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I didn't realize that air dominance prevented enemy missiles from hitting surface ships. That's a rather unique definition of air dominance. If your enemy has access to satellites,…

The data you cite does not say what you think it does. In fact, it makes the very mistake I was pointing out in my original post -- failing to control for rates of prostitution and…

There is no increased risk of being a victim of violence for being transgender that is not fully accounted for by the increased risk of engaging in prostitution. It is just that tr…

> I'm seeing a lot of claims here that DEI initiatives are about actively hiring under-qualified under-represented candidates to change the demographics of the company. This is exa…

This is hacker news, so they are going to be focusing on tech layoffs, but really there are layoffs happening in all industries, and tech is about the middle of the pack. In terms …

Parenting strategies, like war plans, rarely survive first contact with the enemy.

Last time I was in the housing market in San Francisco, earthquake insurance was not mandated. Can you point me to the law mandating it now? Perhaps you mean it's mandated by your …

1989 was, what, 34 years ago? This is a 5-10X generation event to you, I guess. I can't even begin to unwind all the innumerate assumptions, but motivated reasoning is powerful I g…

By the same logic, all the houses built in the earthquake zones of San Francisco and LA should also be raised. I've noticed that there has been mass hysteria in some California-cen…

I don't think this is due to illegal aliens, without which our construction industry would be in even worse shape, but rather that there have been massive declines in the competenc…

> This narrative that the market forced them to do layoffs feels flimsy when they have so much money, doesn't it? They had other options. The options they have is to abandon positi…

The "payment" can be taken in the form of higher share price, share buybacks, dividends, future dividends, etc. It does not have take one specific form or another. Despite the fact…

I will assume you are asking in good faith, so here goes. What you think of as "profit" -- e.g. just some random, arbitrary, completely free bonus that Google should be grateful to…

It depends on whether the tech is itself inherently sensitive or whether it will just be used for defense among other uses. A lot of defense stuff falls in the latter category in w…

Imagine you are running a restaurant and normally you get 100 people a night and you service that with 10 staff, and you know for the next year you will get 200 people a night and …

But were you actually denied boarding, or just worried about it? The restrictions may affect what kind of credit you get for missing a flight, but you will never be banned from fly…

Back in reality, people miss flights all the time. Not only are you not banned from flying the airline, you often get a credit that you can apply for your next flight.

The idea is you get the content for free if you also get the ads. Why do you think publishers don't expose an API client that serves their content for free? The issue is why can't …

Or an audience desperate for some diversion, especially a risk-seeking audience. But no reason the machines can't just pay out 100% and so offer risk to people who want to buy it i…

I gave multiple examples related to energy, education, environmental policy, crime, etc, and urged you to learn how to use a search engine to look up surveys. You fixated maniacall…

There are many surveys out there. California generally competes with Illinois and New Jersey as the most hated state and the most dysfunctional state. For example, https://www.cagr…

Nothing hurts some Californians' feelings than the simple fact that the rest of the nation no longer looks to them for guidance. Yes, California is still big. But it's no longer a …

Scroll down to the part where something was actually enacted as opposed to being promised to be enacted long after the legislators leave office. These "plans", "pledges" are about …

I very much doubt this will happen. Toyota announced it will continue to produce ICE cars, and other major manufacturers will walk back their vague "goals" once the utopian goals a…