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I thought that was hilarious.

I would say this is considered an open question.

This is fairly well-known stance and the intersection of consciousness and quantum decoherence is something people talk about quite a bit. Check out Sean Carroll's stuff for a lot of good discussion on this.

I just bought a Pixel 2 from Amazon.ca and it seems fine.

Like a lot of us here I grew up in the 80's/90's when television was going to destroy civilization and global nulear war meant we were all doomed. Now social media and climate change are the next horsemen of the apocalypse.

Hacker News spends half its time making fun of moral panics and half its time participating in them. Who cares if people want to have plastic surgery or injectable treatments?

I think this is a great achievement by Scotland but I agree with your general point. I was disappointed to see that the NY Times great series on EU farm subsidies and their massive environmental cost got no traction here but negative news about the EU doesn't seem to get much of an audience.

Drove into NYC last year and could not believe people were allowed to live in those buildings.

Paul Krugman often rails against German industrial policy vis-a-vis the EU and hits a lot of the same notes in this article. On the other hand, most of the EU countries seem to accept this status quo and many of their citizens end up immigrating to Germany directly or benefiting from the massive EU subsidy regime funded by Germany so there are various forms of wealth re-distribution within the union.

The Times article was the last straw, you know the board members all read that. Plus the space launch failure.

You are one of many. He also heavily influenced my employment career aim in what I call 'para-academia', similar to Stoll's niche of being a quasi-academic/quasi-technologist. There are many satisfying jobs in that space.

Get frustrated with the Times a lot with their tech bashing and political homomgeneity but pieces like this are worth the price of a year's subscription alone. Wonderfully written and a clear subtle mirroring of Apsted's biography using the framing device of his series.

Wow, what a story, well told.

What risks are these? When was the last serious food shortage in North America?

I'd go even farther: a lot of people should not be living where they are living. If insurers won't cover you you should not be living in an area with {fire, flood, hurrican} risk as you have transferred the cost of your lifestyle choice to the public.

This is the meta story. The campus is my city is the same way, bordered by a six-lane arterial with poor pedestrian connectivity so cars can speed as fast as possible through the high-pedestrian area. As long as North American cities put the car first, people will die whether from bridge collapses or car crashes.

Yes, I certainly wouldn't call Office enterprise software.

Wirecutter and Consumer Reports for most purchases, Yelp and TripAdvisor for reccomendations while traveling. Works pretty well.

This is a very common problem for elderly people and many products exist to fill the gap already.

Since this was an op-ed with a half-assed mix of anecdote and cherry-picked stats, I'll add my own from one of the more rural Canadian provinces.

The small towns and smaller farms that are doing well are those that are within reasonable commuting range of the bigger centers. The ones that aren't, aren't, and are still undergoing rapid depopulation and farm consolidation into very-large commodity crop growers (canola, wheat, pulses, beef/pork).

The success of rural-heavy jurisdictions of North America are those that will give up on the losing fight to keep every small town alive and start investing in the job-creating urban areas. However, the Conservative/Republican parties that are often in power in these areas know they depend on their rural base and often do the opposite, spending money on highways and crop subsidies rather than transit and education.

I was just about to post the same thing. Clearly a lot of companies do negative-EV blanket podcast advertising to juice their customer numbers before an IPO. Sonos was another famous example (although I like Sonos a lot). There's no way ZipRecruiter is getting payback from their insane ad spend.

I've moved almost all my news reading to the various Bloomberg newsletters (of which Levine's is the best). They are fantastic, and free.

https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters

His book just came out this week as well.

As a non-EU'er, the anti-trust stuff is sure hard to separate from the promoting EU companies stuff and EU politicians certainly treat it that way.

Let's see Vestager take action against Airbus after the WTO finds against them this fall and I'll be more convinced. Maybe they'll even take on VW Group.

Bloomberg mentioned that Neumann probably cost himself tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars because of the huge negative impact of that clause, given that most of his wealth is tied up in WeWork stock. And then he ended up cancelling the deal anyways.

This is the whole point of Philosophy of Science. The 'givens' for a scientfic theory are assumptions that everything else rests on. Quantum Physics, in particular, has lots of room for debate on what its various equations actually mean.

Not at all. I'm a NYT subscriber and so much content is filled with perjorative attacks against tech, tech workers and tech companies. 'Big Tech', 'techbros', etc..

The tipping poing was the Trump victory. Before the election the NYT and other mainstream media outlets were trumpeting how much better/hipper the DNC was at using social platforms to organize voters than the Republican party. If Clinton would have won, this characterization would have remained and anybody complaning about Russian interference in elections would have been branded a McCarthyist.

The background is of course that the NYT and other papers are involved in litigation and competition with Google and other social media giants for who gets the revenue from the informtion economy, particular around links and aggregations like Google News.

This doesn't mean that "big tech" isn't worthy of criticism or scrutity, but it can both be true that there are legitimate complaints about these companies and that traditional media outlets are going overboard with endless attacks on them due to external agendas.

Yeah, this is bullshit. I'm Canadian and we have huge protectionist measures around our financial sector but the U.S. doesn't, which has allowed for companies like TD and RBC to become huge players in the U.S. banking industry.

Europe also runs a trade surplus with the U.S. so it's unclear where this macro trend you think exists comes from either.

Invasive species and their impact are relative to your area, of course.

Of equal interest is the use of non-native species to provide more genetic diversity. In Canada, we are using lots of 'Amur' trees and bushes from Russian and Northern China to increase diversity of our treestock after the huge diebacks caused by Dutch Elm, Emerald Ash Borer and other imported pests.