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SkepticalButOpenMinded

@ SkepticalButOpenMinded @lemmy.ca

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  • Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews

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  • But that’s not what you wrote. You claimed that it doesn’t show new information because you can see the favicon and title. It does show new information.

  • Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews

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  • When I shop online, I have many tabs from the same site open. The tab title is the store name + the item name, so the item name never fits. A bunch of identical ebay icons is way worse than this.

  • Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews

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  • It’s not objectively better or worse. Some people will prefer it and some people won’t.

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    It seems like all packaged foods do this now

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  • Why are you getting downvoted? Why is Lemmy defending rich corporations and not consumers??

    You opened dry pasta in a dry room and got less than the advertised amount. If there’s residual moisture in the factory that evaporates, that is their problem, not ours. Yes it’s a small variation, but that reasoning works both ways: they should include a few extra strands to make sure the consumer gets the right amount.

  • What I'm paying to find out I don't have breast cancer. I have insurance. (Ultrasound and mammogram in the USA)

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    SkepticalButOpenMinded @lemmy.ca

    Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less

    arstechnica.com /cars/2024/01/study-finds-that-once-people-use-cargo-bikes-they-like-their-cars-much-less/

  • Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

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  • How is it “functionally” walled? How is it far from “anyone can simply download and run”? It literally is just that. Anyone can download anything and run any unsigned code. I am baffled by the fact that all the people correcting you are getting downvoted.

  • "Korea Is the World's Most Depressing Country"…an honest travelogue of a famous American writer

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  • These countries have similarities, but this seems more like simplistic stereotypes and generalizations.

    South Korea's suicide rate is almost double that of Japan's. Japan has a lower suicide rate than the US, and similar to European countries like Sweden.

    South Koreans work some of the longest hours of any rich country. They're closer to India and Mexico than Europe. The Japanese work fewer hours than the US. Yes, Japanese people work too much, but I think Americans don't realize that they work too much too.

  • "Korea Is the World's Most Depressing Country"…an honest travelogue of a famous American writer

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  • I agree with the first part, but I’m confused by “Individualism is great”. Not sure what individualism has to do with it.

    Is this supposed to contrast with the US, a country where people work some of the longest hours in the developed world? I think the whole “the West is free and individualistic and Asians are conformist robots” thing is a myth.

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  • Though it was even cheaper in the past, gasoline today is still VERY cheap in the US because the US has one of the lowest fuel taxes in the developed world. Economists, right and left, love the gas tax because driving incurs so many negative externalities.

    Incidentally, this is one reason why roads and bridges are falling apart in such a rich country. The fuel tax pays for infrastructure and it is way too low.

  • Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout

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  • That theory doesn’t make much sense to me. The military conflicts have been political losers for Biden. Polling consistently shows that Americans believe (for some insane reason) that the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts wouldn’t have happened under Trump. Gaza in particular has split Biden’s base. The best thing that could happen for Biden is if all the conflicts end before the election.

  • If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country

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  • As an American who moved to Canada, there are similarities but Canada is still one million times better than the US.

    The CRA (Canadian IRS) allows digital access to all tax info. Whatever software or service you use, just log into your CRA account and everything auto-fills. Done in a few minutes. My US taxes have never taken less than an hour, and often multiple hours if there’s anything remotely complicated.

  • If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country

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  • Can't follow directions?

    What is this, tax advice from Stack Overflow? I don't understand why people like you don't save your criticism for the system, instead of at the people using the system.

    Yes, the system is fucked up... because the instructions are intentionally designed to be complicated to follow. I don't know a single person stupid enough to waste their time doing their own taxes by following the directions on the IRS documentation. Horrible advice. Not even professional tax accountants do that.

    The IRS free tax-filing service is in limited trial in a few states, eligible only to simple returns within limited income ranges. Most people, including 1099 people like OP, can't use it.

  • If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country

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  • Your response is tone deaf. The American tax code is intentionally complicated to protect tax filing companies and to allow the rich to take advantage of loop holes. I can't believe how housebroken some people are that they defend the shitty tax system instead of sharing in OP's anger.

  • Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy in global roundup of threats to peace and human dignity

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  • There are legitimate worries concerning the commodification of people’s bodies. We already do not allow people to sell oneself into slavery, and many countries do not allow the selling of one’s own body parts (which is why organs must be donated in many countries).

    I’m the only one here who knows anyone who’s used surrogacy, and it was for a legit health reason.

    I’m not sure why you think it matters, but my sibling recently had a child through surrogacy. No one is disagreeing about the health case. But more exploitative cases can exist. Not everything should be made into a product.

  • Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn?

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  • In most existing TCG, artificial scarcity is a meta-mechanic of the game. For many, that’s part of the fun of the “collecting“. It’s fun to collect rare cards because they’re in limited supply.

    That said, I think there could be, in theory, an open source way to have artificial scarcity and the fun of collecting. Maybe have a nonprofit that sells official printed cards at cost?

  • Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy in global roundup of threats to peace and human dignity

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  • Are you two substantially disagreeing?

    When surrogacy is merely a luxury to spare the rich mother the discomforts of bearing a child, it can be bad, and for other reasons such as health and infertility it’s totally fine?

  • Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

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  • Seems simple enough to guard against to me. Fact is, if a human can easily detect a pattern, a machine can very likely be made to detect the same pattern. Pattern matching is precisely what NNs are good at. Once the pattern is detected (I.e. being asked to repeat something forever), safeguards can be initiated (like not passing the prompt to the language model or increasing the probability of predicting a stop token early).

  • Think of what happened to Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says

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  • Well said. This feels like an existential election for Taiwan.

  • Harris says US will ‘under no circumstances’ permit forced relocation of Palestinians

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  • This might be the first time I’ve heard a demand imposed on Israel from the US during this recent escalation. Hopefully, the first of many.

  • micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world
    SkepticalButOpenMinded @lemmy.ca

    Why the health benefits of cycling to work outweigh the risk of injury

    www.newscientist.com /article/2237214-why-the-health-benefits-of-cycling-to-work-outweigh-the-risk-of-injury/