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They would chuckle when they realized how instead of seeking to replace $8/hr labor to do simple tasks with fancy robots, we instead decided to focus on telecommunications and mobile computing, and now anyone can buy a smartphone for $800 that has a 120 fps HD+ screen (inconceivable to someone in the 60's) that can download 100mbps (inconceivable) almost anywhere in the world (inconceivable), record 4k/60FPS HDR video(inconceivable), store 1TB data (inconceivable) buy anything in the world and have it delivered tomorrow (inconceivable). We've built far more interesting and useful things.

Furthermore, It's not that we can't, we just don't want to. We like interacting with the world around us. Most people enjoy cooking, cleaning our living spaces, etc. As it ties us to the world. If we outsourced this to robots, we would maybe save some time, but then have to deal with robot repairs and troubleshooting.

Which would you rather do: Make dinner on a lovely Le Creuset pan or troubleshoot your Super Cook-a-tron 3000 because it broke down again?

Then ask for a raise. Two people making $140k should easily be able to save up $400k in 5-8 years for a mortgage down payment. And single people don't need an entire house.

Yep, recently moved to California from the Midwest and I am regretting not moving earlier. Its been 3 months but I am still blow. Away by how amazing everything. Sure, it's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

You cannot envision a profit model for selling psychedelics?

You make the mistake of assuming the uber-rich want to get to Fiji as soon as possible, when in reality they would rather spend the 8 hrs in their private Gulfstream in a cocaine fueled orgy while the pilot does barrel rolls and loops. Flying is one of the few times that the Uber rich can really disconnect and be alone and relax, why would they want to get to Fiji in an hour in a super stressful flight?

The economics are just silly. 4 passengers at $250k each is only $1M in revenue per flight. Between fuel costs, rocket costs (even assuming 10x reuses per rocket, you'd need to build the rocket for significantly under $10M to have a chance at profitability, could you imagine building a rocket for under 10M?), engineer and employee salaries and benefits, advertising, liability, etc.

Add in the fact that you have a very viable competitor in Virgin Galactic and SpaceX who could leapfrog both and provide even better experiences, and I don't see how Blue Origin will ever be viable without government funding

No he doesnt

You familiar with government pensions and benefits? That's your answer.

No, because this is written in broken English, and is ambiguous. If you want to make kids think that math is all about "ha, gotcha! Technically this question could be interpreted to mean X" then by all means this is an excellent question. Anyone with a basic understanding of English would have phrased the question differently, unless they were a Russian with a mediocre understanding of English syntax, or were purposely trying to be clever and ambiguous. Both are probably true in this case.

"just like in Iraq WMDs did actually exist at some point - the US sold some to Iraq - they were just destroyed."

Are you seriously going to post that without a source?

What's not to understand? The numbers in Korea are low because everyone is willing to sacrifice their personal freedom and convenience for the common good. They vigilantly wear masks, socially distance, follow guidelines, and abstain from K-Pop dancing at gyms and running fast on the treadmill when their health departments ask that of them. Americans will happily let more people die if it means they get to go to the gym without a mask. It's really that simple.

Why would they drop their guns, when they can simply tell whoever is paying them to hand over their money?

Yeah, of course. All other forms of gambling have an inherent negative return (the house has favorable odds always), while the stock market has a positive return inherently as most companies on the stock market are profitable, so it's better than slots or sports gambling for sure

Even more interestingly, for relatively cheap, you can spread rumors or seed sentiments into the internet via paid shills, so for small amounts of money you can sow false information and cult-like mentalities around certain stocks, and profit off those. If anything, that counts as anti-information, and makes the market less "efficient", except to those who are using the market variance as a means to extract wealth from retail investors.

Yes, let's design the internet around keeping 90s routers running as long as possible. Excellent. Let's also design highways with a max speed of 20 MPH so we can accommodate Model T's

You realize the 1% of India is 15 million people, right?

