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Not only that, their ads are incredibly invasive, often taking over the majority of a page.

Interesting. Ive never heard this before. Can you point to some peer reviewed research that supports this hypothesis?

I can’t tell if this comment is sarcasm or zealotry…

Where do you think the servers that power TikTok in the United States are? Who do you think administers those servers?

The global economy is so interconnected and dependent on the US economy that if it were to fail it would cause global chaos.

A contraction of growth by even a few percentage points will push most economies into a recession.

Failure of the US economy will pull down other economies by a few percentage points. If this happened world wide there would be chaos.

In the current era where there are off the shelf tools that solve most problems its refreshing to see something like this. It would have been easy to embrace an existing open source or SaaS solution, but they understand that their docs are not a side part of their product but central to it, so they took ownership and built something to meet their needs.

Browsing through their docs, they are clean, beautiful, and indeed very fast. Hats off to the team that built this.

If you do this doing forget to add a moca filter where your cable enters your house, otherwise you will leak your Ethernet signal to anyone who is on the same cable.

Trained by male doctors, operating in a male dominated field.

Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.

Endometriosis is a terrible disease. I know so many women who have it and it can be debilitating. It can range from moderate discomfort to pain that spreads throughout the entire abdomen.

Every single woman I’ve talked to about it has described how difficult it has been to get treatment from male doctors. They all experienced skepticism about their symptoms and invalidation that what they were experiencing was real.

It’s really tragic that we don’t know more about this disease and don’t have really effective treatments yet.

Chef is an infrastructure as code configuration system. The binaries are now proprietary. This is a FOSS replacement.

So many weird assumptions here.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It’s rude to assume that they don’t have friends that are local. It’s also weird to assume that local friends are more valuable or meaningful that remote friends.

Yes it was a suggestion but it was off topic and came from a place of limited information. Just because they play Minecraft doesn’t mean they don’t go to parks or play outside.

And as a general rule, categorizing the way a specific person raises their kids based on an ill informed opinion about the general public is often received poorly.

Minecraft is the metaverse. My son has played hundreds of hours of Minecraft with friends on his switch while chatting with them on a Messenger kids audio call.

He has been able to build and foster connections with friends who live on the other side of the country.

I’ve listened in on their conversations and they engage in imaginative free play as if they were in the same room. It’s a very different experience then when they play a goal directed game like Mario kart or smash bros.

Minecraft feels a very nice space in his life in ways that other games do not.

>These freeze-dried hydrogels (FD-blank-SA and FD-2dDR-SA) were stored at RT until used for analyses.

They did this to preserve them for later analysis

Not even close

Interesting, all of the compounds used to make this gel are pretty easy to get and the recipe to make the gel is simple. It would be very easy, for someone, to purchase the ingredients and run the experiment on themselves. All of these chemicals are pretty safe and as such the risks are pretty low.

I've never thought about doing citizen science before, but I'm strongly considering it here.

Musk has always been an opportunist. All of his companies are things he's jumped on because they offered him a chance at a huge payout. He was acquired by PayPal, and he forced his way into Tesla. Likewise with Twitter, he was willing to burn huge piles of cash for what it offered him. He's a master of picking up a new project and amplifying it through the hype cycle.

The Tesla hype cycle is either nearing its end or peaked and I'm sure he knows this. The valuation for this company is ridiculous by any standard. So he's on to his next thing. By joining ranks with MAGA and he's purchased himself a driver seat for the most powerful country and strongest economy.

Obviously he still cares about Tesla, but it's not his primary focus anymore. He's moved on to his next big thing which I'm sure he expects to be many times more lucrative than Tesla was.

Most people are not technically informed.

Most people are the parents of students going to school, teachers, trades people opening a store… they walk into BestBuy and they recognize the brand HP.

HP has massive marketing budgets and gets to package and discount their printers.

Most people think they’re getting an amazing printer at a great deal.

The issue is that we don’t have the primary data. This stuff is messy and the systems at play are extremely complicated. Often one of the most challenging parts of bio sciences is figuring out a test that will cleanly show a result that is true.

Without directly testing for a connection it’s extremely rare to get unexpected data that confirms an alternate hypothesis.

Even if the statistical tools are there, they can’t make up numbers that we haven’t collected yet.

This is a perfect example of the silent work managers do.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to remind someone on the people/finance side that their systems work for the employees and not the other way around is astounding. “No we cant ask them to wait another month to get paid, no I don’t care our system doesn’t support it, fine pull out your check book and write them a physical check…”

In my experience the inverse is also true. Dealing with performance and behavioral issues can take a huge amount of time, and it something that is never discussed with parties who are not involved.

Well run engineering organizations are like a well running engine. They need to have solid parts but they also need constant attention and fine tuning. The best managers do this well.

There’s a huge difference between doing nothing and proceeding with caution. In circumstances where the risk of failure is low, we can afford to take big risks.

However, when the risks are huge, there is a merit to proceeding with caution.

There’s tons of prior art here when it comes to exploring new building materials, new pharmaceuticals, etc…

I'll bite...

We've learned a ton in the last few decades about how interconnected and complicated ecosystems can be. Likewise we've learned that the deep ocean isn't disconnected from the surface. The two send resources, energy, and bio mass to each other.

Additionally, we are extremely reliant on the ocean in so many ways and ecological collapse of the ocean would be catastrophic for our planet.

So while yes we don't have a smoking gun that says "deep sea mining is going to destroy the planet" we are being pretty cavalier playing with things we do not understand.

Estimated GDP in 2024 28.9 T vs 2025 of 13.3 T

That’s a huge gain in 20 years. Where is the commensurate equivalent growth in housing, education, healthcare, cheap food, etc…

There is a huge disconnect between GDP increase and the economic pressure the majority of Americans feel.

The collapse is already happening it’s just happening slowly.

We’ve offshored manufacturing, cut funding for education, have failed to invest in infrastructure.

Sure, but there is a slippery slope effect that could very well happen here. The more comfortable we get with the product and the better it gets the easier its going to be to delegate to them.

The resources required are petty trivial. Users hand over their name and email when they create an account. Likewise you get the IP address of a request.

You could identify which world leaders are using ChatGPT pretty easily.

I think all of the comments you are missing the point. We beginning to see the outsourcing of critical thinking to a few technology companies. We’ve stopped valuing leaders that understand issues and can make sane decisions. Instead we pick leaders that present good sound bites or appear strong. They in turn do not understand the issues and can get quick and easy answers from AI that for the most part are pretty damn good.

The most insidious part of this, is it gives us the feeling that we are still in control.

When in reality, a few extremely powerful and extremely wealthy individuals are in a position to dramatically shape and shift policy.

15 years ago Google was still pretty damn good. Today most people agree that it’s departed from its original goals and in its efforts to make money actively censors and shapes the results it serves.

The AI systems people use to make decisions will make this shift once they have a lock on the market.

It’s wild to see the creation of a technological equivalent to the medieval Catholic Church. an entity that represents itself as benevolent to the masses, but in reality, exploits them and maintains a stranglehold over the political ruling class.

Yes it’s annoying but it also means increased revenue which enables them to invest more in the product.

The new features released since I bought version 6 has me more than satisfied.

Also using a password manager is one of the most effective things you can do to protect yourself and paying a few bucks a month seems like a steal.

I’m seriously concerned that the market is going you crater in the next year, do what is the rational investment strategy?

Trust Buffett and buy BRKB?

Try to weather the storm with VOO?

Buy treasury bonds?