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I have this suspicion that we can’t see the forest through the trees on the US inflation discussion. Does anyone know any good articles which investigate this issue across countrie…

> Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn’t feel any teeth and he hadn’t suffered any obvious wounds. Is a great white shark actually big enough…

This is more reflective of the media bubble you are living in; it’s not nearly as bad as you think. Especially if you’re into tech (say you read hacker news) any problem that exist…

I’m kind of surprised HN could take them down

Imagine if thirty years ago we declared the yellow pages a public utility.

I wonder if this is more a subtle criticism of psychology research. Perhaps a walk in the park should be more of a baseline

I think the author just has a complaint about the scientific process (and believe me, all scientists do…) and is trying to fit this topic to that complaint. I doubt that it’s helpf…

> "We don't know exactly why or how it works, we just know that it does work," says Michael Kinch, an associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis who has writte…

At least this is what I told the students when I was a TA for a class teaching prolog!

My pessimistic fear is that when countries can no longer compete in tax rates, they’ll compete on subsidies. You can go much lower than zero!

There is always some selection bias in this regard when reading the hacker news comments. If you spend time talking to people online, you’re probably a lot less interested in the s…

I’m not super picky myself, but coffee is an incredibly fun hobby. There is a ton of equipment to try and endless varieties of beans. A lot of it is easy entry too, you can even ro…

I’m Scott Aaronson’s book he calls it Computing with the Anthropic Principle. It’s a fun exercise, though obviously quite dangerous. I believe he also mentions that following this …

This seems like good news for a country like Bahrain. It’s unfortunate that the Chinese vaccine isn’t as effective as the competition (such that the current ~50% deployment isn’t e…

Did you even read the article?

Indeed, that’s why we need to build decentralized services. Like Usenet /s

Captain the best

The credit card company is the one that holds the power I guess. I wonder if someday visa will start threatening merchants who retaliate via bans as an extra card feature.

I’ve started making Caesar dressing from scratch when I want it, and the anchovies can really shine when you do it yourself.

I can’t read the comments without an account, but it seems that from the main post: 1. This company will fail 2. YC invested a lot of money in it (a room full of employees) 3. The …

I did the same five years ago (different locations). The one thing I miss was the blankets I had before moving, I just have never found great replacements. Is there anything you re…