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As you gain weight, your base metabolic rate also increases. Having fat means you inherently burn more calories, even if you don’t exercise any more. Take one person, say they eat …

I think there are 2 different ways to interpret the title. First, is AI itself replacing workers - article is referring to this case says no. 2nd case is what you are mentioning, t…

Alright bub, I guess the dying Canadian fisheries you have second-hand experience with are exactly representative of everything that’s going on. I’m glad we can give up looking int…

Fisheries definitely can be mismanaged. Furthermore, there are issues like international waters, where regulations are hard to create even when they are desperately needed. It’s un…

Yeah there’s definitely regulatory changes that need to be made, it is insane to see that some practices are still legal. I just disagree with the notion that all fishing is harmfu…

If you’re implying that fishing is the main culprit, I’d invite you to do some further reading. These fisheries are carefully managed to ensure that salmon are able to spawn. Grant…

Would love to read into this research if you have a link or something to search

Yeah that’s my point

Is the TikTok debacle not a way higher profile case?

I don’t ever expect everything to be perfectly efficient or even close to it, but how many jobs are there that really truly matter? A job “mattering” is binary either, a doctor is …

Correction to myself, I believe we have more than enough people to provide the labor. I really don't mean to get into the nitty gritty details - I'm not an economist and I'm not pr…

My take is that saying the problem is birth rates is misguided. Surely we have enough labor to provide for the elderly, why can’t our economy be structured to get this labor to the…

Yeah I guess part of my point is that such market would probably be better served by owning a car instead. Most of these trucks with tiny beds I see have roll top covers or canopie…

I live in a town/area that has a high percentage of truck owners, definitely higher than i.e. west coast cities. An area with lots of people who do outdoor activities that a truck …

Safety standards do change for the better, but insurance and legal risks do have gyms on edge. I think his point is that gyms tend to be overly strict in areas that do not matter, …

This sounds like more correlation than causation to me. There’s a similar statistic people like to quote in regards to backcountry skiing - that you are more likely to be in an ava…

Look, you’re taking my response out of context. I’m just stating that the reason Hilbert failed is not that he didn’t have a computer. Lean devs aren’t trying to do what Hilbert wa…

The reason Hilbert failed is because it’s mathematically impossible (Gödels incompleteness theorem).

I don't quite agree with your conclusion. When these companies get as huge as they are, it's quite easy for them to abuse their size in ways that harm consumers and smaller busines…

I’m summarizing, the details of the suit are widely available. Bud lights and coca colas activity isn’t enough to suppress competition. Google’s is, and the U.S. justice system cle…

You can look up details of the lawsuit, but the idea is that Google paying Apple to be the default search engine prevents other search engines from competing with Google search. Th…

It would be a tall feat to suppress close to a third the population from voting!

There are no longer fines in your taxes for not having insurance. That law was revoked

It’s always cases like this that make question if the dictionary is wrong, or if everyone speaking the language is wrong.

Yeah there’s some controls, but they are much less granular than what ad-tech exposes. I’ve just never really been sure why Google/meta/etc. choose to expose this information diffe…