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I wouldn't be surprised if AI was used to generate it. But it mostly feels that way becuase it uses Astro. There's no other obvious AI tells.

1. No, they ride in the rain all the time. 2. It's not so much that the white shit (actually lime) is slippery, it's that it's unexpectedly slippery. Riders are generally quite goo…

Several riders independently crashed in the exact same spot, including Pidcock who is a famously good descender. These are literally world class professionals at riding their bikes…

They really have tried. They don't have the type of insane cashflow that RedBull does to sponsor tons of athletes and weird events, but their video contests are kind of a big deal …

Having owned a number of GoPros, I made the same switch last year. The Insta360 has super annoying/intrusive software that always feels like it's trying to sell me something, but i…

In a somewhat related practice, some roads in the Tour de France this year have been painted with "white shit" (rider Tom Pidcock's words) in order to combat the asphalt melting in…

That’s cool. Our local trail association did that. Well, actually we went from an old “become a member to download GPS files” to “go find the trails on Trailforks” But that was whe…

That's a cool project. Sort of a more open Trailforks alternative?

More accurately, "bans day trippers on Sundays." > Visitors who book guesthouse rooms in Mawlynnong through Saturday and Sunday are exempt from the Sunday ban.

> Not to mention it is slightly unethical in the US due to drug rebates incentivizing branded drug use. This is an area I'm only perephrially aware of, but the way I understand it …

I have a little insight here from working with ophthalmologists. When the article mentions "using a cancer drug to treat a leading cause of blindness" it's talking about using Beva…

This is far more hilarious than most commentors here seem to be picking up on. Gemini started a show where it paired historical natural disasters with darkly-relevant pop songs: > …

DIY is viable if you're a bit nutters (like me). I just paid ~$35k (pre-now-expired-tax-break) to install a grid-tied 25kw ground mount system. I DIY'd everything except the connec…

I’d love to get the reaction if all the VC investors who “reluctantly” had to support Trump because Lina Kahn was just too meddlesome, and they had to support a candidate who would…

Yes. To be fair, I was always a barbarian who just typed a hyphen in-place of an emdash and figured that was good enough. The only REAL em-dashes in my pre-AI writing are the resul…

Shoutout to my English Major comrades who have been using em-dashes forever, and have had to stop so we don't sound like AI. If AI starts use the New Yorker style diaeresis (umlaut…

Beyond any clinical reason that your eye clinic might want to know your blood pressure (your vascular system is pretty important to your vision) - they may have been incentivized b…

Open source was the wrong term (though that would be fine). I meant community-sourced. Some kind of community where local "experts" or history enthusiasts could contribute info. AK…

This was interesting: > Still, Mixter and the team were labeled "ghouls and pirates," and "the state of Michigan actually passed a law against recording bodies on shipwrecks that a…

Ever since I discovered Gypspy nearly a decade ago (now Guidealong https://guidealong.com/ ) - I've been dreaming of an open source app that'd pull local history from sources like …

"I noticed you had Yoplait brand yogurt in your fridge. Here's a coupon for $0.75 off your first six-pack of Chobani!"

I hope you do! I'm skeptical of v1 of this technology, but I could imagine a mature version of this technology could be great. And $500/mo for essentially an always-available house…

I broadly disagree. Yes - Medicare is typically lower than private insurance plans, but if you can't deliver care for the reimbursement that Medicare offers as a health system/plan…

Yes. Though I think technically none of that happened here. If I sound like I'm defending the morality of the hospital for billing a private individual $190k for services they'd ex…

What the author calls criminal is the way hospitals typically bill Medicare and private insurance providers. If the OPs brother-in-law had had insurance, the hospital would have bi…