As someone who already has a four day work week every other week? Itâ(TM)s absolutely fantastic. I get a day to do errands on Friday, and then I actually get a weekend. I feel much more refreshed coming back to work the following Monday. Love my job, and even if the coworkers arenâ(TM)t always perfect, I have enough energy to handle all of it just fine.

What gets me is that if the data were actually used in a meaningful way, it could be revolutionary for people. If companies actually correlated things like sleep patterns along with habits, places visited, speech patterns, and socialization during the day, it really could change peoples lives and make for a deeper understanding to help people with their health, habits, social welfare, any number of things.
You could have an AI assistant that provides people for coaching needed to lose weight or to exercise or to stop smoking, etc.

The problem is these companies are too bureaucratic and too penny-pinching and beige to actually do any good or try something interesting and different.

I agree with you, giving a company all this information is terrible. Their stupid, expensive ventures are going to flop as long as they keep doing stupid things with the data, though.

Like a junkie they will keep hovering up electricity and data until they implode.

Wouldnâ(TM)t it be smarter to let them stay home and buy into all these outstanding artificial values that Amazon has for prime day?

First of all, it is not tearing either company apart.
Second, Microsoft is looking for business. Use. Case. Asking the hard questions and coming to the conclusion that Open AI is full of crap for most stuff.

Open AI otoh desperately needs to get under a corporate umbrella.

Microsoft will dictate the terms, OpenAI needs to save face, and MS knows the longer these âoenegotiations âoe go on, the cheaper Open AI will be. The emperor never had any clothes and MS got to have a peep show to see the truth.

Dixit? Deep Dixit (pronounced dikshit, actually) ?? Really???

Iâ(TM)ve known an Ajarapu. Phil Ajarapu.
A Gangarapu (gang rape you, yes)
Iâ(TM)ve known Ashit. Thoti. Gopi.

All great people! Really! But i just canâ(TM)t with the namesâ¦

In fact, it is UNETHICAL to use a placebo control in any clinical trial of an investigational product for which the existing standard of care already includes a product on the market.

In plain English, it is entirely unethical to give participants a placebo to test the efficacy of a new flu vaccine when we already have existing vaccines on the market. Doing so denies participants in the study from accessing effective treatment. If you have to test against a placebo, it will be impossible to recruit participants, because nobody will take the chance to receive placebo when they could just go to the pharmacy and get vaccinated.

There are only two possible explanations for such a position: either gross ignorance of basic scientific and ethical principles for conducting medical research in humans, or deliberate malicious intent to stop all research of investigational drugs. It doesn't actually matter which one is the reason. Both are entirely unacceptable.

The fact that a huge segment of the American population does not understand even the most basic scientific principles is the reason why many people will die needlessly.

Knowingly.

Microkernel architectures still always involve doing a full context switch when moving between processes. All the registers need to be reloaded, importantly including the entire page table. The page table flush is particularly painful.

Hochul said this? Yeah, sheâ(TM)s just grandstanding because she is desperate to keep her position. Sheâ(TM)s wise than Cuomo was, and keeps somehow fumbling the ball in every way possible. This woman is a disaster for the state of New York.

She squandered $300 million by stealing it from Department of children and family services to fund a pork project for her husband that no one asked for, a stadium in Buffalo that is useless most of the year.

This woman is politically inept, and is so blissfully unaware of the gravitas of this moment in history it is laughable. There is no way she will give anything to upstate New York. She is continued to defund and starve upstate New York of desperately needed infrastructure money, which is one of the worst things she could possibly do.

besides, NYPA would take 5-10 years to finalize these plans. At best we are talking15-20 years to get this project done.

Shame on you Slashdot, you are posting stupid political grandstanding instead of interesting articles.

I agree that this therapy is not without significant risks, so it's not to be taken lightly.

That said, the long-term health outcomes of T1DM are also significant. So the way I see this development is that it is one more step on the path toward finding a durable, safe, and effective cure. And if approved, it may offer some patients another choice, one that of course should involve an informed discussion with competent healthcare providers.

It's important to keep in mind that healthcare is not a "one size fits all" thing. Two patients that have the same condition can respond very differently to the same therapy. Before the discovery of insulin, diabetics literally just...died. So on the path to understanding this relationship between the individual patient and the selected therapy, medical science can only offer a range of treatment options. At one time, humans believed in bloodletting, lobotomies, and arsenic to treat various illnesses. We built leper colonies. And in some places in the world, menstruation is still considered "dirty." We have made many advances, but there are still many more to be discovered.

They keep doing them because they sell REALLY well in China, dwarfing the American box office.
What modern Hollywood is telling you is that China already runs things. When China stops being interested in superhero movies, then we'll see a change here.

I'd rather use a slower browser that honors the user's choice of extensions--in particular those that block malicious content and privacy-violating advertising trackers--than an ostensibly faster browser that is created by a company whose entire business model is to gather as much tracking data about you in order to sell it to advertisers.

There are alternatives to both Firefox and Chrome. But choosing to use Chrome because Firefox isn't perfect is either the height of idiocy, or being paid to promote Google products.

Every accusation is a confession. Golf clap for starting down the road to self acceptance.

Disagree.

Maslow's lacks cultural broadness and his methods were highly suspect.

https://simplyputpsych.co.uk/p....

And THIS is the kind of post I hoped would be at the top of the mod heap.
Very thoughtful! Thank you.

I worked like to add two things:

One, this study seems as if it would look at what people THINK they want.

Two, it is what they want right now. As we move toward a world where more and more people have less and less, I argue this is what people want right now, rather than what brings contentment long term.

Finally, as a Buddhist, I argue people REALLY REALLY have no idea that what they are looking for is a calm contentment. That comes from an outlook/conditioning of having enough. Sex and fun are just hedonism, which make us want more. Then we suffer to try and obtain more (looking at you, Elmo...) but it's neeeeever quite enough.