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> Maybe people in America like a "service heavy" experience, and the only way to get it is tips? Interestingly enough, I find the service worse in the U.S. Part of the reason is th…

That belief has reached prominent political leaders as well. I listened to a bit of the Ocasio-Cortez/Tim Walz Madden livestream on Twitch, and they were talking about how somethin…

> We're often so down on journalism on HN, and I believe a big part of that is we tend to read so much opinion and analysis and so little basic reporting. I think a large part of i…

Right, Reddit banned any sub that disagreed with the progressive positions on Transgender issues, any mainstream subs would ban users for disagreeing with those positions, and hete…

The fundamental contradiction is here: "someone who is clearly not capable of making Right Choices" yet is "even a more genuine human being than your garden-variety obedient nine-t…

I see this argument a lot, but it's contradictory. You're simultaneously arguing that people don't understand statistics because they're treating a 25% chance as no chance to win, …

Like the Rationalist's "Bayesian priors," the election models were a remnant of the "big data" hype from a decade and a half ago. This article is a decent overview for anyone who f…

There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative. Grok3's release is pretty important, no matter what you think of it, and initially this story quickly fell off the …

My "specific version" is the version used by government agencies, which specifically states that the government is giving people free permanent housing without requiring prerequisi…

> I’m not sure what the right answer is, but asking people who are used to rough and tumble life outside to then behave civilly indoors with zero tolerance seems…set for failure? T…

> edit: I should mention that I've seen fairly convincing cross-sectional evidence that homelessness is more related to the housing market than mental illness: https://www.ucpress.…

I've seen this argument brought up a lot, but I've never seen someone attempt to answer the counterfactual. If LIDAR was added to Tesla's now, how much would FSD improve? I've seen…

> I imagine A blog should do something like press releases and describe and progress made on the actual website or plans for- A lot of older websites actually used to do this with …

> We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of gr…

KA-52 helicopters were considered to be a one of the big obstacles that Ukraine faced during their 2023 counteroffensive. "Military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s …

It's set up like this - busy avenue with lanes (left to right) 1, 2, and 3 enter into roundabout with circles (inner to outer) A, B, and C. The problem is that half way around the …

> Just because you drove wrong does not make the roundabout bad. You seem to have misread my post. Everyone drove wrong. I seemed to be the only one to notice it, and started avoid…

I don't think most of the ones here could be easily reversed, for what it's worth. The streets were designed with them in mind, so they're usually at the exact spot where 3-5 diffe…

> The worst roundabout beats the best 4-way stop any day of the week. Sometimes there really are easy answers. Maybe you haven't seen the worst ones, then. For instance, one by my …

Online I see this mentality that roundabouts are great no matter what and it seems really strange to me. It really depends on the design of the roundabout and the traffic condition…

Maybe this is better: Cruise line A and cruise line B drop their passengers off at a remote island for 5 days, and then come to pick them up and take them home. After cruise line B…

> it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over A large part of the crime wave stems from the policies these cities implemented. Many times from the same …

But why did they decide that? It seems to be a pretty clear example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. 1. Better bacteria is found in the wild, it might be able to signifi…