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  1. Comment on GPT-4o in ~tech

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    It would be so nice to have that quality of voice output read me web pages. Sometimes reading is hard on my eyes.

    It would be so nice to have that quality of voice output read me web pages. Sometimes reading is hard on my eyes.

  2. Comment on Apple, Netflix Amazon want to change how they pay Hollywood stars in ~movies

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    If I'm understanding this right, they're not even counting current subscribers. I'm not clear what even counts as a new subscriber, does it include people who turn their accounts on and off?

    the size of the bonuses will be based on three criteria: the number of people who signed up for Apple TV+ to watch, how much time they spent viewing and the cost of the program relative to the size of its audience

    If I'm understanding this right, they're not even counting current subscribers. I'm not clear what even counts as a new subscriber, does it include people who turn their accounts on and off?

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics in ~finance

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    This is the same person cited in the article. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, it seems to me that these changes did in fact result in more capitalism in his specific case. Setting...

    This is the same person cited in the article. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, it seems to me that these changes did in fact result in more capitalism in his specific case.

    Setting that aside, I notice that restaurant income isn't mentioned anywhere in the original article. There are three parties involved here, it's not all about the drivers and delivery companies. I'll preface this by saying it's unusual to find a Seattle business that doesn't have a website. For the entrenched, this is not typical.

    Watch out for fake restaurant websites thanks to delivery service’s shady plan

    An investigation by New Food Economy found that GrubHub is registering web domain names that sound very much like those of the restaurants affiliated with the service. On top of that, GrubHub is using those domain names to build shadow websites with fake phone numbers of the restaurants already working with GrubHub.

    The article is from 2019, I can't find anything current on if GrubHub is still doing this.

    Delivery companies always act like their fees are set in stone. It's therefore bad if they have to pay drivers more or if restaurants raise their prices, because it puts drivers out of work, which is obviously the fault of either the government or the person who orders take out instead of delivery.

    30% is a really hefty fee. A delivery for more than one person could easily reach $100, $30 of which goes straight to the delivery company.

    None of this is happening in a vacuum.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics in ~finance

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    I mostly use it when I'm traveling for work and don't have a car. I'll walk if there's something near the hotel, but often there isn't.

    I mostly use it when I'm traveling for work and don't have a car. I'll walk if there's something near the hotel, but often there isn't.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on A Study In Scarlet & Blue in ~comics

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    Wait, what? Looks like I have some catching up to do.

    This comic was originally inspired by a dream the author had back in early 2019, while she was working on the Animaniacs (Hulu, 2020).

    Wait, what? Looks like I have some catching up to do.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Fitness recommendations to gradually increase mobility while recovering from chronic illness in ~health

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    Ask your doctor for a referral to physical/occupational therapy. Mine gave me some gentle strength building exercises to do that are building strength in my hands.

    Ask your doctor for a referral to physical/occupational therapy. Mine gave me some gentle strength building exercises to do that are building strength in my hands.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Why VO2 max is the greatest predictor of lifespan | Dan's journey back to health and fitness (Pt. 2) in ~health

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    The US Air Force used to use this as a standard of health. They stopped a long time ago.

    The US Air Force used to use this as a standard of health. They stopped a long time ago.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on Florida man worries about his ruined reputation after pulling gun on Uber driver dropping the man's daughter off at their house in ~transport

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    This man has had extensive training in both forearm safety and the Geneva convention. His cartoon said he's a retired Colonel, so he's had responsibility over good sized groups of people before....

    He also really wants people to know he’s a veteran, saying, “I served 31 years, I was an Army doctor, I trained as a Navy flight surgeon, I served with the 7th Special Forces Group, I served with the 160th. I served six tours.” That, of course, only makes things worse since he’s not some yokel who’s never been taught the rules of firearm safety or when it’s appropriate to pull a gun on someone.

    This man has had extensive training in both forearm safety and the Geneva convention. His cartoon said he's a retired Colonel, so he's had responsibility over good sized groups of people before. His judgement was trusted. I really hope this isn't all projection, bad things happen when you put gun happy men in charge of women.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices in ~finance

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    I completely agree, but nobody wants to be the first to do it - it makes the price look higher. When the state liquor stores were first closed in Washington, a (formerly) local drug store put the...

