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and the nutrition per lb has fallen. Farm slop

also: David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory was first published on May 14, 2018

And yet so much stick built instead of manufactured, for example. And I agree that the standards have been rising such as better R-values, car charging, AC, cat5 etc.

It's my hypothesis that boomers passing away + GLPs largely ending obesity will result in a sharp drop in total healthcare spending in the next decade or two My main caveat / count…

I've seen on youtube how people said a major reason housing is a big employer and housing has not fallen in price is due to their industry's attitude and resistance to introducing …

I do realize that. I'm not making a comparative judgement here. I'm mentioning that fsd as a feature is pretty amazing to me. Elon does over promise, but seems to at least partiall…

solely about the FSD part of your comment. I got a chance to ride in a 2024 edition of the system this year and I was shocked at how good it was. Was it level 5? of course not. But…

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Abuses of power (of which wealth can be used to acquire it) aside[1]. The main arguments that allow inequality are arguments against the costs of enacting outcome leveling policies…

Webpage is struggling. Here is the text Degrees of wealth July 11, 2026 In eight years of living in China, taxi drivers or older colleagues loved to ask, “Which is better, the Neth…

1. The issue with multiplying the probability/rarity of each is they are actually positively correlated -- Taller people have bigger parts (sorry I can't google to confirm on work …

Gotta vote out those who voted this in.

I've been working on the course https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in... . No news to anyone on here, but new to me.

In addition to many others commenting that a great defense is to reject a lot of things. But also it strikes me, perhaps we're also approaching the limits of "drugs" as in compound…

Number one? Highest? I disagree with the extremes. Why wouldn't self defense be number one, in many cases/times? Why wouldn't we simply stop spending on education at break even ROI…

There's a cluster of issues and, as an engineer, I've learned to focus less on the final actor and more on the roots that lead to that outcome. 1. Why are high risk drugs not a mul…

So long as there is a relatively open market, where companies who wish to compete can do so fairly (ie the gov't isn't making them play with a handicap), I'm open to a public fund …

Based on my exposure to Canadians, they lament how much tax they pay, and they're unhappy with the single provider monopoly where their pets can get faster and better care for cash…

I'm currently learning about Cost functions and Regression in the Machine learning course on coursera[1], and I cannot help but be struck by the similarities of how gradient descen…

> 2 & 3 have the exact same effect On the datacenter builder, maybe. But on enacting freedom as a public value and good, no they're not the same. And on ensuring the next "Datacent…

Single payer maybe, but single provider? Never.

> You’ll find that most everyone living with socialized healthcare believes it to be adequate when compared to the U.S. system This is not true for Canadians. Many have to travel t…

I agree with you about Infant genital mutilation (circumcision) but disagree the issue is the doctors themselves. I think the shrinking pool of competition is the major issue. (Hos…

> completely different risk pool And that's the issue, we need regulation to break the quid pro quo system we have right now, and an innovative enterprise to design and sell a real…

isn't that their freedom to? And the right/freedom of those who democratically created the low regulation environment? I do not understand this idea that someone from one place sho…