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Did they really die out, or did the population just merge with modern humans? Most people on the planet have some Neanderthal DNA, so clearly there was some intermixing. If modern …

That does not explain how mathematically your statement of 40%-60% heritability represents anything other than a coin flip.

Doesn't 50% heritability mean that it's a coin flip in a 2 party country? So basically no heritability?

If a debtor can't pay their debt, you don't just get to wipe out the bond holders. There is some kind of negotiation to try to restructure the debt and see how much the bond holder…

Greece took on more debt than they could serve. Do you expect the tax payers from other countries to just pay for that without significant changes to how Greece operates? If you ca…

The high voltage DC transmission lines from north to south are being built right now and for example SuedLink is expected to be operational in 2028. Their transmission capacity wil…

It's great for you that you were able to create this app that wouldn't otherwise exist, but does that app dramatically increase your overall productivity? And can you imagine that …

LLMs and their capabilities are very impressive and definitely useful. The productivity gains often seem to be smaller than intuitively expected though. For example, using ChatGPT …

Liechtenstein is as much a monarchy as Britain is. It probably falls more in the direct democracy bucket. Also, the GDP per capita figures for these tiny countries are very misslea…

The food system in Europe works pretty well.

That's definitely questionable, but a drop in the bucket. Irrigation for all the farms in the desert is using vastly more water.

They seem to be able to survive with the small amount of water that is allocated to them from the Colorado river.

Nevada only uses a small percentage of the Colorado river water ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact ). Most of the water is used for farming in the desert.

Las Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.

The Brenner base tunnel is still under construction.

Switzerland has such close ties to the EU that I would consider them half in.

Do you have something to back up this claim?

There is already a Wikipedia article about Grokipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia

I'm not a fan of Elon or whatever, but I agree with the parent. "Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles" does not seem like a title that should be flagged.

The tariff is applied to the import value. For many products you'll get a significant markup on top within the US for distribution, which is not affected by the tariffs.

During the dot-com era, a much larger share of the money could be spent on engineers. Today, a lot of the money goes into data centers and not salaries.

Places further north are great contenders because of the free cooling. Also, many of them have cheap electricity from hydro or even geothermal, like Iceland.

Intrest rates for morgages in Switzerland are around 1% and for tax reasons most people only pay off a third of their property. The payments are very managable, as long as you have…

Europe might not have much oil and gas, but the future is in renewables anyways. Western Europe has a lot of wind potential at the coastlines. Northern Europe and the alpine region…

In the article it says that they are shrinking the workforce by not replacing the naturally churning people (20% per year), rather than firing people.