    I completely agree, but nobody wants to be the first to do it - it makes the price look higher.

    When the state liquor stores were first closed in Washington, a (formerly) local drug store put the entire cost breakdown into the shelf signage. It was awesome, they separated out all the different charges so you could see which taxes were responsible for what felt like a 50% tax. Someone put a lot of time and effort into making the whole thing easy to understand.

    They stopped doing it before long because nobody was buying any liquor from them. People are only looking at the final price, then comparing that with what the price was marked at in other stores.

    21 votes

  10. Comment on Fast-growing asparagus once flourished on California farms. Why is it disappearing? in ~food

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    None of this seems to have changed the prices of asparagus in a way that doesn't make me think it's an expensive treat. Because of that, I've planted asparagus in my garden. You have to wait and...

    None of this seems to have changed the prices of asparagus in a way that doesn't make me think it's an expensive treat.

    Because of that, I've planted asparagus in my garden. You have to wait and then can gradually harvest more and more after the first year - they live for around 20 years. They were attend $20 for 10 crowns. It won't take long for that to pay for itself even with the water I'll need to give it over the summer.

    I'd like to encourage anyone with the space to do the same, but that just doesn't feel reasonable as a first time grower who was convinced it was dead when it took three months to emerge.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on The land that doesn’t need Ozempic in ~food

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    I'm completely aware. I left out appetite because I have had hypoglycemia along with the inability to feel either hungry or full. I went on the kind of drastic diet you are talking about. I was...

    I'm completely aware. I left out appetite because I have had hypoglycemia along with the inability to feel either hungry or full. I went on the kind of drastic diet you are talking about. I was counting calories, using a total appropriate to my size and authorized by my doctor. I was eating whole foods and had already done an elimination diet. I cut out sugar except for some fruit once a week or so. I was exercising. I was desperate and practically turned this into my whole life for over a year. I finally gave up because I was slowly gaining weight instead of losing it.

    When I bring this up I'm usually brushed off as an edge case. The thing is, my doctor treats many patients with these issues. They're hormonal problems which could theoretically be fixed through lifestyle changes, but that doesn't always seem to work in real life.

    You can step this back many times to causes, but we don't know the base cause. We know that hormones trigger hunger, fullness, and whether or not the body is inclined to drop weight or if it's holding onto it because it thinks there's a food shortage.

    If a piece of the metabolic cycle is out of balance, everything else is thrown off in overcompensation. That's one reason why some things work for some people and not for others; which hormones are high or low change everything from how much you want to eat all the way to whether or not your weight set point will move in the direction you want.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Microsoft's decision to close down Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and other game studios is largely motivated by the desire to keep IPs, and ensuring the studios can't work for Microsoft's competition in ~games

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    Microsoft has a history of buying up competition and either shutting them down or keeping the product. This isn't a unique thing, lots of tech companies do this. Adobe ate up Macromedia, Photoshop...

    Microsoft has a history of buying up competition and either shutting them down or keeping the product.

    This isn't a unique thing, lots of tech companies do this. Adobe ate up Macromedia, Photoshop (the company), and Aldus (Pagemaker). Apple, often seen as the good guy, bought NeXT (osx), SoundJam MP (iTunes), FingerWorks (iOS), Siri (the company), and OttoCat (app store).

    Tech giants tend to buy up and consolidate their products rather than creating them whole cloth. Sometimes the target company is allowed to continue as a sort of independent entity (GitHub, VMware under Dell, Twitch), but usually the company disappears with a non compete.

    10 votes

  13. Comment on The land that doesn’t need Ozempic in ~food

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    I remember an article a long time ago about the long lifespan of folks in Okinawa, which I unfortunately can't find now. That article was about overall health and quality of life rather than...

    I remember an article a long time ago about the long lifespan of folks in Okinawa, which I unfortunately can't find now. That article was about overall health and quality of life rather than focused on weight alone. It's really stuck in my memory.

    The conclusions drawn were based on lifestyle comparisons with the rest of the developed world.

