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>There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then t…

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Does interest on US credit card debt typically float with national interest rates, or is it fixed when you apply for the card? If it's the former, this seems like it could be an in…

What happens if a wage/price spiral hits right as Boomers are moving their retirement savings into less volatile, more liquid investments to live off of? Could they see the real va…

They are preparing a recall to install immobilizers on the affected models, but it sounds like they're moving too slowly. The insurance companies might also feel like they have med…

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Isn't the idea behind raising rates to combat inflation that it works to reduce demand by forcing people to tighten their belts? "We need companies to fire a lot of people so that …

There will probably be a gig economy, where you can pay spot rates for an idle Frank that could get a page and need to leave at any time. Or maybe they'll handle things like call c…

It means that you're farming on someone else's land. Since you don't own the source of your income, the landowner could decide to evict you at any time, taking away your revenue.

TBF, that's Amazon's bailiwick. They try to invest as much as they can back into the business without netting a loss. Grow, baby, grow. We'll see how that mindset survives the comi…

The Phantom Tollbooth. Brian Jaques' Redwall series. Try reading to them every night and let them pick it up.

Reminds me of the "Internet Argument" demotivational poster, which depicts a child and a mule shouting at each other. Really, the core problem is centralization. If your website we…

Personally, I like the theory that he's planning to discharge all of the debts he's run up in one fell swoop with a bankruptcy filing. It will be sad, but not unexpected if the cou…

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If you let them vote, they'll vote to destroy their society. If you don't let them vote, they'll act to destroy their society. It would be emotionally satisfying, but ultimately de…

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When everything is presented as a crisis, you get inured to it and nothing, no matter how dire, feels like a really emergency.

Because the battery would be too heavy. It's a 6x8mm cylinder, fingernail-sized. They're little pellets that get inserted into larger machines for medical imaging. See also (or don…

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It's not just the Puritan work ethic. The dearth of support and extreme scarcity of housing play a huge role. If you won't center your entire life around work, there's a long line …

Ah, but who is going to pay those assistants? To hear the company tell it, they're already struggling to pay their current workers what they call a "competitive wage". Just look at…

You are making an assumption that the AI is always correct. What you've described sounds like the set-up for a sci-fi movie, where the protagonist wakes up to find themselves brand…