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How do you define wealthiest countries? Picking from top GDP per capita, I'm not sure that UAE or Qatar are countries to look up to.

I don't think that's true. Every iPhone user I've texted in the last 6 months at least has had rcs turned on, and that's including some very non tech savvy friends that I doubt did…

I think you're missing the parent's point. Cities in northern Europe, like Stockholm and Oslo, already have sunrise times as late or later than Vancouver will have under permanent …

Austin has Tesla robotaxis with no driver.

For vitamins/supplements specifically, there's Costco, iHerb, nootropics depot. While they might not be the absolute cheapest options, they're usually a pretty good price and at le…

If that were true then we would expect to see a positive correlation between income and family size, but households making 500k are basically the same size as households making 50k…

In the current system how do you sell your vote? You go into the voting booth alone.

The report itself is interesting [0] and I recommend reading it for good context. Here's a couple things that stood out to me: - Measuring net migration is difficult. The report fr…

Somewhere between obese and dust you'll eventually hit a healthy weight. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2495396/

Then how does ozempic, whose primary mechanism of action is to decrease appetite, work for obese people? Yes, your body will compensate somewhat for caloric deficit, and yes, when …

That study was on untrained subjects. Steroids increase your baseline musculature, but only to a point. You're not going to accidentally an Arnold by injecting testosterone and sit…

>I grocery shopped like an American - filled up an entire cart with a week or two worth of groceries Is that really how the average American shops though? The majority of shoppers …

Registration is like $100 a year for "unlimited" access to roads. Quite a bit cheaper than a yearly unlimited transit pass. And electric cars don't pay a gas tax.

>but you are likely setting them up for life of social awkwardness and ostracization. Citation needed. If you put your kids in homeschooling and provide no other outlet for sociali…

Canada and Finland both have a lot of civilian firearms per capita but not a lot of gun violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

The first court ruled in Yahoo's favor and the appeals court ruled that neither it nor any lower court in the US had the power to adjudicate the matter altogether, which was kind o…

Let's not be too hyperbolic here. The average mid-level dev at Amazon is making over $250k while the average senior makes over $400k (source levels.fyi) so they're hardly "just scr…

It's only profitable because of price fixing. You don't have to worry about vacancies when all your competition has agreed not to undercut you. Without the price fixing though, apa…

It's like a 90min flight and $120 ticket for me. I would absolutely make a trip out there to see the tallest building in the US, especially with how out of place it would look next…

The difference is in predictability. When you sign a 12 month lease, you know more or less how much you'll spend towards housing for the next year and it's easy to accurately predi…

Does any other cloud provider have the extra compute necessary to run ChatGPT just lying around? With the current shortage of hardware, it's not as simple as "scaling up" if the re…

How many billions are you talking here? A billion dollars split evenly over the US population nets around $2.98 per person, so we're gonna need a lot to really make any appreciable…

Most large companies that do layoffs give over a month of notice+severance. Perhaps they're not required to, but to be given less than a 2 week heads up with no severance is pretty…

>Wealth for whom is the better question to ask — certainly not the thousands of laid off employees I think that depends on the pay structure. If a large part of your compensation i…

If I could choose between feeling like a 55 year old and a 25 year old, why would I pick the former? If there are no major health consequences then what's there even to consider ou…