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I come from a culture where the price is always listed. If I don't like the price, I'll either find a better deal somewhere else (shop) or not buy. Any time I'm forced to barter wi…

I'm not going to bother to write an essay like the other person. Here is a scientific outcome that directly impacts the quality of medicine a majority of American citizens receive:…

Great question! Mostly it goes toward maintaining the campus and paying the admin folks. PIs are paid to teach, basically, and are expected to pull in the money to support their ow…

Aside from the occasional problems like printers waking up at night to print gibberish [0] and attempts at locking down their ecosystem [1], Bambu Lab makes the most consistent, re…

How about if people with a higher reputation contribute an exponentially higher score when voting? Like, someone with ten top-rated answers has a 1,000-point vote (more nuanced tha…

As someone who is essentially financially illiterate, what does this mean, "allocate resources efficiently?" Nobody's investing in companies that promise to cure world hunger or al…

Yes, it probably is. Have you ever heard of the spherical cow?* Simplifying the surface makes it possible to model the system with equations that can be solved analytically--which …

I hope you're not implying they're already digging mass graves. Some are unaccounted for--they're probably in Guatemala or something. Some will die. But I don't see the gas chamber…

> who knows how many have died in detention facilities If you're talking about ICE, it's officially 15 so far this year. [0] While this outbreak is bad for DR Congo, I wonder wheth…

Hmm...I wonder if it matters which browser is being used.

My US bank removed check deposits from the browser about a decade ago, and I haven't met anyone who can use Zelle without an app.

> You can actually see this cognitive dissonance play out most overtly in Wikipedia's definition of authoritarianism. I'd say a more overt example is playing out on the national st…

Is that much different than the python inline script format? https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/

Would be nice to have a page full of forum posts like this for various cars. Incidentally, this link recommends termination resistors, which I think are the better answer if there'…

Do you have examples of cars (that aren't Teslas, perhaps, since they don't play by normal car rules) having been disabled due to lack of cell service?

This doesn't seem possible, because self interest will always lead to hacking the structure for better returns, and technology accelerates the ability to do that. It seems to me th…

Okay, but the I-5 doesn't bother with loops and tunnels. It just barrels right over the top of the mountains, including a 5-mile section of 6% grade according to the sign ( https:/…

You mean the train? I don't think they do well with steep grades [1]. [1] https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/23106/what-d...

The small fraction of people perpetrating fraud does not warrant leaving science for private corps to pursue. The end result from that is companies sitting on their IP and suing an…

> ironically, the very people most likely to move abroad (in it for the career, not for the principle) are biased to be the types bringing down our system of science. What the hell…

> His manage-by-trolling technique is demonstrably effective in industry. Or are his companies successful despite that? The impression I get is that his direct reports are exceptio…

The one case where I find ads useful, when word of mouth isn't an option, is in a static image on a site (review site, blog, whatever) where I'm researching a thing. The ad would b…

Average rent per square foot since 2014 has increased by 42% [1]. By your unadjusted income chart, incomes have only increased by 33% in that time. In my case, existing just to the…