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Stolen phone -> access to finances (through password reset emails/SMS or just apps on the phone) -> no ability to pay for medicine/healthcare -> death. Stolen phone -> post offensi…

Every good aspect of modern life and modern medicine, technology, etc started with fundamental research that can be made to sound silly. Some grad student studies the effects of al…

That populist narrative was popular on social media, but the truth is the exact opposite. Germany had relatively reasonable debt and government spending relative to taxes. Italy ha…

>who got the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left his VP role at DeepMind to have no reports, and be an IC That seems like an obvious choice to make. Managing people, looking at Gan…

> Why would AI be any different? The speed, the scale and the class of people impacted are all novel. AI will likely cause massive displacement in the span of a few years which pri…

Where do you imagine the power goes when you've taken it away from "the administrative state"? I can totally understand an argument that says a certain administrative function was …

Ya, the word "transplants" here seems to mean something very different than you're interpreting it as. This isn't a hospital procedure like an organ transplant. It's material place…

Cycling has a pretty rich history of people injecting themselves with things they bought on the internet- EPO, testosterone, etc. The bodybuilding subculture has been injecting tes…

"Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.

The payments are going to a government. They're not using bitcoin to hide the payments, they're using it because receiving USD or Euros or whatever would mean that a hostile govern…

I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and polic…

I don't think the "broken windows" metaphor is very accurate for healthcare. A lot of healthcare spending is along a gradient of elective vs necessary and some continuum of quality…

I consider it a small green flag, if the award is from somewhere semi-reputable. I've worked at places where employee surveys were done by the 3rd party to decide on winners. Compa…

Seems like the main reason it's gone up all these years is "Early adopters successfully evangelized to get more mainstream bigger-fools to buy from them at elevated prices". At thi…

And yet, millions of people work 40 hour weeks and take a couple vacations per year while working in razor-thin margin industries like grocery stores and low margin restaurants, ma…

Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and a…

> with real world accountability So the government can neutralize every journalist, political opponent, whistleblower or whoever by whatever means are most effective in their parti…

I smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.

Except, programs which give free books to children in households without books demonstrably improve reading. There's a correlation component, but also there absolutely is a causal …

Texas has "Robinhood" rules where property taxes from affluent areas are taken away and given to lower income areas throughout the state, so that the schools have more similar budg…

A minor improvement to your argument here- artificial dyes are legitimately harmful in many cases. There are good reasons why the EU had already banned multiple chemicals that were…

$260k is absolutely middle class, nowhere near "upper class", by any reasonable consideration of lifestyle, freedom, power or day to day experience. The median home price in SF is …

Maybe other people's usage of the term is just different than yours without either being "correct". For at least half of America, "DEI" means "giving preferential treatment to some…

Not the point you meant to make, but, maybe Grandma shouldn't live in a place that requires constant use of an air conditioner to be survivable. Americans keep moving to places tha…

Surely the environmental concerns are the larger "tax on everyone". Fossil fuels appear cheap specifically because the benefits accumulate to the corporation extracting and selling…