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If you have mobility issues that prevent you from exiting your building easily then you can move somewhere else. We don’t need to make every apartment building in the country more …

This puts aspartame in the same category as aloe vera. It is classified as less risky than drinking hot beverages or eating red meat.

The problem is that horns and sirens typically provide little practical benefit. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, arriving an extra minute or two faster rarely i…

The worst part is that horns and sirens often little practical use. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, an extra minute or two rarely improves patient outcomes. Ess…

Adobe halted development of painting and illustration features in Photoshop a number of years ago. Their goal seems to be to get people to use Illustrator for illustrations and Fre…

They are not a sign of a strong American dollar. They are a roadblock that limits the yuan's usefulness for anyone outside of China.

To continue your analogy: the two major competitors also have serious flaws. The Euro is like Mastodon. Its decentralized leadership prevents it from offering the features and conv…

“One can debate the merits of any of these objectives. But larding already-uncompetitive businesses with crippling new costs to advance completely unrelated social goals is simply …

How about funding vocational training, building more housing, rejoining the EU and courting the tech industry by any means necessary?

I find ASMR videos about as pleasant as nails on a blackboard.

Living in the middle of a dense city does improve quality of life for many people via access to amenities and jobs with a very short commute. A hypothetical 50 story skyscraper can…

It’s one of the safest places to live in the US, period. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

From the same Substack: "Homebuilders don’t seem to think the burdens of OSHA and other safety regulations are all that high. Complying with OSHA is the second lowest category of p…

A few differences compared to other commercial iPhone-based capture techniques: - Whole-clip solve instead of noisy frame-by-frame streaming - Automatically generating a face model…

Because it’s the best city in the United States

If it costs an extra $20k to set up a new farm then we let food prices rise slightly to cover the costs. Why does the government have to step in?

Today we lose immeasurably more lives through unnecessary delays of important new medicines. There is no cost benefit calculation whatsoever.

Exactly this. One of the reasons Maya remains favored in studio environments is its strong API stability guarantees. Python is excellent for automation when performance is less of …

The Chinese situation is caused by government rather than by their culture. Chinese corporations are forced into inefficient state-mandated investments and provide meager rates of …

Incentivizing people to own their primary residence tax-free kills almost 90% of the Georgist incentive structure. The only justification for doing that is if you consider homes an…

Healthcare in this country is so broken. This industry should be made as simple efficient and affordable as visiting Walgreens. The regulations, the cartel-like barriers to competi…

This list is a bit idiosyncratic like one guy’s personal tastes. A lot of far away inconvenient locations. Personally I would suggest going to the fan favorites like scarr’s and L’…

I do not get the love for L&B Spumoni Gardens! My reaction to tasting their food was similar to this: https://youtube.com/shorts/ra72I-5t5D0 Downtown Brooklyn has Norm’s and Julian…

One good place in a whole neighborhood doesn’t change this! New York is plagued with bad pizza in the outer residential areas. The median pizza place in Bed-Stuy is not good.

It didn’t always have the lines. Especially post pandemic the calculus is different. Still a damn good slice worth trying at least once.