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California water policy vs other western states in one image: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sandy+Valley,+NV+89019/@35... A town of 1700 people with a rapidly depleting aquifer…

If you feed Fable or Opus primarily handoff documents from a previous context instead of human written prompts and are working on something sophisticated it rapidly reaches a level…

Anyone seriously building out AI infrastructure I presume is paying nowhere near $.38/kWh which is extortionate. Utility scale solar is closer to $.02-.03/kWh, then maybe around ~$…

I'll add some praise- thank you for taking a stand. I trust the employment will work itself out as it tends to for smart and principled people.

I went from being a largely self taught software dev with a small 1-man software business to working as a nurse in the US, and a lot of the motivation to make that change was that …

You won’t find much quality in lay discussion boards, but magazines like The Economist and Foreign Affairs are worth a subscription. I’ve cut back my internet time and incorporated…

Not seeing the economics for this ever truly working out, CO2 PPM is very low despite our best efforts and the amount of energy required for separation is substantial.

In most of the country, California unions have largely negotiated for .5x pay while on call making it quite popular.

Sounds like hospitals, but at least healthcare pays.

Not just 4K- all resolutions and it's getting worse with plenty of comparisons available online for those who care to look. Streaming video quality has generally declined across al…

This- the barriers to solo founding and funding a brand new business working with physical assets are insane in much of the US. For the most part you’re required to deal with all t…

You will almost certainly never see at home versions of these drugs, the risk profile is far too great. Roughly 13% of strokes are hemorrhagic and that's just the first and most ob…

Copying an old comment of mine regarding EU vs US nursing salaries: "...our incomes are comically higher for skilled persons than European salaries. I literally make 10 times what …

It’s simply not true that everyone failed in Afghanistan- the Mongols were very successful and the Mughals after them created a roughly 600 year period of relative peace. They just…

The simple solution- have one cut the food in half, but the other gets to choose their half first from the two.

Traditional engineering in the US pays pretty poorly, not enough to live comfortably in T1 cities. My civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering friends all live and work in “fly …

Vopono ( https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono ): "vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of …

Modern educated young people generally don't stay in their small rural towns devoid of opportunity, so the supply of willing healthcare workers dwindles and the population of these…

Residency slots are limited by federal government funding, not the AMA.

Are you familiar with the medical pathway in the US? Software really isn't comparable for any but maybe the absolute most extreme developers. 1) Premed - 4 year degree + easily 1-2…

I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market. It's not principled, it's just dumb and will co…

This point has been debated extensively in thousands of threads with strong arguments made on both sides so I won't dive into it again as it's somewhat off topic to the actual resp…

Spotify is just doing the age-old cycle of getting out-competed despite first mover advantage and then appealing to government authorities to try and stifle competition. When your …

It's simpler and more space efficient to just transcode according to the desired quality setting and device profile of the viewer. Unless you're a large streaming service or have a…

Yes, but the most valuable are the freehold GCBs.