coryfklein

Wait, does Ukraine have a long established history of military attacks against Russia?

This is completely untrue, there are unlimited examples of speech that exists out there that you have absolutely no inherent right to hear, and in fact many existing laws explicitly support restrictions on your ability to hear the speech. Just a few examples off the top of my head; do I have the right to hear:

* A comedian at a paid event when I haven't paid

* Private conversations between you and your significant other

* DMs between other people on social media

* Podcasts published exclusively on Spotify when I don't have a membership

* Speech in walled gardens (FB, Insta, X, etc) where I don't have an account

I wonder how much real difference you get in the statistical sampling margin of error when going from 58% to 70%. How much accuracy does that buy in the election outcome for the extra time that additional 12% of the population spent?

> You can debate why turnout is so low in this country for something so high stakes.

Maybe because statistically speaking your individual vote does not in fact matter? And that's a principle that applies equally to the left/right. For every marginal non-voter in your preferred party you get to vote, there's a marginal non-voter in the opposite party that somebody else is trying to get out to vote.

Put another way, we could intentionally reduce the sample size and mandate that only 33% of adults vote in any given election, and we'd reduce the statistical confidence in the election result very little.

Any given individual's singular vote (which is likely nullified by the marginal person in the opposite party) just has so little impact compared to Atwood's $8m political contribution that it's a rounding error.

> We are a democracy, but 144 million Americans – 42% of the adults who live here – do not vote and have no say in what happens.

Why do we worry so much about voter turnout? A 58% voter turnout is a statistically significant sampling of the population; aren't we getting a pretty accurate measurement of the actual vote with that high of voter turnout?

Now if voter turnout is skewed, then that's a problem worth talking about. But with how much time and effort it takes to vote, it seems like such a waste of time with how we do it today.

We could get the same results with much less effort if we made it work like jury duty; at each election we select 10% of the population at random and it's their job to actually do the research and go to the work of voting (research candidates, wait 3 hours at the ballot box, etc), and the remaining 90% of us get to go watch a movie or something that day.

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Well that. But also geurilla warfare against non-uniformed combatants that use public infrastructure for military purposes has inherently higher civilian casualties. It's not going to be all one thing or another.

Nothing about that changes with the introduction of autonomous vehicles though, and it's a very open and highly competitive market. It is extremely easy to switch your auto insurance provider, and anyone who can pay some actuaries can start up a new business. (Though few do, because there isn't a huge margin to take away from the industry as it is.)

Insurance for human drivers stays the same. If anything, it goes down, because the more Waymo-level autonomous vehicles on the road, the safer it is overall.

Insurance isn't a zero sum game, where "less insurance spent on autonomous vehicles" means the insurance companies have to make up for it somewhere else.

In a way, "car driving getting safer overall" isn't great for car insurers, because they make money financing auto risk, and if there is 50% less auto risk then they have less addressable market.

We are pretty early in the 21st century. Would probably be rather different results if the 20th century was included.

Wait, is the air outdoors generally cleaner than the air indoors? Certainly not true in the Salt Lake valley for the 4 months of the year we get persistent inversion.

One major contributing factor: it is in beta and not enabled for most iPhone owners!

You stand at the fork in the tracks. Pulling the lever will divert the train from a track with 10,000 people on it, to a track with 1 person on it. Do you pull the lever?

This is oddly reflective of the elitism that cost the DNC it's victory. "Well actually, my poor man, a tomato is a fruit and every PhD economist knows that inflation is connected to fiscal policy's influence on the monetary supply"

The every day person uses the culinary definition of tomato, and inflation means that those tomatoes cost more at Walmart.

What is Nvidia supposed to do if a random dude in Singapore buys graphics cards and then resells them to Chinese? I don't understand how they can enforce anything here.

IMDb must have a lot of Indian users!

> But OpenAI provides a much more capable app in ChatGPT and an easier development platform

Which app are you talking about here?

I love the iMac as the main driver for my family of 5

* We want a dedicated space in the house for a family computer, so portability is no concern

* It has a very small footprint

* It looks the most like "furniture" out of all the options I've seen; pretty color & form factor, and no mess of cables. If you're male, think "wife approval factor".

* It does everything the family needs from it; runs Steam, documents, spreadsheet, browser, school, photos/videos, etc

* High interoperability with our family iPhones/iPads

Sounds like your problem is with a Google product more so that the browser feature itself. I for one can't wait to start using these kinds of deep links. I love when websites have "copy link to header" buttons, but even when they do I often want to link to a particular sub-paragraph or sentence as a citation... and now I can!

Do you expect the hockeystick graph of technological development since the industrial evolution to slow? Or that it will proceed, only without significant advances in AI?

Seems like the base case here is for the exponential growth to continue, and you'd need a convincing argument to say otherwise.

I wonder how one would encode such a level of burden of truth into the legal system such that the "really incontrovertible" cases are distinguishable from the "not really incontrovertible" ones.

Wow that article is full of gold: * Justice named Igor Judge * Lawyer named James Counsell * Lawyer named Sue Yoo * Weather reporter named Storm Field * Vicar named Michael Vickers * Orthopedic surgeons named Limb, Limb, Limb, and Limb

Scala

Surely the dealers leasing those vehicles are factoring cost of maintenance into the lease, no?

I'd wager that adding "I am aware that XYZ has done some shady stuff in the past" when praising any XYZ is starting to become a common defensive hygiene in internet forums generally, just to preempt that inevitable somebody who is "absolutely outraged" and wants to ruin your day because you could ever like XYZ.

Not if most of them are to other CDC employees.

$10 per request at the lowest tier of enhanced?! The only business case I can think of for this is if you save all the data in your own database then serve requests for your own service out of your own cache. I guess if the Yelp data doesn't change very often, then you just choose to stay 6-months behind on the data or something...

Imagine a vertical cross-section of a person sitting on the toilet seat. The rear end is not only obstructing the flow of water out of the toilet, but it extends below the lip of the seat vertically so any extra water falls downwards into the toilet. The only time water escapes is if you absentmindedly stand up without turning off the bidet[0].

As it turns out, the water is quite effective at removing the dirt. At first I was worried it would disperse it and I'd be wiping a larger region, but in fact it's easy to quickly confirm with the white toilet paper that virtually zero waste is left remaining after only a few seconds of running the bidet.

[0] This depends on the model, some Europeon models I have encountered are configured as a completely separate "bowl" and they spray aerated water with such low force that the water would never leave the bowl, whether a body is present or not.

This, compounded with the rubbing agitation you're applying to such a sensitive area, over and over and over. Why do we do this to ourselves so unnecessarily?

Perhaps not, but without a bidet you're probably smearing it on your undergarments every time you sit, which have a tendency to aspirate the smell of fecal matter a little every time you sit, walk, etc.

Over years, how much of it is accruing on your office chair? The fabric of your sofa?