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1986··on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
No, it's not, but there's a spectrum of drug experiences. Scrolling social media is more like sitting in a shitty motel by yourself on a meth binge, or being on the nod.
1986··on Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python
And if you want to spend more, Garmin even makes a range of dog tracking equipment: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/965617
1986··on Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
I loved my Palm Pixi.
1986··on Android XR
Geoguessr is the kind of thing the old Google would have built internally and released as a "just for fun" or April Fool's thing
1986··on The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise
Greek, not Latin
1986··on GenChess
Nobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters though.
1986··on Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
Money supply increased significantly in 2020 for sure but that's NOT what you're seeing in the M1 graph. M1 was revised to include savings accounts at the same time and this is the major source of the discontinuity:

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/05/savings-are-now-more...

M2 captures the pandemic influx better and is significantly less dramatic: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

1986··on Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges
The printing press predates the 1st Amendment
1986··on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
I have to recommend digging into the story behind the person who used to upload UC episodes to YouTube before Cosmic Pumpkin, and the reason that they stopped uploading. Google "Dave Garda", I don't think anyone has done an authoritative writeup but it's a wild one.
1986··on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
Yes, a user was banned for sharing the Vance dossier

https://www.fastcompany.com/91198871/why-x-suspended-journal...

1986··on A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals
"You can't trust humans" but you can trust a non deterministic black box to take their place?
1986··on Probably pay attention to tokenizers
Your data differs from theirs - they have "I have received wrong package" vs "I hve received wrong pckage", you misspelled "received" in both and didn't omit an "a" from "package" in the "bad" data
1986··on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect
The rule covers this

> Buying Positive or Negative Reviews: The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives conditioned on the writing of consumer reviews expressing a particular sentiment, either positive or negative. It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed.

> Fake or False Consumer Reviews, Consumer Testimonials, and Celebrity Testimonials: The final rule addresses reviews and testimonials that misrepresent that they are by someone who does not exist, such as AI-generated fake reviews, or who did not have actual experience with the business or its products or services, or that misrepresent the experience of the person giving it. It prohibits businesses from creating or selling such reviews or testimonials. It also prohibits them from buying such reviews, procuring them from company insiders, or disseminating such testimonials, when the business knew or should have known that the reviews or testimonials were fake or false.

1986··on Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning
Just a quick note on your landing page on mobile, if you add the following CSS to the slides img element it'll look a lot better across viewports:

    max-width: 100%;
    object-fit: contain;
1986··on Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
1986··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
the little death.
1986··on Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
society hasn't even fully adjusted to social media yet
1986··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
"Blitz" literally just means "lightning"
1986··on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid
Otherwise known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_%28pricing_policy%29
1986··on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
You want the computer to believe in God?
1986··on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Interesting, as my theory for why cynicism is so common nowadays is that it's a coping mechanism for people who understand perfectly well what's happening in the modern world
1986··on 26-Year-Old EY Employee Succumbs to 'Work Stress' Four Months After Joining
Not to say overwork didn't lead to her death, but you're conflating two parts of this story - Zion (who died) wasn't the overworked medical worker, the workers being overworked led them to make poor decisions that led to her developing serotonin syndrome
1986··on SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval
It's nothing like the Steele dossier, Heritage Foundation and others behind it have put their names all over Project 2025. Heritage is in the copyright block of the site footer!
1986··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
It's an arms race too, I'm in the market for a car now and would prefer something compact for city parking, but given that every _other_ car on the road these days seems to be an enormous SUV, I'm looking at probably at least a crossover so I won't constantly feel like I'm about to get steamrolled by a 4Runner or F150
1986··on How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients
That's great if all you ever need to do is see a doctor, full stop. Getting, for example, an MRI is around $2k out of pocket. Just for one imaging! Most Americans can't come up with $500 for an unexpected expense. Comprehensive health insurance protects people from instantly going broke from everything in health care that isn't just seeing a primary care doctor.

edit: Not defending insurers or our system at all, btw. Quite clear to me as ex-healthtech that a single payer system would solve many of our problems.

1986··on Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
You folks are reading the sentence wrong. The $6T estimate is for all assets controlled by family offices _generally_
1986··on Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?
Changed suddenly 3-4 years ago... long COVID?
1986··on TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
from the article, it sounds like this is V5?
1986··on TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
why wouldn't you use some sort of collision resistant hashing function on the data to achieve this instead?
1986··on It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
Did you know that a third of the US population lives in a rental property?
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