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It's not a non issue even if it doesn't end up actually happening: regardless of how or whether it ends up actually being implemented, simply announcing this in itself is going to discourage people in other countries from making plans to visit the US, which may be the desired effect but will also hurt tourism which will likely have a negative effect on the economy.

> It's exactly this central dogma that I question; an arbitrary number of people can be wrong about something without it magically becoming correct.

Language is arbitrary and when enough people agree that a word means something, it does.

Do you insist that "nice" can only mean "foolish" and not kind because that was its original meaning, or do you accept that it now means "kind"?

If the latter, you also actually agree that the meaning of words can change once enough people use them a new way.

> You might get the random ultra woke person who makes it impossible for others to have a conversation because they're just waiting to be triggered by anything anyone else says and find a way to spin every comment into an offence.

> If anyone brings up politics then the meetup is over, at least for me.

> I brought up the population issue in a light way (Japan's population is declining), something like making the joke that they didn't help Japan's population decline. He replied something like "anyone who tells you there's an underpopulation issue is lying. The planet has 8 billion people which is way too many". And that was when I knew I wasn't going to continue the conversation.

You brought up an intensely political issue (population decline), they responded, and then you got mad at them and felt like they brought up a political issue?

It sounds like you are doing exactly the thing you are complaining about "ultra woke" people doing.

> If you’re a Google AI Ultra subscriber, you can use Deep Think in the Gemini app today with a fixed set of prompts a day by toggling “Deep Think” in the prompt bar when selecting 2.5 Pro in the model drop down.

If fixed set means fixed number it would be nice to know how many.

Otherwise i would like to know what fixed set means here.

The Constitution saying we have free speech doesn't really mean anything. It's up to the courts to decide what that means and there's no guarantee that the US will necessarily end up having stronger free speech protections than any other country in practice.

Surely it would be easy to change labeling to make that clear? All they would have to do is say "contains milk proteins" or something in the allergen information in the nutrition facts

You can buy nonstick wok-shaped pans but real woks that would be used for high temperature cooking are usually not nonstick. The original assertion that I was responding to was suggesting that the cause of the higher lung cancer rates in asian americans might be because of high temperature wok cooking.

I have no idea if nonstick pans are associated with higher lung cancer rates but even if they are I have no reason to think that asian americans are more likely to use nonstick pans, so the fact that it is easy to overheat nonstick pans in general might not explain asian americans having higher lung cancer rates.

I don't think most people are actually doing really high temp wok cooking at home regardless of ethnic background. My impression is that, while woks are more common for home cooking in china (not chinese americans, mind you), even there home cooking is usually not done at the high temperatures that restaurants use.

I think what they mean is that there is less publicly available kdb code for llms to be trained on

What makes you think that remembering dreams is a sign of better sleep? I think that is generally not believed to be true.

1 year old used cars are inevitably going to get more expensive as new cars get more expensive (or cheaper new cars cease being made)

Right now if activity tracking is off I think you can't even use Gemini to do stuff like set alarms so it's worse than Google Assistant with activity tracking off.

Since Google Assistant is going away I think this is an improvement for people who want to keep activity tracking off.

It would also be better if you could create calendar events from the web version of Gemini with activity tracking off so you aren't punished for not letting Google train Gemini on your data imo.

I think this probably makes more sense for people who want to keep using x11 environments than trying to fork/maintain xorg.

It is a solved problem but because of how Wayland works, window managers are also compositors, so if you want to make a new window manager you are actually technically making a "compositor", although most of the small ones just implement window management on top of wlroots.

Most people would just use kde or gnome which have their own compositors.

It's a fork of x.org that's trying to keep actively developing it more than the x.org developers are interested in doing (because they are working on wayland and see x.org as basically obsolete). That in itself is a reasonable goal but given the person responsible for it I would not be too optimistic about it.

> I provided enough information, including the Google Wave team _explicitly_ citing the feature on Google Docs before it was launched. This is way more than an assumption.

You just quoted a part where it mentioned that google docs didn't have collaborative editing at the time. That's not the same thing as saying that the google docs collaborative editing was then based on google wave.

Again, you may very well be right, but you haven't provided any source actually indicating that google docs collaborative editing was based on wave.

I'm not saying it necessarily wasn't used in docs but it seems like you also don't have any information indicating that it actually was and are just assuming that it must have been, so I would ideally want confirmation from someone who was actually involved with it at Google.

Ok but that that's probably 0.1% of all translation work.

It's the equivalent of llms eliminating everything except a handful of system architect jobs at FAANG companies in terms of programming.

Isn't this just showing that they both used OT rather than that the docs functionality was based on wave? It seems like the version of docs that added this was likely in development at the same time as wave so unless you specifically know that the people who worked on wave then worked on docs I would assume that different people were responsible for it so the fact that they both used OT (which is pretty standard) doesn't seem to necessarily imply a connection.

> The point was that people said, once Google Translate was introduced, that translators would lose their jobs. Just like people say the same thing about developers with LLMs nowadays. The point is: they didn’t, and they won’t.

Translators are losing their jobs now though. Google translate wasn't very good for Japanese so a lot of people assumed that machine translation would never be a threat, but deepl was better to the point where a lot of translation moved to just cleaning up it's output and current state of the art llms as of the last six months are much better and can also be given context and other instructions to reduce the need for humans to clean up the output. When the dust settles translation as a job is probably going to be dead.

Was that functionality really based on work from Google wave?

I guess this continues the trend of c# eventually getting all the features from f#

The author does imply that the test is effectively getting more difficult, but it seems like they're simply assuming that the adjustment must be happening in that direction without actual evidence.

In reality, because the test was normalized, it is useless for determining the change in academic achievement over time, and it could just as easily end up being normalized in the direction of effectively making the test easier. Because the scores can't be used for this purpose, other evidence would be needed to determine how achievement is actually changing over time (and therefore whether the normalization is effectively increasing or decreasing scores) and the author doesn't present any evidence that would show which is the case.

However, either way the decision to normalize the scores on a test that's apparently supposed to be used to show changes over time seems odd if the author is correct that normalized scores are being used for that purpose.

> Personally, I have directly encountered this shift. I was advised by professors and career advisors against pursuing a Ph.D. because, I was told, I would face disproportionate competition from foreign students, making it an uphill battle. When applying for jobs, I have been explicitly informed that my race and gender alone could be a barrier, not because of my skills or work ethic, but because of the current political and hiring climate.

I think you are lumping together two completely separate things in a way that doesn't make sense: 1) policies to try to encourage hiring of women/minorities and 2) the fact that Americans often don't have what it takes to compete with much stronger foreign grad students (isn't this in fact meritocracy)

Can you explain why it being over 10% of children would make it not a disease?

That's unfortunately basically the norm with TurboTax. If you haven't done a specific thing before in TurboTax you should always double check the actual forms, too. You really can't trust it.

If Congress chose not to specify it and therefore delegate the decision, shouldn't it be up to them to pass a new law to specify it if needed if they think the executive branch has raised it too much?

Why is this a situation where the supreme court should step in?

The original claim was that thimerosal did this, but it was removed from vaccines for kids in 2001 and the rates of autism diagnoses have not decreased as a result.

There is also no actual evidence that adjuvants have caused autism as far as I know, and the entire idea that vaccines cause autism was based on a fraudulent paper by someone who was trying to sell his own competing vaccine.

A lot of them are pretty dark. I'm not sure I would show them to young kids.