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It’s funny how they don’t include the most populous bird, the chicken. The cognitive dissonance is probably too strong.

The U.S. also let a bank collapse and shit hit the fan across the world.

The global economy isn’t pivoting off Icelandic banks the way it is off US ones.

You may take this as “USA bad”, comment, but let’s take the U.S. life expectancy reaches record high (in 2024) link you posted.

That sounds like a good thing and it is. But it’s not a US story. In fact, other wealthy countries didn’t just already have a higher baseline life expectancy pre-COVID, they rebounded to it post-COVID sooner than the U.S. was able to its already lower level.

So what this actually is, is a story of “global modern medicine good”, and unfortunately, even within that, the U.S. is among the worst performing.

Because they didn’t sell Android phones? More specifically, they didn’t have phones that ran an OS for which all the apps were being built, which practically meant Android since Apple wasn’t licensing iOS.

Going to Windows Phone 7 didn’t solve the fundamental problem they needed to solve. The ecosystem, while also eliminating the ability to differentiate or innovate.

As an Android OEM they'd have zero chance in the Asian market due to cost/features

This is completely wrong.

The Asian Market is far more diverse than that.

The Nokia brand was extremely strong.

The Asian market was and is very capable of supporting high end phones. It’s a smaller percentage of the market than in the west, but the entire market is also a lot bigger, so the absolute size of the Asian high end phone market is not far off from either the U.S. or European high end phone markets.

Even if one assumes that Windows Phone was wonderful (and a long WP7 user, I’m sympathetic to this view), it still doesn’t follow that Windows Phone didn’t kill Nokia.

- Windows Phone had no brand value. It didn’t add to the Nokia brand. It detracted from it

- Windows Phone allowed very minimal UI customization. This meant that Nokia could add little to no Nokia specific functionality

- Windows Phone allowed minimal hardware customization. This meant all Nokia phones looked and behaved like cheap Chinese phones for less than half the price

- Windows Phone was closed source, which meant Nokia engineers could not add either hardware or software functionality beyond whar Windows Phone already supported.

- As part of the Windows phone transition, MS required Nokia to kill their own OS development. Switching to Windows Phone was a hard 1 way turn.

The alternative to Nokia at the time wasn’t Windows Phone vs Meego. It was Windows Phone vs Meego vs Android vs Android + Meego.

The obvious, both contemporaneous and in hindsight, choice was to go with Android which and continue Meego dev on the side as a fallback. Android brought Nokia up to speed on the hardware and app ecosystem side, while allowing them to innovate on the hardware side and using their brand + unique designs + hardware quality to be a leading Android developer.

I hope by “healthy foods” you’re aren’t gonna tell us red meat and raw milk.

But either way, why would economists have commented on what healthy food is and why would anyone listen to them for health information?

That’s almost as bad as getting your dietary and health advice by fitness influencers, gym instructors, chiropractors and surgeons.

Voters don’t reward politicians for solving problems.

If they did these problems would have been solved.

What about showing the U.S. had the capacity to close the strait, requires charging a toll?

Yeah, that’s absolutely true. And thats exactly my point.

Social media is about “generating content”. Social networks were about connecting with people, not about consuming the content they generated.

Heck, the original version of Facebook didn’t even have content. The only interaction you could have with someone else was giving them a “poke”.

The terminology explains what happened.

The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications.

Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks between people.

You’ve literally stated that you are “not knowledgeable enough to debate if it’s a net negative or positive.” and then you’re wondering why someone who has a significant amount of knowledge about the system in question is finding it “hard to accept the shortcomings of the system and acknowledge the cost of running the system”.

The real question is that given that you don’t know anything about the system, why would you find it so hard to accept that maybe your claims are incorrect? Further, the other poster is not stating that there are no costs of running the system. They’re claiming, correctly, that the costs are far lower than alternative mechanisms.

This is not even hard to see. The cost of running NCPI is trivial compared to VISA/Mastercard’s network, not least because being a private company trying to maximize profits VISA/Mastercard overload their core network costs with the costs of running a massive concierge, gift card and loyalty points business, which is where their profits lie.

In addition, to evaluate potential bias because of unmeasured systematic differences between consumers and nonconsumers, we conducted a sensitivity analysis excluding vegans. Vegans comprised a substantial portion of the zero egg consumption group, which could disproportionately influence this group, and they often differ in other lifestyle or health-related characteristics.

So they eliminated vegans from the sensitivity analysis despite them comprising a substantial portion of the no-egg group.

If the analysis doesn’t hold with vegans included, it’s probably saying a lot about dairy rather than eggs.

I don’t believe there’s any evidence behind plant’s feeling or thinking.

Other than that you’re right.

The only cheating Hans admitted to and the only cheating proven were two (maybe 3?) online non monetary games when he was under 15 years old.

Pretty much every player has done something like that.

But again, he was blacklisted before any of even these marginal allegations were proven. And the actual allegations Magnus accused him of and that followed him for years has absolutely no evidence other than Magnus not accepting that Hans could beat him in a highly controlled over the table game.

Also, he continued to be punished in ways that are outside the actual punishment that was given to him that are not official but are being done through winks and nods between Carlsen and Hikaru and tournament organizers who don’t want to upset them.

Does remembering a time when blogs and personal websites were a significant part of the Internet experience now mark me as old…

It seems that the expectation today is everything is written or created for an audience and probably for monetization or “influence”.

Kramnik is an asshole and this action is far too little far too late. His actions have possibly already led to the loss of a life.

