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Lisdexamfetaon Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain

It is more accurate to say that failure to build out enough housing, as well as other buildings, infrastructure, and industry, has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

Meanwhile, people like this are like: "Increase supply? haha, best I can do is subsidize demand!"

Lisdexamfetaon Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco

Airport rides in Phoenix are always available, but apart from the hours you note, Waymo drops riders off at the 24th or 44th Street Sky Train locations.

Lisdexamfetaon Using the language and concepts of therapy is not the same as emotional depth

https://archive.ph/ZEnGp

Lisdexamfetaon DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

As you well know the scale and effort to dominate external consumer markets is nothing similar.

Lisdexamfetaon Asus agrees to a whole raft of US warranty service improvements after complaints

I wonder if Framework will also harm the bad-service companies, but making part replacement so easy.

Lisdexamfetaon DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

All Xi has to do is stop barreling towards an invasion of Taiwan.

The U.S., Europe, and Japan need to create and enhance a drone industrial base before China invades Taiwan. By the time it has invaded, creating the industrial base will be too late.

Also, China has created DJI through government-sponsored industrial policy, not via open markets.

Lisdexamfetaon OpenAI Expands Healthcare Push with Color Health's Cancer Copilot

https://archive.ph/ZZE7i

By ingesting patient data such as personal risk factors and family history, and using them alongside clinical guidelines, the copilot creates a virtual, personalized cancer screening plan that tells doctors the diagnostic tests a patient is missing.

“Primary care doctors don’t tend to either have the time, or sometimes even the expertise, to risk-adjust people’s screening guidelines,” Laraki said.

The copilot also assists with putting a cancer pretreatment “work-up” together, after a doctor has made a diagnosis. The work-up can consist of specialized imaging and lab tests, plus prior authorization from health insurance to order the tests, all of which can take weeks, or months, before a patient sees an oncologist. Studies show a month’s delay can increase mortality by 6% to 13%, Laraki said.

Lisdexamfetaon FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets

It seems like Boeing has an exceptional amount of normalizing deviance.

Lisdexamfetaon Sigma announces 28-45mm F1.8 Art lens for full-frame cameras

The ability of zooms to replace many primes continues to impress.

Lisdexamfetaon Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive - Creating a custom high-resolution display

"Picking the simpler solution" is not equivalent to "we've given up."

Lisdexamfetaon The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT

It was amazing for me. "Amazing" ofc does not mean easy or fun. But words only poorly convey what the sensations are like.

Lisdexamfetaon The importance of picking your neighborhood

Many domiciles are picked primarily on the basis of cost. If not for exclusionary zoning, it would be more possible to pick on the basis of neighborhood.

Lisdexamfetaon Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable

I live in an apartment and around many others, all of which have chargers. YMMV.

Also, the number of level 2 chargers is massive. Download PlugShare and look around. And Superchargers and Electrify America chargers are common. It's really not hard any more.

Lisdexamfetaon Fusion tech finds geothermal energy application

Utah FORGE is the deepest I'm aware of: https://utahforge.com/project-research. Well 58-32 goes to 2.2km. 78B-32 goes to 2.9km. 16B(78)-32 appears to break 3km.

But FORGE is mostly based around research, from what I understand, rather than rolling out broad-based commercial geothermal.

Lisdexamfetaon China Is 'Prepositioning' for Future Cyberattacks–and the NSA Chief Is Worried

https://archive.ph/Pw3re

Lisdexamfetaon The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)

I think the essay is really speaking to a particular type of person, one whom is described in Tyler Cowen's book The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy. This sort of person is probably reasonably common on HN (and that help explain the upvotes for the essay) but not super common in the broader and larger population.

The real kind of underlying question is about how to be most effective.

Lisdexamfetaon California's Latest Plan to Build Denser Housing Is Failing

https://archive.ph/yTYmM

Lisdexamfetaon How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?

I have driven that route many times in a Model 3 and it's been fine. Easier today than it was a few years ago. It's a theoretical issue not an actual one.

Lisdexamfetaon There are more than 1k varieties of banana, and we eat one of them

There are movement for heirloom tomatoes, heirloom beans (for example from Rancho Gordo)—why not heirloom or fancy bananas, too? There are apparently 1000+ potato varieties as well, few of which are eaten, especially outside South America.