indecisive_user

How do you define wealthiest countries?

Picking from top GDP per capita, I'm not sure that UAE or Qatar are countries to look up to.

I don't think that's true. Every iPhone user I've texted in the last 6 months at least has had rcs turned on, and that's including some very non tech savvy friends that I doubt did it manually

I think you're missing the parent's point.

Cities in northern Europe, like Stockholm and Oslo, already have sunrise times as late or later than Vancouver will have under permanent DST.

If the effects of shifting the clock an hour are as extreme as purported, then we should already see those negative health effects in populations that live their entire lives under those conditions, but we don't.

Austin has Tesla robotaxis with no driver.

For vitamins/supplements specifically, there's Costco, iHerb, nootropics depot.

While they might not be the absolute cheapest options, they're usually a pretty good price and at least with those sources I'm not too concerned with counterfeit or tainted supplements, unlike Amazon [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499808

If that were true then we would expect to see a positive correlation between income and family size, but households making 500k are basically the same size as households making 50k.

In the current system how do you sell your vote?

You go into the voting booth alone.

The report itself is interesting [0] and I recommend reading it for good context.

Here's a couple things that stood out to me:

  - Measuring net migration is difficult. The report from TFA estimates a net migration between –295,000 and -10,000 for 2025. Some reports estimate much lower numbers, and some reports actually estimated a positive net migration for 2025. In any case, it's certainly trending downward.

  - While there *has* been a decrease in the number of green cards and work visas (H1B's), it seems that the majority of the drop off has been from refusing to take refugees (from ~100k in 2024 to ~10k in 2025), basically eliminating asylum petitions at the border (from ~1.4M in 2024 to ~70k in 2025), and reduction in "Entries without inspection", aka illegal crossings that do not encounter law enforcement (~270,000k in 2024 to ~30k in 2025)

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implication...

Somewhere between obese and dust you'll eventually hit a healthy weight.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2495396/

Then how does ozempic, whose primary mechanism of action is to decrease appetite, work for obese people?

Yes, your body will compensate somewhat for caloric deficit, and yes, when you gain enough fat mass your adipocytes will divide, creating more/stronger hunger signals that encourage weight gain moreso than someone who was never obese.

But your body is not magic. If you feed it a sufficiently low amount of calories, it has to break down energy stores, e.g. fat, to make up the difference in energy requirements.

That study was on untrained subjects. Steroids increase your baseline musculature, but only to a point.

You're not going to accidentally an Arnold by injecting testosterone and sitting on the couch every day.

I grocery shopped like an American - filled up an entire cart with a week or two worth of groceries

Is that really how the average American shops though? The majority of shoppers these days are in the self checkout or "15 items or less" lines with only a single basket of stuff, at least in the stores I frequent. Granted, I'm close to a city center but the store I go to is not very walkable

Registration is like $100 a year for "unlimited" access to roads. Quite a bit cheaper than a yearly unlimited transit pass.

And electric cars don't pay a gas tax.

but you are likely setting them up for life of social awkwardness and ostracization.

Citation needed.

If you put your kids in homeschooling and provide no other outlet for socialization then sure, they'll be socially awkward.

My brother and I were homeschooled, but we were also heavily involved in our community. We were at the local park playing sports 3-4 times per week, we did various summer camps, we had a few other homeschool families that we'd setup playdates with. Our parents would sometimes joke that we barely ever home! And, unsurprisingly, we had no problems with socializing or making friends later in life.

Was it the same kind of socialization you get from going to public school? No, but I consider that a feature :)

Canada and Finland both have a lot of civilian firearms per capita but not a lot of gun violence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

The first court ruled in Yahoo's favor and the appeals court ruled that neither it nor any lower court in the US had the power to adjudicate the matter altogether, which was kind of a loss for both yahoo and the French organization.

Let's not be too hyperbolic here. The average mid-level dev at Amazon is making over $250k while the average senior makes over $400k (source levels.fyi) so they're hardly "just scraping by" and can afford many of those same life comforts.

It's only profitable because of price fixing. You don't have to worry about vacancies when all your competition has agreed not to undercut you.

Without the price fixing though, apartment complexes will actually have to compete against each other on rent.

It's like a 90min flight and $120 ticket for me. I would absolutely make a trip out there to see the tallest building in the US, especially with how out of place it would look next to the rest of the skyline.

The difference is in predictability.

When you sign a 12 month lease, you know more or less how much you'll spend towards housing for the next year and it's easy to accurately predict a cost ceiling.

When you own a home, you know the minimum you'll spend is the mortgage+taxes but in an unlucky year your AC goes out and you get a hole in the roof that insurance doesn't cover and suddenly you've spent 20k that you didn't plan on.

Does any other cloud provider have the extra compute necessary to run ChatGPT just lying around?

With the current shortage of hardware, it's not as simple as "scaling up" if the resources literally don't exist.

How many billions are you talking here?

A billion dollars split evenly over the US population nets around $2.98 per person, so we're gonna need a lot to really make any appreciable difference.

Most large companies that do layoffs give over a month of notice+severance. Perhaps they're not required to, but to be given less than a 2 week heads up with no severance is pretty rare.

Wealth for whom is the better question to ask — certainly not the thousands of laid off employees

I think that depends on the pay structure. If a large part of your compensation is in stock then you'll still benefit from the additional wealth creation. Assuming a decent severance package it's certainly possible you come out ahead compared to the more conservative company, even being laid off.

If I could choose between feeling like a 55 year old and a 25 year old, why would I pick the former?

If there are no major health consequences then what's there even to consider outside of cost?

You can get shorter acting esters that are injected every day or 3 days. That would make blood serum levels much more consistent

Have you seen the living conditions that people in SF are willing to put up with for cheap rent? Living out of their car, renting a closet, an attic, a couch in a living room. And that's not just baristas, it's well paid tech employees as well. An endless amount of people would live in a 400sqft apartment with ex-homeless neighbours if it meant saving 2k on rent every month.

Citation needed. For example, patients may have a vested interest in their care and answer all questions truthfully each time.

I have a recent Samsung Galaxy and haven't once accidentally triggered Bixby. Long press on home button is google assistant. I'm sure I disabled some Bixby settings when I set up the phone but at this point I don't know how to open it even if I tried.

In this case, the parent comment used "richness" as a synonym for being diverse and high quality.