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I was offered a new silk topper when I bought my last Montecristo at Locke & Co. The right corded silk is in rare supply, not the skill. They asked under £2,000 (not that much more…

Your example is nonsense. So someone cloned the market quality leader and you are suggesting that means the design, engineering and QA in the original isn’t valuable? Show me those…

You are making a good point but blaming the wrong thing. Caution needn’t spiral cost. The reason US weapons cost so Much is because it’s profitable. Building things that work 80% o…

The industry is a joke. Meta requires tens of thousands of engineers to maintain a social media site. Google even more for an ad platform. Never have so many achieved so little and…

You are completely right. I have decades of experience building products working with everyone from remote teams I have never met to FAANG employees in Silicon Valley. Pretty much …

Europe is already competitive, or leading, in many areas. The US only has leverage over ASML due to other ties. If those are broken the leverage disappears and without ASML America…

You make some reasonable points but the implication, that cannabis is as benign as water, is farcical. The popularity of cannabis doesn’t justify pretending it’s entirely harmless.…

Even more likely, high frequency ringing in the higher res file, caused by the converters, has the same effect analog distortion via tubes does creating the perception of clarity w…

The casualness with which you suggest AI can produce better films than the Disney archive makes the rest of your assertions irrelevant.

You misread your link. That list is of the change in moving to cashless since Covid. Sweden is low in the list because it’s been cashless for such a long time already. Those places…

As a sometime Swede the idea of dealing with daily life in cash is farcical. Possible, sure. Convenient. No. When my coffee shop in Sodermalm’s card readers weren’t working they ju…

The design is wrong in a fundamental level. The rocket equation says it all. By adding so much extra weight for “reusability” (which they don’t release numbers on in terms of cost …

It’s just bad writing. There is no such thing as a universally understood acronym. Even within fields. The cost of clarity is zero. Not elucidating means that over time the writing…

Bridge City Toolworks have been made in China for a long time now. China makes some fantastic stuff but Bridge City built a name on being American. Woodpecker are a better choice. …

The whole premise of this rebuttal is wrong in a self serving way. Purchasing power and income are meaningless without accounting for what needs to be bought. Americans can make hi…

Bitcoin is arguably the worst designed technology product in history. Burning $88k of carbon to run the world’s slowest payment network and produce a tiny corpus of data is stratos…

Musk and his ilk have mesmerized a lot of people. It’s easier for them to believe in the fantasy superiority of a rocket which hasn’t achieved orbit than the real achievements of N…

Anyone who writes that VC investment in defense was zero five years ago is neither informed nor credible.

It’s funny how mandatory registration and tracking is fine in the US when it’s in support of war or to track minority groups, but impossible when the aim is serving the public, inc…

Africa contains a billion people over hundreds of cultures. Referring to “African” tradition is like referring to “Asian” or “European” tradition. Do better.

It assumes you have an internal monologue which is a problem if like me you don’t.

Here’s a reality check. There are two types of vaccine be coders. Those who review the code generated and those who don’t. Either because they don’t understand code at all, or beca…

I love architecture and falling water disappointed me. It was in terrible shape firstly. The new round of fixes has just been completed so it would be good to see it again before i…

You are just moving the goalposts to criticize a position without being required to provide a reason. You could pick any phrase and mark it as beneath intelligent discourse. You ar…

It doesn’t work for that either. That’s the point. It’s akin to looking at a Texan middle grade schoolbook and then concluding everything significant was invented in America.