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I don't love the design, but I love the concept. They should get some native American smiths to make better looking or thinner ones.

I don't like or use social media a ton. Mostly reddit for some special interests and a FB for some family members. (And for whatever reason, my FB feed is basically mostly Tedoo app spam now when I bother to look.) But the idea that humans can't handle social media is silly. The modern world...

As a species, it makes some sense to settle off planet on some basis. (IE you can come up with various arguments and concepts of utility for it that are not absurd.) But I don't think there's any particular reason to make Mars the specific target for it.

It's so bizarre to me that ground could do a control reset of a some kind to get thrusters back online, but there's apparently no way to do the same from inside the craft itself. (And the fact that computer control reset brings them back on line is super interesting - does it drop them from...

I think instead of telling us what marketing driven fake name tech is in a TV, there should just be clear measurements of performance and MTBF ratings on products.

I can not stand turn-based anything involving more than ~4 active agents. It makes no sense and is an utter waste of time. I also don't get what's so tricky or annoying about RTWP. You usually have the option to toggle paused on particular events if needed, and if not, it's not like you need a...

So I kind of agree that if you end up having a tax rate that amounts to 50%+ of income it'd be nice to have healthcare included. But next to nobody actually has insane personal taxes owed in the US. That said, charity overhead is way different than research lab overhead. And I say that as...

I think a condo board and a land lord have vastly different interests. Land lord benefits not from minimizing price, but from kickbacks or some other benefit, or potentially, just doesn't care at all, while a condo board doesn't have anything to gain from choosing a poor provider or upping the...

One thing I never really get is why serializing guns seems to be considered so important. Like if people are serious about getting away with a gun crime everyone know to destroy or dispose of the gun, or at the very least the barrel and maybe firing pin. And for the most part, guns are...

Electric cars make sense as part of two-car households in much of the US. The problem is that the sensible setup would be something like: Small electric truck or van that can transport an appliance, take things to the dump, or run a grocery store errand. It should have a range of about 150...

Liberal billionaires paying for an internal peace corp to stop development regression and perform educational welfare? (In terms of things that can be done w/o government.) I also agree that the level of general education and welfare is not sufficiently high that all voters can have leisure...

Legal disclaimers like that and the kind that they put on sports broadcasts are basically fraudulent since fair use applies regardless of what bogus disclaimers they write. The disclaimers are in fact intended to make it so you think you have fewer fair use rights than you do on purpose.

If I can tell somebody a fact and say where I got the information from without it violating copyright, I fail to see why an AI or database doing the same thing can't. Philip DeFranco and other YouTubers basically already to the more human version of summarizing the news reported in other...

I don't really get what's wrong with this - if you get a credit on Uber eats, it seems totally fine to use however you want and discipline for it seems wrong - I don't see how you could even separate personal balance from regular balance. On the other hand if they were expensing non meal...

Expected lifecycle emission mandates seem like the way to go over just mandating battery vehicles. If that turns out to be an EV mandate in practice, don't really care. That said, there is something wrong with the US market when the cheapest cars sell the fastest, but they keep getting...

I really don't like one-size-fits all definitions of kids being used for gun policy. Guns are the sort of thing where there should be a graduation of privileges and that should mean that at some point in the 12+ range parents can decide if their child should have access to a gun or guns. This is...

Just goes to show that current AIs aren't really "intelligences" as neat as they are.

Can we get a guide that is continually updated for what wifi routers to buy that get security updates 'til the cows come home (e.g. ship w/ open source self updating or have really long mfr support)? I really ought to replace my router (unless I flash the firmware - it's like 10+ years old) and...

Is the implication that AI voices aren't "Artificial" for some reason? Is my brain broken?

Not really. I'd be happy with something like this for $12k, and even happier if it were slightly more like an electric kei truck. At $20k I'd have to question why I wouldn't just pay $5k more and get on the waiting list for a Maverick.