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I feel like we're probably going to have to give up something, most probably anonymity, to get back to anything like sanity. We'll see communities that are militantly anti-AI where…

I decided to spot check a few, including places like Portland and Seattle, and it seems like private ownership by a family for the last century is pretty common. And isn't the main…

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I'd like to see that overwhelming evidence. Everything I've been able to find suggests that renewables, since they have a ~zero marginal energy cost, displace the most expensive di…

Maybe the problem is that DK isn't about individuals, but about topics? I.e. perhaps everyone exhibits the phenomenon about topics they are most ignorant about. (and I am ignorant …

That doesn't seem like a problem as long as the metrics chosen are trending towards greater achievements and are not just attempts at moving the goalposts.

Why not? That's only one big truckload. Oceangoing ships capable of hauling such a small load are easy to come by.

Even in 1970 that could not have made sense to anybody with a brain. They certainly knew enough about explosives to know that the kind of blast required to reliably vaporize an ent…

> It is literally illegal to sell McDonalds foods the way Americans make it. You should see what they do in the UK. Looks tasty, but healthy it certainly is not.

> culture war issue I'm 100% with Sarah McBride on this. The blame for this culture war is arguably as much because of how pro-trans folks handled it as it is resistance from conse…

> Puberty blockers have long been used to treat precocious puberty That seems orthogonal, yes? Delaying puberty until the body gets into the usual range of growth is arguably impro…

> 10-kilo swappable battery packs I like the way you think. Putting a meaningful amount of capacity in something luggable by an average human would open up a lot of possibilities. …

We should let them, if they are of sound mind and capable of consenting. Part of that means they are not a minor.

Indeed if we could solve one thing with our gov't, I'd want it to be antitrust enforcement. For an ostensibly free market society we seem awfully willing to accept it being anythin…

I am skeptical of those numbers. Like, decades ago 1% needed IVF? I assume that's what you are referring to. Is that not partly a result of it being fairly new technology, quite ex…

I wonder how that algorithm works. At the risk of discussing a bit of a taboo topic (are there rules against this? there might be...), I've never vouched for a comment and had it c…

As much as I don't truly love the shop I'm at now, stories like this keep me from looking for anything new. At least until the AI psychosis [hopefully] passes. I can't even get my …

I understand the paranoia, but it is definitely emotional reasoning overriding facts. Gasoline powered vehicles are vastly more likely to go up in flames. Even when you adjust for …

> juicing 10 cars in 5 minutes has to require significant electrical infrastructure! I believe it is becoming fairly common to use batteries as a buffer at fast chargers. The deman…

> With a 130Lb/60kg battery instead, and saving the weight of the ICE engine and fuel system, the overall car design could go much more lightweight, regaining a lot of performance …

> Quite an assertion. You must have misunderstood the assertion, then. I will attempt to clarify. - Australia tried to get rid of guns, still has millions. Several hundred thousand…

The founders didn't think we ought to have a standing army, either, and a militia of ordinary citizens was their answer. So I guess first we will need to bring back militias made f…

> it is beyond fascinating to many of us that majority of people / politicians / entities in USA do not want to do it. A lot of us do, I think what happened is that a majority have…

That's true, they are perps. Guilty of their own problems, morally culpable. No circumstance beyond their control. Simple! Quibbling about the terminology is very on point, good jo…

Pretty easy to make glib comments like that. How do you propose the problem be addressed? The Constitution as written makes banning guns a non-starter. So amending the Constitution…