cjmcqueen

Iowa soil and climate is amazing for growing stuff. Some years it's not necessary to water at all, the rain provides and the soil stays naturally moist much longer than other places. Most farms in Iowa have no irrigation at all. As my farmer friend with 750+ acres says, "God provides".

"If you think that talking to a compassionate human is a core part of the banking experience, there are many banks in Iowa who will sell that service to you. If you simply want to access your money on your phone and have that almost always work, Cash App will happily operate as a front end over Lincoln Savings Bank to make that happen."

As someone living in Iowa, I can confirm this is true and also less effective. I bank at Chase because a straight forward "no" or clear process is so much more efficient and effective than a "nice person trying to help". People in Iowa hate that truth, but waste so much time listening and passing people around to solve a problem that should be resolved with a clear answer.

Google and other companies that use Wikipedia pay a lot more than "people".

It's easy to pay for YouTube premium and remove ads. So why not do that?

Hiding behind theories of consumer behavior is not an excuse for immoral actions. Open source was never meant to be the place where open theft and piracy should thrive. And, the Robinhood sentiment isn't really applicable here because you're stealing from creators. YouTube may be owned by a multi billion dollar corporation, but it does support and bootstrapped a vibrant creator community. The more time we spend stealing content that should be supported by ads or a paid subscription the less effective we make that economy. If we want to do good here, pay some of your favorite creators with a tip, or merch, or specifically sub to their channel. Or, even better, come up with ways creators get paid more. Subverting ads is a downward spiral for things to work better for consumers and creators.

I like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?

I'm still waiting for this too... I suspect I will be waiting a very long time.

It's literally the second hardest thing to do after the biking/running/swimming/skiing itself. Fueling is the operational excellence challenge of endurance sports.

Many places to start, but I would say SN lacks a strong engineering culture, so everything is driven by sales and profit. That means updates come every 6 months with "features" that will never get proper support. It's shiny thing stacked on top of shiny thing and it's just a mess

Two words, flight simulator.

I tend to prefer Google over other docs tools. Occasionally I hear that people feel it's terrible, but I don't understand why. Would you mind sharing a few things that bug you the most?

I also started a series of gravel bicycle races. Sometimes starting something you love is a great way to gather like minded people.

https://iowagravelseries.com/

Church. Religion is a practice, find good people to practice good things with.

Yeah it could be with some managers. But, I've met Vint, asked him to sign a copy of his TCP/IP paper and even asked him if he'd get Robert Kan's signature and he did it. He's an incredibly nice and sincere human and very self aware. I would trust Vint as a manager.

Why is it that the people following the news hosted by a company focused on entrepreneurship and start-ups is surprised and arguing how weird a region is? All markets are weird in their own way.

It sounds like there's an opportunity here for someone to create (yet another?) tech company that manages this difficult problem. PornHub, gambling sites and other folks that need to verify age then pay you to do it! Laws like this are just a cost of doing business. Pass the cost of verification onto the consumers in Utah. If consumers don't like they can change the law or learn how to setup a VPN.

Doesn't this solve the problem? PornHub keeps their margins and people still have their freedom. If a kid really wants to look at porn, they'll at least have to be able to fund it or learn some valuable technical skills.

I lived in Ulan Ude, a predominantly Buddhist town and province of Russia near Lake Baikal. Lots of people, when asked their faith, would say "shamanism". But that was a cultural hint and misnomer. People would practice their religion out in the woods or travel to the large Buddhist temple outside of town because most public officials and the Russian Orthodox church did not allow for Buddhism practices in town.

When I was in Omsk I listened to a man testify that the Russian Orthodox church was good because Father Oleg the local priest had a man killed because he was trying to collect a debt on a member of the church.

As a practicing Christian and member of the church of Jesus Christ I was taught, and teach regularly, to question everything. Questions are how we build understanding and faith. The last chapter of the Book of Mormon is an admonishment to reflect on what is written, to think about, ask questions and to pray about it.

Moroni 10

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mo...

What I think too many very intelligent people forget is that faith and knowledge are two different things. But, if you want to start a project, a business, or a relationship... You need both. One feeds the other.

I choose never to undermine the faith of others because it is those strong beliefs and acts of faith that created light bulbs, assembly lines, search engines, massive online book stores and put us in the moon again and again. Faith is pretty powerful stuff

Hebrews 11

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/heb/...

Not exactly correct. The Mission Training Center has only missionaries of the church attend for language training. But, Special Forces and many other agencies have studied and patterned their own language training off of the MTC model.

The LDS Church doesn't have a record keeping tool like this and it is intentional. We believe in repentance and records like that can often get in the way of the repentance process

No it's not. The church owns a lot of property and has many high profile leaders. Church security does not do anything close to police work on/for parishioners.

Lots of messy things at that time. For example, it was legal to kill a member of the church of Jesus Christ (i. e. Mormon ) in Missouri from 1838 to 1976. Doesn't make it right, but there were a lot of difficult relationships

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order

As a member of the church that also served a mission in Russia, this all checks out. Putin's government and the Russian Orthodox church were incredibly brutal towards outside religions.

For a business to survive it needs competition. You could argue it was necessary to create competition in the AI space before business needs arise that Google could provide. Without competition, there's no way for the market to rise to demand. Google didn't give away stuff, they created demand.

As I look at the other examples given here and reflect on my own Christian beliefs, I see a common understanding that compassion or active empathy involves action. Sympathy is nice, but it seems most folks here agree it is at the level of understanding and doesn't involve the creativity of action.

I think this is what Jesus was teaching with the "Good Samaritan" parable:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/luke...

And, I think a masculine response to sympathy/empathy has never been expressed more (worst) than in the classic movie Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire... the scene probably doesn't play as well as it did back in 1957.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FXW2S_KU4o

I agree this is a skill to develop if you really want to excel at product management, planning, user research, education, medicine... anywhere you need to account for the human condition.

Am I naive about the ability of an AI to do anything other than respond to commands? At what point does an AI start functioning completely on its own, autonomously, out of control or beyond interaction with another system that can then shut that AI down?

Are we concerned that an AI would begin to spread like a digital virus? That seems unlikely to me, but maybe it could find ways to create a self-prepreservation duplicate of itself... Maybe. So what would keep us from just turning the switch off if we find that an AI is doing more than what we're asking it to do? Again, I feel like I'm either being naive about this or I don't really understand the threat of an AI beyond the control that humans still have on the systems that govern it.

"If my patient notes don’t include a question I haven’t yet asked, ChatGPT’s output will encourage me to keep missing that question."

This is the point we have to help people understand and I'm not sure AI will catch up with this anytime soon; questions are the key to knowledge and intelligence. I haven't seen an AI ask interesting questions. Maybe it's possible with the right training set and weighting of factors to encourage enquiry, but this will be a gap in AI's ability for at least the near term.

My opinion is that people that already have kids and aren't afraid of managing/parenting children while WingFH have more availability and less stress.

Less affluent and people with no kids are using their time elsewhere, which sounds like people are doing more of what they want and less time traffic.

Chains don't stretch, they wear down. When measuring a chain, you measure the distance between links to see how much material has worn away. The links don't actually get longer from stretching.

https://youtu.be/gXd-3UnqoaM

Actual intelligence in a healthy person fulfills survival needs and even higher order needs of emotions, enjoyment and miraculously spiritual needs. AI is still fully responsive. It only responds to input and provides output. It doesn't yet have self-preservation that is curious or hungry or goal driven. I think this is AI we're most afraid of and we would need to build something very different to create self-actualized AI. I don't think we're there and I'm not so sure it would be a useful effort.

Is this a creature comfort wrapper for reveal,js?