Okay, I have a question. I would love to write my papers in latex, but none of my colleges use it. Is there a way to reasonably collaborate with coauthors who only use Word and for whom Latex would be confusing and difficult?

Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.

Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.

This CNN article has a lot more information and context including who voted against the measure (nine countries including the US and Israel), the practical effects of the measure (new rights for Palestine to sponsor and support resolutions but still no vote), and what can be expected in the near future (a vote in the UN security council on whether to actually admit Palestine which might pass but which the US will veto).

• Where does your body end and your mom’s begin?
• What happens to all of the dead cells that you shed throughout your life?
• Oh, you had cancer removed and were in remission? Sorry…

Something tells me that you don’t work in science. The process for getting science funding isn’t simple and weeds out useless studies pretty quickly. On average, calls for proposals have about a 15% success rate. So, 15 in every 100 proposals get funded. They are funded after being vetted for usefulness, feasibility, novelty, cost, and other factors.

Since studies are well-vetted before getting funded, studies that sound like they’re simple or useless based on headlines normally make a lot of sense when you read the research results.

I kept thinking “surely this was attached to something else and they didn’t just give a mint and a few stupid jokes”. Then I noticed another one of these stuck to a locker in the background. What pieces of trash. You don’t show appreciation by saying “You are appreciated”. You show appreciation by compensating your employees for their work.

It’s probably this. That would be a fun oversight, though.

You are saying that the post holocaust Jews were terrorists? Wtf?

Can you explain why? I have a vague idea of why you would say that but can you help me clarify why term limits would empower lobiests?

Yeah, I agree with you there. I wouldn’t pay Google for privacy unless they could provide some pretty convincing evidence that they are not tracking and selling my information. That might not even be possible, though. It’s tough to prove a negative.

I suppose that what I mean is that I’d be willing to pay Google $15/month to not track me in any way if they could figure out a way to convince me that they truly are not tracking me. I would need some real assurances, though, not just “we’re not tracking you, we promise!” I have no idea how they can provide that kind of assurance, though.

I’m not a google shill. I’m just someone who is trying to have a conversation about this. It seems that, right now, the only way to be mostly sure that you’re not being tracked is to use self-hosted services and, even then, you’d need to examine the source code or trust the FOSS community to keep tabs on things.

I feel like this is short-sighted on Meta’s part. Since it sounds like they will still serve paid users non-personalized ads, I think they’d be better off losing a little revenue on those users who actually make the effort to turn off ad personalization. Otherwise they are going to lose users over this which is going to make Facebook just that much less relevant for the people who are willing to use it with personalized ads or pay to ONLY get non-personalized ads.

Part of the reason that their service is popular is that it has huge market share. Every time they shave off a segment of their user base Facebook becomes that much less relevant for everyone.

What is unhinged about it?

I would 100% pay $15/month to use Google products without being tracked and sold.

Do you need to live somewhere to understand their macroeconomic policies?

Unfortunately, it sounds to me like, legally, Apple has a good argument. We’ll see but I anticipate that the Supreme Court will rule against Epic and this will go back to the district court for more fighting.

As the other person said, we’re not going to be able to avoid this kind of change and 8 don’t think we should want to. There are more podcasts to translate than can possibly be done without AI.

A better use of translators, in my opinion, is as editors. Listen to the AI result while reading the English transcript to fix the types of problems that you mention.

It is worth noting that US authorities participated in the investigation and raid according to the article.

I agree but I don’t understand why. What motivated him to sink 1/4th of his net worth into Twitter then kill it?