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Comment Re:The problem is that's the top, default answer (Score 2) 56

The best thing Google (or any search engine) can find is occurrences of various words or phrases in the same document. Search engines have absolutely no sense of semantics. So, finding a drug name and the conditions it is intended to treat are equally likely to occur with that drug and its side effects. It's just words in proximity to each other.

AI is pretty much the same probabilistic crap on steroids.

Comment Maybe in Indiana (Score 1) 161

Atlantic staff writer Jake Lundberg, who shops at the Granger, Indiana location, describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.

Maybe in Granger, Indiana. Every one I've visited in a major metropolitan area (whether coastal or heartland) has been a cacophony of chaos with, at best, oblivious shoppers looking at everything except where they're going and who is around them, and at worst people who actively jockey for position, rushing to pass one another, only to stop short and block the person they just passed. It's insanity, and I avoid going there as much as possible except to take someone else.

Comment Re:Costco is awesome (Score 1) 161

I guess you live in a town of people that mostly have good time management skills. My nearest Costco isn't really all that close, the traffic in the area is constantly terrible, and it is a mad rush in the last hour that they're open.

The traffic between my house and the closest Costco here is actually pretty awful from about 2:30 to 7:00 - except I can take a back roads route that largely runs counter to the prevailing traffic direction (and a similar route home).

Or I can wait until 7:30, when the straight route only takes 12 minutes. For whatever reason, our local Costco just isn't very busy during the evening.

Comment Re:serious question: (Score 1) 161

i find it rather hard to believe that people do this en masse because of some "behave, we're in the costco" impulse. can anyone confirm this?

This has not been my Costco experience. Now I live on the West Coast, so people aren't super rude anyway... but I see as many thoughtless people in Costco as I do in other grocery stores.

... this is especially true when you are anywhere in the vicinity of a free food demo cart (which are a plague found in many Costco aisles during the daytime). People just stop their cart, completely blocking the aisle, while they and their kids munch on whatever food is on offer there. Oh, that's another argument for shopping Costco in the evening - no demo carts.

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