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Yes agreed, but the net result is that living in the countryside was far from romanticized agrarian life people often picture it as. Lords owning land was a very old idea, it's a b…

This seems obviously wrong as there are many counter examples. Employees in Ford's plants for instance saw huge wage increases and an additional day off. Mining mechanization made …

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The age of the dark forest is upon us

At least one benefit is you can now leverage LLMs to basically translate entire math textbooks into your preferred notation. I would be curious whether you find it easier. I kinda …

I would simply disable windows update. It always seemed insane to me that the solution to preventing RCE was to open an RCE channel to basically every provider that has installed a…

Math notation ultimately is pseudo code just with mostly single letter variables and many operators that are encoded purely by position thus not even requiring a symbol. Remember t…

Placebo also works so why aren't healing crystals and essential oils treated like real medicine?

Both aluminum and iron atoms are heavy and thus make it into the ocean where they both increase the ocean's carbon sink capacity. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-aluminum-affect-clim…

All energy generated on earth contributes to global warming, even solar panels which decrease Earth's albedo. If you care about climate change and the earth you should want the dat…

Agreed, and I'm happy to live in a country where this is likely true. The only thing more deadly than pandemics are governments that gained sufficient power to round up their citiz…

Indeed, and it would have saved far more lives if leveraged the app to have hazmat crews come in a forcibly carry the infected to quarantine zones.

>Apple tried the damnedest at that during their intel era. The story I heard was intel failed to deliver on die shrinks that were supposed to increase thermal efficiency. The fan a…

>Surely if the machine you go to for answers regularly makes things up you would just stop using it? Not necessarily, namely because P != NP. Verifying the correctness of a solutio…

Thermal dissipation scales quartically with T, that's about as graceful as you can get from a physics POV, very few things scale at that rate. COTs GPUs throttle at about 90-100C b…

Pinch to zoom on an early iphone navigating those fixed-width sites worked surprisingly well. I still prefer it to the responsive pages where stuff moves unpredictably and annoying…

Right but that's because you've now layered in government control. 401k plans are more heavily regulated, often negotiated by the employer rather than the employee. The real questi…

The beauty of capitalism is you have a choice. There are already ETFs that exclude SpaceX/Elon's company's for those who so desire. See QQNE and SPNE.

Could there be any other reasons that DOGE did succeed?

One again CA trying very hard to become the EU and turn regulation into their main export.

>DOGE found an actually highly efficient Federal government For anyone that has worked on either side of government procurement it is obvious that this is not true. It's quite comm…

Yes it would be better if it took these into account but doing so would not change the overall numbers. Risk of perforation is something like .03% and almost never fatal whereas a …

Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

Not sure it's so clever because I completed it as "not always wrong but often wrong", which their graph in the article seems to confirm. Mainstream predictions are easy, usually it…

Just as there a counter-suits perhaps we need more counter-laws. When something like this is defeated, a law is instead introduced to make chat control explicitly illegal.