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Yeh this has more to do with the failures of federation and has nothing to do with socialism. Federation is a huge part of why Germany struggles to deliver on it's digitalization g…

Thanks for sharing those studies, fascinating stuff, I had no idea the delirium tremens sleep disturbances were so similar to narcolepsy type 1 (but given narcolepsy is treated wit…

And when that happens, of course HN has the answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15997016

We're expecting our first in a few months. NGL I'm low key wondering if my messed up natural rhythm of 9pm-4am is going to be potentially handy.

Might aswell outsource the responsibility of fund management to highly regulated third parties and you're basically describing Australia's superannuation scheme. Issue is due to th…

Eg. I'm pretty optimistic about some of the Chinese exoskeleton startups I've seen. If you can keep people mobile, living at home and avoid falls they will make a huge difference. …

I mean as long as you don't put systematic barriers in the way of doing the right thing, eg. missing sidewalks and food deserts.

I have no idea from where I sit, but I wonder how much of this is down to the increasing demographic share of Guang Gun [1] vs the older conservatives. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Yep, nationalism isn't something you can turn on and off at will. For an example I'm reminded of the recent public backlash to the K visa scheme [1]. 1. https://www.ft.com/content/…

It's worth acknowledging that Mao became increasingly erratic with age. Some of his early achievements are still very much seen in a positive light (eg. as a nation builder).

Colon cancer is an interesting one, Hank Green [1] recently covered a new paper [2] that showed a massive reduction in colon cancer risk for folks that engaged in moderate, regular…

Thinking about the three examples I gave, I think it's more that the externalities of not doing these activities aren't priced in. Tabloid press is fantastically profitable, but fa…

Naturally many a startup has also failed due to similar factors (only for the core idea to be resurrected some years later to great success).

Or just maybe free markets expose the bitter truth. That can take a lot of self reflection to come to terms with. Applies to a lot of aspects to life, eg. career planning, creative…

I suspect concerns about the impacts on agriculture are a big part of the reason why the Chinese authorities haven't clamped down on this stuff yet.

Sovereign cloud might theoretically mean sovereign control over data. Does absolutely jack shit about the blocs trade deficit in the cloud services space though. Hundreds of billio…

Few individuals have touched anywhere near as many lives as he has, perhaps only matched by Fritz Haber/Carl Bosch and ammonia synthesis.

Most of the stratospheric approaches I've seen aren't so much about exploiting low altitude weather phenomenon but rather flying above it. Which of course is exactly what you want …

I'm kind of keen to see if large electric cargo motor gliders might one day become a thing. Traversing great distances via ambient energy harvesting. Maybe even self landing at cer…

For some more hope [1][2]. Times are tumultuous but potential exists all around us. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g80av4zlDco 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUVoWxvvJ5Y

I feel like a lot of our (EU) legal structures are totally inadequate for long term periods of peace. Eventually everything gets bloated and ossified and vested interests gain more…

I'm assuming it depends a fair bit on the model of the turbine. The park near us is rather new so I'm sure they are using the latest options.

Yeh I'm about 2km from a large wind park, it's the least obnoxious thing imaginable. Jogging through them at night with their dim red blinking strobes or watching them work overtim…

Over the last few years I've been drifting away from focusing on pure technology plays. Somehow I feel like maybe that might save my bacon someday ... or maybe AI will completely c…