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There's even a metric for that: Daily Active Users. I bet Facebook does not publish that number (or the historical values for it). I bet that number has been going down lately, at least for North American users. There's a reason they changed their name.

You should keep in mind that, sure, the rocket produces 166GW of power(which is wild!) but it does so for all of 5 minutes (or less).

Whereas "all the power stations in the UK" keep on trucking, day in, day out, year after year.

It's really a transcript for the accompanying YouTube video (channel of the same name as the blog)

A log of where you've traveled (and a partial log at that) hardly constitutes your "entire person".

She explains this very clearly: https://mobile.twitter.com/avantgame/status/1467242719273631...

The building has not yet been built.

I agree with the sentiment but it should be pointed out that even public works have to pay their workers at market rates when there are no forced laborers (so: most of the time). Throwing a bunch of forced laborers at public works kind of screws over the average Joe that used to do that for pay.

So, like you say, it shouldn't take away from the rights of others. Just pay the prisoners just like you'd pay any other worker regardless of the kind of job.

> than pearl-clutching about the universal practice of "forced labor".

So it's because everyone does it that it's "ok", then?

Or because you think it's better than "rotting in a cell"?

Whatever man. The issue is that the labour is _forced_. Give prisoners a choice to work or not and pay them, at market value, for their work.

If you're against choice and pay for prisoners you really shouldn't be embarrassed to just go ahead and call it what it is: slavery.

> With a deep learning model reducing all the reviews to "book names" you've successfully removed the value of the book discussions themselves.

It literally shows each comment in full that it extracted the book name from. It also includes a link to the comment in the original thread. What more could you possibly want?

idea: browser extension that automatically rounds up any number ending in ".99" and includes a visual indicator/toggle that lets you flip back to the original.

If anyone would like to work on a startup focused on Nuclear Propulsion, please reach out.

Did you miss the part where the op said those who suggest simple solutions are lying/wrong?

I would love to know why using "smart" quotes is inherently better than "dumb" quotes. The OP site doesn't say why. The site it linked to doesn't say why. So... why?

Literally any operational (and unattended) machine in a modern factory

> Is there an example of anything that's completely automated that's dangerous?

Monorail trains (like at the airport)

Combine Harvesters

Airplane Autopilot/autoland

Elevators

What part of 1. Was a lie? It's a fact many hospitals were extremely lacking in PPE, especially when it came to N95 masks, at the start of the pandemic. There was a shortage/crisis to the point where there were many local compaigns to manufacture basic PPE like cloth masks and face shields for hospitals. How could you forget about that so quickly?

Sentiment analysis tech, GPT-3 level AI, and some human moderators in the mix... Maybe it could scale?

Counter argument: having dedicated moderation might just be the low bar, in the same way that there is the expectation that you pay your employees a reasonable salary or pay for other services required to run your business. If you can't afford to do these basic things you may not have a viable business model.

Aside: is Moderation as a Service the new shovel to be sold during the gold rush?

I'm curious why you think folks at gumroad don't "work much" and that most of the work had been done by those no longer at the company. Did you used to work there and have some insider knowledge?

Seems to me the post wasn't even claiming to have >$1M ARR either (there was a graph for the creators ARR which I think is different?) and that everyone does work... they just do it using a non-traditional process.

edit: There's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675713 which might point to >$1M ARR?

edit 2: I also realized in a business like this ARR just doesn't matter (who cares? You're not trying to raise another round or IPO). https://twitter.com/shl/status/1215673023472140289 shows the net profit and it amounts to 1 senior engineer's salary. That's amazing for a small business with a small number of employees but it's not exactly living high off the hog.

It's not a button it's a text link (probably grey/hard to see) at the bottom of the dialogue

You don't need a facebook account to read the content of that post.

Click "not now" and you don't have to.

When I decide to buy a $25k car because that's as much as I'm willing to spend I still need to determine what my "monthly" is. It matters what my monthly is because it is _a loan_ that I need to pay back every month. If I didn't need to think about what the monthly payment was I wouldn't need to take out a loan (unless I guess you got a magical loan that could only be paid off as a lump sum?).

You're implying "worrying about" or wanting to know what the monthly payment is on a loan is a bad thing and I don't understand why.

I think even when you sum those two quantities it'll still be less than the number of people getting hit by apps from the regular play store.

If your business cannot afford to pay a living wage, it does not have a viable business model. No amount of dressing it up or attempting to shift the blame will change that fact.

That the unions and local governments are attempting to ensure a business isn't extorting labor out of the population is a _good_ thing.

Yeah, it sucks that taxis aren't cheap and also pay drivers well. It also sucks that we don't have light rail going everywhere. In both cases the implementation is just not economical. Therefore we need a different solution that doesn't sacrifice people at the altar of convenience

The claim that one is unable to afford health insurance with a salary between $30k and $60k is... Factually incorrect. Do you mean that the medication for T1 diabetes is unaffordable at that salary range even with health insurance?

For one, you don't just toss that $133k into a savings account at the end of every year to just let it rot. You invest it and have it grow with compounding interest. You'll be amazed at the difference that makes to your calculations.

If you look elsewhere in the thread it seems like a solo individual worked on this for years and posted it here today. Your comment is needlessly negative and mean.

"more deadly" does not necessarily mean more deaths in this case. If it kills like ebola more folks could take it seriously ultimately resulting in lower transmission and death rates.

Sure. Can't have it both ways though: you're welcome to choose to implement on a soon to be deprecated tech stack but you don't get to bitch about it or expect the maintainers of said stack to suddenly change their minds about deprecating.