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There are supply side policy arguments that make sense. But that's separate from the linked article, which was a discussion of an empirical paper that claims to find evidence that …

If we're really doing these comparisons, the think tanks that wrote policy pieces for the cigarette companies talking about the evils of regulating tobacco were also particularly p…

> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. And firms are already incentivised to increase productivity, including by offshoring jobs or repl…

> re: the greeting, I think introverts around the world do not necessarily appreciate being randomly greeted by strangers, they just get used to it if the culture is like that the …

tbf they generally don't even try with moderation. A few years back they made a multimillion pound settlement with a UK consumer finance guru who was sick his face being used to fa…

CONCACAF and UEFA together is 96 out of 211 votes. They've since being joined by the Asian Football Confederation for a large majority against. And no reason to suspect the bung In…

Also for knowing how to structure a project and budget, how to assess what the specific funders are looking for from the questions they ask even if they haven't bid on that call be…

> The most beloved, most watched sport in the world making less than the American/Canadian hockey league is a commercial failure. Fortunately the English top division alone makes a…

Yeah, I can see them doubling that revenue by being even more extortionate with ticket prices and adding another 16 teams (as already planned to happen) to add more games. But the …

There were 40% more games than the last World Cup, which is a lot of extra broadcast rights and ticket revenues...

It's already an entity that makes billions that's run as a business even though it's nominally one of the few parts of the sport that isn't for profit, and it's not like they reall…

Past tense. Were on his side. He also just lost a unanimous vote with CONCACAF, the body representing many of the smallest islands least likely to ever qualify for the World Cup or…

I don't know about "most", but there are a lot of people treating it as somewhere between "magic oracle" and "new friend" Not to mention people more worried about whether the AI is…

And people think that the exciting bit of space is launch!

> So, nobody will be recycling space debris that lives at GEO any time soon, unless someone figures out how to do it in situ. Actually have a funded project looking at this, albeit…

Cool. Is there an IAC paper in the works as well?

It also must be seen in the context that the open weight models aren't commercially associated with a popular distribution site where people share the images, the people behind the…

Is there a paper somewhere describing the intended robotic operations and robotic toolkit it's equipped with (beyond the MEPs, though they're pretty interesting too)? (context: som…

The multi-purpose robotic manipulation makes this a bit more advanced and experimental than the dedicated MEV attachment, as useful and performant as the MEV has been. China also d…

Yep. I'd say the way forward for testing is the freighter, which doesn't have evacuation issues, doesn't unload at passenger airbridges and (if packed properly) doesn't have the sa…

It would definitely be cheaper to shell out $5 for your own :D

Sure, but periodically refilling a propellant tank for a few large SBSP structure on-orbit involves less complexity than replacing racks of inference chips distributed across const…

Never. As the post you apparently quoted without reading said , we're talking about a rectenna composed of pylons and wires structured as a mesh that doesn't interrupt farming and …

Non-exclusive use of farmland or wasteland (or even - at least until maintenance complexity is considered - offshore) isn't a major barrier; we have many many miles of wires and py…