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lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty.

Basically true, but not much more than that for most Chinese. The urban modern success story presented to the world is a surprisingly small segment of a notably larger population and even for many in that smaller more fortunate segment the gravy days are long ago and no sign of returning yet.

https://eastasiaforum.org/2011/08/19/in-the-city-but-not-of-...

"Steelman" in almost every response never gets less cringe for me

History reveals that every war is won by the nation with superior industrial capacity.

Canadian hydroelectric is the catalyst that makes winter hothouse produce cost competitive. Wealthy us elec producers have no incentive to match Canada's low cost of production. Indeed their incentives are rather contrary.

Robotic polinators ftw.

As with Ukraine, it's a David and Goliath kind of conflict and in both conflicts, the temptation for Goliath to escalate by leveraging scale is predictable, tempting and frought.

Intro to "moral hazard"

You had good luck navigating a house of mirrors. It's still a house of mirrors though.

2nd that

Fable certainly hasn’t blow my socks off. Same. Its not so much perf increase as cost increase justified by ambiguous perf increase.

Up next is boom's line of of landscape blowers

I lived in the area where boom did their flight tests and the local news would announce days when they were testing. FWIW, I think they used scaled down aircraft so production aircraft may vary, but the boom was more of a thump. It comes on quick though, so some potential for startling, not on account of volume so much as sonic attack.

Aldi's and Lidl have 1/3 the SKUs which in and of itself is a winning advantage.

Also a thing with podcast adverts.

Vitamin k and k2 are not at all the same with respect to blood thinning

MDs NPs and PAs currently are offered free access to a medical AI app called Open Evedidence. Was just discussing this with our chief medical officer and while he is quite enthusiastic about it, he could already see this same dumbing down effect emerging among his providers. The solution I think, is 5 or 10 ten year re-certification exams for MDs, currently reqd for "Physician Extenders" but not the Physicians who supervise them. Continuing compulsory education and re-certification works, I suspect, in all highly skilled fields that are both augmented by AI but also degraded by it.

Soon to be rebranded...

Profits are irreducibly profitable, regardless.

americans pretending they aren't refugees by using the term expat is almost too ironic.

Not here to entirely disagree its bonkers, but Tesla lost about 6b until 2022 when it got profitable and has since returned a healthy multiple of its prior losses as profits.

The Constitution simply states that representation shall be based on population but doesn't specify a fixed cap. The number of Reps in the House was frozen by the Congressional apportionment Act of 1929.

How is that proportional, a century of pop growth later?

Picard is far from perfect, but it does more or less impose a semblance of uniformity across a large library.

They're not legislatively inept, it's simply that viscerally, the electorate knows both mobs are guilty of the same representational transgressions. The GOP was always the party of big biz, while the dems were fronting as the hoi poloi's party, and everyone kinda figured that out as Trump played that irony and the anger behind it, masterfully.

How do you get out from behind that, is what renders them inept.

He's arguably in worse shape than FDR in his last term. I've come around to seeing such talk as yet another clever and effective bum rush to stave off hisgetting written off as the lame duck he actually is.

Think what you want about him, he is if nothing else, a manipulative genius, so it tracks.

After 20 years of consumer GPS goog offers Sub-Garmin quality navigation service, and a generous helping of UI non-intuitives.

See also: "The Madness of Crowds" On Wall Street,people think they are betting on the fin performance of Companies, when in fact you are betting on the crowd's perception of a company's performance.

Quite the abstraction.

The over the counter supplement, Astaxanthin is, when taken once daily, pretty much an opthalmic fountain of youth. YMMV, but I've recommended it to many others who all report its great for age related focusing fatigue.

Meteor Burst Radio is an established form of long range radio communication which relies upon the presence of ionised trails in the upper atmosphere to create a radio path. These trails are created by millions of small meteorites as they burn up.

Answers the question: how can Anthropic sell more Usage "Credits"

1st example was the progenitor of what eveolved into strict liability. (If you make money putting stuff into the stream of commerce, you're liable for unintended and evenunforseeable downstream damages. 2nd example is an illustration of that longheld legal precedent's being curiously ignored (nevermind the cost savings was a bum rush and livery costs are now higher than before the innovative advent) 3rd is a call to at least litigate who bears the downstream effects. Or perhaps we should just cancel public health measures and employ pestilence to solve the problem *organically.*