At the same time, FIDE also needs to look back at the behavior of some of the most powerful people in the sport in the whole Hans saga. What Hans was put through was ridiculous even if all the allegations were true, given how many actions were simply the result of the most powerful player in the sport throwing his weight around.

I’m not a fan of Hans but I absolutely admire how he managed to continue and grow his career despite the top 2 biggest individuals in the sport, and a whole other set of powerbrokers (for example, the wealthiest tournament in the Sinquefeld cup) teaming up to destroy his career.

The $34 million gives the idea that the water is worth $34 million, but the water costs of growing Alfalfa (largely to be used in the extremely inefficient animal agriculture industry), are a small fraction of the overall costs. Labor and 23,000 acres of land and seeds and fertilizers etc would be a significantly greater cost contributing to the $34 million value.

Dogs kill about 30-50 people in the U.S. every year.

Intimate partner gun violence alone leads to about 700 women being killed every year.

So by your logic, if you’re a woman and your partner has a gun, and is walking towards you and you can’t clearly tell that they don’t have a gun on them, “they just want to give you a kiss before leaving home” isn’t an argument. They’re vermin that can kill you and you’re absolutely allowed to play it safe, defend yourself and shoot them.

Or even better eliminating or at least reducing animal agriculture that aside from the ethical, health and global warming concerns, is a massive user of local resources relative to the non animal resources.

Nope. Not this administration at all.

Trump 1 was a very different administration.

And Trump himself has publicly backed off what was probably his one major achievement after receiving pushback from his supporters.

There are other quotes that do think it’s significant. Why do you think the more critical scientists are more correct?

John Glass, a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, Calif., who was not involved in the study. “It is dazzling that she has put these things all together,” he said.

“We’re going to remember this moment,” said Roseanna Zia, a computational biologist at the University of Missouri who was not involved in the project.

Maybe you prefer scientists who put their money where their mouth is (even if that’s a conflict of interest)

When Dr. Adamala showed SpudCell to Dr. Endy… (a synthetic biologist at Stanford University) … last year, he was so awestruck that he decided to help her found Biotic, the nonprofit organization intended to create a community of SpudCell researchers. “I’m pouring my life’s work into this,” Dr. Endy said.

Russia cannot be fully “undone”.

Ukraine’s goal cannot be, and is not, to “defeat” Russia.

Ukraine’s goal, correctly, is to increase the cost of this war sufficiently that Putin’s underlings and oligarchs will revolt and overthrow him and end this incredibly wasteful hubristic endeavor by Putin.

And far more viruses spread naturally from animals to humans and far more epidemics have been caused by that.

So the logic of “they are a common occurrence” speaks to the opposite conclusion.

The post is not wrong. It’s just incomplete and the headline is wrong.

A lot of what Cuban is saying is true. But in the U.S., a lack of regulations means that the local effects of data centers, in terms of overloading the grid, water supplies and creating noise (and sometimes air) pollution are significant.

What’s the problem with the trade deficit?

Americans are getting actual products and services in return for depreciating IOUs.

It’s like a loan where the lender pays interest.

Why would anyone be against that?

Note: This is different from the strategic interest in maintaining domestic industries. That’s very defensible. But I don’t understand the fear of a trade deficit denominated in your own currency (other countries have bigger genuine concerns with a dollar denominated trade deficit, because if their currency falls against the dollar suddenly, they’re kind of screwed, at least in the short term).

America’s decision to make healthcare a for profit industry is the root of all of this.

The obvious points are medicines and equipment. To some degree, these are actually the most justifiable parts of the industry that should be for profit.

The parts that are far less justified: - The insurance industry surrounding healthcare. Obamacare brought in some regulation that drastically slowed the growth of healthcare costs. - The education industry surrounding healthcare. Becoming a doctor in the U.S. is incredibly expensive. You rack up massive loans, you’re racking up interest on those loans for years, well into your late 20s (including the loans you racked up for your undergrad), and then you’re spending the first decade of your career all the way to the late 30s, just paying those loans back. You’re one of the most sought after professional in the world and yet it takes you until your late 30s to basically break even. The upshot of that is you charge a ton not just to pay back your loans but to justify spending so much time and energy on a career that means you start being money positive for the first time in your late 30s. - Insurance. The American legal system that does not place any penalty on frivolous lawsuits essentially inserts a significant cost due to bad actors on everyone. Personally, I’m not clear on what this cost actually is and how significant it is, but if you talk to doctors and hospital administrators, they seem to believe it’s incredibly high. - Hospitals being for profit. I actually think for profit hospitals are more efficient than non profit ones, but the problem here is what they prioritize. A non profit hospital system may prioritize family care and regular checkups to keep people healthy and prevent them from falling sick in the first place. A for profit hospital probably prioritizes surgeries and elaborate procedures that make a lot of money. And that’s before we get to spending on customer acquisition, either due to fancy buildings etc or just straight up advertisement and marketing.

In the U.S. property rights superseded human rights. That’s what slavery was. In fact, slaves were essentially treated as we do animals today.

Our descendants will look at us the way we do our slave owning ancestors. Except worse, because we’re leaving trillions of images and videos showing the grotesqueness of our behavior towards other sentient beings treating them worse than the way our ancestors treated other humans they saw the way we do other sentient animals.

And yet they don’t protect cockroaches which are sentient, unlike trees.

Sentience is what deserves rights. Not life.

Nearly every cell in our body is alive. Hair follicles are alive. Does that mean shaving should be illegal now?

But yes, a cockroach should have the right to not be unnecessarily killed and caused harm just like we wouldn’t accept for a dog or a cat because a cockroach isn’t just alive, but it has consciousness and feelings (ie sentience).

So they’re all vegan right…

Right…

Right…????