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In part I think it’s because young people’s worlds have massively expanded, on average. I traveled to 5 continents mostly without parents as a teenager, and I’m a pretty average gu…

Oh god that first one… It’s really nice in podcast form on the way to work or in the bathtub, absolutely terrible to keep my attention when trying to understand news in readable fo…

Not sure about that. If you’re competing with an adversary in the cybersecurity space, it’s likely that you’ll go quite far to win. It’s a matter of national security after all, pl…

Would be cool to see two comparison pictures (no head needed). 110lbs is a fantastic result, I wonder if it’s hard to see for you because it was a gradual change?

> Most countries in western Europe and many states seem to have less than 10 ℅ excess deaths in 2021 That may well be true, but it cannot in and of itself be a reason to decide to …

Omission of China was very strange. I get that you may not have data. But to not mention that fact, when it's 1/5th of the world population, ostensibly the point of origin of Covid…

In terms of excess death, those are correct interpretations. But a true measure of successful policy would've been some kind of death vs impact, corrected for difficult factor. Dea…

roommates

Agreed, in a lot of cases it makes little sense to upgrade. That's true just about always when you don't have a 4k TV. When you do have a 4k TV and it's large enough, a PS5 can loo…

On the whole FB account, does it require you to actually do anything with it? Can it literally just be an e-mail and random password, which only logs into the Oculus. If so, what's…

Does anyone believe one would disappear from public appearances for 5-6 weeks due to ostensibly her 'resting at home', somehow oblivious to the fact that literally the entire world…

My reading so far has been different. Indeed children are far less likely to be at risk, yet several dozen kids have died due to Covid already, and a larger group has complications…

On the contrary, I see most western media continue to host 'let's hear both sides of the story' type forums on their talkshows and interviewee lists, when one side are medical expe…

As far as I know, virtually every serious medical forum, whether it's pharmaceutical companies, health ministries, WHO, groups of hospitals, universities etc are constantly researc…

I highly doubt you average 35 km/h on a regular bike, especially when overweight, and then regularly get overtaken as well, in a city. It's simply an average. People ride bikes in …

I mean, bolt cutters can cut rebar in 30 seconds max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0imMjR-Vqs The type of locks you'll typically find on bikes can be cut by $30 bolt cutters in…

> 2-3 hours a day, every day, weekend included I mean, I use a regular bike for 30 years in Amsterdam, I really don't think 2-3 hours of daily biking is the norm... There's 5 super…

The 25km/h limit is EU legislation as far as I know, so indeed it'll be in almost all of Europe. I think the issue is two-fold: 1) There's not much enforcement. Many units can be s…

Here in Amsterdam I feel it's the opposite. Next to the car roads we had beautiful biking infrastructure used by bikes going typically 10 to 15 km/h, averaging say 12km/h, used by …

Thing is that it's a lot easier to regulate a small number of registered businesses, with known owners, in known locations, versus a potentially endless amount of (unregistered) cu…

It's the antithesis of gambling. If you bet $10 on black and win straight away, earning $10, and go home with $20, and stay home for the rest of your life and never walk into a cas…

> Am I missing something? Yes, a few things. For one, Germany isn't the richest in Europe. But that's besides the point. Typically price to income measures not prices per person, b…

> Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries. That's not entirely clear. In terms of births it's correct, but at any point in time there…

So? It's a fact, but why does it matter? You'd think it's obvious: home prices typically dictate affordability, and affordability is what we ultimately care about. But in housing i…

Bit of a painful read. On the first game, it's a common game concept (very much not novel) that I've seen many people recreate. I built one myself with better graphics and gameplay…