Especially common here in Berlin. They found several bombs when building the Tesla factory recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_bomb_disposal_in_...

Not to cherry-pick, but:

> with the burdens falling most heavily on women

I mean, is this not true? My understanding is US provides relatively little child support, ensuring that burden has to fall on someone. Isn't that usually the mother?

Why is spending time caring for your child a "burden", but having to go work for a profit driven corporation is not?

Shouldn't we be giving parents (mothers AND fathers) more flexibility and freedom to choose to spend time with their children?

Progressives almost always emphasize support for care outside the home and pushing to keep more parents in the corporate work force, and very little about supporting parents caring for their children inside the home.

(And don't get me started on the Republicans. I am well aware they did not support extending the Child Tax Credit, while continuing to claim it was the Democrats who aren't supporting families with children.)

Exactly. Making policy decisions now for what the world will look like in 600 years is absurd. Humanity has proven to be quite bad at making good policy decisions for the current generation, much less 5 or 10 generations from now.

There are policies from 600 years ago that are in effect and beneficial. Like the Magna Carta [0], which was 800 years ago, and its derivatives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

Fair point. Though I wonder how much the original authors/participants were thinking about the long impact of history vs the more immediate needs and impacts. (In the great tradition of internet commenting, this statement was made with minimal detailed knowledge. Perhaps the authors were primarily focused on the long sweep of history.)

I do think my original point still stands that we seem to be quite bad at making good decisions for more immediate generations. Considering our rather pressing current challenges (climate change, continued warfare, etc.) I'd settle for getting the next few generations in a better place before thinking about 25 generations from now.

It’s not a 25 generations from now problem. South Korea expects that in just 50 years, they’ll have a 25% smaller population where a near-majority of people are over 65.

I wasn't arguing that falling populations is something we only need to worry about 25 generations from now. I was saying we should probably look at solving problems in a more immediate time-frame.

For South Korea specifically, the population challenges are probably more immediate than other countries.

One thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned, if you do go in-house, get a good designer as well. Ideally someone used to working solo, doing deep research, and who understands balancing great UX, technical considerations, and business needs.

I'm using ChatGPT to help me learn German. It is good, but as with all current AI it has a tendency to be very confidently wrong. This is especially true for more nuanced grammatical questions, such as "Why is this in dativ?" For that reason, I never feel I can fully trust it (and certainly wouldn't build a language-learning product around it). With that said however, it is a great addition to the various tools I use.

I think what your roommate is doing is fine. Being a native English speaker is a bit of a cheat anyhow. I very much appreciate the challenge of learning another language, so am not going to fault someone for using different tools to help improve their language. So long as the ideas are (relatively) original, the specific wording seems less important.

Video recognition may be tough. My dog has epilepsy and some of his seizures are basically him laying very stiffly on the ground for 3 to 6 minutes with relatively minimal shaking. Yuri's seizures may be much more pronounced (I didn't watch the video...), but I'd wager physical measures will be less failure prone. Though both together may provide the best coverage.

> Yuri's seizures may be much more pronounced (I didn't watch the video...)

The seizures in the video are very pronounced, you can’t miss them. But that’s not Yuri, it’s a different cat named Charlie. Though from the OP’s description, their cat may be similar.

They are similar, yes, but they might happen if he's under a table or a bed which makes video tracking really difficult. Someone suggested using a bodycam and that might be an interesting solution, if I can find one that streams video instead of just storing it in an SD card.

The difference between typical movements and a seizure will probably be pretty clear with the right data. I have a dog with epilepsy and his movements during a seizure are extremely different than anything else he does.

I'd wager a combination of measures may be the most effective, though not sure how easy they'd be to measure. Overall movement, heart rate, and muscle tension could probably provide a pretty accurate indicator of a seizure. Unfortunately, muscle tension is probably the most important and (I'd guess) the hardest to measure, especially through fur.

There's a decent chance that breathing and heart rate alone will be unique enough, but I'm only speculating.

Best of luck with your kitty. For what its worth, we thought we'd lose our dog years ago (many seizures per day), but have largely been able to get things under control with medication. He started at 3 years and he's now nearly 9. We really didn't expect him to get past 4 or 5, so we're very happy. Also, ironically, his medication is supposed to make him tired, but he's still border-line insane.

I don't know off-hand, but probably a longitudinal survey of cases and pretty rough estimates. It is probably made a bit easier by there being some big chunks which are (likely) more clearly attributable to behavioral choices: smoking-related, sun exposure, and probably some occupational (chemical exposure, etc.).

Are features like this available to other websites outside of Google? Say, could Zoom also add a feature like this?

A level playing field for competition? This is Google we're talking about.

If Zoom makes a chrome extension, then yes.

Will the Zoom extension also be installed by default?

Except that is not what Google is doing. They have exclusive access to the one line that is preinstalled for all houses. Only they can use it. And if you want a different provider, you can't use that same line. You have to pay for the installation of a line from that provider with your own cash.

Yeah, so people with a choice of browsers might prefer it not be the one exposing exclusive APIs for its parent company, and it might affect that company's "we're not evil" image.

This also works on all chromium based browsers such as Edge, Vivaldi and Brave

Yes, and then I want them to be heavily regulated.

That is incorrect. Zoom would have to modify the browser source code to enable the API on their domain.

They do: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/p...

But yeah, having that build into your browser is a huge advantage over having to nag your users to install an extension or worse convincing the IT department that it's worth installing.

The special built-in API reveals system-wide CPU usage, not just for browser processes. Still surprised extensions can see browser processes though.

Edit: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s... seems to provide that, though

Yeah, that's the critical thing. Five interviews in one day on one onsite is pretty normal in my experience. Five different days would be insane (maybe for a very high level, director/VP/etc.).