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Considering the very poor treatment options available, I would rather live in blissful ignorance.

The best solution is to have uniform federal regulation with no state laws. The not as good solution is to have state regulation. Note this means companies will generally adopt pol…

Only a very small percent of cases go before a jury; the vast majority are decided by a judge by himself.

Something many people here miss: UCSD is a selective institution. UC San Diego’s most recent published first-year acceptance rate is about 28.4% for fall 2025, based on 136,740 app…

"Turning a whole lot of flights into energy and carbon-saving train trips is a huge benefit." It's a question of what gets the most bang for the buck. Suppose you spent $230 billio…

In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.

So why doesn't ChatGPT rely on higher quality sources as a default?

Walmart bought out jet.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet.com

Natural resources aren't that important anymore. Look at Singapore with essentially no natural resources, but a high standard of living for example. And the U.S. has strong natural…

Switch to an AT&T MVNO that gives you a lot more than 5 GB of hotspot for less than $80/month: https://prepaidcompare.net/

Haven't you followed Trump's tariffs policies at all? He wants big tariffs against Canada and Mexico and almost everyone else.

The battery plant was just to make batteries for EVs. The Trump administration has made clear it is anti-EV, so the Trump administration would not consider this a significant loss.…

But only a small percent of people work in those highly specialized jobs.

While companies will raise prices as much as they can, remember there are many competitive AI companies--so free market competition will keep prices in check.

The people getting MRIs are sicker than the general population so the facility should have people available to help getting people up after being scanned.

All we want is accurate titles, not clickbait ones.

If you ask: out of all the studies which have done well in mice what percent lead to successful drugs for humans: the answer is a very small percent.

There are several rocket launch companies; Blue Origin looks like it may be the closest competitor.

What I read elsewhere is that members of the committee serve a 4 year term. Since Biden's term was 4 years this means that all members' terms ran out sometime during Biden's term--…

The President of Harvard University is a Jew. Do you really think he is going to allow Harvard to engage in anti-Jewish policies?

They will to a certain extent, but the substantial majority of the funds are restricted (for example buy art for the museum).

Some of us don't want to have a dozen plus separate physical tokens (one for each of bank/credit card/tax, etc sites with sensitive financial information we have).

Apparently you are not a homeowner--as they have large numbers of these small jobs.

The key point is that it is REPORTED crime which is down. I think that every year fewer and fewer people are reporting crime--because overwhelmingly it is futile to do so--so only …

No. In rural areas dollar stores are the cheapest around. I guess you are not familiar with small town prices. In urban areas dollar stores are more expensive than Walmarts--but th…