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It is intelligence created by design rather than by natural selection.

LLCs limit your financial liability, but you can still work thousands of hours on a business and end up making nothing. If you work the same thousands of hours as an employee, you will make money.

There have been several attempts to make battery swapping for cars a thing. This includes Tesla's attempt and another company that went bankrupt. For some reason, it does not seem to work out and they all stop trying it.

Seems like a flawed design to have the entire national flight system go down from a single point of failure. Do we not have redundancy and / or distributed systems so this sort of thing doesn't happen?

I don't understand why this would cause sadness. I found most of questions I asked it could be answered as well by using a search engine. Sure, it was more concise than searching but going through many sources may give more accuracy and perspective. Perhaps I didn't spend enough time with it but I got bored quickly.

Yes, it does write reasonably well. I asked it for a short story and a joke. The joke was funny and the short story made sense and flowed well. Are we worried comedians will be out of business? Or writers? I don't see that happening. We'll still need writers to track down sources, compile and edit. Maybe it will save writers a lot of time but we'll still need humans for the foreseeable future. It might be that one writer can churn out 10 stories a month rather than 3, but that sort of productivity happened after tools like the printing press, typewriters, etc were invented.

I only asked it one coding question related to a recursive function. The answer didn't make me worry about losing my job. I still had to check it and make sure it was right. It might make certain tasks easier but it can't replace a human yet - not even close. If someone relies on this for their coding job, it will quickly be obvious. It can save some time for people who know how to program. But for those relying on it as a crutch, it will hurt them in the long run as their codebase gets more complicated.

I've always interpreted it as meaning no patch is available yet for a vulnerability. Does not matter whether a decision to patch or not has been made. Doesn't matter if it's been exploited yet.

Yes, I used to file taxes with paper forms from the IRS years ago and this is free. There isn't even an income limit to do it this way as far as I know. But of course it's more of a hassle than doing it online as you have to buy stamps, go to the post office, etc.

What's the point of this? It's not clever or useful and could cause people to waste time and gas getting re-routed. It's no different than spamming a forum or website.

Making DST permanent is essentially forcing everyone to wake up earlier in the day. All we're doing is calling 7 am, now 8 am to get people to psychologically accept this. This is a win for morning people who function better earlier... AND this is a loss for all the non-morning people who will now be forced to work, go to school, etc at a time when they don't operate optimally.

The focus should be on walkable communities. Biking and transit help but they are not good solutions for elderly or people trying to commute reliably. EVs are still bad for the environment. Walking is free and simultaneously helps reduce health issues like obesity. I get irked when articles like this barely discuss walking.

I had this happen to me. Went to order something for pickup from maps. I thought it was the restaurant's page but the order went through postmates. When I arrived to pick up my order, the staff seemed to think I was an employee of postmates.

Anyway, when I got home I did some searching and found out the restaurant had a different webpage from what I ordered from. The prices I paid were a little higher than the actual business websites. It seems postmates charged me more, taking a cut while doing nothing to make the food or deliver it. What a parasitic business to inject yourself as a third party like that.

Some advice if you find it hard to skip meals - you can drink things like coffee, tea or water. Skip the sugar of course, but it helps your stomach feel less empty to have liquids.

Many people are accustomed to having their stomach full all the time and associate the feeling of an empty stomach with something being wrong. I had a friend who couldn't go three hours without eating and said she would feel faint. It's kind of like how some people feel dirty for not showering every morning even if they aren't actually that dirty. But you can learn to stop associating these things. I have been intermittent fasting for years and don't even notice an empty stomach now.

Privacy was never a "core value" at Apple. Have people forgot about Prism? During that, Apple bent over backward to give data to the nsa. Other companies like yahoo sued to try preventing it. Privacy is a marketing tactic at apple they used when they realized it could be used against their competitors like Google who have business models based on knowing as much as possible about their consumers.

They just need to create some incentive to opt in. It could be get some discount or your devices get a fallback if you allow other users to get a fallback in the event of internet loss. That would be the right way to do this.