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Why would that have any impact?

Being in the right place at the right time and having a clearly visible enthusiasm for the field. Definitely not my (lack of) relevant qualifications.

Doesn't very sound encouraging for the casual user of their desktop software or ESXi...

Oh gee this makes me feel good as a VMWare user... :}

What I mean is... Motherfucker...

I say we imprison anyone opposed to free prison phone calls!

With a MBP, sure. I don’t want a machine that large however. I have both a 14” Pro and a 15” Air that feels significantly smaller than its “smaller” counterpart…

It’s frustrating. I wish they would just charge an extra $X for the privilege of using multiple external monitors. I like the form factor of the MBA as is… if I need to compromise on that, I might as well choose a different machine.

Can we use more than one external display yet?

Without clear evidence, I wouldn't attribute this to people becoming healthier. The increasing availability of alternatives (i.e. legal marijuana) and demographic changes seem like more probable factors, as the article suggests.

A more controversial claim might be that decreasing levels of socialization, or shifting leisure preferences, among the youth also factor in. There have been plenty of studies in recent years that explore the seemingly-relevant decrease in sexual activity within that age group, for example (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=young+p...).

Egads, how will we ever survive???

*Number ranges used to be used to indicate a player position, not their size... The average quarterback is significantly larger than the average cornerback, for example, and punters or kickers have no typical size (body size/shape doesn't factor into kicking ability).

*unix-like

Tl;dr - About 50%.

I too delight in other people’s suffering!

Isn't that sort of the point? This is a Y Combinator project, so it seems reasonable that founders can come here to have their ideas picked apart. Most startups will probably receive a kinder reception here than in the real world, after all.

Bing Wallpaper is the only good thing that Microsoft has done in years! [1]

Sources:

1.) Me (being a bit hyperbolic, I'll grant)

Is there any type of surveillance that would be "too much," assuming it was intended for the same purpose?

Is there any reason to doubt the intentions or execution of US govt. surveillance programs?

> For the very last example, we have a 28-year-old man, earning well below average in NYC (90k a year), who nonetheless saves $2,000 a month. I'm sensing a bias here.

$90k a year is definitely not "well below average in NYC" - median household income is only $70k a year! (1)

1 - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...

I mentioned "(Proto-) fascists and other reactionary types" because that's one obvious answer to your question. I'm not implying that everyone who supports cutting liberal arts funding fits within that category.

(Proto-) Fascists and other reactionary types? They've been calling for this for decades...

The Turris Omnia is a good option, though perhaps not for the prices I see listed today (I paid $150 a year or two ago). Runs a customized (still open source) version of OpenWrt by default, but you can load anything you want on it - it's basically just a small Linux box with WiFi antennas (and some other nice-to-haves like an SFP port, mPCIe slots, etc...). I used their official kit to upgrade from AC to AX, but you can also DIY if you were to purchase the older AC version of the router.

Link - https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

Why do we need global-scale conglomerates to produce our beer??? I’ve always thought that local breweries serving locals should be the default, not an exception.

I'm not downplaying the significance of events described by the article, just trying to portray how it might be perceived by a skeptic who's seen misleading headlines announcing "revolutionary breakthroughs" in nuclear fusion tech for years. Hence, the allusion to "The Boy who Cried Wolf."

Optimistic articles announcing "breakthroughs" in nuclear fusion tech are a bit like the boy who cried wolf. [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

Anything that might benefit from using a desktop GPU, but doesn't justify buying a desktop machine.

> there is no reason to address the myriad reasons, especially ones that cannot be addressed such as differences in innate ability or the parents you have.

Why not?

I think most people tend to overestimate the degree of variation in innate ability among the general population. Most of what might typically be considered "innate ability" is actually a result of factors that are not innate at all.

To your second example - Do you really assume that nothing can be done to mitigate the potentially negative impact of having the "wrong" parents? I have a family member who works in education and spends lots of time working on that specific problem.

Creating an educational system that works for the majority of people, as opposed to the elite, doesn't have to be a destructive, or even particularly controversial, endeavor.

I used this with a Thunderbolt drive array and a 2018 Mac mini for a while and it seemed to work pretty well. Occasionally, it wouldn't auto-mount the ZFS volume after a reboot, but I don't recall having any other issues.

I'll be casting my vote with the skeptics for this one.

That said, even if economic activity was fully decoupled from emissions, Earth's environmental problems would remain overwhelming. Biodiversity loss, deforestation, aquifer depletion, desertification, etc. are just as concerning for most people here as rising global temperatures.

My inner cynic sees headlines like the above and assumes that A) the writer/publisher wants people to think everything is OK, and B) the writer/publisher wants people to narrowly focus on global warming as opposed to the greater health of the natural environment.

While obviously not easy, transitioning to lower-emissions energy sources is far,far easier than fully acknowledging the material basis of our economy and factoring in actually sufficient environmental protections to our systems of production and distribution. If we suddenly weren't allowed to replace old-growth forests with mono-culture, pollute our groundwater, fill the earth with plastic, kill off a majority of animal species, and so forth, how much would the economy shrink? More than anyone published in The Economist would ever admit, I suspect.

There's a fun HBO documentary mini-series about this: https://www.hbo.com/mc-millions.

I sort of assumed headphones were the OP's actual primary audio source. Makes more sense. I end up using headphones half the time anyway because that allows for more convenient audio options when taking calls on multiple devices throughout the day.