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People like to say self driving cars are safer than human drivers - but the human drivers that tend to do the most unsafe antics seem to be the humans that are least likely to make…

> "It also means people have to live in dense apartments instead of spread out suburbs and semi rural living." > "I mean not having to be in close quarters with other humans." Subu…

as in a name of a version other than the well known casu martzu?

Well if you're objection is that public transportation currently sucks, yes that's the problem. It doesn't have to. That's the point. That might be the first time I've seen privacy…

Goldman sach's other savings account, Marcus by goldman sachs gives you 4.40% right now. Depending on the deal with apple, the 4.15% through apple could be worse for GS, but it wou…

Current headline starts "is california's wildfire fire season *finally* over?" I've never seen 'finally' used to mean over early and uneventfully.

A more accurate term would be water bandits rather than pirates.

This sounds wasteful and like it won't work well unless the space is air and moisture impervious.

"Going on an on about things" one finds interesting is not the same as marketing oneself. I don't know if this is what you're referring to by the phrase 'going on and on' but the p…

"the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything less than "the highest possible returns legally achievable"" One important correction because they definitely are…

this is actually a huge issue with a lot of important jobs in america - they aren't valued commensurate to the work and value. So many fields that require high skills and a lot of …

turning on and adjusting the defroster on a ford edge rental is insanely dangerous. turning on the defroster to full blast takes one touch screen yes, but no one leaves it on full …

Guess giving mark Zuckerberg a something like a 1.7% mortgage rate was a bad idea. Yeah first republic literally did that. Not sure how that would make any business sense, the exec…

The line doesn't have to get longer. The grader is incorrect under their own logic. Raspberries could be an unimaginable luxury, say on a moon colony or a very poor country unsuite…

No. Other whole foods in SF have a guard at the door. Are they armed? I don't know but they have a guard. No one is bothered. Most big stores in SF seem to have security. Target ha…

The sad thing is, that for finding actually useful info instead of SEO spam drivel and copy pasted identical articles just phrased slightly differently, adding 'reddit' to google s…

With WFH, WeWork could do hot vacation spots and do well

if the crime stats showed the same rate per sq mile for two cities, one with a population of 1M and the other 100k, would you want to go to the 100K city or the 1M city?

while the thefts do effect businesses, the walgreens ceo later said he'd overblown them - perhaps it made a nice excuse to close stores and raise prices' https://www.sfchronicle.co…

People really do try to shoot messengers to make themselves feel better.

Wolfram alpha first told it converting the energy content of U-238 to food calories was undefined. So chatgpt decided to get wolfram alpha to tell it the energy content of U-238 if…

Please Note, the connotation of 'Insane' in the title is insane as in 'is a lunatic' not as in 'is insanely cool'. Wolfram alpha said converting U-238 to food calories was nonsensi…

That is a naive/odd way to look at RD spend and factory building - especially when without it one goes the way of horse carriages. Although since most businesses have long ago slas…

Counterpoint, if one doesn't have their own baseline model how does one know the vendor is providing value. Yeah having a whole big team create the internal baseline is not cost ef…

That's a unique perspective.