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Either I’m having a stroke or GPT-3 needs some serious work when the topic is human nutrition.

That number should piss you off. The U.S. was by far the leading global agricultural exporter in 2020 with exports valued at $147.9 billion. [0] And it's not like it's hard to get …

Ah, I love this game. It's the same one that the super-rich use to convince people barely scraping by -- or anyone who hasn't read Barbara Ehrenreich -- that you should zoom out fa…

At best, you can hope to make surveilling you more expensive or more inconvenient. But if Snowden taught us anything, it's that whatever you needed to do to get yourself tangled up…

>As long as we have free and open trade nothing is really going to kill it. I've got some really bad news for you, friend. The free trade era is already over and demographic collap…

>For whatever reason positive news tends not to play well on HN, even if it’s factual. People on HN are very good and detecting when someone is trying to blow sunshine up their ass…

And it's all downhill from here. With the collapse of globalization, everything will become cheaper, slower, worse quality, and harder to get.

If your threat model includes nation state intervention, a 5 Euro VPN isn't going to help you. In fact, no VPN is going to help you. The best you can get is probably Tor + Tails, b…

100%. Trump should have banned TikTok, and Biden should do it now. Do not wait. Sanction ByteDance. While we're at it -- kill Grindr too. It was sold off for similar reasons, but i…

It already has, in China. China has tons of simple BEVs. Time will tell whether that’s what Americans will want, though.

> That's not a compelling reason to buy or continue to own a Tesla. Well sure. It’s just the state of the world. I’d expect a Tesla owner to be someone who can handle repairs havin…

You gotta start somewhere. We’ll have to get used to it. Lots of people are going to be new at their job, given turnovers lately.

I’m confused. Did they announce they’re not going to do it?

Does Apple offer “offline” versions of their updates in DMG form?

It is, and it’s an about face from when the racists were pro-abortion because black mothers were accessing them.

I don’t think there was ever any doubt. He certainly funded, personally, many abortions throughout his life.

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Most Japanese live in cities. Japanese homes in cities are very small. Most of Japanese night life is lived outside the home.

> Some might call it inhumane. But, it provides rehabilitation for those willing to seek care, it provides safety for those who've 'fallen on hard times' and makes the difficult de…

Why are you seeing ads? Is your adblocker broken?

> Any gun control measure that restricts firearms makes it harder to defend yourself. Bump stocks were outlawed. What impact did that have on self-defense? What impact did restrict…

> If you remove my ability to protect myself am I not forced to rely on the police to protect me? Gun control does not remove your ability to protect yourself. This is a false prem…

Crypto is user hostile then? Got it

So what exactly is the point of holding BTC if it can be held hostage like this? Crypto continues to fail at its most basic premises.

So about half the size of the battery in question. That is to say, Australia built a centralized battery almost twice the size. Their population is 25m. California’s is 40m. My poi…