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The "build with impunity" doesn't self-identify as such, and they would probably describe their position with more nuance. Something like "ensuring continued American economic grow…

Yes. They're likely referring to on-demand electric heating units that are installed near the shower head. Our World in Data is based in the UK. Electric showers like this one http…

I'm dismayed by the current political discourse on this topic. Seems like the two camps are 1) let mega corps build data centers with impunity or 2) use NIMBY tactics to oppose the…

Inflation has been high enough that it messes with our perception of things, but I believe the data shows otherwise (at least in the US). - Disappearance of cheap new cars: You can…

The early 2010s, the age of financial bailouts, Occupy Wall Street, and two "forever" wars. No one ever thinks they're living through a Golden Age.

That's a cool idea. I'm no longer the right age for such things, but I'm glad people are trying to create unsurveilled spaces. It feels doomed, though. Smart glasses wearers are be…

I think many social sites have tried to solve it, but in a world where anything is easily saved or screenshotted, it's still effectively a "universal room". Not to mention that pro…

Took me a few reads, too.

I appreciate this comment, and agree with it in some respects, but some of these specifics are demonstrably false. > It's the nation born of a continent-wide campaign of genocide a…

Or we could just build trains (in the US, other wealthy places seem to already get this)

Going to do my best to respond to this while still following the HN guidelines: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. RIMR says…

I'm (genuinely) curious as to what your idea of a less dangerous theology would be. I'm an atheist, but I find the inherent dignity of humans as beings made in the image of God to …

Such an interesting comment. I've commuted 1+ hours per day via bicycle for years and never once had a dog encounter. 3 per day is wild.

If history is any guide, you're technically correct, but it's no help to the lower classes. Many a divine king, high priest, or emperor has died at the hands of those they depended…

I remember that whole election starting off very poorly for Nate Silver. After reading this book, The Party Decides https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo592160... …

Touche, I was thinking of it more as 100 miles in length, not 100 miles in width running all the way down the coast, but your interpretation seems more correct.

IDK if pretty much everyone can exclude Florida and Texas, the second and third most populated states. (Or I suppose you could be excluding the Northeast Corridor instead of Florid…

> I make it a point to have 5-10 minute ad-hoc conversations with my directs 1-2 times a week, feels a lot more natural than a scheduled 1-on-1. I prefer the exact opposite, especi…

We call that "pulling an Altman" these days.

That's the whole point. When people hear "the middle class is shrinking" they intuitively believe people are slipping down a rung and joining the ranks of the working poor. The dat…

The American shale gas/fracking boom really distorted a lot of things. The strategic energy situations of the United States, the EU, and China were all pretty similar in the late 2…

I have an elderly family member who has a large number of medications. They seem to frequently lose track of what meds they're taking. Worse, it seems that doctors often prescribe …

TBH, it seemed such an obvious point you're making that I assumed the author had to be comparing inflation-adjusted dollars, but from the (very little) digging that I did, it looks…

Everyone I know who studied astrophysics ended up in Fintech doing data science anyway. "illusion of choice"

There's certainly some flukiness to being the only major country on the planet that hadn't been shelled and bombed to smithereens in the preceding decades. That's not the whole sto…