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>I had someone write me a personal message about a sensitive topic that was clearly workshopped with AI in an effort to nuance the conversation and not offend me. But the message became impersonal, dispassionate, and disjointed. It had all of the parts, but it didn’t make sense as a whole. I wasn’t interested in reading it, or responding. I would much rather someone be themselves and write with their own voice, or with some passion, even if they can’t quite find the words, or risk offending me.

Only a privileged person can say this. Not everybody is a native speaker or good communicator. As an IT guy somewhere on the spectrum, I have damaged my career on multiple occasions by clumsy writing.

Tangential: We need to invent some kind of personal wireless setting that will signal to strangers that you are open to meeting new people or starting a conversation.

Otherwise, all this technology will totally isolate us.

On the other side of the spectrum, you have hundreds of actual human beings on Wikipedia writing hagiographies of Palestinian terrorist leaders.

(https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/new-adl-report-f...)

It's an information war.

Easy-to-access examples of different sounds would be nice.

This is amazing! But I need SEARCH feature :)

Btw, the map interface is very well implemented, what is it based on?

>The Tenet Cook Forgot: make products you’d be proud to use yourself.

You see, I don't think people like Cook (and the majority of corporate managers) can even tell the difference between good and bad products when they use them.

I would love my kids to have access to Flash and learn to build games the way I did. Unfortunately, £32.98/month for Animate is just too expensive.

As far as I know, there is nothing comparable to the Flash experience on the market.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310243

I am not sure if more regulation is a solution, but the lack of respect for job seekers is a real problem.

And not just with ghost jobs. My recent experience as a job seeker was harrowing - even with large, proud companies. I would pass multiple rounds of interviews with senior/director-level interviewers only to never hear back from the company - even after a direct request for an update or feedback. Just total ignorance. Again, this happened with a FAANG+ company.

Spotify is the worst.

EDIT: not any longer?

I keep saying this: A company is a legal person, and you should not try to be loyal to a legal person because legal person can not be loyal to you,

You can, however, be loyal to your boss, and your boss can be loyal to you, as long as this does not conflicts with his duties to the company.

People underestimate the economic side. This person probably earns 6 figures (if not, he should). Fixing this himself probably costed more than $1697 in his time.

Now imagine a service doing this, with a manager and all the overhead.

Frustratingly the article makes no effort to explain what they mean by equal pay liability.

The same goes for something called "savings delivery rate" that supposedly dropped form 91% to 70%.

And the mentioned "£131 million" for the Oracle finance and human resources system, is that annual or lifetime?

Just came here to say that Diaspora by Gregg Egan is my #1 book ever :)

This is a campaign website done very well! I wish more websites were this informative.

>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

What does it mean to be a Shapiro Professor?

To me, the biggest issue is the hostility of certain crowds that prevents us from discussing and exploring these phenomenons. There is this whole "women don't owe you sex" overreaction that is very quick to silence any discussion.

At the same time sexual satisfaction is strongly correlated with happiness (or depression) and both genders experience very different phenomena here.

Overestimate compared to what? Compared to women's self reported preferences?

I ma going to read the study to find out :D

And who is the source? Capitalism, the economic and political system? BS.

On Wikipedia, you can find that:

>Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring [...]

Which is partly truism and partly straw-man. Truism because "Economic pressures" are "driving the intensification" of everything, yet we don't use terms [something]-capitalism anywhere else. And straw-man because capitalism is only one of many possible sources of economic pressure.

If all you want to is distinguish the source from state-actor surveillance then "for-profit surveillance" or even "surveillance marketing" are much more fitting terms.

The term "surveillance capitalism" is needlessly loaded - it has nothing to do with capitalism, neither as economic nor as political system.

All it tells me is that whoever started it had a left bias and whoever is using it does not know any better.

Because it almost never works.

>and it usually is a he

My toxic boss (she) was a diversity hire (women in tech) with limited experience (fast tracked for management) but unlimited support from the top (diversity quotas). I ended up bullied out of the company with damaged mental health (anxiety attacks).

>Math is a model of the universe

And I would dare to disagree right here. Math contains many structures that we don't know from our universe and that probably do not exist in our universe. If math is a model of universe, why is there a Mandelbrot set?

Reminds me of how google moved maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that they can ask for location permission in your browser for the whole google domain.

While the article talks about PROCESSED carbohydrates, the study talks about REFINED carbohydrates. What are these and how the impact differs from unprocessed or unrefined carbohydrates?

Are you saying that we have evidence that universe is not infinite?

> Since we know that infinite densities cannot actually happen in the universe...

Lol, and how exactly do we know that?