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Using a non-updated device on the Internet is not smart if you have any personal information on the phone.

You can be fully insured on Mercury. They spread your money out at multiple banks.

The middle third of high school grads are not a similar group of people to the middle third of college grads. It's the top third of HS grads and the bottom third of college grads that are comparable people (top in the sense of academic potential, not income potential).

The only people making a real decision are the people on the border. The valedictorian is always going to college and the lunkhead is not. The only useful analysis is the one in the middle.

> this only makes sense in the US (or wherever else it's common for your dishwasher not to heat its own water).

American dishwashers heat their own water too - I think this is for cases when the dishwasher has a time limit on how long it will spend heating up the water (perhaps to meet expectations on cycle length).

No, the bottom third of people who don't go to college don't ever consider going to college.

Not really, that bottom third is the third who shouldn't go to college, and there are ways of knowing whether your child is in that bottom third before they spend $200,000 doing it.

I'm not saying it's bad, I agree that it's a good thing! It's just nothing even close to a "remarkably big bet."

$200 million, only paid upon delivery, is not a "remarkably big bet" for a company with $73 billion in net income.

Sounds like your "I don't have a cell phone" routine just means "I make my wife do everything"

Meta has one of the largest supplies of proprietary data in the world (along with Microsoft and Apple). Big improvements in the world's ability to analyze data benefits them tremendously. If they're able to, for example, identify objects in videos and what's happening with them, they can make better inferences about the content of the videos, which lets them make better recommendations, causing people to watch more videos on FB/Instagram and giving them more ad revenue.

Publishing their models doesn't really enable any of their competitors (TikTok is their only real competitor at all), and being a leader in the community and getting top talent to work on these models benefits them.

Not sure that an old shipwreck rusting away is an important treasure that needs to be preserved. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, fishing will damage it. OK, whatever.

The fact that most people don't want to face is that their notes don't contain any valuable insights and their ideas are worthless.

I thought a deranged camera had crushed a LIDAR and then claimed the life of a startup.

Yes, some stuff does break, and some categories suck more than others, and sometimes Wirecutter gets it wrong. But I have not seen anyone point to any meaningful evidence that Wirecutter is improperly biased or is anything worse than simply a product review site that does it best but sometimes gets it wrong.

If you are doing your own research on Reddit or YouTube do you think you are the first person to think of that? The marketers got to Reddit and YouTube before you did

Many of the negative reviews are posted by competitors

I wouldn't want my domain to be a marketing expenditure for a tech giant. Then you get a Google Domains style shitshow.

... participating in one carried a 2% risk of death and a 10% risk of permanent disability

Now that it's gotten out of hand, a brutal crackdown is necessary to restore order. Send in the billy clubs and give them all 20 years.

I remember in the text captcha days there came a point where I just couldn't do them anymore. The letters were so distorted it would take me 10+ tries.

Your kids are using their friends' phones and you don't know what they're doing on them.

It doesn't matter if it's only greenlit for limited areas and conditions -- just use them where they work! Don't use them where they don't!

In US law, each case sets precedent for the cases that come after it. This is now a damages figure that will be referred to by other lawyers. Imagine if a corporation does something like this, the way eBay was terrorizing a couple? Their damages are now in the billions rather than the hundreds of thousands.

It sends a message to people that unless you're Elon Musk you'll get fucked over if you try this.

Current performance definitely does not suggest otherwise! Over Waymo's first million miles, it was involved in two collisions, one of them at-fault. The average for human drivers is 5.3 collisions per million miles.

The upside is that automobile crashes kill >30,000 people in the US alone and self-driving cars may one day bring that number down by 90%

I think mountain/hillbilly culture in the US is very much its own thing and cannot be understood by lowland Americans. Maybe people in Scotland / Afghanistan / etc. will understand it better.

The best way to get the elite school benefits as a state school undergraduate is to attend a graduate program at an elite school. The financial ROI on a Yale JD or Harvard MBA will be really strong, and if you want a paid-for program you can do a PhD.

The "soccer program" is the professional soccer team that Cristiano Ronaldo was on. Should Freddy Fatass have been playing for them too?