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They're going to try to stop me from resubscribing? I'm small time but I'll still say it: their loss.

I'm ok with content being spread across competing services. If Netflix was the only game in town (like it pretty much was for a while) we'd see less content.

I don't find the pricing of any existing service objectionable. I can pay about $15 and watch whatever I want in their catalog for a month, then cancel if I decide to try a different service. It'd be different if I were stuck in some long contract but I've yet to see that in the streaming market.

Which car companies aren't ready for this yet? The writing has been on the wall for some time now.

Making driving tests more strict and mandating a refresher every few years would probably go a long ways towards creating more walkable and bikeable cities. Some folks would choose to drive unlicensed, of course, but it'd be silly to let that imperfection destroy the good.

> I would argue that their hands were somewhat tied because raising the federal gas tax during a recession would have been an extremely unpopular thing to do regardless of the reasoning.

Hopefully in the next boom time we'll do the sane thing and finally tie the gas tax to inflation, or at least increase it at the same rate as we do federal wages. Making it a fixed amount of pennies is about the dumbest thing we could have done.

Mandatory minimum insurance limits sure haven't. They've gone up in some states but are still woefully low.

Except the Borg don't have individuality whereas the people at Oracle do. I'm tired of pretending that, say, individual human SEs are not responsible for their work because they're just doing what a corporation demands.

If a platform is too large to be allowed to self-regulate, maybe it should just be nationalized and the suggestion algorithms deleted. That'd free the platform owners from the personal responsibility of hosting objectionable content (as is the case here) and ensure the government isn't abusing its platform to elevate some speech above others.

I can't see any way to justify requiring Facebook et al to host misogynistic content at the barrel of a metaphorical gun.

I would say that authoritarianism could work two ways: a content platform revoking someone's permission to participate (by choice) or a content platform being forced (by governments) to host content despite rules violations. I think the former is clearly preferable.

I'm out of date, lol. Well, GE, even post-breakup, has a huge energy business that would benefit from increasing nuclear production. Assuming they really can make safe, cost-effective power, anyway.

> I would add: "If you see a big name company give a talk about some cool thing they made, it's probably already been abandoned by that company."

Alternatively, the talk should be viewed as the company recruiting someone to replace said cool thing.

I upvote most questions I come across and downvote many answers -- most of which are incorrect or no longer correct and didn't include version information. If I could, I'd downvote comments that ask for more details and then, upon receipt, disappear forever. (Why'd ya ask?)

I don't think I'd participate at all if I had to leave comments for each action. Whenever I mention my voting rules I get angry or defensive replies from folks that don't understand.

Headlights, too. Basically anything that came from the factory in pairs or above.

It seems to me that companies like GE and Westinghouse have tons of money. Add that to the billions pro-nuclear folks have in SV and you've got quite the war chest to fund effective pro-nuke campaigns.

At 5% plus whatever amount they take for profit it seems like they'd be able to get some large investors on board and wouldn't need us plebs at all.

It's also sad that industry completely failed to convince the population that they can provide a safe solution. For all the credit we give BigCo for creating propaganda, it's curious that they were unable to be successful here, given the stakes.

I wonder if anyone has successfully used it to create library documentation. Obviously you'd have to tweak whatever output you get but can GPT-3 provide a substantial starting point?

I think they would benefit from having higher quality information than they get from seeing a number and possibly getting a refund check. I mean, just look at how many people report satisfaction in getting a large refund -- that's a silly thing to celebrate and seems to be the result of a misunderstanding about how taxes work.

I'd prefer we have automatic taxes and a short document showing taxpayers where their money is going, especially money spent in their state or county, when applicable. This should all be easy to do, just requires political will to make it happen.

It's also related to the idea that personal freedom trumps many/most other interests. That's probably good, however it does mean that people may choose to live outside of mainstream society and in our metaphorical faces. What can we do about that without curtailing all of our freedoms?

I think it's more that they think if people don't see it every April they won't appreciate or know to push back on how much money they're paying[0]. It's nonsense promulgated by folks targeting the low-information voter, of course.

0: https://slate.com/business/2012/04/grover-norquist-and-h-r-b...

I'm mostly with you in spirit but I'd stop at big fines and jailing the executives. Most of the employees are probably fine and someone better can take the helm without too much disruption to their work. Jailing executives might be enough on its own but the fine is useful as well, to pay compensation if nothing else.

Some folks included ads in npm postinstall scripts, til they were outlawed.

Based on the videos I've seen I'm not even sure I'd call their software beta. It looks like it's in early development, like where you'd be running it exclusively on closed tracks. Definitely nowhere near folks outside the company.

College is pretty different than grade school. It's a lot easier for adults to understand whether or not they're learning well and to see where people end up following graduation. You'd have a hard time convincing me that the way an 8 year old is taught today will lead to better results in better outcomes decades later (after those that ran the schools have retired and have thus left the market).

Further, how many Harvard-level grade schools do you think we can run as a society? Given that private school pay is substantially worse than public school pay on average, how could one say that private schools, again on average, would outperform public schools?

> competition would force public schools to improve or shut down as every school vied for the vouchers.

I don't know how to fairly evaluate a school's performance. I guess we could ask if the students perform better in the job market 10-20 years later, but that's not obviously not helpful or useful information on which to make a decision now.

I get why the voucher system is appealing on first glance. After all, you often can evaluate the quality of goods and services. You can, say, estimate that a shirt you find at the mall will last a few years or that it will fall apart in a month. I just don't think you can do the same for schools. I have a feeling most people will evaluate education based on their beliefs (religious, etc) and the grades their kids "earn".

> Be aware that the photo in the article is not from the site in question but one in France that's much bigger and maintained.

I completely overlooked the text below the photo. That's on me, I guess, but it's crazy they don't have a photo of this new site in the article.

Remember Hotbot? They had a way to limit searches to those that used JavaScript. ha!

https://wikieducator.org/File:Hotbot.gif

A tool that records the sites you visit and makes their content searchable locally would be pretty nifty. It'd be a MITM, which isn't awesome, but if it's not a managed service that might not be so bad.

> For programming questions I don't want to see the sites that just scrape and repackage stackoverflow questions; for a company run by software developers they have to know about this problem lol.

This fact alone tells me they're not willing to take search result quality seriously. I'm sure medical professionals feel the same way about relevant content that is scraped and republished.

Interesting. IIRC the only thing that changed before and after was the oven was replaced. Ah well.