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FWIW my guess is most people are aware, and do know that supermarket/drugstore acetaminophen / paracetamol is the same, in some relevant sense, as Tylenol / Panadol. It's not like …

Perhaps my reading is coloured by optimism but by my count, apart from peace, language, currency and (debatably) universal good taste, all of which seem a bit utopian (so maybe I’m…

Another factor in this mix is frequency, which matters a lot, especially to business travellers. A once-daily supersonic flight might minimize “time in the air” while a once hourly…

This makes some good points. Slightly off its main topic, can iOS or an app treat Face ID and passcode auth differently, or are they completely unified? For example, it would make …

There’s a good argument for not “leaving it to the market” for things like this: when you’re evaluating an apartment (to rent, or even to buy), it can be difficult to know what the…

You're very likely right there's no causation in that direction, but it seems entirely possible that we experience red as a vivid color in part because noticing blood is evolutiona…

One obvious thing is that some people are probably toasting a slice a week and others half a dozen a day. The parts don’t time out, they wear out, so that really matters. Another i…

A more interesting question is do the cables (size, positioning, tension) vary by aircraft? Can any carrier-capable aircraft land on any carrier in the US fleet?

I don't really disagree. It's a naive analysis, but ignoring the opportunity cost of the time the owners put into a business, which I was replying to, is even more naive, and yet a…

You're missing something. From the post: > I don’t draw a salary, so the total amount I earned from TinyPilot in 2023 was $236k. and > Result: I worked 35-40 hours per week, a redu…

That might be true for the simple case of following within a lane, although you only have to drive around to realize most drivers do not leave adequate following distance at all ti…

They can vote with their vote too. If regulators do their job, grounded airplanes start to become quite a large expense for airlines and influence their fleet choices.

I come from a completely different background but am about the same age as the author. It sounds like many other commenters are in this same general bracket too. So are the sentime…

This is important, because it forces a head-to-head comparison. Otherwise, what knowledge the judge has about the abilities of AI matters a lot. A well-informed 2023 person talking…

If we follow the analogy the article gives for rebuilding the surface but not the tracks: > It’s like having a big, clunky jalopy that doesn’t go more than 20 miles an hour, but in…

For one thing, AU 2-prong plugs have a much more physically secure connection than equivalent US plugs. The angled prongs mean there’s no rotational axis about which the plug can f…

> Zykluptogibbera > Quixilantrofen > Zylprenostim "If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: extreme tiredness; weakness; fever, sore throat, c…

In what world is "knowing how much you spent" not a reasonable design requirement for a supermarket? Just to pick one user story, it's a lot harder to check / challenge an itemized…

It's more complicated than that, because there is a substantial trade in fish export to China, where processing happens, followed by re-export back to the US. 2019 figures: * U.S. …

Whirlpool is headquartered in Michigan. This predates my telephone-using career, but my guess is that they published a local number that saved them paying the 800 fees for Michigan…

It does if you consider self-selection: the competent person from big tech (i) can see a disaster a mile off (ii) has more to risk

The extra dimensionality of roads < seas < skies help a lot. Though I suppose various standard corridors and channels collapse those dimensions somewhat.

True as far as it goes, but the fair response to this is: who really cares how rich a country is, normalized to its size? In the If you care about the country as people, then media…

In retrospect it was at least arguably the right call, no? Suspend most research and resume when available processing power was orders of magnitude greater, a process that was inde…

And 4 yr olds are harder to see for drivers. I guess rear cameras have probably made suburbia safer for unaccompanied small children (less reversing out of drive risk) but the grow…