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Just need a third one for when the second one breaks while servicing the broken first robot.


I miss the pre-www world (but I was just a kid then, and being a kid was pretty great).

If we could go back to about 1994 tho when all I had was a mostly dumb cell phone, that'd be great. I do miss that world.


Monkey's Paw curls its finger


This seems ripe for a joke akin to "how was the food?" "bad, but at least the portions were big!"

Like, "how was the medical advice" "worse than a doc's, but at least it was cheaper!"


Well the thing is that it often isnt worse than a doctor's, thats the point of the research here. I get that sounds crazy, just watch out for the coming literature I guess.

A significant portion of americans detest the medical industry and deeply dislike going to the doctor so I dont even think the product needs to be very good to disrupt the way the system works, just different and accessible is likely enough. Funnily enough, restaurants where the food is bad but the portions are big are actually decently popular. Priorities can vary so widely that many people are unable to even comprehend the priorities a significant number of people truly hold.


"deeply dislike going to the doctor"

No you are not capturing the trade off at all. And frankly you clearly have an inherent agenda implicit in your posts, that's clear to see.


One statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty Island, NYC) is approximately 4 times the size of one statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World replica, Île aux Cygnes, Paris).

Easy peasy.


I am sympathetic to your analogy. I think it works well enough.

But it falls a bit short in that encyclopedias, lossy or not, shouldn't affirmatively contain false information. The way I would picture a lossy encyclopedia is that it can misdirect by omission, but it would not change A to ¬A.

Maybe a truthy-roulette enclyclopedia?


I guarantee every encyclopedia has mistakes.


I remember a study where they checked if wikipedia had more errors than paper encyclopedias, and they found there were about as many errors in both.

That study ended the "you can't trust wikipedia" argument, you can't trust anything but wikipedia is an as good as it gets second hand reference.


I am not sure I would rely on observations of gyms and beaches for whether people are healthier for fear of selection bias. Going to the beach and seeing mostly fit bathers is like going to the hospital and seeing mostly sick people and thinking that can be generalized to society.

Why would you ask old people if young people are healthier than they were? Surely, Spain compiles medical statistics.

Anyway, Spain appears to have the same weight issues as everywhere else:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9105543/


I send texts via voice command/dictation all the time. How would this be distinguished?


Because the device records detailed usage information with timestamps such as device locks/unlocks, the screen lighting up and going dark, apps going in and out of focus, and in many cases details of exactly what you were doing in the app.

https://cellebrite.com/en/how-a-suspects-pattern-of-life-ana...

https://cellebrite.com/en/samsung-rubin-digital-forensics-va...


I followed the Murdaugh murder case a while back and that level of evidence was critical

The father killed his family and had a pretty good shot at sowing reasonable doubt until they pulled his sons phone telemetry and it showed the son unlocking his phone and checking socials at a time that conflicted with the dads story.

Phones truly are a surveillance dream. You couldn’t ask for a more invasive tracking device, and people love it. You couldn’t pry a phone away from most people these days


Isn't a solution to assign vicarious liability to whomever approves the use of the decision-making machine?


Humans do like to fuck.


rishathra


This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them but a lot, they all make my fingers feel bad after using them. I don't know if they are rougher or textured somehow? The only one that does make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook.


It's also the accuracy. I'm able to do light photo editing work right from the trackpad, even basic sketches and airbrushing. Have never been able to do anything remotely close with other laptops


NB: "the only one that does[n't] make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook"


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