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Oh I don't know — I travel the Boston-DC route a lot and fly only because it's significantly cheaper than taking the train. If prices were comparable I would take the train even wi…

I think there are two different definitions of "significant information" at play here. I interpreted the GP comment to mean "information about the thing being advertised". The poin…

As someone who's interested in all this, I agree it would be nice to have more precision around capacity. Especially as it relates to longer term storage. But! In this context, out…

And as you're implying, this action began under the "Biden-Harris FTC": https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...

This seems like a case of tunnel vision and confirmation bias, the nasty combo that sycophantic LLMs make easy to fall prey to. Someone gets an idea, asks about it, and the LLM doe…

This particular bribe was reported on over a year ago, when Trump was raising money from oil execs for his campaign. It seems likely that the overall push against clean energy (pus…

Yep, the path for this official recognition was cleared by the executive order two years ago that allowed for hearing aids to be sold over the counter!

At the very least, spinning off individual businesses prevents self-preferencing. Google can right now leverage its dominance in one area to increase market share in another. For e…

I appreciate the point, but the numbers there are the proportion of revenue, not the percentage of revenue, so they're off by a factor of 100.

> Whenever I want to buy anything, I check Amazon first. 9 times out of 10 it's the same price as every other retailer with the added benefit of free shipping and free returns. Tha…

> No surprises here. Come what may, Amazon has always strived to lower costs Maybe it's just a goal to reduce costs, but it seems likely that this is a response to Google's introdu…

I think you missed why I am failing to understand this one. The full context there is: > If I earn a dollar and don't spend it, it results in a lower GDP than if I spent it. Thus i…

At first I read > The similar sequence that chooses the largest instead of smallest prime that divides 1 plus the product of the previous terms avoids an infinite number of primes.…

I think that timeline is backwards -- before 2015 there were net neutrality rules in place but then were struck down in the courts because ISPs were not subject to Title 2. So in 2…

Thanks for the link! I don't think the rebuttal makes a fair characterization of Stewart's article. Slate's argument comes down to "Stewart is taking his eyes off the prize, asking…