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- Yes, absolutely. How else would you define it? The whole point of happiness is that is a subjective, internal state. If you just want to know if people live in a cold, dark climate you don't need to ask them.
- So you believe students don't use AI to cheat, and you are calling the OP naive?
- I would look at the secondary consequences of the totaling of white collar labor in the same way. Without the upper-middle-class spending their disposable income, consumer spending shrivels, advertising dollars dry up, and investment in growth no longer makes sense in most industries. It looks like a path to total economic destruction to me.
- I agree with all this, except there is no plan B. What could plan B possibly be when white collar work collapses? You can go into a trade, but who will be hiring the tradespeople?
- I think in the context of the GP's comment, 'never' means it never (or hardly ever) happened on the products it was expected to happen on (home computers, as understood circa late 70s/early 80s). Yes, it has happened on very different devices decades later.
- Why does a fan app need to find the WiFi networks? The OS does this, and then serves an internet connection to the app. It doesn't need to know what the available networks are.
- My interpretation: the mirror is a symbol of vanity.
- This is a brilliant piece of satire. "A Modest Proposal" for the AI age.
The leader bios are particularly priceless. "While working for 12 years as the Director of HR for a multinational, Faith realized that firing people gave her an almost-spiritual high. Out of the office, Faith coaches a little league softball team and looks after her sick mother - obligations she looks forward to being free of!"
- As someone totally ignorant of British airports, a Google maps search for "airports northern england" shows Teesside, Carlisle, and Newcastle all significantly closer to Edinburgh than Manchester. Are these not places where a 737 under emergency could land? Or was the weather also bad there?
- It's a 55-year-old book about a businessman who was modestly famous in his lifetime and now is pretty much unknown. Was it some mega-hit at the time? If not, then <10K were ever printed. How many do you expect to still be floating around vs. being in landfill? How many people do you think are clamoring for a copy at their local library? FWIW, you can buy one on eBay right now for ~$15.
- Whether it's factual in content is irrelevant, the purpose for communicating this particular fact is clearly partisan and political. It's also a fact that Donald J. Trump has been impeached twice by Congress and indicted on criminal charges four times. Yet adding those particular facts to every government communication would be a partsian, political act.
- This always seems to happen for whatever reason with any food-or-drink-related topic. Articles about coffee will attract the coffee snob, dripping with disdain for drip coffee (consuming which is apparently the moral equivalent of downing urine); articles about stovetop cooking will attract the cast-iron aficionado who will tell you how easy it is to have a perfectly-seasoned pan if you just follow this seven-step process before and after every meal, etc.
- It's really a quite different set of law because the whole point of a trademark is that it uniquely identifies a particular seller so that buyers can distinguish it from others in the market. If that identification weakens then your trademark becomes meaningless and can no longer be enforced. But that logic doesn't apply to copyright.
- You're saying that believing in democracy means believing in electoral dictatorship: whoever is elected president can do whatever they want. But that isn't supposed to be the U.S. form of government. In fact such a form of government would obviously be self-defeating: the first dictator elected would use his unlimited power to prevent anyone else from being elected.
Today's AstralCodexTen is very relevant: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defining-defending-democrac....
- That data appears to be nonsense based on "online audience engagement," not viewership. According to that very source, Jimmy Kimmel is the #6 tv show as of today!
- It's exactly the problem that currying favor with the President is a smart move for businesses.
- The scenario presented seems very odd. Why would you want to sort 10^7 items that are known to contain only four distinct values? It seems much more likely you would be counting the number of times each value appears, or selecting all of the elements of value X.
- > perhaps it's the repeat viewings and predictability that make these films comfort food.
There's a simpler explanation, which is that different people like different things.
- This news is about the elimination of childhood vaccine mandates - measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, chicken pox, polio, etc. It has nothing to do with COVID.
Of course they could. (1) People are capable of changing their minds. His opinion of data centers may have been changed recently by the rapid growth of data centers to support AI or for who knows what other reasons. (2) People are capable of cognitive dissonance. They can work for an organization that they believe to be bad or even evil.