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People said the same thing about Obama (cult of personality), who was also elected for a second term despite a number of big broken promises, including closing Guantanamo Bay, cutting the national deficit, passing cap and trade, creating a public health insurance option in the ACA, comprehensive immigration reform, and fostering bipartisanship

GDP growth was consistently higher in the 19th century, prior to the Fed, income tax, welfare and all the rest. Imagine what we could do with today's technology

https://economistonline.mogaocap.com/2013/02/03/us-economic-...

(this is sarcasm, by the way)

Correct. The outbreak was first recognized in 1975 in Old Lyme, Connecticut, directly across the Long Island Sound from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (a lab which had been doing explicitly offensive biological weapons research until at least 1969), which led to an unverified theory about an escaped bioweapon.

Genetic studies and museum tick specimens prove the bacteria existed in North America for thousands of years before the lab was built. Whether there was gain of function done on it is not publicly verified.

So the brain is less alert to outside noise during sleep. This is news?

>This species didn't just die, it was exterminated by humans.

Which species? The (non-extinct, not exterminated) cod fish whose ecological niche has been taken over to some extent by a small shark species?

Not all fishery crashes are the same. Alaskan sockeye had a huge crash in 2014 which was immediately followed by huge gluts in 2015-2017. Same thing happened last year after a terribly weak run in 2024. Important to look at specific facts and context

Which millionaires do you want to tax and which will you leave alone? Can you name them?

Entrepreneurs who take on risk want to keep control of the spoils, imagine that.

A millionaire's tax is the flip side of "privatize profits, socialize risks."

Privatize risk, socialize reward.

The correct link, as HN submission form stripped out the URL parameters: https://maps.deflock.org/?lat=40.7816&lng=-73.9578&zoom=10.9...

"Qualitative" means that the field had good conceptual theories, but didn't have sufficient observational and computational resolution to determine the detailed numerical values

Using the 80/20 rule to plan, is like that other old saw "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don't know which half"

Fun fact, Anglo American is a British company, founded by a German Jew, with a South African CEO. The company name reflects where the startup capital came from.

These apheresis machines are removing microplastics and PFCs, but that is a byproduct of their process. They are not TARGETING these molecules, nor do we have a reliable way of doing so without also filtering every other molecule of similar size

The comic doesn't answer the question "how many energy slaves is 100 horsepower?" but based on the assumptions therein, the answer is 4,706 energy slaves.

Seconding this.

I particularly love how clear his POV on design is. Put simply, he believes good design (and technology) boils down to doing more with less.

Others have written in reply that ephemeralization as he calls it (doing more with less) can help us solve physical problems. But it can also make non-physical problems worse. As systems become more complex and produce more information, the people who maintain them can have more difficulty and stress

Here is the revised post title that follows ASD‑STE100 Simplified Technical English rules:

"Agent Skill to Enforce ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in Documents"

Why did people downvote this? Virginia, Rhode Island, DC and Puerto Rico public schools all mandate the HPV vaccine for kids, regardless of sexual activity. Many people think it's a good idea and this may be a good idea also.

Yes, just like cow farts.

We are doing a lot. Almost 90% of electricity capacity added last year was renewables. Nearly 1 in 3 cars sold are now EVs. The world is spending over $2 trillion every year on low‑carbon energy investment. Solar and wind have already avoided more than 2 gigatons of C02 being added to the atmosphere. In the US, the IRA will drop emissions 40% to below 2005 levels.

What do you mean we are doing very little?

That's because many (most?) LLM chatbots were pre-trained by Kenyan ESL people

Missing one of my favorite in USA which I will not mention here because it is unofficially open to the public and i don't want that to change...

The folly is thinking that getting hiring right is the solution at all.

As has been pointed out a) leaders matter, b) the difference in impact between great and mediocre/poor leadership is massive, c) even if you hire a great leader you can get poor results.

It follows then that spending more effort to find just the right person is not enough. You must also examine your overall organizational culture, your investors culture, your unspoken assumptions about the goals of your organization, etc etc.

And yes great leaders do all of this - of course - it becomes obvious upon reading my comment. But the point is great leaders doing this is not enough. The organization must be on the same page. You can lead a horse to water etc etc. And yes the leader can "Re-organize" but at that point you may find yourself faced with throwing the baby out with the bathwater unavoidably.

Leaders are necessary. And hiring is hard. But there is no one golden calf like "hire the perfect leader" that will solve a problem.

As with most things worth doing: you have to do it. Doing it is hard. And you might still not get the results you want.

>this is all downstream of structural incentives

You are mostly right and the structural incentives are more related at root to unsustainable national debt than any legislative choice (unless that's what you were referring to)

At age 22, FLW was specially trained, working at the equivalent of a frontier AI lab (the most important architect in Chicago) and in the most booming city at the time (Chicago, especially where construction was concerned- due to the Great Fire rebound)

He's not a random, there are a lot of factors working for him

TLDR, use lime mortar not portland cement. And don't use rebar.

Also- modern concrete is not waterproof... requires sealant

FLW created the times

> Is it useful? No

Seems like it might have some use thwarting Ring/Flock/etc cameras within a specific proximity.

It's giving major "They Live" vibes.

Salmon canning in Alaska was many people's ticket/gateway to that romantic state. If you were a climbing or ski bum or fishing bum type of guy, it was a great but grueling gig that would grant you access to the best outdoors spots in the world.

Salmon canning was also a gateway to getting on board the crab boats (Deadliest Catch boats), which was another dream for many a young man, and where you could make real money (even more grueling) - and have plenty of leisure to boot.

How about

> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog

> 20x stronger than a human jaw

> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark

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If anything he would be for tightening it, but I suspect his role is less about being a vote one way or the other.

The value he brings is in his data, knowledge & analyses - which he surely has from the Fed - on the scope and extent of AI's potential rrisks in capital sustainability, market stability and wage/job displacement