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resoluteteethon Stanford violated AI policy after race-swapping students in ad

I think modifying the woman on the left to make her look thinner is probably worse than replacing the person on the right with an imaginary ai generated person

resoluteteethon Esoteric HTML - ismap vs CSS

I'm not sure anyone has even used server side image maps since css was invented anyway

resoluteteethon US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

Supporting allies like this by supplying weapons is is one of the main ways the us projects military strength abroad and the situation with Israel shows how that can actually be counterproductive by escalating hostilities.

If you don't want the us to waste money on that you probably actually shouldn't want the us to engage in "imperialism" at all.

resoluteteethon US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

The ADL has a whole page[1] listing examples of her supposed antisemitism but it basically seems to just be examples of her criticising Israel. I guess the ADL considers that to be the same thing but it is pretty unpersuasive unless you think every criticism of Israel is automatically antisemitism.

1: https://www.adl.org/resources/article/francesca-albanese-her...

resoluteteethon A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

It seems like lots of newer books can't be viewed on cloud reader now anyway

resoluteteethon Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

> Waste of time to get these alerts for a movie that has no historical accuracy or value.

The odyssey itself wasn't trying to be historically accurate; it's basically fantasy. Why would you expect that a movie adaptation would be historically accurate?

resoluteteethon 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

I think that's an ad that appears at the bottom of most of the articles on "cnbc make it" so I'm not the specific article is shilling it per se.

resoluteteethon Amazon without the knockoffs

I don't think that's necessarily true as a general statement. There are also lots of knockoffs where they clearly aren't actually the exact same product because they're obviously slightly different in a way that shows it wasn't produced with the same dies/molds. I own several knockoffs like that (which I bought intentionally knowing they were a knockoff but the knockoff had good reviews and it wasn't worth spending extra for the original).

Occasionally there are even knockoffs that improve on the original product in some way, although usually they are just nearly as good at a much lower price.

resoluteteethon Amazon without the knockoffs

Also one very common subtype of the first option nowadays is that some company is just buying the exact same product from alibaba that you could buy from a random company on amazon or aliexpress, marking it up, and spending a few bucks on an internet presence and advertising to try to seem like a more legit company but doesn't really offer any more support or warranty than the brands that seem like a random combination of letters.

Whereas if it's costco it will at least be easy to get your money back if it dies in six months.

resoluteteethon The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker

> Health insurance stopped being insurance when the government forced them to cover everything. You are paying for risks that will never apply to you.

The pooling of risks is literally what makes it insurance. If any part of health insurance is arguably not actually insurance it's the annual preventative care that is certain to apply to you.

resoluteteethon Fable 5 Ported the Ladybird Browser to WebAssembly in One Shot and It Cost $552

He's talking about the marginal cost of distributing a copy of software which has already been created, which is completely different from LLMs reducing the cost of creating new software.

resoluteteethon We're pausing Asimov Press

I think 100 years after their death would be reasonable because at that point it's long enough that people won't assume there's an actual connection to the person or that it's endorsed/founded by them

resoluteteethon Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments

I think you are incorrectly guessing the content of the article based on the title.

The article doesn't say that more people refused than was previously known.

It just concludes that most people weren't following instructions in a way that would have supported the validity of the supposed memory experiment.

resoluteteethon Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008

You might be using different copilots since there are approximately three different Microsoft copilot products

Are you using the one that's part of Microsoft 365?

resoluteteethon Model Collapse Is Happening, We Just Pretend It Isn't

It's pointless to write a whole article about how model collapse is actually happening and isn't just a theoretical concern with no evidence that model collapse is actually happening.

resoluteteethon Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome

He is going around talking about biblical prophecies and the antichrist so regardless of whether you consider thiel a Christian or whether he considers himself a Christian the comment you are responding to is entirely accurate in saying he is interested "only in the hate and doom parts of [Christianity]".

resoluteteethon Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

The point is that you can't know if an intervention works until you actually test it. There are tons of possibilities, including that some pm2.5 particles cause lung damage and some don't, in which case overall pm2.5 exposure would be correlated to negative health effects but using an air filter to reduce dust in your home might have little or no health benefit. We don't know yet.

