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These are a specific set of interesting, compelling, human-sized problems curated to motivate clever people to engage with math.

LMAO

I had the same misread at first, I think they mean "There are a ton of (models of) cars that you cannot register in California"

The double negative adds to the tone, it's a pretty common construction.

Clarity is the ultimate priority in technical writing, but for everything else it needs to be balanced against expression, and it's a little impolite to unsolicited stylistic critique based on your personal experience reading an off-the-cuff comment in an informal environment.

AI can't really help if the problem is that a race is small and local enough that there's no available information about the candidates. In fact, that sounds almost like a perfect example of when you would expect a high risk of an AI being confidently wrong.

Yes, that's the direct subtext of that phrase.

I wonder about that. I'm sure they're selling your data too, but I wonder if the kickbacks the retailer gets for your data is actually comparable to the discount, or if their incentive is just the "loyalty" - convincing you to spend money you wouldn't already spend and to default to them instead of trying alternatives because you want the points or you're close to a reward.

They seem like a pretty natural successor to the punch card model, which I can't imagine had a motive beyond the obvious.

If you change the argument to "can warp the mind of some men", it becomes much harder to falsify.

I also think you shouldn't be able to enter into those.

Honestly, if anything the gray area should work in the other direction: no entering into life -changing legally-binding contracts until you've had the full right to vote, work, and to self determination for...oh, let's say one to two years?

You should check your intuition against the facts, which show that decreasing fertility rates in the United States are largely a consequence of reduction in teen pregnancies.

I know different social circles are different, but have you considered inviting people to your house for takeout? Maybe dining out is what you'd prefer anyway, but if you wanted some sort of games/movie/casual hangout at your place but didn't want to cook, getting takeout could be an appropriate compromise.

Also have ADHD, and yeah, I've realized that it's even easier to fall into a fixed-mindset trap if you actually have a good justification for it.

My current mantra is "I get to decide who I am." Identity is incredibly mutable, but we tend to get stuck with baked in early assumptions. It's so easy to think "I'm not good at this" and sort of silently translate that to "I could never be good at this," when not being good at a thing is everybody's natural state.

Of course, most skills are going to be easier for some people to pick up and harder for others, but that's rarely the determining factor; more often it's who's put in the time and effort.

It's so easy to forget that so many of these things are skills, and to assume that people that are good at them just got lucky, which is not only counterproductive to oneself, it's kind of disrespectful towards the others who worked so hard to get good at them.

It really ticks me off that Rings cameras are pointed at the sidewalk.

When questioned about owning them, people like to talk about security, convenience, porch package theft, etc, none of which require the devices to have a field of view extending beyond the property line. And yet, somehow they just conveniently contribute to a police-searchable database of everyone that walks past their house, with no recourse.

I also kind of wouldn't expect that my coke is made to order and would hope that my pizza is.

You mean working to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies?

They mean there's no policy regulating how bike lights can be designed, not that the LEDs themselves aren't electronically regulated.

What if the virus manipulated people's brains such that they create a dangerous computer program in a lab?

>We have a situation where about ~1000x as many people are dying in Europe as in Texas prisons.

Right, because Europe has much higher population than Texas prisons. In fact, many more people are dying by heat exhaustion in Texas prisons per capita than in Europe.

That's not bad. Those are going to be some fantastic value used cars, eventually.

>I have no idea, however, why both Eastern and Western naive psychology associate gall with, well, gall.

Possibly because it's filled with strong acid.

There was a 10-year period starting in 1991 when mostly the US didn't expect much enemy action on our soil.

>It doesn't actually follow, because maybe the LLM is smarter than the original writer (at least in the domain the writing is about) and hence really is able to complete the ideas in a way the writer can't.

Then what's the point of the original writer?

I suspect they're talking about LLM tokens.

Yeah but something something testosterone manliness degeneracy decadence.

Sending emails from an ergonomic chair for eight* hours a day and having to be civil to female coworkers and polite to your boss inherently degrades the male spirit in a way that permanently damaging and poisoning your body with 12-hour factory shifts with a foreman yelling at you doesn't. This is so self-evident and obvious that nobody even bothers to state it, it's just an assumed undercurrent in discussions of "bullshit jobs" etc.

None of those are primarily marketing tools, they're things you use after you've already decided you want to use the product. They don't need to grab and hold attention and convince you that they have what you want, they just need to convey information.

Yeah, if I use a credit card in person, isn't it merchant's responsibility to verify my identity to their satisfaction for each and every purchase, and they let someone else (that's not an authorized user) use my card, I'm not responsible for any spending?

Right, but choosing to troll the company you own because the board fired you for repeatedly, extremely publicly "Having a normal one", looks a lot like a mental breakdown of some sort.

I mean it's basically identical to a signature in terms of identification value, and, by the sounds of it, usage.

The only difference is that demonstrated in the described case, that the stamp is expected to be passed on to whomever is in authority, whereas we would never say "This CEO can't be ousted as he refused to relinquish his signature."

Also because most of the investors, by ownership, are Matt.