> People are using AI to convert their bank statements. This works pretty well if you only have a few pages of bank statements to convert. If you have hundreds of pages, then you’ll need to pay for AI to do the conversion.
Or you could have AI write a script to handle the conversion for your specific bank. It'll be faster than any service and free forever.
You mean subsidized wares that is priced for loss to lure masses to cheap shopping, while selling other stuff above the price? Like buying liquors like rum and whiskey in european supermarkets is almost guaranteed to give cca 2x the price of cheapest online sellers in same country. Thats age old tactic, you need to look at overall sums spent or prices across the offer
> India is not what even the most casual racist would consider "third world".
I don't follow. India was Third World in the original Cold War sense as a founder and leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and it still fits the term's colloquial sense through low GDP per-capita, poor HDI figures, weak state capacity, corruption and uneven infrastructure.
The label might be offensive, the comment you responded to most certainly is. But excluding India from the Third World is hard to justify.
> Stop the tracking circus.
Kill the cookie banner!
Perhaps the EU Commission could start by stopping the circus on its own website and killing its own cookie banner: https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
> I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problems of choosing flashy, exciting, elitist projects over boring, uncomfortable, policy changes.
I'm sorry, but what? The most prominent EA projects focus on cost effective interventions that save and improve lives.
Give Well's current top recommendations are medicines and nets to prevent malaria, vitamin A supplements and promoting regular childhood vaccinations. None of them are flashy or elitist.
You don't need to apologize! People like GP are just liars.
It's incredible the consistency with which you can go from [negative opinion about EA] to [revealed extreme ignorance of EA]. Just let the person talk for another sentence or two and they'll out themselves as having literally zero familiarity whatsoever with EA.
"EA sucks because it pursues flashy, exciting projects" is an insane position that, truly, only a liar could write.
Here's a preview since apparently there are hordes of overconfident people too "busy" to follow simple steps like these:
3 cause areas: Global health & Wellbeing, Animal Welfare, Global Catastrophic Risk
Global Health:
* Malaria
* Malaria
* Vitamin A for children
* Vaccines for children
* GiveWell, an aggregator for charities similar to the prior 4
Animal Welfare:
* Fund aggregators to increase animal wellbeing by the dozens, hundreds, or thousands, or millions of living creatures' suffering
Global Catastrophic Risk:
* Research on AI risk, bioengineering risk, and nuclear risk – all of which
AI is not only listed last, but doesn't even have its own dedicated page. It's lumped in with a set of other things that many people believe are long-term risks rather than immediate term massive problems, like childhood vaccinations, malaria, or industrial animal abuse.
> The creosote in toothache drops administered to a New York boy cured the pain, but killed the boy. This recalls the entry in the register at Bellevue Hospital, which reads; "Operation successful. Patient died."
Or you could have AI write a script to handle the conversion for your specific bank. It'll be faster than any service and free forever.
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