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Hong Kong is around 5x the density of Dallas.

There's already been responses to this argument by Dunning: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/dunning-kruger-effect-an...

That data is published quite often, no conspiracy here. The point is that the top 1% can be taxed more heavily, not that they own the majority of wealth.

Interesting read from Google on AI (Gemini) usage. In particular, I found the usage in the "hands on" aspects - mechanics using AI to help diagnose problems, for instance. Wolfstre…

This makes me think: what are the odds weights from Frontier Models have already been stolen? Something like Mythos without "guardrails" seems like a hell of a glittering gem for m…

The first reason formal verification has never taken off is that it's difficult. The second reason, that most people don't get to because of the first reason, is that formal verifi…

At least for where I grew up, you seem to have history backwards. 40-50 years ago fireworks were largely outlawed - the best I could play with as a kid were smokebombs, snaps, spar…

1. Test scores have increased 2. Simpson's Paradox - we are educating a far great % of young people then we used to be, so we're pulling in disadvantaged kids that would've been le…

Very late to the discussion, but many people see the price of the Steam Machine and balk at the high cost, even if they understand the reasoning. However, this isn't about the Stea…

Ah yes, so we should have corporations controlling it? Because they can't be corrupt or evil? The whole point of government control is at least everyone has some say in it, if we b…

I don't care much about Siri, and not a lot about Apple (other than as an investment), but Apple is generally really good about putting out polished tech, and so I'm curious if Sir…

> So, judge the book by it's cover? It is literally judging the book by it's author, which is an extremely rationale judgement to make.

Having lived through all of that as a professional dev, AI is completely different. There was no career anxiety of any significance for OOP or Code Gen (certainly no code gen) or T…

Many people's understanding of "Google's hiring processes" is from a few articles over a decade ago. They had done numerous studies, switched things up, and now have a pretty solid…

Choice and competition greatly alleviate that in other markets. With the medical system in the US, you often don't have much of a choice as switching doctors can be tough, and even…

Charging it is an interesting choice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-ZdXDJTIfhe1vkAuzssvRx9bOQ...

I live in the midwest and there never has been a time where any lawn I owned, nor was owned by anyone that I know, needed mowing 3x a week. You might like to do it to keep a perfec…

Hmmm - I think the scalper just adds the escrow amount on to the cost as the purchaser will get it back at the end.

Ok, random scalper prevention scheme: What's the difference between someone that wants to transfer their tickets from someone the know versus a scalper? Trust. So when you buy a ti…

Terrible math is terrible. Better napkin math that is still being unrealistic compared to the true costs of space-based datacenters: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comment…

Sports are much more likely to result in injury, and as you get old, staying in the game (of life) is more important. It can take a long time to recover, if ever, from an injury as…

Hyundai and Honda (especially Honda) have brought back more physical buttons in the past several years. The CRV especially has a great button/control layout. A big reason we went w…

Click on one of the other previews that come up, last I looked there were 4 options, at least one had the full article

This easily could be AI generated, there is little character to it, and if you told me it was AI generated, I would believe you.