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a123b456c
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Disagree. I have been driving Kia for 2.5 years. I think the UX is quite good.

I would assume that most people who live in a city would want to know when the Kia is unlocked at home. I think your dislike of that feature may reflect your residence type or garage type.

My experience of Tesla UX was poor, given how few manual controls were available, and the extensive touchscreen reliance required while driving.
a123b456c
·9 giorni fa·discuss
False. There is no Economic Law of Consolidation such as you posit here. Haircuts are a mature market, yet plenty of small providers thrive. Counterexamples to your extraordinary claim abound.

The actual economics in highly competitive markets depend on what is known as the Minimum Efficient Scale, which in turn depends on the shape of the cost function.
a123b456c
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It's nice if you find something you previously care about. But it can go the other way too-- you can care more about what you work on. You can focus on the reasons it is good, or efficient, or honest, or solves real problems, or whatever other metavalue motivates you to care more.
a123b456c
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Oh come on. So you're rooting for the evil genius in the comic book movie? You would harm millions of people to move up the financial success yardstick?

I don't think many people would agree with such positions.

I do think that people who have succeeded financially might adopt that ethos as an ex post rationalization.
a123b456c
·4 mesi fa·discuss
You could engineer the feed to maximize user satisfaction, rather than maximizing usage.
a123b456c
·4 mesi fa·discuss
If Intuit and other tax preparers can protect their tax preparation rents at the expense of all income earners, then it is not difficult to believe that the medical industry is also able to protect its own rents.
a123b456c
·4 mesi fa·discuss
There are two basic topics:

1. Talk about them. Start by paying attention to them. Then when you notice something that was clearly an intentional choice on their part, say something nice about it. Listen carefully to what they say, and follow up in response without filtering yourself.

2. Talk about us. Notice some aspect of experience that you are both sharing. The weather is the most popular and safest topic.
a123b456c
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Can you think of any instances where powerful tech companies broke laws, perhaps in ways that increased profit?
a123b456c
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It's not complicated. That random garbage increases advertising revenues. Maybe not from every user, but certainly in the aggregate.
a123b456c
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It's also possible that users could misuse the reporting system, in order to get other users' accounts suspended.

Requiring N distinct reports of a suspension reason would seem to reduce misuses of the reporting system.

The 17-reports threshold might have been found to balance type-1 and type-2 errors, as account removals are costly actions when made in error or as a result of reporting-system misuse.
a123b456c
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It sounds to me like you should contact your good friends more often.
a123b456c
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Many people do not know that Impact Factor is gameable. Unethical publications have gamed it. Therefore a higher IF may or may not indicate higher prominence. Use Scimago journal rankings for non-gameable scores.
a123b456c
·6 mesi fa·discuss
claims like these require a source
a123b456c
·6 mesi fa·discuss
The question is what average; some people apparently view "in the US" as implying US population-level averages (which it does not explicitly imply), whereas authors report the average within adopting households, which for this study's data source, all happen to be in the US
a123b456c
·6 mesi fa·discuss
It seems like we will need either legislation or litigation, if we want things to improve.
a123b456c
·8 mesi fa·discuss
OK, but do you realize that the worst cases from places like yours get exported to SF, NYC and other hubs, for them to deal with?

And you're out here bragging about what you "let" your neighbors and kids do. And bragging about visiting two US cities.
a123b456c
·8 mesi fa·discuss
You had me until you said that "all of it is fleeting and ultimately meaningless - relationships, work, accomplishments. (and many, many more)"

My dear friend. These are the only types of meaning that matters, and its fleeting nature is why we need to appreciate and savor them.
a123b456c
·8 mesi fa·discuss
This is the reason the higher-ups in finance who rely on Brenda might continue to rely on Brenda, rather than relying on AI. She offers them accountability.
a123b456c
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> If you want restrictions on gambling, on advertising it, on participating in it, on making money from it, you want to restrict individual liberty.

No.

An organization's liberty to advertise is not individual liberty.

Let individuals gamble. Do not let organizations advertise gambling services. Organizational liberty is not individual liberty.
a123b456c
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I think you're pointing in the right direction, but I would rephrase as,

what's the likelihood that the solution exists in the github repo in a way that the machine can recognize as relevant to your prompt?

If many versions of the solution exist, due to the problem's common occurrence, and if you can evaluate the LLM's output, then you're good to go.