I'm sure that serving you a lot of ads is the point of the excessive length of internet recipes, but there's another reason, too. A simple list of ingredients, or a list of instructions (like how to build Ikea furniture) cannot be copyrighted. I think many of these overly verbose recipe authors really do want to make it appear that their own takes on the recipes are distinct and innovative, and that helps them secure their own content from being scraped wholesale. But of course, AI just says, "fuck it, I can summarize," and it's pretty hard to prove it was your recipe it summarized..

damn right it does.

It's true, seifs are for ease of reading ... but so is Calibri. However, I believe Calibri was created for ease of reading on screens, while this article talks about documents on letterhead. So it's possible the choice of Calibri was misguided to begin with. Furthermore, according to the article, the number of “accessibility-based document remediation cases” – which I take to mean instances where somebody requests a document be reformatted for accessibility reasons – has not declined. So he's saying that, while this is a purely subjective aesthetic choice, the original change to Calibri never helped anything anyway.

Everything is gambling now.

Meanwhile, the most preventable of diseases are becoming commonplace.

There is a lot of argument here about the technicalities: CAN we do it? There is a lot of argument here about the politics of it: Would we be ALLOWED to do it? There is a lot of argument here about the COST of doing it: Can we AFFORD to do it? But the fact is this country is 3,000 miles wide (maybe 3500-4000 miles diagonally), 1500 to 2000 miles deep, so the question is: WHY do we want to do this? How many people really need to travel from Seattle to Atlanta with a suitcase? Either fly with the same suitcase much faster, or drive so you can take along the kitchen sink. Otherwise, use Zoom.

Serious answer? Because they were in the "Don't ask; don't tell" phase of military policy.

Yeah, no doubt. But for all the good they do me, right?

I use Bing, and I get Microsoft Rewards points for that. Each month, the points I earn are automatically donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Just sayin'.

Welllll, a bunch of countries use VAT, where you pay whatever is on the label. In the US, what you pay for a product will depend on where you buy it, despite it having the same price on the tag..

"Use" is relative, unless you mean "figure out how to cancel it."

I don't know. From what I can tell, Tizen seems OK. I just don't know how much "software" you really need in a television.

Hell, I don't like it now!

One reason I can think of is that different states and municipalities impose different rates of sales tax at the register. Multiplying a retail price by 8.75% may not always produce an even, round number.

Think of the physical brain as the TV set. "Consciousness" is the program sent to the TV set. Without the TV set you can't see the program, but no one would claim that the TV set IS the program. In essence the program manifests via the TV set. There is nothing particularly special about the brain. It's grey matter is as physical as the TV set. There is no reason why a sufficiently complex and advanced TV set cannot host consciousness. Karel Capek dealt with this very idea in the very first use of the term, "robot" in "RUR Rossum's universal robots" (They were actually androids, not mechanical, but the point remains.) One day this will become a serious issue.