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but what about everyone else pushing for the law but who didn't go?

Who exactly is influential & organized enough across many western countries to push legislation that no one is asking for? Notice that epstein said he worked for [withheld] in some of his emails.

The typical couple does not want a glass box.

I would pivot H-1B teams to Canadian offices if I were big tech.

US rockets were always made by private providers like SpaceX or Boeing.

I do not understand why Wired exist. Who wants news about technology from a techno-pessimist angle?

You could take these type of orders as "pending" then require a SMS code to access the final payment page. Adding an extra step like this might discourage the attacker if their goal is not attacking you specifically. They will move on to another easier target.

Wall to wall astroturfing on Reddit is killing it's usefulness since the election. We need an alternative that prevents botmasters from having 5000 accounts. One solution is doing like X/twitter and charging $8/month. Another solution would be using Meta's social graph. Is there some other way to prove you are a human?

Only one lab in the world doing GoF experiments on this specific furin cleavage site AND a random natural mutation happens within a few KM of this lab on this specific furin cleavage site. What are the odds of this happening? Very close to zero.

Yes cutting $2T is not realistic. If they manage to do a few percent of the goal it is still going to be good for everyone.

Bloat is a major issue that prevent anglosphere societies from achieving goals that poorer societies do easily. Ex: Spain or France do awesome public transit for 3 or 5 times less than we do.

Yes, the republicans will cut spending. Next election cycle the Democrats will be able raise spending, but now from a more sound basis. The deadwood will be pruned. DOGE is good for both the left and the right.

Also do note that the current Twitter valuation is higher than we he bought it. Cutting 80% of the staff at twitter was the right move. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/elon-musks-startup-xai-now-120118...

Humans are meant to have kids and form families. This is the life meaning that is escaping childless strivers.

He seems to realize he is an Elon bro but still thinks DOGE is an important national priority and not a problematic oligarchic downsizing of our important federal services and regulatory bodies.

I'm confused by this belief. Anyone who has ever interacted with a big government in the West knows they are a knot of old and confusing regulations that cause every thing to be slow and expensive. A leftist should be happy that the state gets to accomplish more with it's existing budget.

I do not understand how this article undermines the Kurgan Hypothesis. The modern horse enters the picture later according to those discoveries, but it is still within the right time frame and geographic location.

The participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, but the diets had the same amount of calories total, and the same calorie density. The results are striking; participants eating ultra-processed foods consumed more calories and gained weight while the other group lost weight. [1]

Did they eat the same amount of calories or more calories? People will eat more of tasty food and less of bland food. You could get the inverse result by giving bland ultra-processed food and tasty unprocessed food.

Every big retailer has its own house brand. There is nothing special about a big retailer using their sales data to make decisions on house branding.

No they cannot adjust their pricing to whatever they like because Amazon is not a monopoly. People can buy stuff elsewhere. If Amazon pricing is bad, people will leave and it will kill Amazon.

How are consumer harmed by Facebook Marketplace appearing in Facebook?

But why would Facebook not have the right to show Facebook Marketplace on their own platform? Is Facebook not allowed to add features to their app? Is Facebook Group an unfair competitor to other online forums? Who decide what features are allowed?

A charitable interpretation of what he said is that we need to do real world experiment instead of of relying on the opinion of supposed experts. Real data based on well made experiments trumps the opinion of any particular person.

I believe it is an elaborate psyop to shift the blame of inflation away from the government and toward a boogeyman, the "evil" grocery chains. As you point out the margins are super tight in food retail, it is impossible for it to be the cause of inflation.

From the point of view of the average man however, the grocery store is exactly where he is facing inflation daily! This makes it the ideal scapegoat.

The average man will never ever realize that the monetary mass surged during covid while real world production slowed down. More dollars chasing fewer goods & services equals rising prices. That monetary policy smoothed out the COVID downturn and it was a great success, but it was not a free lunch.

Claude Sonnet was awesome at launch. It became much dumber over the last two weeks. There must be behind the scene throttling going on as it got more popular.

A sane bank CEO would never get taken by such a simple con. The guy must have been suffering of some kind of dementia. It can happen at any age.

Poisonings, people falling out of windows, arsons, it all make sense if you consider that it is a state captured by a mafia clan. John McCain famously said that Russia is ‘A Gas Station Run by a Mafia That Is Masquerading as a Country’

Even in this tablet age, my kids love reading "Le Journal de Mickey". It's a bit expensive to get it in Canada.

The leaf blower is used after using the weed eater (String trimmer) to blow all the little bits back into the grass.

If their claim is true, should they not do it themselves and make a lot of money? It would help their mission greatly to have a few extra billion dollars.

Getting quality links is usually a long and expensive process. Paying $6k could make sense if they are delivering good results.

If you are at or above 1% chargeback you are going to get problem at any normal payment processor.

Source: https://www.chargeflow.io/blog/chargeback-threshold-limits

And yet, European cities exist and are fine without wide streets.

The issue with braking distance and jackknifing could be resolved with smaller trucks. The 18 wheeler we know is optimal because it maximize the cubic volume driven by one person. If you don't need the human driver, two smaller trucks might be better than one.

A nice followup to Twilight of the Æsir is to watch "The Northman" (2022). It depicts beautifully their worldview. It does not shy away from showing their dark side too.