Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats? Seems like you’d save the same amount of space or more with vastly more comfort.

There are some people who own a bunch of properties and their job is maintaining them and dealing with the paperwork. And then there are some people who passively collect income and have a management company do that with no real connection to the place…

big landlords

This is generally true. My brother is a musician, and he struggles to find work. I got lucky growing up working on programming projects until 3am for fun, then being interested in database research and later AI research several years before people started paying attention. I think we need a UBI so that the people who don’t want to build stuff can do what they want instead of going into marketing or sales, or anything that’s a net drain or neutral on society.

The (singular) fediverse girl is kind of sad

I’m really not surprised

This is why I roll my eyes when people talk about “human preference models” with a straight face

I’m grateful to live near a Mt. Sinai location. Another factor here is that some parts of the country have better healthcare than others. You might consider moving elsewhere in the U.S. or to another country if you anticipate continuing to need more than the occasional doctor visit.

I think it’s probably marketing more than convenience

Oh yes, unlike the French and Dutch…???

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Though the image generators are actually good. The visual arts will never be the same after this

“Built to do my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes” – Embodied agents is where the real value is. The chatbots are just fancy tech demos that folks started selling because people were buying.

Unpopular opinion: It’s OK to use AI to fight fraud as long as your data is good, your precision threshold is very high, and appeals are easy. It seems like it is almost never used in this way when people try to save money, sadly.

Not in NYC. Spectrum is my only option and they are flaky as hell

Think a bit before you talk. Hard for all of us!

But why?