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You may be interested in David Noble's work on this, see "Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation". People do indeed slur the luddites, and I have to say, e…

I don't think the schools are worried so much about not knowing how to teach students to use a word processor, but rather their IT staff not being able to maintain the equipment an…

It is not standard exegesis that Cain built a city "because he was a criminal and needed protection from the world when he lost God's grace." That's not even Biblical, as God provi…

No, he will lose the case because because when you are hired to, say, be an auto technician, then you can't refuse to do oil changes when your boss tells you to to do them because …

That is a very idiosyncratic interpretation of the tables of patriarchs in Genesis. A more orthodox interpretation is that Cain's line is the urban, civilization-creating line, you…

Both Vedic Sanskrit and Mycenaean Greek are the same age. Of course there may have been mutual influences as languages take cognates from each other.

The best Chinese RAM on the market is 50% larger and requires more power and thus emits more heat, as it is a 16nm feature size. If they can get to competitive sizes, then of cours…

I get lots of "load bearing", "seam", and "payoff"

When I saw the design, I thought "This looks like a Tesla". I'm sure it's an awesome car, and also a high quality premium experience. The question is whether it can command superca…

What is a good TV show that is on today (or was, say, within the last couple of years)? I'm looking for recommendations.

Exactly. The mechanism by which the price ends up as X plus margin is just competition. Others enter the market and compete with you until the returns are driven down to the rental…

Yes, search and summarization is where LLMs shine. I use them all the time for that, and much less for code generation. I would say search > summarization > debugging > code gen/im…

The vast majority of offroad equipment is not farm equipment but operates in urban environments. As NOx is an air pollution concern, there should be different regimes for rural are…

These are regulations, not laws, and can be changed fairly easily. E.g the EPA recently changed the rules requiring NOx sensors and power downs, which were the most failure prone c…

There is not 30% inflation in any region. Not even 15%. I think you have to go back to the civil war era and greenback inflation to find numbers like that in any region. https://ww…

People forget that you could buy Ferrari's in the 60s for 7-18K. 7K was the entry Ferrari. Average new car price in 1967 was $3000, so the entry Ferrari was 2.3 times the average n…

I think this has to be done with technological advances that makes things cheaper, not charging more. I understand why they have to charge more, but not many are gonna be able to a…

Apple didn't use to be a status symbol. I think they earned it. And the fact that they are going all in on Neo tells me they don't care about the status symbol part as much as the …

That is a unique view of what happened in Vietnam. But let's look at a more modern example that makes your case: Syria. The US starved that country, seizing the food and oil, fundi…

The EIA is where Ember gets its data from. It's where everybody gets their data from. Because they have thousands of employees collecting data. These are professionals, like the pe…

I forgot all about the Apple car when assessing Tim's legacy, too. I guess if you are gonna fail, fail so deeply that it doesn't affect your legacy :P

Gas is certainly bifurcated. The west coast is paying up to $5.80 and Texas/midwest are paying $3.20 or so. NY and New England is paying a lot, but from Virginia on down, they are …

Except that didn't happen, and it's not a milestone. First, you are confusing share of electricity generation with the share of all energy. Electricity is only 21% of all energy. N…

$3 a gallon is less than a dollar per liter. Do you live in Saudi Arabia or a gulf state? Here are historical real (inflation adjusted) gas prices for the US. You can decide how te…

No, not even close. US energy sources for 2024 (last year for which we have data): https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/data-and... natgas: 38% oil: 35% coal: 10% al…