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Comment · 1 month ago
Can confirm the Kyiv metro escalators are both significantly faster and generally longer than London - the combination can be a little scary the first few times.
Comment · 1 month ago
As a parent of 3 kids and an extensive baby-carrier user, I see your argument but I think you're lacking consideration of the failure modes.

Yes, almost every baby carrier would likely restrain the infant better than add-on infant belt if the adult lap belt rides up over the infant carrier, the infant's going to be crushed between the adult and the belt. Not a good outcome.

Thus you're likely going to need FAA-approved infant carriers, same way as you'd need FAA-approved car seats you can take on planes.

Comment · 2 months ago
This reminds me of SABRE preferring American Airlines flights see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_syst.... Back in 1984 this "Preferential display" was considered illegal by the US government. How times have changed....

In Europe, it led to the creation of the competing Amadeus system which did not keep display preferences and now dominates the market.

Comment · 2 months ago
Ooh, this autosubmit is cool. Is it open-source for individuals to add more cities, or expose it as an API?
Comment · 5 months ago
which contains links to its claims and an author with a name, unlike the above article...
Comment · 8 months ago
On page 13 you'll see _why_ the judges don't apply the letter of the law - they're seeking to do justice to the victims _in spite of_ the law.

"there is another possible explanation: the human judges seek to do justice. The materials include a gruesome description of the injuries the plaintiff sustained in the automobile accident. The court in the earlier proceeding found that she was entitled to [details] a total of $750,000.10. It then noted that she would be entitled to that full amount under Nebraska law but only $250,000 under Kansas law." So the judge's decision "reflects a moral view that victims should be fully compensated ... This bias is reflected in Klerman and Spamann’s data: only 31% of judges applied the cap (i.e., chose Kansas law), compared to the expected 46% if judges were purely following the law." "By contrast, GPT applied the cap precisely"

Far from making the case for AI as a judge, this paper highlights what happens when AI systematically applies (often harsh) laws vs the empathy of experienced human judgement.

Comment · 9 months ago
> I'm sad that a lot more people don't know that Signal for Desktop is much, much less secure against adversaries with your laptop

Educate us. What makes it less secure?

Comment · 11 months ago
I live in MA and wish that this were true, but do you have data / evidence to support that it rarely happens? Also, I don't know if you have tried to get your $10, but it's not like the sign is always obvious and every time I've tried, it's not like the cashier says "oops" and gives you the thing for free - they call a manager, the manager argues with you, other customers complain about the checkout delay you've created... there's social pressure there so I can understand why customers would not do this even when they can.
Comment · 11 months ago
PNRs also contain info on the Form of Payment used to pay for the ticket, in case you were ever wondering who's paying for their airfares in cash...
Comment · 1 year ago
That tracks. I learnt Gaeilge Uladh growing up and standard Irish feels like reading or writing a legal agreement compared to the spoken word…
Comment · 1 year ago
> 2. Not removing students with bad behavior from classrooms and schools

This is basically _the_ reason people send their kids to private schools

Comment · 1 year ago
Right, maybe social networks are a utility, like electricity or ISPs
Comment · 1 year ago
The friction of changing bank accounts is high, and few people choose their bank accounts based on how easy the online authentication is. Unless a bank does this meaningfully much worse than their competitors (low bar) they have little incentive to fix it.

If you think TD is bad, try some European countries where there's only a handful of banks...

Comment · 1 year ago
This is so informative, thank you. I always got my kids baby food in glass, thinking it would reduce their microplastics exposure as well as reducing plastic waste. Turns out only one of those was true :(

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