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Most of the time I’ve gotten major value or insight out of a book it’s because it’s said something truly unique or insightful that I genuinely never would have thought of if I hadn…

The amazing thing about AI is that you don’t even need AI superfans to shoehorn it into a conversation that doesn’t even touch on AI. Detractors will do it for them.

The Soviet Union was able to innovate in the areas they chose to sink resources into but innovation was clearly not as widespread as evidenced by their decades of stagnation from t…

Nuclear advancements slowed down due to PR problems from clear and sometimes catastrophic failure of commercial power plants (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the vastl…

Russia didn’t start this war with the intention of getting into a protracted slugging match over 20% of Ukraine - they got into for the whole thing. Luckily Ukraine beat back the d…

If those attack vectors are intrinsically less effective at causing mass destruction then that’s an improvement. A plane hijacking can evidently cause enormous destruction with min…

Homer used to complain about the big things. He tried to kill himself in the third episode due to losing his job. The first 2 seasons are honestly comparatively depressing with som…

Coe is insightful and good at violence, but also (!spoiler for latest season) responsible for the most hilariously unfortunate cock-up of the show so far…

Not particular unique - this is a common practice in a lot of agricultural industries. e.g. there are wine co-ops in France where many vineyards commingle their grapes to produce a…

Companies can have additional motives to profit, and they’re more likely to when control is concentrated just because individual people have multiple desires. This was certainly th…

The blindness is to reality and nuance. If you stare at your GPS and don’t pay attention to what’s in the real world outside your windshield until you careen off a cliff that would…

This is Japan selecting itself to develop a critical industry. Being deeply embedded in global supply chains and your allies’ economies makes it a lot more difficult for them to ju…

> Most humans code crap. My biggest frustration with AI coding tools is that bad engineers are no better at judging the quality of AI code than they are at writing code themselves.…

> It can’t replace a human for support It doesn’t wholly replace the need for human support agents but if it can adequately handle a substantial number of tickets that’s enough to …

I have to assume this is entirely because American architectural practices are ultimately derived from England’s, where courtyards are not particularly helpful. They make perfect s…

Why not both? The mercantilist economic policy of the UK was an abject failure that made its people poorer and prevented the import of cheap food. But the UK’s unwillingness to pro…

Maybe if the North Korean people had the most basic of civil liberties and could communicate in any way with the outside world people would be less inclined “stereotype/orientalize…

Yea now we just have people only getting help with issues with Stripe when an exec has to respond to them making a stink about it on Hacker News.

Other industries innovate despite having to follow codes and industry standards. They just innovate slower. Engineering standards are built on piles of corpses. We’re lucky that mo…

Yes absolutely. Being found not guilty of a crime or being pardoned has no bearing on the evidence that exists which is presented in a separate civil case against you. There’s no d…

Arguably not, but once revolution and civil war break out you don’t really have the option of just going back to how things were. It’s certainly better than if the civil war had go…

You don’t just press a button that says “war economy” and then everything turns out fine. You drive massive inflation, weaken consumer markets, take on massive debts and eventually…

Russia’s ability to implement a war economy isn’t unique - the last time they did it (WWII) so did the UK, Germany, and the US. More recent examples include the both sides of the I…

Preaching to the choir here - I love carbon steel and cast iron. Unfortunately try as we might to get people to switch, the fact is that undamaged Teflon is more non-stick than any…

Presumably you’re not using Teflon pans then, because there’s no way you wouldn’t notice the non-stick surface getting destroyed by metal utensils. There’s also a potential health …