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I’m not sure that what’s happening right now in California is any better.. even Nate Silver is crying foul and this point.

> Prices of things that require natural resources will go up. This suggests a potential equilibrium sooner rather than later .. few modern technological advances have been as resou…

It’s not a free market construction issue at all, it’s a regulatory zoning and permitting issue. Read the article and the peer comments here; Austin’s boom came about from reducing…

We should also not ignore the fact that USAID was responsible for many hundreds of millions (if not more) in fraudulently directed contracts and spending [1]. [1] https://www.irs.g…

The problem is that the cancerous cells are themselves descended from healthy cells; other than the small differences that make them cancerous, they are in fact the same thing. Man…

There are at least two reasons: First is Hanlon’s Razor; “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. It appears to be especially applicable here. S…

> prices double every 7 years, which is obviously not what we observe. It’s not? The first two things that came to mind to check are almost exactly doubled: Case-Schiller for Seatt…

Tangentially related from two days ago; Solar becomes top source of electricity in California - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512968

If so, this shouldn’t be flagged because it would be a significant event relevant to tech

I have a bunch of related questions so I will drop them all here: * You mentioned focusing the spectrum on humans, but I have always wanted to have light that works well for both h…

According to one of my local pharmacies (that closed in the last year), there are laws in some states preventing brick and mortar stores from imposing additional fees over online p…

> There is no law against a pharmacy owner from charging whatever they want. On closing, one of my local pharmacies claimed otherwise and referenced the following: > states have en…

Yea, where I live there is sometimes a 2+ hr wait at the Rite Aid.

It’s not even legal for them to try to compete. Even if someone preferred to pay more for the convenience the brick and mortar shops aren’t allowed to charge a premium over the onl…

Yes, pricing regulations forced brick and mortar pharmacies to sell drugs below cost. Several closed in my area in the last few years and this was one of their cited reasons why.

How is that statistic not severely flawed? Unless they are performing large scale sampling of the general population, the denominator (cases of confirmed influenza) is potentially …

Exactly the issue; inevitably someone will forget to follow those rules, at which point esoteric bugs will have been introduced. I think it’s somewhat similar to unchecked memory a…

> A Few Rules For Using Globals: > If you change observable state, restore it I’m sorry but no. Humans are human and mistakes will be made. I’ve lost count of the number of esoteri…

The FAA publishes supplemental charts specifically for helicopters in areas with high concentrations of helicopter activity: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/pro…

The XB-1 prototype is powered by three General Electric J85 engines; mentioned in this writeup: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb-1-pilot-profile-tristan-...

I’m not surprised by this at all. I purchased a pro-sumer grade (Ambient Weather) weather station a couple of years ago that happened to include an indoor CO2 sensor. Among other t…

We have a bit of a vague idea what might happen, from the recent election of Javier Milei in Argentina

> New Toyotas come with … worst of all, hybrid drivetrains. Yea, they just put out a TSB for the hybrid drivetrain in a large number of Tacomas. Seems odd, though, to blame the hyb…

Yup, I get around 64mpg in a Corolla Hybrid without trying at all.

Asked for this 5 years ago, nice to see it finally implemented! https://x.com/matheweis/status/1109106624612859904