It is faster as well

They are saying since 1880 because that's when they started keeping an official record

> the "banana equivalent dose" [is] "very useful in attempting to explain infinitesimal doses (and corresponding infinitesimal risks) to members of the public"

It's not though, unless you have a strong a priori belief that eating a banana is safe with respect to radiation.

Who doesn't have a strong a priori belief that bananas are safe to eat?

You clearly fell for BigBanana's propaganda.

More seriously -- challenging "US standard" dietary norms often leads to fruitful discussions of nutrition and how off-optimal most "common sense" tends to be.

It is more local than talking to chat GPT directly. Open AI stores all your requests on their server. This saves it on your computer. The title also claims it's a UI which always, for now, runs locally.

Does a middle class person have more choices in how they want to live their life?

I didn't say being poor was better, this was in response to who uses more government services. And I'm not event stating it as a problem, I think poor people use more services because they need more services. But I thought it was important enough to correct the claim that they don't use more services.

On hacker news

Maybe we should have a public banking option if the government's going to give everyone their money anyway

Yeah I think the capitalist version of that is more regulation to the point where large banks aren’t able to take on so much risk to depositors.

Tesla calls it FSD, not "Nominal FSD".

To nitpick your metaphor further: A 2x4 plank starts off as 2" by 4", and it is shaved down to 1.5 x 3.5 side to straighten it out. A Tesla "FSD" car has never been in its life fully self driving.

I don’t think Tesla can round up from 0 and say you can make money with a self driving Taxi service.