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I'd say the German mindset and American mindset is closer than most other European countries. Germany is one of the most capitalistic countries in Western Europe.

This is where the author lost me as well. Massive peer pressure to conform is not the same as not caring. Maybe thats a little reductive, or the worst possible way to look at it, b…

When reading anthropics blog on agents I basically took away that their advice is you shouldn't use them to solve most problems. https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effecti…

I try to distinguish between "the scientific process" and building scientific consensus. As rigorous as the scientific process may be, building consensus is always a messy and huma…

This is something we've been grappeling with on my team. Many of the researchers in the org want to try all these reasoning techniques to increase performance, and my team keeps pu…

Cars are built for drivers, any inconvenience they cause for others is a problem for someone else to solve /s One example of this that drives me crazy is how soundproof vehicles ha…

"I always avoid working with EU firms, they are way too lazy. You give them a clear deadline and the next thing you know they tell you everyone went on vacation." I'm sure you've h…

You almost hit on it, but I think the real problem is the economy got worse first. That trickled down to increase pressure in college and high school.

Exactly, what the hell is "not necessarily because of cars" supposed to mean? Or maybe it's a comment on how, despite cars being way more dangerous, parents over-focus on crime?

You're making the assumption that roads pay for themselves, but that isn't true at all either. Across the US cities are going bankrupt because they can't maintain roads and other i…

This would only be true if additional lanes were built on top of each other instead of next to each other. As lanes are widened though they just keep pushing things apart and makin…

That's a weird way to put that. Tax haul for 10 houses is definitely higher than the tax haul for a 10 unit complex, but how many 10 unit complexes can you fit in the space you nee…

You don't need more than two lanes to dedicate one to buses.

How are you coming to the conclusion that cars are paying their fair share of costs? I'm not familiar with Australian politics at all, but a quick look found that local governments…

What you are missing is that every time we widen roads to allow more car throughput we are making every other type of transit and mobility less attractive. Busy streets with big pa…

His full compensation was probably between 300k-500k at Google, so I don't think money was what motivated him...

"the odds are good but the goods are odd" I've only ever heard that said in the Bay Area, and I think I would agree...

> Would you also tell the chronically unemployed person that you being flooded with job offers all day means you're dying just like him, but in water instead of sand? The analogy w…

"New housing should be of a family-friendly type (something with a yard for kids to play in)" Low density of other children nearby and inability for children to safely travel on th…

Only considering the cost of housing ignores how expensive transportation can be. See https://htaindex.cnt.org/compare-affordability/ for a comparison of affordability between hous…

Maybe future generations will not have to worry as much about accumulating wealth when countries work harder to ensure a high quality of life in the middle class. I doubt that will…

> All you'd do is add all the inefficiencies of politics into business-level decision making. While I'm sympathetic to that line of thought, I feel like it ignores the reality that…

I don't think it's contradictory. There was an amazing ROI for a long time, so I think it was a very successful strategy early on. It's just clear that as the founders retired and …

I don't know anyone starting a family happy with the situation. Most people I know are moving to suburbs only because they can't get 3 bedroom apartments in cities. If MFH's became…

Even our wood has so much fire safety chemicals baked in now that it's not nearly as flammable as it used to be. The safety standards should be reevaluated. Plus, I'm sure that the…