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Nit: I believe this originated with locomotives, predating aircraft by quite a bit!

> that might appear to be incentive to improve quality Their goal isn't to provide high quality care. Their goal is to increase profits. It's not hard to imagine how improved quali…

I blame Star Wars, kinda. Watching it with my kid, I can't help but notice that everywhere they travel in space -- even by accident -- they end up by a planet that can support huma…

I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or…

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but you are making a category error if you conflate hitting your thumb with a hammer with running a nuclear power plant. One of the problems w…

> Turkiye not China in this case. Not sure if you're referring to Syria or Iran, but the article explictly states that the solar in Syria is coming from China: "Syria’s high level …

> far left silicon valley ideologes [sic] This is a trope that's more than a few years out of date. Silicon Valley is run by Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Mus…

> There hasn't been a time when developers have been more disconnected from their audience than now. I'm curious what you mean by this. It seems like gamers have never been more vo…

You missed mentioning the title of her book about General Patraeus: "All In." That's an ironic biography name second only to the one about Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football c…

> Honestly, I am surprised it is only 350 deaths per year. Isn't this exactly why we need to know how many deaths there are -- so we can judge the level of risk we face?

> I watched a union refuse to support a colleague of mine. Why? Because the people in the union were competing against him for resources and they wanted him gone. And they succeede…

With all due respect, do you consider yourself, with ~55 active tenants/leases, to be a "small landlord"?

Fun fact: The version Normal Rockwell painted shows Rosie stepping on a copy of Mein Kampf. Good times! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RosieTheRiveter.jpg

> It confirms your political priors while ironically making you feel smug about your scientific knowledge. You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if not Trump) indeed cr…

> "did you look at the PR I pushed yesterday, do you think this is something we can get into production soon?" ChatGPT, look at the status of the PR and compare it to the flow char…

Musk could spend 10 or even 100 billion on more down to Earth efforts without affecting his quality of life in the slightest. Instead he's promoting a self-serving idea, one that r…

Billionaires could trivially fund uncontroversial projects like planting trees or solar electrification, especially in the developing world, both of which would help stop global wa…

> I don't want to be liked by everyone. Why would you? Eh, this is a bit of a straw man, no? It's one thing to be liked by everyone. It's another for a (presumably) long time, clos…

I am looking at your link and thinking I took crazy pills. The graph shows just under 23% in 1989, going up past 27% by 1996, then dipping a few years later only to go up to 29% a …

> AI _properly_ integrated into education will be a huge improvement for students because it will enable each student to have personalized instruction and tutoring. This is a fine …

> But how much would you like to bet that 90% of those students who were booing also used AI to do their homework for them quite often? So your take away would be "the AI stole the…

Hey, I'm pretty sure the person you're replying to is being satirical, and you're both in alignment on this one.

I can tell you're upset, but it's hard to understand what you're arguing for with those last two points. > 1. Let's not pretend that young people... don't make their own terrible d…

With any luck, oil prices will rise enough to make that conversion worthwhile!