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> Getting kids to go outdoors is a tough sell. The problem isn't the kids. It's the adults.

> I just wish the guy in charge could apply the same systematic thinking to his approach to politics. I fear that the major short term risk to humanity is not the environment, but …

> "The reality is that everyone runs from the police nowadays." Since when? This should be a bigger story than the availability of GPS tracking darts.

The sheer number of rhetorical fallacies employed in the opening of this "takedown" inclines me to believe that Hersh's reporting is a largely accurate and truthful account. For ex…

Not sure how to interpret these tweets: > A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience…

There does not seem to be much exposition for the recent tweets from @paulg. Based on the tweets, however, we can assemble the following facts: 1) He's known his friend since at le…

You don't need the concept of "time value of money" to value a perpetual stream of payments. Intuitively, only a sucker would pay $1,000,000,000,000 for the promise of $1 per year …

If you have inflation, something is going up in dollar terms. The answer is "real" assets: physical assets that have an intrinsic worth due to their substance and properties. Real …

How does constructor theory relate to Wolfram's Ruliad concept[1] and the physicalization[2] of metamathematics? It seems both theories would have major implications for the founda…

Note: If you plan on competing with Stripe in any way, you may want to hold off on having them review your YC application: https://www.twitter.com/theryanking/status/14857848236417…

Do you know what isn't bad for your health? Good, clean healthy home-cooked food. Which, in millions of homes, is cooked swiftly and efficiently on gas ranges. Politicians and thei…

Can I see a picture of the bioreactors?

Their most prominently stated demand is ending all state-backed mandates and lockdowns. Where did you see anything about the dissolution of their elected government? Or, are you re…

I'm struggling to understand how inflation is only 7.5% when every major line item comprising inflation is up much more than 7.5% over the past year.

Ilya Lichtenstein (YC S11) is the co-founder of YC-backed MixRank. Heather Morgan, his wife, is apparently a serial entrepreneur, investor, and "contributor" to Forbes.

> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has e…

"Scientific misinformation" is such an incredible example of Newspeak.

His dad is a doctor and his mom is an astrophysicist and mathematician. Do you think that is a coincidence?

To paraphrase Ogilvy, half the country is being manipulated by a political party using misinformation to gain power; the trouble is I don't know which half.

> People don’t think they can really reach goals related to life stability unless they win some sort of lottery. People think this because it's true. The median U.S. income is no l…

By this logic, with no SALT deduction cap, a state could simply implement the federal income tax brackets for its own taxes and permanently deprive the federal government of any in…

A city-wide charging network with standardized, user-replaceable battery packs would be the "holy grail" of short- and medium-range electric bike and moped commuting. Unfortunately…

With software improvements, our perception of time will eventually be slowed down in the metaverse to such an extent that one hour in the material world will equate to several days…