My read of this article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj41pgpk0wgo ("US Senate passes funding bill as historic shutdown nears likely end") is that this is no longer relevant? ie shortly they will all be paid and back to work?

> Cross-border collaboration is a good thing

IMO it's only a good thing when it's a good thing. There are plenty of reasons it could be a bad thing too. For example, Edward Snowden probably would have been hung by now if russia cross-border collaborated.

IMO this is more an indictment of the president being able to pardon (any president, not just current one).

IMO the president should, at best, be an additional appeals round. (But probably just not involved in the Judicial because separation of powers is good)

> many are fulfilled by it.

At least in my sampling, I'd suggest the most extremely driven people often have some major sense of lack they're chasing.

IDK if it's evidence based (or up to your standards), but i've heard gratitude practices, cardiovascular exercise, gut biome are 3 of many potential interventions?

Can you help me out and explain that phrase a bit further? What does it mean?

Priced to perfection means investors expect very very high performance from a stock. There is little room for error - the price of a stock reflects investors' belief that everything will go right for that company.

It means that any small slip up could have a sizeable impact on the stock, as that would be underperforming investor expectations.

And they're bouncing back, my watchlist of crypto and indexes is a wall of green rn. Dead cat bounce?

American companies do this a lot. Rule for thee, not for me. For example lawyers. Companies have a team of lawyers to ensure you only play by their terms, on terms they can only understand, with disproportionate amortized advantages/disadvantages (who can afford to add $1000 to their disney+ subscription? Disney spreads the cost lawyers across millions of transactions...). Or they retain their right to sue you, but force you into arbitration.

Not that I suspect perplexity is any kind of innocent of that behavior (or at least will remain so if extremely successful)

Now companies are doing the same with AI. We can use AI, and other tools to maximize what we extract from you, but you cannot use AI to help yourself with better outcomes.

I also commented here that it sounds anti-competitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816871

To me this seems simply anti-competitive. Could Amazon say I cannot make purchaess with a Mac, or Xfinity internet, or a logitech keyboard, or while wearing Levi's jeans? IMO they should have no right to dictate how I make a purchase. Sure, I am not allowed to mass harvest and distribute their data (such as the prices of every item), but for the purposes of making my own best choice I should be allowed to collect datapoints that I could easily and legitimately find on my own .

They can block the site on a mac if they dont want you to purchase via a mac. They can block any browser agent they want if they dont like the traffic. They can also close your account if they have some reasons. They dont need a reason either. You agree to a terms of service when you make an account, and that usually means giving them broad leeway.

Yes they absolutely can, none of the things you mentioned are protected classes and they are a private company.

I'm not sure why you would feel entitled to make a purchase on their site outside of their (whatever reasonable or unreasonable) rules may be.

Kinda rhymes with that whole "net neutrality" thing, eh?

But they're a private company and they're allowed to make you drink a verification can if it's in their ToS.

at least where it's active, i find meetup.com to be a good antidote to the "local" part of the situation. Meetup, in person, about the things that interest you :)

That's a good point of positivity and I welcome it :)

It's good in that way, but it's in the process of being enshittified.

How do?

Assuming you meant how so. I can comment to that.

Stuff like you have to pay as an attendee for things that used to be free, like to see who's attending, it costs a lot to run a group now (something like $200 per year?), and they pop up with ads/offers after many kinds of interactions like RSVPing

I did mean "how so", haha. Thanks. I haven't used meetup since the pandemic, so all this is somewhat disheartening news.

More stuff getting paywalled.