry for your loss.

Regarding wanting to get back in to CS: I became a dev in my mid 30s, and found my first job in a country where I don't speak the language. Received plenty of rejections and embarrassed myself during both whiteboard and take home coding challenges.

Even when I went above and beyond for a take home challenge, the offer went to someone else. But something stuck out to the hiring director (grit, belligerence in the face of the odds?) and I was offered a position mainly on my intangibles.

Sometimes I tend over think and catastrophize, but every now and then I catch lightning in a bottle and defiantly ignore that skeptical voice. So I hope you can take something from my rant.

The largest contributors for plastic inputs to oceans are commercial fishing and a few rivers in Asia.[1]

I often feel powerless when a call to action is cloaked with the phrase "we must do ${something}" Some data at least gives me a concrete talking point if I ever talk to my local congress /parliament representative.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

You can't unring a bell. Very true.

Nevertheless, the development of AI jurisprudence will be interesting.

Anyone come up with a term for this type of deliberate prompt baiting yet?

Personally, I am over the showmanship aspect of this behavior, and would go with something derisive, like botsturbaition, as in "quit botsturbaiting all day and be productive!"

Manufacturers believe consumer sentiment favors cramming more telephoto selfie cams and the like in to phones.

Waifu2x - I've used the library to upscale both old photos and videos with enough success to be pleased with the results.

https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Sadly, this is the most accurate answer.

Random number generators, premium stores, pay to win, etc... Seeing anything appurtenant to these features take top priority is frustrating.

> Would you answer an unknown number and spend time taking a survey?

> ...the survey respondents are always biased toward specific groups

This could cut both ways, I think.

Anecdotally, I grew up poor and we let all unknown numbers go to voicemail. No one was calling to give us a million dollars, we just presumed it was a bill collector.

I always figured absurdist made up half of 4chan. People who say provocative stuff to go against the mainstream.

The other half is a mix of the hateful or unstable.

But who knows, it's the internet, and it's completely anonymous over there.

Recently, I did a similar thought experiment: what's the best platform agnostic way to store data (photos, videos, text, etc) to ensure availability for 100 years?

You really start to realize the permanence is mostly an illusion, we expect the internet or AWS to be there, but there are no guarantees.

Wonder if this is related to Github Actions being down as well. Kind of putting a damper on my productivity this morning :-/

I've noticed people using "identity politics" where I think they really mean "intersectionality."

Also, I have no dog in this fight, I've been out of the US for a few years. Though my outsider perspective (right/wrong/indifferent) is that intersectionality has been a substantive policy plank on the left.

The right has utilized identity politics as a means to expand their "big tent" and to drive voter turnout.

A coworker mentioned her partner was struggling with long covid. The wait time for a long covid specialist was long, and the eventual appointment yielded little.

Seeking a referral for the specific underlying symptom and abstaining from mentioning long covid finally resulted in better care it seems.

Unease and woe are the two feelings I'm left with after my quick layman reading of the article.

Think I am most concerned with the reproductive implications, which seem under researched. Coupled with the unrelated decline in sperm count the past decade... I'm hoping my ruminations are just me catastrophizing.

Can anyone more medically and scientifically literate provide some context to temper my doom and gloom?

Was interested in a source for this as well. The last two sections of the article on the Flynn Effect was the best primer on this claim I could find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...

When I lived in Austin it seems like rabbits swarmed the neighborhood every third year or so, it was quite an irregular pattern.

Living in Stockholm now, I'm surprised by the number of European Hares I see when out for a night run or dog walk.

My dog lived in harmony with Texan rabbits, but there's something about the hare that makes him... curious. Maybe it's the big ears?

It's almost comically sad, the misalignment of solutions and problems.

>CVS did not merely collect customers’ Campaign Donations and forward them to the ADA, but, instead, counted Campaign Donations toward the satisfaction of a legally binding obligation, which CVS had made to the ADA, to donate $10 million to the ADA during the three- year period of 2021 through 2023 (the “CVS Obligation”).

Keeping the in mind a complaint is one party's very subjective factual narrative, the "legally binding obligation to donate" jumps out for me.

Does this plaintiff know the agreement's specifics?

If it were, let's say, an agreement that CVS would donate $n over x years (matching customer donations) and in exchange they were promoted as an A.D.A. sponsor, and had permission to use the A.D.A. logo for marketing purposes, I don't find it terribly egregious.

BJJ sparring is like a chess match that requires complete mental focus for strategy, and the engagement and focus of every muscle in my body.

I feel like that analogy is lacking. Nevertheless, it's unlike any other sport I've played, like ice hockey, for example, which is more like driving in NYC.

Respectfully, I have not found that to be true. No one side has a monopoly on the lunatics or the level headed.

It's unfortunate ad hominems, logical fallacies, and the "mic drop one liner" get so much traction and amplification.

When I find myself making snap judgments about an issue, I dive in to the opposition, doggedly seek out the underpinning ideas, from academic or level headed folks.

It's helped strengthen my personal convictions on some matters and moderated my pre held notions.

It was an eye opener to see official Taliban accounts.

As abhorrent as I may find their ideas, if they play the rules, I'd actually prefer to allow them on the platform.

The eye opener was seeing others cheer on the silencing of academics, politicians,and physicians who's ideas may be out of step with the zeitgeist (or the mob's interpretation of what's apprpos).

It is silly, except to the disingenuous opportunists of all political stripes and persuasions who hold companies (they likely rarely patronized) hostage.

It's reasonable to moderate content beyond the pale. But that's on the platforms.

Running to advertisers feels like defiantly going to the other parent when you don't receive the answer you want.

I've never drawn the conclusion Bark Box or Toyota stand firmly beyond some crackpot on YT because their ad played before some content.

If you don't mind, I'd love if you could share a bit about how it helped your marriage.

Serendipitous solutions enthrall me, and broadens my thinking for when I'm faced with a condondrum.

Well put, really catches the uneasy sentiment I feel reading consumerism threads like this.

It seems large enterprises conveniently downplay the Reduce and Reuse tenets of the 3R reduce, reuse, recycle mantra.

All this vanity and waste at such a great cost, for what? IG, tiktok, memes? I'm guilty of it myself at times, but I try to repair and repurpose as much as possible.

I think we are better than this. The time and energy of so many brilliant minds (here on HN, present company included) is squandered.

A bit off topic, apologies. Hopefully I can direct this energy to being more focused and finding clarity.