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Counterpoint: Silicon Valley is a wasteland of industrial parks

How much of this is just due to geography? Ukraine is much smaller than Russia; 800 km, one of the distances cited, seems longer than the entire length of Ukraine; Russia can put its manufacturing facilities much farther from the border and Ukraine cannot. Depending on how you define "long range strikes", Russia has less need for them because its targets within Ukraine are within "close range" striking distance.

Interesting from a capabilities standpoint but cannot be used to infer anything about the war itself.

The ring swelling is pretty rare. More likely the user's finger swelled up and it got stuck. I had one and had to regularly switch what finger it was worn on due to normal body changes.

Many states also tack on an EV specific registration fee that applies regardless of miles driven, over $200 in some places.

Raising the market cap of Tesla is one of the requirements for Musk's nearly $1 trillion pay package. Merging companies is a lot easier than trying to sell more cars or non-existent robots.

I've got multiple wearables and they all seem to agree that normal walking does nothing for me. Barely increases my heart rate, not even Z1. Nor does "doing chores" which seems even more nebulous. But that's just a data point of one.

It would depend on how high your heart rate goes and stays during lifting weights, because everyone lifts weights differently. I would say that it's not likely based on my own personal experience, and seeing others' time ratios for lifting vs resting.

The imprecise language in these studies often means people can interpret them in whatever way they want.

This study defines moderate as "brisk" walking, suggesting that it's not just walking.

Athletes live in their own bubble where "vigorous" means "maximal".

I checked my Toyota's manual and it does explicitly warn about neutral for long periods of time for this reason. However, when not in neutral, the car will not allow the traction battery to be below 40% or so, so it is difficult to enter a car wash with an empty battery.

However, the car may have a very small, old, or weak battery; there may be significant drain on the battery (air conditioning?) while in neutral; and you may be in a very long car wash.

It beats homelessness, right?

RIP 538's burrito bracket from 2014

I guess that Apple can add a feature that listens to all your phone calls to check for the telltale "this call is being recorded..." signal to display a persistent notification. But this article seems to imply this is some kind of special problem for iPhone to iPhone calls, when the issue is for any phone call, a technology that's not unique to iPhones.

Business accounts, bots, and flop influencers

I think that's the joke. Linkedin content is so terrible you'll never get addicted to it.

The EV tax was only implemented because it's easy to implement both politically and practically, not because it's the best solution.

A better tax like others are suggesting based on mileage, weight, or usage (tolls) would have to apply to all road users, and require more rules and enforcement and be more difficult.

Implied is that you work in a company that is growing, that will promote you.

If you work for a company in stasis or worse, shrinking, then being replaceable means little.

Yup, I recently bought a car and you get temporary numbers that are associated with the dealer (who knows who you are and what car you have) until your actual plate with real numbers and registration comes from the DMV.

Having laws that only some people follow, and others do not without penalty, bothers everyone's natural sense of fairness and eventually rots the whole concept of following laws.

> Because young people go through a lot of sadness too when they are all alone in the world.

They aren't alone in the world. They are building and living their own lives with their own friends and eventually creating their own family.

The government would, except that they tend to vote in much greater numbers than other groups, so keeping them happy is important to stay in power.

> there will be a great deal of compasionate hand wringing about palitability, texture, etc

Hand wringing? Giving your army palatable and tasty food is important, when soldiers don't eat it, they perform worse at fighting. That's why the US spends so much effort on changing their menus and trying to make their heavily processed food into something that looks appetizing, like the MRE pizza that somehow lasts three years:

https://www.tastingtable.com/2058307/how-military-mre-pizza-...

Reddit locked down their API three years ago, purportedly to monetize their content for AI. This also killed all the free third party apps.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/reddit-may-block-sea...

If you're xAI, just build your own power plants:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-mus...

Everything on this page suggests it's not for education.

Emphasis on AI and connecting to your phone. How many Iceland trips do students make?

A lot of people are still on ancient plans like $80/5GB since they don't know they can change providers and still keep their number. Or they're old and avoid changing any aspect of their lives. The mobile companies are fine with "grandfathering" these customers.

The high gas prices also push people towards EVs. Those new EV owners are very unlikely to return to gas-powered vehicles, even if the cost of gas goes back down. Gas demand isn't quite as elastic as we've been assuming for decades.

Great illustration of the K-shaped economy.

There are reasons why this outbreak is slightly more newsworthy than others.

It happened to rich Westerners, not a bunch of poor people from Africa.

It happened on an international flight and a cruise ship. There is a lot of exposure. There are people being monitored for hantavirus being sent back to their respective countries.

People are having flashbacks of 2019/2020 and comparing the news coming out about this outbreak.

The political season is in full swing in the US and there is lots of finger pointing, especially around the health departments.

In the previous 2022 gas price spike, some stations could not dispense more than $100 worth of gas since that would previously indicate something wrong with the station.

I would argue that corner stores were also driven out of business by suburbanization. If no one is within walking distance to a corner store, then it's not going to survive. Fewer people are going to drive to a corner store that costs more and stocks less than a supermarket.

They mostly exist now in a different form as gas station markets, or in dense urban areas like NYC, or some central business districts.