"Never lose your users' data" is kinda Rule #1.

Steve Jobs said something similar regarding Apple OS upgrades. You never touch user data.

Not sure why this is a difficult concept to understand.

We have 8 billion+ people on the planet. We can afford to lose a billion or so and not affect our ability to advance science. Having fewer people would definitely enhance wellbeing as there would be less pollution which means cleaner air and water. Less trash would be produced as well.

Clearly we had no problem with scientific advancements when our population was lower. With what we have now, why would you think fewer people would change that?

Helmets also make it easier to ID the riders if they get squished by a truck or similar. If the head is intact you don't need to resort to DNA or teeth.

Fun fact: if you blow yourself up, your head is how they identify you because it separates from the body.

One nice thing is this will help to reduce the world's population, thus helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.

They'd be so upset if they knew they were helping the planet recover.

Citation please. Not that local airlines don't weigh passengers, they do, but because it has "an obesity problem". Again, you post pure hatred, something you are known for.

Nope, OP is correct. From 2019:

But yeah, nothing but pure hatred for an airline to realize they were burning more fuel because of overweight/obese passengers.

From 2023, a list of airlines which charge more for overweight passengers, though some do offer a refund on the extra amount under certain conditions.

Note: Southwest changed their policy to now require an overweight/obese person to purchase two seats at the time of their booking. If a passenger in need of an extra seat does not buy one before the flight, they will be required to do so at the airport.

"You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market," Doesn't sound like saving lives is their purpose

If you're going to spend $1 billion making and trialing a vaccine, why wouldn't you want a return on that investment? Do you think they should do this for free? Where would they get the money to make and trial the next vaccine or drug?

That the anti-vaxxer Kennedy has brought this on is not unexpected. No matter how much the facts show vaccines are safe and effective, he would rather see people die or be mangled for life.

For people who have limited use of their hands this will make it much easier (assuming it works correctly) to do their work. I knew a guy who was wheel-chair bound because of an accident. He had a glove over his one hand with a pencil pushed through a hole to type on the keyboard. Being able to speak what you want to do would have helped him tremendously.

People who also have eyesight issues. Even though there is screen reading software such as JAWS, this will allow people to tell Adobe what they want rather than trying to manually do it, then verify with JAWS.

I know people like to stomp on AI, but this is one situation where the additions will definitely help. So long as one can turn this off, this will be a plus.

85% reported time savings of one to seven hours weekly, much of it was offset by correcting errors and reworking AI-generated content

Assuming there was no AI, how long would it have taken these people to create whatever it is they used AI for? For example, if creating the spreadsheet would take 3 hours, but using AI it only took 15 minutes plus an additional hour to correct errors, that is still a net saving of almost 2 hours.

For reworking content, how long would it have taken them to come up with the content themselves? If you're not someone who can create a document on the fly, how long would it take you compared to having AI do it then reworking it?

Not saying AI is the best thing since Betty White*, but if you're doing comparisons you need to take into account everything involved. Simply saying, "I spend two hours each week correcting what AI does" does not indicate if that is good or bad. Compare it to how long it would take you to do the same thing versus using AI and correcting it.

* Betty White was born in 1922. Sliced bread didn't happen until 1928.

The shorsighted nature of U.S. businesses continues. One can reasonably say the past two years is when AI and LLMs have exploded in use. To expect to see tangible results in that time is shortsighted.

How long did it take to see tangible results when moving from horse drawn delivery vehicles to motorized trucks? Sure, you no longer had to feed, care, and house horses, but now you had to feed, care, and house your trucks. That certainly wasn't cheaper in the short term.

However, once usage for trucks became more ubiquitous, when things stabilized, that is when the benefits started to appear.

AI/LLMs are in that same spot. Give it another two years and then you'll start to see tangible results. Not everywhere at first, but in specific use cases when taking out the human makes sense or the work can be done more rapidly/efficiently.

I know people have a kneejerk reaction to gene editing (see all the Gattaca references), but wouldn't getting rid of this debilitating affliction be a good thing? Should we let the human population be afflicted with this?

If this guy would somehow find a way to edit out whatever it is that causes cancer, would people react the same way?

If people already knew about this site, wouldn't they keep going back to it? Wouldn't they have the site bookmarked?

Not saying their traffic wouldn't go down, but if it was that "popular", shouldn't the people who already know about it still viist?

No, intel shared with the US was not being leaked to Russia.

*whispers*That we know of.

And the way it's going, I seriously wonder if there are going to be elections because Mein Trumpfer declares a war and a national emergency to extend it, and so his patsies will keep doing it.

A president has no authority to cancel elections. The Constitution states elections lie with the states. There has never been a time in this country where an election was cancelled because of war or national emergency.

He can bloviate out of his second ass all he wants, but elections will go on with or without him.

Right. I understand when I'm at work it might seem I'm somewhere else. However, when I select the web site of the store closest to me, the delivery store option and the store itself should not be several states away. I've selected the store closest to me. Everything should be set to that store regardless of anything else.