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Definitely depends on race. As a white guy '91 would have been easy sailing.
Being a white guy in 2021 is easy sailing.
Life Improvements Since the 1990s
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#52Time between 1990 to now is not linear. The web kicked off in the late 90's, picked up the 2000's but not real fast, and now is really flying and one assumes it will continue to accelerate. Power tools are amazing. And that's the internet pushing them. I can see reviews with each new advancement anywhere in the world. They can see R&D around the world. Each company has to keep up and so do the counterfeiters. I'll or…
What major power tool innovations have happened since 1990? Battery tech is the only big one I can think of.
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#53> Car Theft is rarer, and in particular, we no longer have to worry about our car windows being smashed to steal our car radios > Remember when physically detaching your car radio to avoid leaving it in the car was considered a 100% normal thing to do? Why is it rarer, I wonder? I do recall having a detachable faceplate on my car radio. I sold that car in ~2010 or so but stopped bothering with the detaching long befo…
>Why is it rarer, I wonder?
There are various ani-theft technologies that can kick in if an infotainment system is removed. Electronics are also just cheaper in general so there's less value in stealing them.
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#54I looked at the 1980s desktop picture and I realized nothing has improved since then.
I looked at the 1980s desktop picture and realized the computer on it was a Mac Classic (with the logo and name removed, and an earlier mouse and keyboard), which was released in 1990.
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What property of the gas range do you most enjoy? I have recently swapped gas for induction and it dropped my meal prep time by 20~30% because I'm not standing around waiting for pans to get hot anymore. If I was big into wok cooking, I'd probably keep the gas range. 99% of the time I just want to get a pan to 500F or boil a pot of water ASAP.
Likely our experiences of electric stoves varies. I recall electric stoves which take a few minutes to heat up & didn't get very hot at that Another nice situation was during the 2003 blackout my father was able to crank a turn table to play some records while lighting the stove with a match to cook dinner
> I recall electric stoves which take a few minutes to heat up & didn't get very hot at that
You should try induction sometime. Convective electric is very slow by comparison and I have struggled with it myself for many years. My current cooktop can take a 10" iron skillet from dead cold to smoking hot in under 30 seconds using the maximum setting.
Only caveat with induction is the distance to element & cookware material constraints, both of which can usually be overcome with little difficulty.
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#56Interesting. My first thought was, 'HIV is not a death sentence', and looked for the section on medicine. Randomly:
- Mapping the human genome has led to many applications of genetic medicine.
- Polio was eradicated in India.
- Cancer death rates declined 27% since 1999...
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#57I can't pinpoint what it is specifically, but something about this website visually makes reading it seem unpleasant.
I think the lines of text are too wide, the font is too large and thick, the line height is too small, and paragraphs really need to be padded vertically, the indentation instead makes it seem like a high school essay and made me want to close the tab immediately.
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#58I think he kind of missed the elephant that is modern communication technology has reduced the marginal cost of skilled services enabling pretty much every object designed in an office and manufactured in a factory to benefit from a broader array of engineering and design professionals and methodologies. The average product and service that the average actor in the economy interacts with is designed and optimized to…
>(barring regulation that forces compromises to product efficacy)
Can you really not think of any benefits of regulation to correct for pervasive market failures?
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#59> stoves You'll pry my gas range from my cold, dead hands
For me it's the fact they don't work everywhere. Electricity is not a given in all places, be it outdoor or in a country where the current isn't stable.
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#60My kitchen is definitely antediluvian by this standard. We still have a gas stove. The induction stove after week of use has been relegated quietly to the attic by the wife, and has stayed there for years. I suspect Indian cooking doesn’t lend itself well to the use of induction stoves.