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"Some reason." Could be, and now I'm just spitballing here, but it could be the use of government backed currencies, the heavy degree of government oversight and regulation, and th…

The idea that electric vehicles will completely replace ICE vehicles is a hopeful one but faces a lot of roadblocks to get to 100% (or even 80%) and may ultimately be unrealistic. …

There's a learning curve, but it's not that bad. The biggest constraint is that you are in a very limited "world" in Arduino land, it's very systems programm-y. You don't have a pr…

And even if, for some reason, you have no withholding, and aren't expecting a refund, you may still be required to file just because your income is above the threshold (which is ab…

Quick question, do you know the difference between paying taxes and filing taxes? Also, do you understand how withholding works and how you pay taxes with every pay check not just …

Yeah, this isn't just a dark pattern, this is a black hole pattern, this is a scam. With a dark pattern there is a way, if you're careful, to navigate through things and get to the…

> "The idea that the value and utility of the automobile is diminished because everybody has one is absurd." You missed it entirely. The argument is that it is unreasonable and uns…

Not really. In this case the commodity is transportation. What are modes of transportation? Walking, bikes, trains, buses, and personal automobiles (among some others). In New York…

Additionally, a low stress non-crunch environment is better at retaining talent, which is significant on the short term but even more so on the long term (in a whole host of ways).…

No, it's not. A pyramid scheme works with net zero productivity. It's just a rearrangement of resources, that's it. Life is a resource network. There is production, and consumption…

There's plenty I could say in answer to this but most of it is unnecessary. There is no excuse for a company such as Boeing, working under the regulation of the FAA, to produce any…

They do. But there's nothing special about the gravity of a black hole versus the gravity of "ordinary matter". The vast majority of the matter in a galaxy is in orbit and won't ge…

This is bonkers. Nobody anywhere in the world should expect that one buys an airplane which is unsafe by design. Also, the idea that there are two versions of a plane, one that kil…

Capitalism as it exists today in the US (and other parts of the world) is a paperclip optimizer. The pressure is for those with power to leverage that power toward their maximum sh…

It's important to remember that it was their job to be mindful of the risks. These weren't folks working at a bake sale or something, these were trained professionals who had been …

They are not 3rd party review sites, they are 3rd party sites for algorithmically analyzing the reviews on amazon for a given product.

Not only that, it caused people to die. Diesel emissions are one of the most dangerous kinds of emissions from a public health perspective, especially in populated areas. Because o…

Absolutely. And note that in other areas (such as payment fraud) they put in a lot more legwork because the consequences actually hit them directly instead of just their customers.…

There are many 3rd party sites (like fakespot.com) which do a better job than Amazon does and are not incredibly sophisticated. Amazon just doesn't care, that is the only conclusio…

Right, I'm sure that works often given the massive power imbalances at play. Why not just write in double your own salary while you're at it? Aim high.

Yup. It's just... shitty. I subscribe to a lot of channels and well more than half of the videos on the recommendations list are just recent videos from my subscription feed. I rec…

It's worse than that. YouTube tries to maximize engagement, so it will preferentially recommend videos watched by highly engaged viewers. Guess what category of viewers are highly …

YouTube is not trying to provide a service to you, it's trying to sell you the ad consumer, to their actual customers: advertisers. And they have it in their head that the best way…

Our ancestors at the time were small shrew-like creatures. The extinction event occurred in several phases. The immediate impact directly devastated the local region and created a …

This is an opportunity to look at the problem from a different perspective. Currently, in all mechanical designs bearing losses are small, because if they were not the design would…