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I assume due to price. The 5070 Ti costs ~$1k, the 5090 costs ~$3.5k.

Ironically, Google Pixel phones are the best phones for leaving Google behind. The have an unlocked bootloader and are the only phones supported by GrapheneOS [1]. If you don't wan…

Waymo has logged 67M miles in the SF Bay Area and 50M miles in LA of autonomous miles driven with a passenger [1]. It looks like the rollout is going quite well in California. [1] …

> Apparently NY state laws also require a human driver at the wheel. Earlier this year, Waymo had a permit to test 8 autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in NYC. The permit was …

At the start of this year, Waymo had a permit to test eight autonomous vehicles with a safety driver behind the wheel in NYC. The permit expired March 31st [1]. Waymo may no longer…

Why should drugs in America cost >2x the price of drugs in other countries?

Drug prices in the US are >2x the price as compared to other developed countries [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK611301/

>> Gram for gram it's better to eat chicken than cheese for the climate. reply >IE a chicken filet is about the carbon impact of 8oz of milk. They said cheese not milk. Note that i…

> Americans wouldn't tolerate the trade-offs in the British healthcare system I do not believe this is true. Keep in mind that the UK has universal healthcare (NHS) but also has a …

I reject your argument. It is easier to see when comparing the cost of goods. It is not a fact of life that goods in the US cost 2x the price of equivalent goods in the UK. If I co…

Again, healthcare in the US is dramatically more expensive than in other countries. This is true for publicly funded healthcare (e.g. Medicare) and privately funded healthcare. I a…

If your implication is that this is a private vs public spending problem, that's not it. Healthcare in the US (both private and public) costs dramatically more than in other develo…

The US spends $2 Trillion dollars on Medicare + Medicaid a year [1][2]. Given that the US has a population of 342.7 million people [3], those two trillion dollars divides out to $5…

One thing I noticed is that I tended to accumulate a lot of trash in Japan. Connivence stores were plentiful and the food was tasty, but it was all wrapped in plastic. Where does a…

> Equally telling is the list of companies that did not sign it -- including Google, Amazon. Could you elaborate? I don't understand your implication. Amazon in particular hosts op…

>> Codeberg was actively positioned as an indie almost drop-in Github alternative > What on earth are you talking about? No one, no less Codeberg themselves, would make up such fic…

> the problem is that it hurts legit people too. What hurts other people too?

> Distillation is impossible to stop Lots of things are impossible or very difficult to stop completely but measures can be taken to reduce their prevalence.

There is a brand of creatine manufactured in the US (con-cret) and a brand manufactured in Germany (Creapure). Either of those companies should address the concern around adulterat…

What continent is India in? What continent is Australia in?

I linked both prebuilt and do it yourself builds. Neither resulted in a comparable machine to the PS5 for $600. Again, I think you are missing how much the price of components has …

> $600 could get you a beast of a machine Where can you get a new gaming "beast of a machine" for $600? In the past you could build a reasonable gaming machine for $600 but parts a…

When buying a gaming console, I imagine folks think more about the upfront cost ($600 for PS5 vs $1,050 for steam machine) as opposed to the total cost of ownership. The steam mach…

Because if they don't offer a used virtual marketplace, everyone has to buy new games directly from them. A used game market provides downwards pressure on new games.

The US spent $2 Trillion dollars on Medicare and Medicaid in 2024 [1][2]. If the US spent this money as efficiently as Japan (or UK [3], ...) it could pay for Healthcare for every …