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This sounds great to me, I would love to know how much a procedure costs before I have it instead of having bills for arbitrary amounts of money show up one at a time over the cour…

I found German noun declensions a pain to learn and you basically just have to memorize the gender of each noun. Spanish grammar is simpler in comparison and the -a vs -o ending te…

Plus they have ironclad job security and a pension (which practically no taxpayers get), so it's not directly comparable to private sector salaries.

Not true, on Fridays after lunch time can sometimes pass as slowly as 3 seconds per second.

The US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period.

Re-write McKinsey in Rust.

Are you sure? I'm in the US and it displays the entire price (including cleaning fees) for me.

The Soviet Union had chronic housing shortages. Multiple families would live squeezed together in one small apartment. The waiting list to get your own took years and years.

I doubt that will be a problem here. Their Kentucky plant is huge, it's been around for decades and it makes lots of high quality cars including the Camry. Toyota goes to a lot of …

Also higher crime.

The user notes feature was the best thing Twitter ever did so I disagree that they can't release meaningful updates. It's hard to disentangle how many of their problems are due to …

It's honestly impressive how productive the American economy is even with all of the shackles we put on it.

Eurasia is massive compared to the Americas and has a lot more domesticated animals, so there were more diseases percolating there.

Debugging is a lot easier when you can ask your future self what the problem was.

Yeah maybe I'm underestimating them in that case. Every other battery powered device I own degrades a lot faster than that but I guess car batteries are higher quality.

$17k before the tax rebate apparently. The cheapest one I available right now is $22,400 with 81,400 miles compared to the MSRP for a new one of $38,000. To me that doesn't sound l…

Calling it an AI team gives the wrong impression imo, these aren't researchers or engineers. >The group, which also has offices in China, India, Ireland and Spain, is responsible f…

"The weather in Nijmegen is..."

We even have an example of what a train wreck it is in Canada, with stagnant productivity, a housing bubble and overcrowded public services. But we're determined to make the exact …

The diplomat in charge of central Europe thinks their declaration of war is a practical joke from another department, so nobody notices when their army (of about 10 crossbowmen) sh…

The funny/sad thing is that western Europe didn't even get the promised economic growth.

If GPT could write the questions then surely it could also write the answers.