    • People move more. They bike or walk every day.
    • Lots of vegetables with every meal.
    • Fish, not red meat.
    • A strong social web. Not just family, extensive friend circles.
    • The eating until you're 80% full thing mentioned in the linked article.

    Presumably they also had a lack of fast food. Didn't obesity go up in Japan after Western food became fashionable?

    I'd really like to see this looked at while comparing lifestyle in several countries at both the top and the bottom of the lifespan numbers.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on The land that doesn’t need Ozempic in ~food

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    The diabetes info brings up what I think is very strange about the whole semaglutide craze: Ozempic is a medication created to control blood sugar. Whether or not a population of people are obese,...

    The diabetes info brings up what I think is very strange about the whole semaglutide craze: Ozempic is a medication created to control blood sugar. Whether or not a population of people are obese, you'd think they would want it to treat diabetes.

    If you look up how semaglutide works, you'll often find one explanation for diabetes and a different one for weight loss. This has improved in the last year or so, GLP-1 is usually listed in both explanations now instead of solely for diabetes. There isn't some kind of switch you can flip to make it work one way for one diagnosis and a different way for another, whatever it's doing it's doing to everyone who takes it.

    This article gives me hope that this split perspective is changing.

    So, rather than simply making you want to eat less, anti-obesity medications and Ozempic — like metabolic and bariatric surgery (“weight loss surgery”) — change the very functioning of your body in order to help you lose weight and keep it off ...

    The general public seems to believe that Ozempic is an appetite suppressant, full stop. I presume this is because of the celebrity endorsement thing, but I don't really follow that. This brings obesity back around to being a moral/self control failing which can be blamed on the victim. If all it takes is eating less, why don't you just do that?

    3 votes

  15. Comment on OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography in ~tech

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    The porn industry has always been at the forefront of the Internet, there's no reason that will change now. If OpenAI doesn't do it someone else will, then they'll get the profits. Ownership and...

    The porn industry has always been at the forefront of the Internet, there's no reason that will change now. If OpenAI doesn't do it someone else will, then they'll get the profits.

    Ownership and responsibility still seem to be a bit hazy, though. What happens when a teenager uses it to generate porn with kids their own age? Even if it's not allowed, someone clever will figure out how to get around the rules and share that with the world.

    12 votes

  16. Comment on Chevrolet Malibu heads for the junkyard as GM shifts focus to electric vehicles in ~transport

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    Tangent: go.com? I thought domain names had to contain at least 3 letters.

    Tangent: go.com? I thought domain names had to contain at least 3 letters.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Data show that the amount of sexual content in top films has sharply declined since 2000 in ~movies

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    We didn't decide as a society. It was decided by a small group of people who deemed themselves worthy to decide for everyone.

    We didn't decide as a society. It was decided by a small group of people who deemed themselves worthy to decide for everyone.

    17 votes

  18. Comment on How do you take notes while reading? Do you have a “marginalia” process? What has helped you learn better and retain new knowledge? in ~creative

  19. Comment on "No CGI" is really just invisible CGI in ~movies

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    I used to notice often when some CGI from a few years ago would look absolutely terrible, even though they were fine when they came out. This has either slowed down or I haven't seen many of those...

    I used to notice often when some CGI from a few years ago would look absolutely terrible, even though they were fine when they came out. This has either slowed down or I haven't seen many of those movies lately, because I hadn't thought about it in a while.

    I think of early CGI as when they'd draw on the film, usually when they needed lightning or something magical. Those went from looking so normal to me that I didn't notice they were fake half the time to kind of silly now. On the other hand, Roger Rabbit still looks pretty much the same to me as it did when it came out; Bedknobs and Broomsticks looks the same to me as it did when I was 5. Maybe that's because the cartoons were never meant to look like anything but what they were.

    Practical effects don't age the same way. The original Godzilla looks like a person in a rubber suit - just like it did the day it came out.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood in ~health

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    Excellent news for those of us who can only currently receive one blood type. I've never needed to use it, but that doesn't mean I never will. Looks like it'll only effect whole blood, but it's a...

    Excellent news for those of us who can only currently receive one blood type. I've never needed to use it, but that doesn't mean I never will.

    Looks like it'll only effect whole blood, but it's a start.

    2 votes