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Last time I looked the stats for a lifetime were 1% die in a car accident 10% serious injury in a car accident Accidents 1 / 500,000 miles. https://www.torquenews.com/14335/how-saf…

But I don't want to driving a vehicle on the same road I am on. Well, not exactly you but, you know, those idiots.

Having driven a tractor on my parents' farm, I can confirm this. It is so mindless it is not boring, because you can think of other things.

It is interesting but I had the opposite experience. I think two things led to this. 1. In ante-natal classes the person took us through child development and what children are cap…

> 155 met inclusion criteria as smoking 20 or more days per month. That is insane.

Just how internet stocks fell 90% in 2000-2003, thus demonstrating the "Nobel" economist Paul Krugman's was right. His insight was that the internet was just a fad and would have n…

These symptoms can also he a manifestation of histamine intolerance. If your enzymes that break down histamines (diamine oxidase - DAO or histamine methyltransferase - HMT) are fau…

I don't know much about the situation in Texas but where I live (Australia) the typical situation - it differs from one state to another - is that you have a semi-deregulated marke…

Back in Roman times Cicero pointed out that democracy leads to chaos, which leads to tyranny, which leads to monarchy which leads to Aristocracy which leads to democracy. There see…

> allistics are the exception? Actually this seems unlikely given the sequence of evolution. But... Here is a spoof of Allistic Spectrum Disorder imagined as if it affected a small…

> actual German Nazi Asperger was Austrian. Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party. Impressive to make 2 errors in 3 words.

> the term is literally named after a Nazi Asperger was literally never a member of the Nazi party. So what you said it literally a lie.

> created by a literal Nazi This is a literal lie. See the wikipedia article for example. The fact someone on the internet claimed he was german and a literal nazi is no evidence a…

> Nazi doctor Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party. I invite everyone here who has stood up against a murderous totalitarian dictatorship at the likely cost of their life …

> biases might help You might like the book "Simple Heuristics that make us smart" which explores this idea https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Heuristics-That-Make-Smart/dp/...

Exactly - the overwhelming nature of these signals (e.g. the searing brightness of eye contact) pushes people away from them. This then produces difficulties as a result of not see…

I notice over the years SA has become more and more influenced by fashion. The pressures to appeal to the popular crowd have only intensified over the years. Why would you subscrib…

Meltdowns are a common feature of the lives of Autistic people. There are vast resources available from books to many good youtube videos. Getting a formal assessment is fairly exp…

> over that 10-20 year cycle the market is always net up This is simply not true especially if you take inflation into account. And even more so if you look outside the US (one of …

> uranium would only last 80 years Thank you for pointing this out. People blithely assume that U235 is available in unlimited supply when it is not. My own view is that it is a us…

We have had "off peak hot water" for many decades. Multiple different rates for peak and off-peak. It is not useless but it does have its price in terms of complexity and usability…

The problem with your great ideas, and "great ideas"generally is the lack of proven numbers. As the poster above you pointed out the capacity of LI batteries is tiny. Yet you tout …

> lots of proven ways None of which work beyond a few hours. The sheer number of batteries and the amount of pumped hydro needed is phenomenal. As one data point, Elon Musk's much …

False and misleading. First, it only refers to the US, while the headline makes no such qualification. Second, this refers only to electricity generation, which is roughly 25% of U…

> (defmacro double (x) > `(* x x)) Two bugs in two lines. Lisp is indeed a powerful language.