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From a morbidly capitalistic point of view, insurance companies should rejoice at the prospect of a very ill person opting for assisted death. I imagine the procedure to end ones life would be much cheaper than multiple years of procedures and medicine to keep them alive.

And if this is the case (which I don't actually know for sure, I'm just speculating), then insurance companies would be incentivized to 'nudge' certain people towards this decision, which is a super duper slippery slope, and at the extreme end you'd have the Rick and Morty dead people spaghetti planet situation.

edit - this of course applies only to people that would have the procedures and medicine that would keep them alive covered.

Could be longer life expectancy for particular demographics that are mostly white.

Or it could just be that 70% of people of all ages today are white, but 80 years ago it was a much larger proportion (I didn't think it would be 96% but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was).

This is pure speculation, I have no data to support either of these hypotheses.

I heard this one, paraphrased, a while back (probably around 2002 I guess). I apply it to others as well by actually spinning a penny when someone can't decide, then watch their reaction. It's shocking how fast people make up their mind when they feel like the decision making power is taken away from them.

> I would like a machine to help me.

Cool. I would not. It would be nice to have that option.

Or it's the drivers are not "focused, alert", because of the auto-pilot.

GMOs can reduce need for pesticide and insecticide use, reduce water and fertilizer use, increase yields and make produce last longer. Are there any credible studies showing any GMOs in the states to be harmful?

Wow, signing that petition was shockingky smooth with my national e-ID. I thought it was just a random petition site, but its an official EU system that verifies your identity. And it just worked with the ID app I have installed. Nice.

That is great news. I wonder what the odds are of something like this ever happening in the US. My guess is slim to none.

> If this happened on an Airbus plane it wouldn't have ended up on the front page.

Perhaps, but I think its a good thing that boeing is under more scrutiny and is getting more shit than their competition would for the same. Not much more general public can do.

I believe it could be useful to update the title to mention that this only happens in the desktop application. I personally only use the mobile app, and while I'm aware I might be biased, I didn't even know a desktop Signal application existed.

Not saying the severity of the issue is lower because of it, just that it might not impact as many people as the current title would suggest.

Places like that already exist. They are called towns. Problem is most people want to live in large urban centers.

Eerily reminiscent of 'badwater' from the game Timberborn. Especially in the second image.

This topic and why that picture is very misleading is well covered by this video by The Present Past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikg3-GQLg3g

HN def is a community, in some sense of the word, but I also dont like the phrasing and emphasis on "we" having done something or we having a problem and whatnot.

HN promotes debate and individual opinions, so statements like in parent just have bad connotations to them.

> search to finish its webrequests

Now imagine it happening for literally every interaction. Opened a context menu? Oh give me a second to check the LLM server for useful actions I can offer you. Want to close a window? One sec just wanna analyze the content first to see if you reealy want to close it.

I am so happy that most gaming is now possible on Linux and I dont have to use Windows at all.

That sounds literally the same as "flare" from office space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno

Yeah my lawyer friend is worried he might even lose his license over this. It's gonna be very interesting seeing how legal departments react to this.

If you disagree with practices like this, mention this to your legal.

I'd be surprised if any legal department in any company with one will not freak the f out when they read this. They will likely loose the biggest customers first, so even if it is 1% of customers, it will likely affect their bottom line enough to give it a second though. I don't see how they might profit from an in-house LLM more than from their enterprise-tier plans.

Their customer support will have a hell of a day today.

Whats baffling to me is why companies think that when they slap AI on the press release, their customers will suddenly be perfectly fine with them scraping and monetizing all of their data on an industrial scale, without even asking for permission. In a paid service. Where the service is private communication.

Well I really hope this massively blows up in their face when all of Europe goes to work just about now, and then North America in 5-8 hours. Let's see if we have another Helldivers 2 event that makes them do a hard backpedal after losing thousands of large customers that will not under any circumstances take the chance.

I have a friend with a law firm who just called me yesterday for advice as he's thinking about switching to Slack from Teams. I gave him a glowing recommendation because it is literally night and day, but there is no way in hell he takes any chance any sensitive legal discussions leak out through prompt hacking. He might even be liable himself for knowingly using a tool that spells out "we read and reuse your conversations".

What you say is true, and I agree, but that is the emotional human side of thinking. Purely logically, it would nake sense to compare the two systems of control and use the one with fewer human casualities. Not saying its gonna happen, just thinking that reason and logic should take precedent, no matter what side you are on.

It's not just opt-in, it's a non-default option you have to actively seek out and enable with every new conversation you start. So yes, by default, without additional steps taken, telegram is not e2e encrypted.

Wouldn't large body collisions be a fairly common occurrence in young planetary systems though?

Of course any additional condition makes life rarer, I'm just thinking this one might not make it rarer by as many orders of magnitude as it might look like at first glance.

Forced an iPad? How is that legal? Isn't it possible to do whatever assignments she is getting on a PC?

They use a tunnel boring machine to bore a tunnel with a 45° slope.

They do go into the mechanics of how they make this insanely massive machine drive up a grade that steep, and how they ensure it doesn't slide backward.

I was glued to the screen more than with most movies.

If you like channels like Practical Engineering, you will enjoy this.

Good. Unless publishing bad products negatively affects sales and profit, there is no reason for MS to change course.

Private is used in opposition to public, as in 'private sector' and 'public sector', where public sector is ran and funded by the government, which means public finances, which mainly means taxes - people cant pick and choose which taxes they pay and what the money is put towards. In private sector on the other hand, people can privately decide what to invest their money in.

Sure, when you put subsidies and tax breaks into the mix the line gets a bit more blurry, but legally speaking its a well defined concept, even if not all private companies match the intuitive meaning of the phrase. And yeah, Google is a very specific case, which is why there is always some level of debate about whether it (and other similar companies) should be forced to split up, and some of the resulting parts turned into a public utility service.

The more I think about this the less I understand what the employees were trying to accomplish. Let's say that somehow they somehow get the government (whichever level of it) to force Google to sit at the table with them.

The union states their terms. Google just says 'no'.

"Uh.. then we'll all quit!"

"ok"

I guess they could go on a strike so Google would still be on the hook for paying them? A strike has to be disruptive to the company to have any effect though... they'd all just be made redundant and let go anyway.

Seems to me like they didn't really have a viable end game.

It's a publicly traded, private enterprise.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company

>living on minimum wage doing shitwork is not the same as high paid pampered worker.

I don't see anyone claiming they are the same.

Parent says both deserve the same rights, including the right to enter a union. Granted, there is a clear disparity in what either group can potentially gain from it.