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Risk aversion could be looked at in the same lens in my opinion. It’s possible to be risk adverse in a modern society as we have risk takers to do it on your behalf. Policemen and …

Counter point: Apple exists in their size because of the US’s willingness to keep shipping lanes and trade routes open by use of force and US diplomatic efforts to allow for trade …

My opinion is the original 99 cent app, then followed free apps and services caused a public devaluation of software costs. Use Youtube as an example. It tickles me hearing people …

https://youtu.be/NFw7ZifqhTg?si=IujBLjIsaQysNHmp&t=267 4:27 “The time when we conveniently let the United States carry the burden for our security is over. The US is absolutely com…

Anecdotally, my company has a device driver posted on Windows Update. I inherited the project and was digging through Microsoft’s hardware dashboard trying to find information on t…

From watching talks by the various US think tanks (CSIS, CFR, Hudson, etc), the common theme whenever the topic of AI is brought up is that the US is in strategic competition with …

“Sixty-three percent of adults said they would cover a hypothetical $400 emergency expense exclusively using cash or its equivalent, unchanged from 2022 and 2023 but down from a hi…

Something like this already happened relatively recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods?wprov=sfti1

It sounds like you’re making the assumption that things will remain static because the alternative is unfathomable to even consider.

Sure, but we’re talking about hundreds of miles of coast line all being affected, within various regions as the article points out, at relatively the same time. Thousands of coastl…

What I wonder about sea level rise is what happens to all of the development that gets swallowed by the sea? I’m not optimistic that there will be proper cleanup of the stuff that …

That 25% turns out to over 77 million people. Reducing voting results to percentages is a bit silly in my opinion. We both major parties, including minority parties, are composed o…

It is if war is in the future. And I’m not saying this as hyperbole but based on statements made by NATO secretary general (both Rutte, previously Stoltenberg and former General Ba…

It’d be foolish to rule it out completely even if it looks benign at face value. It’s entirely plausible for someone to be recruited on behalf of another state, seeing how it’s cur…

What I find funny about their sign that says “your photo will be deleted”, it fails to specify how many memcpy’s of the bits making up the photo have been made and if they made any…

Recent events suggest dismissing sabotage as a likely cause would be foolish. 10:13 presents details involving sabotage throughout Europe as well as states choosing to not disclose…

I like how the generated response after a “stop” is “You will not receive any more messages from this number.” Where they turn around and send you a message from a different number…

If the CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet corporation I work at is anything like Microsoft, employees are given too much different work that causes needless mental context switching while you…

That was my thought. The supports look like toothpicks relative to the ships that routinely pass through. I don't know enough about the forces involved here, but I'd like to think …

> Some of the WIV's genetic engineering projects on coronaviruses involved techniques that could make it difficult to detect intentional changes. A 2017 dissertation by a WIV stude…

I raised my eyebrow at that comment and found [1] and [2] which mentions evidence of human influence in the region, though I can't watch that BBC doc in my region, the paper is pre…

Unchecked aggression tends to lead to more aggression if you just glance at history. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Spanish invading the Americas, US pushing out the Natives, Roman …

I'm working in a codebase that has, at times, 10+ different expressions within a single conditional in many places, and trying to pull out the context of why the conditional exists…

Imagine finding a correlation between specific genes and specific spending habits. Have Alphabet spin up a company that does what 23andMe does, offer a cooler, trendier version of …