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Prefer is a strong word. People are more likely to be fooled by shrinkflation than inflation. If they noticed they'd be just as unhappy.

He didn't win just because he said he'd fix the economy. Antisemitism and nationalism were part of his political platform from the beginning. I think it's very important that peopl…

Software patents are probably unenforceable in most cases, at least in the US and Europe, are essentially unenforceable. The European Patent Office, very sensibly, denies software …

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I think that this person does not know what the Jevons Paradox is. The Jevons Paradox is that increasing the efficiency with which a resource is used may increase the total amount …

Regardless of how impressive each are on their own, it just doesn't tell you anything about their comparative capabilities.

> How so? Without looking at the specific changes made, it is impossible to know whether this represents a real capability improvement. For example, maybe the 20% gain was due to a…

The costs are pretty evenly split between: 1) Maintaining track 2) Buying/leasing/maintaining trains 3) Staff The single best thing you can do to drive down train cost is to put mo…

Ideally making polluting activities more expensive would go hand in hand with reducing inequality - so people could still afford needs like going to a funeral. A great example of t…

This seems like a potentially important website but with the paywall and design issues it is hard to assess the quality.

The issue is that we are enabling people to travel long distances too cheaply.

I would love to understand what the inputs actually are. Very neat visualization.

A) Probably my favorite. Despite not loving the overall style, the portraits actually show emotion. Von Suttner's portrait in particular conveys a lot to me. B) Not a fan. Individu…

I view roadies as prototypically moderate/liberal - I don't know anyone who owns a Tesla and bikes

It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle (That's pretty normal for a car com…

My thought is that many different stakeholders have reasons to focus on CSAM: - Prosecutors want to go after it because it is much easier to prove than CSA. - Authoritarians want t…

This settlement doesn't stop that from happening in the future

My 6 year old Airpods Pro are barely chugging along at this point. I'm only getting a couple hours per charge.

I think that perhaps you would have gotten more out of finishing it - given that you would have found out that it is more of a short story than an "article."

I feel like perhaps you did not read the whole piece

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Well, you can actually do both. This costs no money to cities and can be rolled out without any political barriers. It will have a small effect. Public and active transit costs mon…

My favorite finance podcast (actually, just favorite podcast) does a variety of episodes related to this, including deep dives on the academic literature. Some highlights: - "Do Ex…

> Just yesterday I saw an article on Instagram that they are putting smoked meats and sausages and similar products in the came cancerogenic category as smoking. My understanding i…

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXu8Ju_fdY