Generally avoiding pm2.5 particles is a reasonable precaution but you can't say that things like air filters are actually the most effective health intervention someone can do until you test that experimentally. That's simply not how stuff like this works. There are virtually infinite health interventions that seem plausible but don't actually work when tested.

As with a treatment for alzheimer's disease, cancer, or heart disease, you can't simply say that X is correlated with disease, an intervention Y reduces X, so therefore Y must have positive health effects without actually testing Y.

resoluteteethon Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

> Air purifiers reduce PM2.5 concentration, so if PM2.5 is bad for health then air purifiers are good for health.

> This is like "there's no evidence parachutes improve survival after jumping from a plane."

A proposed intervention like air purifiers that have no direct evidence but are plausible because they reduce something that has been shown to be correlated with negative long term health outcomes is the opposite of something like parachutes that we directly know work.

This is a completely bizarre comparison and it's like saying that skepticism of an Alzheimer's drug targeting amyloid plaques is like doubting parachutes work because we know that amyloid plaques are correlated with Alzheimer's.

resoluteteethon Nintendo sues the US government over tariffs –seeks 200B refund, interest

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nintendo-c...

I think you are correct that the headline is wrong because Nintendo is not asking to be refunded $200 billion, but to be precise the number doesn't seem to be the compensation sought by all the companies that are suing either.

Nintendo is the only plaintiff in this specific suit so joined in this article does not mean they are all plaintiffs in one suit, just that they have all filed suits.

The Nintendo complaint specifically mentions $200 billion, but I think this is just supposed to be the rough amount the us government collected in total based on the tariffs that the supreme court found to be illegal from all companies/countries (as background information), not what Nintendo or any other specific companies that are suing are requesting be refunded.

resoluteteethon Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

> Better air quality is one of the best (and cheapest) ways to improve overall health.[1]

While I think that the things the person lists on that site are good precautions (although I think not using an ultrasonic humidifier would be better stated as only using distilled water with ultrasonic humidifiers), I think that saying that doing these things is "is one of the best (and cheapest) ways to improve overall health" is too strong, because while there are lots of studies showing population level correlations between pm2.5 particles and health problems, I don't think there is currently evidence specifically showing that things like using air purifiers actually improve health.

resoluteteethon Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

It not the original title but I'm not sure it's "misleading"

> Within weeks, Binance fired or suspended at least four employees involved in the investigation, according to the documents and three people with knowledge of the situation. The company cited issues such as “violations of company protocol” related to the handling of client data.

resoluteteethon The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)

That page is a few years old and it's much less the case now, which seems to disprove most of the broad cultural conclusions people are trying to draw based on it.

resoluteteethon She Graduated with Honors but She Can't Read

There seem to be two lawsuits. The more relevant one is that she is apparently now suing the school for negligence.

resoluteteethon She Graduated with Honors but She Can't Read

I think this is a better explanation of the situation: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/us/connecticut-aleysha-ortiz-...

It seems like she needed special ed assistance with reading that she unfortunately wasn't getting.

resoluteteethon How to stop being boring

You seem to be describing yourself as a "schizotype" but isn't that also a similar label to the ones you are criticizing the proliferation of?

If you feel that the other labels are unhelpful why do you feel it is helpful to label yourself as a "schizotype"?

resoluteteethon Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows

Exercise, therapy, and antidepressants have all been shown to have similar effect sizes for depression. It seems like some people take that to mean that therapy and antidepressants are pointless but unless there's some reason to think that the effects are mutually exclusive, a more reasonable interpretation is probably that it's good to try to do all of these things if possible if you are depressed.

resoluteteethon Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

Notice that that Wikipedia page links to a disambiguation page which links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIKINI_state which may be more familiar to people in the UK than the meaning you are thinking of

resoluteteethon Claims of disability are highest at elite universities

Or make all the rooms smaller single rooms rather than intentionally building all the rooms as doubles?

Or don't require students (especially freshmen) to live in dorms so more people can live in apartments off campus to reduce the need for dorm rooms?

resoluteteethon Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

The oat diet was two days and the effect lasted two weeks though so it's not as bad as eating nothing but it's all the to e