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Later is just as likely to never happen, as happen. Billionaires have promised all sorts of things to get tax breaks for the things they want and never followed through with the pa…

With AI doing all the work there is more time for meetings. Product folks aren't going to tell AI to make the code, they are going to still have a meeting to yell at someone that t…

The Apollo program successfully beat the USSR after having been noticeably behind. As a proxy for conflict it was a great deal.

Nursing has become a pretty bad job in modern times, and being a male nurse tends to have more downsides. Exploitation is high in the nursing field, support staff are non-existent,…

This was also closely related to their initial plans with the Xbox One to essentially kill used games, which they were about a decade to fast on rolling out.

There's already a growing amount of smoke in almost every sport, it's not going to explode like it should because no one is actually interested in enforcement outside isolated play…

It's pretty close to one. Having all your games in a single digital library along with cloud saves and achievements for those games in a single place is a real benefit that would l…

PFAS was used in a lot of different things, the sources of major contamination are military bases and manufacturing plants, but it was used in a wide array of consumer products so …

Our system is great at preventing private capture at the small scale and great at ensuring it on the large scale

That's close enough to my experience in state government. The biggest problem was generally a lack of widespread competence. There was plenty of red tape, but there were also lots …

While most the manufacturing work has left the US, the Midwest is full of engineering universities. It's not a coincidence that the big 3 auto companies were based in Detroit and M…

There's plenty of material in Harry Potter to serve as a useful book for the basics of literary analysis. The quotability isn't really relevant to that. There's bravery, slavery, l…

For the farmer that owns the land the windmill got built on it's great. The handful of houses in the area get fuck all though and actually have to deal with the externalities.

If an 18 year old achieves a great score on an 8th grade test they are above average for adults.

Dollar stores are generally more expensive in the long run than other stores. They make their money on higher per unit margins and/or vastly lower quality of products.

I'm not sure I can agree with that. I think the top level of curling has reached a point that's boring to watch as too many shots are perfect. It leads to boring games of waiting f…

A manager of developers should know how to code, but any formal expectation of them coding shouldn't exist. This holds for medium to large organizations. The managerial duties shou…

It's saying you don't need to be proud of your app that has multiple layers of abstractions to be immune to every possible change. There are hard problems, but the most complex sol…

I'd argue just making everything POST is the correct way to do a public Api too. REST tricks you into endpoints no one really wants, or you break it anyway to support functionality…

Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Vermont are the only states that don't have any limits on the increase in property taxes. California may be on the low end at 3%, but most are …

Many states have similar laws and they don't see the same massive real estate costs. High property cost is almost entirely demand based.

There's not a market for healthcare in America though, at least not accessible to the average person. There is a market for Companies and insurance providers, insurance providers a…

The vast majority of houses aren't rebuilt with any regularity in the US. The extreme high-end McMansions are commonly rebuilt, but that's an outlier. Much of the affordable housin…

Inheritance rarely survives past the third generation, it's not really part of the problem.

Separate rates and markets already exist. Commercial property is a totally different market than residential, and agricultural is yet another market. Investment into residential is…