Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety systems on a plane. Modern phones use different frequency bands now.

Remember, the product is the stock and the customers are the shareholders. And oh boy do the customers want AI.

Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's something that the content creator ostensibly agreed to.

Of course I'm sure Meta is also training their AI on content that they scraped from the internet/other sources without permission...

Branching in Subversion was fine, but merging was quite painful (at least at the time I was using it, around 2008ish). From my recollection, SVN didn't try to figure out the base commit for a merge - you had to do that manually. I remember having a document keeping track of when I branched so that I could merge in commits later.

And even if I was using it wrong or SVN improved merging later the fact was that common practice at the time was to just commit everything to the main branch, which is a worse (IMO) workflow than the feature-branch workflow common in git.

But you're right, SVN was largely fine and it was better than what preceded it and better than many of its peers.

Edit: Forgot to mention - one of the biggest benefits to git, at least early on, was the ability to use it locally with no server. Prior to git all my personal projects did not use version control because setting up VC was painful. Once git came around it was trivial to use version control for everything.

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I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because you can ignore the mass of the planet. While I'm not an astrophysicist, I'm not sure that's true given that the entire point is to figure out how three suns affect the planet.

Food is heavily regulated though, in a large part because markets failed to prevent food-borne illnesses.

It is kind of regulated. Enforcement is really poor though.

Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though:

* Self-satisfaction

* Sense of identity

* Belief in the company

* Desire to improve the world

* Puritanical work ethic

* etc

I'd be surprised if that's "most workers". Some workers sure, especially those who already have some wealth like an already paid for house and can afford to be picky with their careers, but most workers who do not, are chasing wealth building and financial security first before being picky about the ethics and other aspects of their career.

Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably being the strongest.

But it's not a purely transactional agreement like you make it out to be.

Fortunately owners will forever remain entitled to the profits of others' work.

It was my understanding that many of the studies on moderate alcohol consumption included people in the study who could not drink for medical reasons (or were former alcoholics) which skewed the results for the zero-alcohol groups.

Studies on red wine included people whose only source of fruit was red wine, which similarly skewed the results.

The best way that I've thought about it is like this:

You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win.

Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better.

The trick is to realize that Monty showing you the contents of one door and letting you choose the other one is identical to Monty letting you choose both the remaining doors.