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People in Iceland as well!

Well, some of these exact people are who built Zed.

Is it only the first chapter? I remember it to be the bulk of the book.

My issue was that the violence and incest were one of the main drivers of the story. It felt like reading some sex novela that happens to have some great scifi elements rather than…

You don't think that there needs to be lots of clearance around the landing area? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to have one landing right next to me while I'm loading up grocerie…

If they are supposed to replace cars we'd need so many of these landing pads. No idea how this is supposed to work. I'm the suburbs it's unclear where you'd put them. Where do I wa…

> Once over the crest every seems to drive like Max Verstappenit's odd, you'd think they'd all try to be ahead at the apex

I'm not buying that a significant number of people would switch from their individual car to a self-driving car pool. One of the main advantages of a Waymo over a Lyft to me is tha…

How do self-driving cars reduce congestion? Don't they increase it because of empty riders between customers? I'm with you though on getting up parking space in high land value are…

I'm shocked this comment is still not dead

I think the biggest impact for Germany is gonna be economical from shipping. Much of Germany's industry is along the Rhine and they get their raw materials via barge on the Rhine. …

I would a well. Unfortunately, it seems that deliberate geoengineering always brings up concerns from people who think it's more ethical to just state at the lever as the trolly go…

Sorry, in the US it's, AFAIK, now not allowed to come from anywhere but the US: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/fcc-bans-future-roomba... The admin seems to have a tendency t…

I wonder how high the ongoing implementation cost of that would be and how that would affect choice between small, specialized and large, integrated suppliers. Sysco can probably h…

This makes sense if weather is the main focus. For things like cooking Celsius is great though.

Ticket prices cannot go down unless you just want more money for scalpers. It's a simple function of supply and demand

Ticket prices for all events anywhere will not come back down unless we make international travel harder. There were Taylor Swift fans who flew to every concert of one of her tours…

It is in fact quite unique which makes you wonder how much is hype vs actual value created

Didn't he live Apple a very long time ago?

It's because his companies have insane P/E and constantly overpromise

Why is this?

It was probably faster to generate 150 pages than 10 useful ones

With Reddit I think it's on purpose. They want to drive users to the mobile app. Maybe they aren't introducing bugs on purpose but not addressing them isn't a accident.

It's private health insurance that's getting more expensive. Private healthcare is a different beast: https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

"if self-employed" is a big if here