But this really just illustrates a lack of knowledge on our part. If we made thyroid screening a regular thing and invested $10B/year into diagnostics, analysis, and study, i guarantee you in 5 years or less we would have the most efficient, effective system for treatment, determining which microcarcinomas are bad, which ones to keep an eye on, etc.

There simply isn't a profit motive right now, and there aren't a ought resources, so unprofitable, minor things like thyroid cancers and other, small, mostly non-fatal things fall by the wayside. If we could massively increase the resources and time spent of solving health issues, we'd have a lot better solutions. There only exist a certain amount of cancer researchers, oncologists, and clinical pharmacologists that can profitably exist. Lots of diseases will never be cured because there are too few people affected by them. Until we decouple medical progress from profit, there's a only a certain amount of progress we can make. Unfortunately, it seems like tying profit to medicine is the most efficient system we have, so it may be centuries till we get there

Lol, i would argue that engineers, many of whose primary job function is to imagine worst case scenarios and engineer around those to prevent accidents, data loss, etc. Are the exact type of people that are prone to hypochondria. It's not about growing old and dying, it's about ignoring a stomach ache for a couple months and then being told you have terminal cancer, and then living with the regret of "if only I got it checked out earlier".

In the engineering world, you are almost always rewarded for being extra safe and testing, fixing, and investigating anything that might seem a little off. If you do blood tests, MRIs, and cancer screens for every mole, cough, and stomach pain, you will go insane and develop hypochondria.

Literally all boarding schools up until like the 1950s. You realize that kids were dropping like flies before the 50s, right? Many US presidents had children who died of the flu. Coolidge, Lincoln, Eisenhower, and more. The school in question was around for 70 years. That's 3 deaths a year, including the 1918 pandemic.

These places were definitely fucked up cultural genocide factories, but let's suddenly forget about child mortality

I'm sure you could trace the tribe genealogy and get in touch with tribe members that knew your grandparents and, never too late to get back in touch with your roots. Native American history and culture is so unique and beautiful, it's such a tragedy that it was destroyed and suppressed. I really wish we could recover what was lost and celebrate it

No one wants to use any of those products. The moment a viable competitor comes along (never), user will jump ship. You just missed his joke.

No worth anything near to $2T. There's a reason they didn't want to get audited

You're 100% wrong because the third party has won many times and both democrats and republicans started out as third parties.

Reads like an undergrad class project and not a real study

No, we are talking about copying the underlying asset, not the NFT. If you could 3-D print any physical object perfectly down to the atom, the collectibility of the original item would be hurt a lot. If there were potentially infinite perfect copies of a Ferrari GTO, the prices would crash. Having a document that says "this Ferrari GTO is the original" would be what NFTs are today

Because at any time Mozambique can just nationalize Chinese assets and renege on any contract it signs with China. Investing in Africa is like running a payday loan store. It only works if your loans get repaid, and if the effort you have to wage (in this case, probably war or trade war) to get your loans repaid is worth it. The US will happily defend any nations that spurn China

That's because lobster roll customers are rich yuppies. BBQ is for poor people who cannot afford good cuts of meat so they resort to pulverizing bad cuts of meat with smoke heat and sauce.

1. The lucky ones make it to 80, lots die to unimaginably painful cancers, let's not increase our odds by drinking volatile solvents

2. If you have a drink every night out with friends you build a tolerance to it, and you put stress on your body for no gain.

3. Dehydration, sleepiness, and worse sleep and cost are big downsides

4. You can have better, cheaper effects with edible weed.

A startup worrying about long term cloud implications is like a hot dog vendor in new York worrying about how his branding will be received in India when his hot dog empire expands there. 99.99% of startups will never have to worry about migrating off cloud, and if they do, they will have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and will be once sequential. Nobody is losing sleep over the prospect that their startup will only be worth 22.4 billion in 17 years, but if they eschewed the cloud and built in efficiencies from the get go the company would be worth 23.7 billion. Not to mention the fact that worrying about long term things like that would take focus off the present and in tease chances of failure.

The less chemicals you use, the better. Use simple soaps and deoderants, etc.