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Totally hand-wavy and non-objective ... just like how employees are billing their employers.

Why is lookism supposed to be bad/stigma, but favoring intelligent people is good/meritocracy? Both are "unjust" in the sense that they are a result of genetic lottery. If anything, it's the intelligence you are born with that you can't do anything about.

Society is better off with more intelligence, but also with more beauty! As we automate intelligence, the selection pressure on good looks will only increase.

This discussion is like the discourse about work from home/return to office.

> but this makes sense to me: https://x.com/DavidOndrej1/status/2019126831761572169

AI slop.

Don't ban it, just require that next to the current price merchant displays low/high/median price for the same good/service in the last 30 days.

NautiKron seems to show the current hour in the top row. Why not project it on the tide curve?

Newsom

What will happen on 2022: https://avc.com/2022/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2022

All nine Justices agreed on the merit, including Justice Thomas who was in majority on Quill which he now voted to overturn. The decedent argued that the precedent, while wrongly decided, should be upheld on stare decisis grounds, and it should be left to Congress to correct the mistake.

Quantum computer would enable systematic approach in areas like material sciences and molecular biology, which today are essentially trial and error.

The top product on cooking page [1] shows the folly of using reddit for product recommendations...

[1] https://thingsonreddit.com/things/r/Cooking?page=1&order_by=...

What is wrong with gerrymandering?

It is a political solution to political problem. It pushes decisions locally (to the "laboratories of democracy"). It is responsive to "We The People" but with a built in delaying mechanism to smooth out changes. It generally leads to competitive (but not toss-up) districts (the goal is to get as many seats as possible so huge margins are wasteful).

What's not to like?

Better comparison is tax burden/spending as % of GDP:

                        Tax %   Gov. spending %
    United States       25.1    41.6
    Sweden              44.5    51.2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending

The touch screen on the Surface has one killer application: scrolling while reading. It's very natural to scroll content with a thumb on the edge of the screen.

Or:

    f <$> f <$> x

Using a physical button to move slides...

I don't think this is a good URL change. It is not like http://conversationswithbillkristol.org is a blog spam for "Conversations with Bill Kristol". And the original site has video divided into chapters which is useful.

Private Preserve [1] is a good, inexpensive solution to this problem.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Private-Preserve-Wine-Preservation-Spr...

Since you are an expert, what do you know about Costco branded oil?

I admit I buy it for two reasons: it's cheap (I use a lot of olive oil) and is marked with the harvest date. It is sold as Italian oil (from Tuscany, I believe). Is it?