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> Like my Dyson… Which is wild because a Dyson has a premium price tag.

CDG shows yellow (“minor issues”), 65% of planes arrive on time, 0% cancelled. FRA shows green (“normal operations”) 59% of planes arrive on time, 4% cancelled. Surely that’s wrong…

> by the other countries That makes zero sense. You mean “by lowering the profit margin on the goods sold to the US by that specific company”. Countries don’t pay tarrifs (bar stat…

> The motivation for making school more rewarding and less stultifying should not primarily be its effect on outcomes later in life, but rather that childhood is itself part of lif…

Nice! The entry for Abundance [0] is listed as another book (An Abundance of Katherines [1]) [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176444106-abundance [1] https://www.goodreads.c…

> …undisputed evidence… do not cause problems… This is unworkable in practice; nothing will ever be completely safe. Instead, we need a public regulatory body that makes reasonable…

Beautiful site. Also very pleased to see the mitochondrion being referred to as the powerhouse of the cell, as is law.

> 1/800 users mentioning suicide… “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Sounds like more than just mentioning suicide. Also it’…

> Therefore, grains are cheap and people eat too much of them. People only overeat themselves into obesity once you process those carbs into high fructose corn syrup etc. Seems lik…

To blame abundant food for obesity and not the fact that we make everything ultra addictive [0] seems like inverse logic to me. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-025-01143…

“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. …

> The laissez-faire approach gave people happy, low-stress, and materially rich lives. The usual schtick conveniently ignoring the absolute marauding of resources from non-western …

> “Our algorithm right now is provably faster, in theory,” Ahmadi said. He’s hopeful, he added, that in 10 to 20 years, it will also be so in practice.

Also the “highschool poem”-type writing style is quite jarring but forgiven when he acknowledged it at the end of the article. > Also I decided to try writing this thread in the st…

> Are “identity politics” just a status game that economically advantaged elites play? Yes. But it's a disgrace that we're throwing the baby (genuine progress, like the slow accept…

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the article, but I find it baffling that they don’t mention the simple fact that the “best” professors have access to the “best” students. Especially ear…

Maybe that's how they came up with the idea.

Agreed, the experience the author describes with a Honeycrisp at the beginning of the article is something I recently had with a Cosmic. Let’s hope it lasts.