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> clearly guilty as hell

I think you underestimate the power of neuroses. Good chance no money was involved.

It sounds like they don't really use it. Their about page says:

  We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern- 
 recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more 
  efficient than existing computer programs at pattern- 
 folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then 
  teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins 
  faster than ever!

Indicating that at some point they may use it, though judging from recent trends in reinforcement learning, they probably won't.

> We’ve seen the opposite phenomenon happen in every market.

Not really? If buffalo wings are like a man's name, or men's pants, the same trend would be for women to adopt those things (which we do). Similarly, if you market only towards women, it is seen as somewhat shameful for a man (and sometimes, even for a woman) to purchase that good.

> This [plot # 2] view wasn’t very useful

I disagree. It shows that far more gender-neutral or boy names become significantly more popular as girl names, compared to the other way around. That's pretty interesting.

This conforms to the idea that a boy with a girl's name (or other girlish attribute) is bad, whereas a girl with a boy's name (or other boyish attribute) is not as bad, or is even good.

If a tree is planted, grows, and then for example is burned down and paved over, that'd be true. But if a tree grows and eventually dies in a forest, it'll be replaced with new trees naturally, cancelling out the CO2 leaked from the tree dying. This C02 can also be stalled by harvesting the tree and using it in some way that stops C02 from being released for a longer time than natural.

> the bare edges of the canvas suggest that the woman has agency, physical and otherwise; in Morisot’s garden scenes or beflowered interiors, the dresses melt into the background, refuting the viewer’s possession of the figure. Morisot’s messy brushstrokes—some of the most daring among her contemporaries’—suggest that “woman” is pure fiction, an idea bursting at the seams of the experience it supposedly names.

Seems like the author is projecting their own opinions onto Morisot's art.

That being said, it's incredibly sad that women were so devalued and minimized in that time.

I think s/he means evolutionary speaking.

$0. Left a 108k job, now developing recipestasher.com for free and fun on my own. Will probably get a real job again soon...

Living in a city does tend to produce fewer greenhouse gases. But the reason most people live in cities? Jobs.

Why draw the lines by state? Wouldn't income or race be better dividers?

That's like saying: let's ignore 58.55 million voters for no reason other than where they live. More than 18% of the entire US population.

States are arbitrary dividers, it's silly to think there's some great reason for allowing people in some random groups (states) have much more voting power than others. What if the dividers were based on income, race, etc? Wouldn't even that be more reasonable?

I mean... He did lose the popular vote. So 'most' people didn't have an influence on the election. Or at least, the plurality of people.

Yeah, that's fair. I'm doing the same thing with recipestasher.com. I lose about $400/yr on it, but I really like using it and so do a few other people. No ads, no clickbait crap. But, I realize that I'm quite privileged to be able to do it.

I've tried asking multiple times (for non-emergency procedures) and each time they've said they don't know. (Kaiser)

First I thought this was Jim Dale - the amazing narrator of Harry Potter - and was pretty confused.

Apart from perhaps printing a boarding pass and (given security) food on very long flights, these all seem OK to me. Not charging for checked baggage is equivalent to taxing those who pack light and subsidizing those who pack heavy (and cost more fuel).

But that's an inherently wrong way of looking at it. If you're traveling somewhere in a plane vs on the road, you're way more likely to die. Even if you factor own your own human error (but not others').

To save people time: I created an account but it still doesn't seem to work. Now the URL seems to always redirect to the login page.

> "As quantum mechanics demonstrates, observing changes the thing being observed"

This isn't really a fair corollary. It's not that true observation that changes particles, it's that once we hit them with light (to enable observation), they change their state. This is so so often misinterpreted in journalism. The change has nothing to do with a conscious observer being present.

It's used every day in some legitimate ways. For example, Premise Data Corporation pays their data collectors in almost entirely bitcoin. https://medium.com/@premisedata/premise-payouts-get-easier-w...

Hmm. So the head of innovation at a company in France says that he believes solar (etc.) is in a J curve of upward growth. I'd like to know more about where his 1¢/kwh estimate is actually coming from.

Yes, a little. A big issue is that people forget you're around, and so forget to include you, which makes you more disposable.

So, the cause of the corrupted photos still is undiscovered?

Yes, there are also quite a few grammar errors. Makes it hard to read.

It's kind of a bummer that she knew she wanted to work with computers the whole time but her parents thought it would be more responsible to be a secretary. Glad she got there.

First, I agree with you. But to answer:

One chooses to be obese more than one chooses to be tall, so arguing that tall people should have to pay more for their size while the obese shouldn't seems illogical.

I'm quite confident that they store the voice data. It's very valuable to them as a source of training data for future versions of 'Alexa'-like products.

Sentences after the 'Alexa' key word are still recorded as un-identified questions that you can view in the Alexa app. Source: bought mom one, have used it.