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The same is basically true for most other sports in the US too, and yet there are still high-level Americans. Certainly baseball (which other countries do still play in a limited f…

I feel this in my own life. From well before my working years I had a message ingrained into me: “Do not count on social security to be around when you retire.” It’s probably not a…

Unfortunately, many of our urban areas have already been planned (for better or worse) for cars and not the density that makes public transit viable. Autonomous cars will solve a h…

Women and children aren’t inherently dangerous. If you just avoid eye contact and keep to yourself, you should be fine

I'm not sure what the answer is for housing, but there are tons of factors that go in to the growth of cost there. For one, the people making the buying decision aren't comparing D…

Apparently there are companies trying similar things in the US - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/11/13/cloud-seedin... First I'd heard of it... though Salt Lake City did …

I suspect it’s a byproduct of Google’s internal launch process which may require more work or longer processes for launching something in different jurisdictions. So it’s probably …

Fellow Googler here. I'm the exception that proves the rule. After 7 years of Macbook and Linux devices, I needed Windows for a special project, so I got a "gWindows" device and fo…

It's just easier to iterate and improve on a coding specialist AI when that is also the skill required to iterate on said AI. Products that build on general LLM tech are already be…

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> 550 of 700 employees Including Ilya Sutskever who is (according to the posted document) among the 550 undersigned to that document. It's pretty clear this is a fast-moving situat…

Some pretty delightful (ab)use of ZWJ[0] to come up with unique new "characters": * nail and gear flag [1] * united federation of planets flag (star trek) [2] * HAL 9000 [3] [0] ht…

It seems pretty self evident that China would not be in favor of military action to enforce climate goals. GP's point was that still developing nations are going to continue produc…

Another major stumbling block for train signals once you get the basics down is segment length. Signals indicate whether the next segment is occupied, not whether any given train w…

As referenced by GP - it's a list of inventions from the podcast '50 Things That Made the Modern Economy.' [0] The first series is my favorite podcast of all time. They're short (~…

I think this is a dangerous dream to have. The reality will probably be that the water cooler (or some virtual equivalent) will still be integral to career development, just maybe …

I think the walled garden is the whole point here, and you are not the target for this app. It’s no coincidence that the sample they show on their devices is for a student (high sc…

In case the named web colors aren't enough, we're making excellent progress naming every color in the RGB space. https://colornames.org/

This is an interesting conversation to peruse while watching an NFL (American football) game being played in Munich. [0] I’m not sure why the NFL does a few of these games (oversea…

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I think it's a psychological quirk related to loss aversion[0]. Essentially, we view a house as belonging to the owner the moment the ink dries on the mortgage papers and losing a …

Check trimbo's reply below for the stats, but this assertion is simply not true. Wyoming's rate of violent crime per 100k population was 234 last year (8th lowest among US states) …