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Whole foods are affordable and healthy. My wife and I eat mostly rice, tofu, lentils (especially red), and vegetables (mostly frozen). We buy in bulk, spend around $350 a month on …

There was an attempt under Lina Khan.

The public school experience in the U.S. depends so much on your ZIP Code. I attended the best public schools in my state while my wife attended the worst in the same state. I am g…

There should be a world standard or standards for genuine carbon credits. Maybe the UN could create an agency that determines such a standard and verifies that carbon credits meet …

I agree there is nothing uncommon about that type of arrangement, but the amount of money involved is unprecedented.

Enabling the state violence of authoritarian governments through surveillance software is unequivocally worse than the examples you listed.

The key takeaway from this imo should be to only use password managers with a secret key like 1Password.

And transferring money from a bank or brokerage account takes time. Enough time that anyone paying attention should be able to report the transfer as fraudulent before it completes…

The Palma 2 doesn't have stylus support. I seriously considered the Supernote Nomad, the modular design is neat, but went with the Palma 2 for the backlight and the Boox software, …

Check out the Boox Palma 2. I love mine and it has an actual operating system (Android 13).

Check out the Boox Palma 2. It has been an excellent Kindle replacement for me and is in the same smartphone form factor as the Paper Pro Move.

The funny thing is that the performance of a 12MB WASM blob is probably superior to most Shiny apps with more than light traffic.

They have been doing this slowly over the past several years. I decided to move from macOS to Linux the day settings turned into a scrolling iOS-style list rather than an actual se…

Depends on how you define real. I would argue that GPT-2 was a real LLM and it almost certainly cost a lot less than a billion. I'm sure there are much better examples.

Don't buy a dob to do untracked astrophotography. It will be hard, and you will be disappointed with the results. I would pick between visual observation and astrophotography. They…

Here is the arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15806

By "small number (about 10-20) objects in our solar system of this size" you are referring to the class of objects of a similar size rather than the largest objects in the solar sy…

Eris is essentially the same size as Pluto and has a larger mass.

I highly recommend the book Chasing New Horizons to learn more about the New Horizons mission.

Here is an article from 2022 that does a great job of explaining the issue: https://www.columnblog.com/p/us-media-celebrates-letting-18-... "Cut to 2022. Wages are still down 30% t…

How is being prevented from going 10 mph above the posted speed limit in the car of someone convicted of speeding over 100 mph an onerous burden? The car is the property of the per…

Please find me someone with any background in technology who thinks AI is complete garbage (zero value or close to it). The author doesn't think so, they assert that "perhaps 10% o…

A fantasy writer telling fictional stories about the future is more credible than many so-called serious people (think Marc Andreessen) who promote any technology as the bee's knee…

Just to nitpick, there are North Korean defectors who are not South Korean citizens. For example, the U.S. has resettled North Korean defectors under the North Korean Human Rights …

I was shocked to learn that 75-year-old white men supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than 20-year-old white men: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra…