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The tragedy of the commons doesn't seem to exist in Japan to the same extent it does in Western nations, especially the US. As you said: that's largely due to reasons not mentioned in the article.

Medical malpractice consistently ranks in the top three leading causes of death in the US. Student use of AI to pass courses can only exacerbate the issue.

Not mentioned in the article is that whales were once able to communicate globally, but the low frequency noise generated by maritime traffic killed the "Whale Internet."

This. That crowd is constantly shoehorning themselves into non-pertinent issues as part of their pathological attention seeking behavior.

If you prefer not to deal with an app store: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/rwth-aachen-university/phyphox...

Oh we're doing this again.

He probably didn't even read all of them once. Books are like wine: you don't have to drink all the wine you have before buying more.

AI is not at all like real intelligence. Computers do not know what words mean because they do not experience the world as we do. They don't have the common sense or wisdom that people accumulate through the experience of life. Humans can understand the consequences of nuclear war. Computers can only predict the next best word in their response from a statistical map that has no connection to meatspace.

Not all mortgages require two incomes. Ones that do are evidence of the mortgagees getting out over their skis.

Same goals; different roles.

My wife had a very successful "farm school" in Mississippi by staying under the limit for required childcare licensing. At the time one could have six children (in addition to one's own) and not have to be a licensed childcare facility.

Plant food.

CO2 is plant food. It's amazing how the spin has affected so many generations. Much much worse than that for the environment are particulates from incomplete combustion, NOx from poor combustion, et cetera.

So that's the kind of hill Jack and Jill went up.

Those are illegal, separate from the medium of conveyance.

Why does the government need a plan for pennies? They stopped wasting money minting them, now the "problem" will sort itself out naturally.

If you're asking a machine which human you should vote for, you probably shouldn't be voting.

The third option that becomes more tantalizing every year in the US is to not have insurance, pay OOP for routine matters, and when something catastrophic happens let the medical debt go to collections and settle for pennies on the dollar. It doesn't feel right, but it's the direction the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance cartel is pushing us.

I still like Keith Lofstrom's Server Sky concept.

http://server-sky.com/ServerSky

Can't give up on the Senate Launch System. That'd be political suicide .

> People do act differently when they know they are being watched. Even more so when they know they are being recorded.

There is a whole genre of short form and streaming videos where the subject films himself violating social norms and breaking the law.

The majority of perpetrators do not care.

I might turn out to vote if there was a candidate whose sole platform plank was to repeal as many existing laws as possible.

Being "middle class" is a mindset, not a category of wealth. It's something of an anachronism from when there were two distinct classes: nobility/clergy, and the peasants. The middle class, the bourgeoisie (because they lived it towns, bourgs) didn't fit into either existing class. One can be wealthy or poor and still be middle class. Social conformity, infinitely expandable material demand, and emphasis on external, impersonal values are the hallmarks of this mindset.

I haven't read The Water Knife, but I have read The Tamarisk Hunter, which I believe is related and paints a picture of the future of the American West with it's messed up water rights.

The Internet was philosophically designed to move information, and for every effort to prevent that there is a workaround. There will always be a free protocol.

Using chilled brine as a cooling medium is common in industrial processes, unfortunately it needs to be chilled and that usually comes via an evaporative cooling tower. Assuming the sea is close and the temperature low enough, an open loop pulling from and discharging to the sea isn't than big of an engineering challenge.

How many Sergeants Major are there at the FAANGs?

More seriously, I've never heard the E9 designation outside of the military. What does it mean?

That's always been the actual effect of non competes in the US. Slavery was abolished; you can't be told by a former employer that you can't work for someone else unless they continue to pay you not to.

That you're being downvoted is telling for the HN crowd who will rally behind "tax the rich" but ignore the call to "help the poor."

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Anatole France

Airlines should grow up and start charging by weight just like carriers do for every good except passengers (flat rate shipping boxes excluded.)