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Really? Both strollers and wheels on luggage are pretty nice to have even if you have to somehow negotiate curbs. So, I think it is a coincidence.

You should try Nerd Clusters!

If you think the solution to the world's ills is to organize businesses as non-profits, you're delusional.

Shooting the messenger usually works.

Your example is an edge case. Presumably sick people were once healthy. When people are spending their own money, they become a lot more discriminating.

Also, if you're looking for treatment after you're sick, that's not health insurance.

Fix the principal/agent problem by decoupling health insurance from employment by not having health insurance be paid for with pre-tax dollars.

Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism’s $200 Trillion Cost?

https://www.cato.org/blog/who-will-pay-democratic-socialisms...

Lynx photo finish cameras. Same idea:

https://www.finishlynx.com/

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126919

There is some skepticism about the veracity of this. Of course, be skeptical of the skepticism.

https://bsky.app/profile/dsquareddigest.bsky.social/post/3ms...

Gonna want this in steps.

It meets none of HN's guidelines.

Why do you think other people want to hear you practicing songs that you're not good at? I'm imagining someone trying to learn the recorder by the campfire.

Turning off Javascript helps.

Interesting. Though maybe not so surprising that "multi-primary color display technology ... was presented as a key direction for the next-generation display industry" at the “Multi Primary Color Display Ecosystem Conference”.

> I can go out into the woods behind my house and get into the iron age in a few days

Seems pretty optimistic based on the Primitive Technology videos.

> I doubt that even in a world with all direct payments that they would pass any savings along to the consumer.

Shouldn't you think that about every way companies save money? And yet they do compete on price.

John Plant has been working to get to the Iron Age for eleven years, but he's doing it for the lulz.

https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550/videos

What do "hooked" and "unhooked" mean here?

Despite the other comments attempting to expand the scope of "hacking" or general interest to pretty much anything, it doesn't.

It is legal to cover windows with advertising?

Airplanes?

quite/quiet

OK. I was thinking you would be applying the chemicals in the pipe, but what you're saying makes sense.

Also:

  Last fall, for example, nearly 12 percent of first-year U.C.S.D. undergraduates were not qualified to take pre-calculus, a low-level class, up from only 0.5 percent in 2020. “The key problem is that many of the students coming in do not know algebra,” said Mina Aganagic, a Berkeley physics professor. More than half of entering Berkeley students who took a math placement test incorrectly answered basic questions (such as solving for x in x²> 4).

I don't really understand this. How much better are things for killing a specific plant than whatever you would use to kill a superset of the plants that might be there? Or treating with a few different plant species killers. And wouldn't those options cost less than the cost of this service?

The Darkest Clothing in the World:

https://youtu.be/N9VaJKIO1JA?si=UI36apNYUe5mlxWd

What's confusing you? Do you want Kim Jong Un to have a say in decisions affecting the US or how money is spent?

The UN is a terrible organization for that. It is a corrupt, morally bankrupt institution. Giving it any more power or legitimacy is not a net positive.

Sounds similar to the aspiration of randomly picking an out-of-the way restaurant in hopes that you are going to discover a great little hole-in-the-wall. Needless to say, I suspect any lack of regret in either case might be attributable to cognitive biases.