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True. I'm not saying that populist anti-elite rhetoric has a history of ending well. I'm saying that sh*tty elites who inspire and empower such rhetoric are the real problem. Note that in …

“Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by …

Another way to read this - many managers have gotten so deep into their "I have lots of employees in the office and visibly working on...something or other" worldviews that they are blind (p…

True - but as a recent condo tower collapse in Florida illustrated, "can pay" !== "pay", even when there are no NIMBY, legal, environmental, etc. barriers at all. Thousands of com…

> Didn't read the article - no access With JS disabled, I can read it perfectly well (Firefox, Privacy Badger, and NoScript, from the U.S.A.).

No idea if or how it might be calculated, but "Percent of humanity who will need to move elsewhere. Either because their old homes are now too besieged by flood / fire / drought /…

Might you share your (approximate) location, to give us some context?

A bread machine can make the "make our own bread...toast" less laborious. (Recipes printed in bread machines' instruction booklets tend toward the less-healthy, but with some experimen…

Because the Health Dept. doesn't have ~$100,000 to drop on a robot dog, the sales literature for Spot is slanted to appeal to a macho law enforcement mindset, and the police realize that the opti…

Interesting - glancing through the 330-and-counting comments here, I see an enormous amount of harsh language about Apple, feelings of betrayal by Apple, promises to never buy another Apple product, e…

This. Is there any organization on earth - government, corporation, whatever - with even a mediocre track record for commercial-scale deployment of (fairly) radical new nuclear power technologies?

IIR, that optimal cylinder assumes that the cost per unit area of the sides is the same as the top & bottom. A can of coke - or beer, or other carbonated & pressurized beverage - breaks that …

If the unpleasantries only applied to a few very rich, who were trying to skip town that way, then you'd have a decent argument. Unfortunately, it sounds like the vast majority of targets bear no…

> ...it would seem that the IRS is trying very hard make this process unappealing IANAL, but I believe that all the unpleasantries which you note were decided by the U.S. Congress. (Most probably …

TL;DR summary: No, but "Tuskegee experiment" is a convenient story and easy excuse. More interesting would be a comparison of COVID vaccination rates (among American blacks) with their acce…

Look at a (glass) wine bottle - there are a few centimeters of ever-so-compressible air between the top of the wine and the cork. If the Roman wineries did not leave a similar bit of air in their amp…

The ship being ~90m underwater probably matters more. Water pressure at that depth would break the seals on all the amphorae before the wreck even hit the bottom.

"take [them] down" -Devin Wenig "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" -Henry II Them more things change, the more they stay the same. -Unknown

Issue 1 - A karyotype that is as accurate as the age-old glance at the newborn's genitals would require lab work. Mandating such a change at scale would see push-back from almost all of the part…

I get the sense that you (& many others) believe that GM should have acted as a regulated bank ("know your customer" rules), as a regulated securities rating firm, and/or as an auth…

What due diligence is reasonably required of GM, if the deal is obviously a win or wash for them, no matter what happens at NKLA?

There is no need for robots to have that sort of issue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine …

Privacy Badger, Firefox, and NoScript here, and I can read the article fine. I'd suggest you try a few js-blocking add-ons.

If done with this level of competence and honesty, what jobs (if any) would you NOT describe as "very hard"?

Try disabling javascript in your browser. At least in the U.S.A., that lets me read most paywalled articles linked from HN. (Yes, cool multi-media content is lost. Parent's complaint was "…

A slightly-critical point, which seems 99.9% ignored here. I found an article - https://www.iphonehacks.com/2021/07/apple-threatens-exit-uk-... - saying "A UK high cou…

HN has a few features which might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695

I also recall that. This 7-year-old article pretty much says the same thing: https://gothamist.com/food/restaurant-finds-phone-zombies-sl... A less-polite phrasing of your theor…