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While I agree with you at some level, I can't help thinking of the Amish. They impose plenty of restrictions on themselves and still manage to flourish. There must be a way that is different than simply accepting "progress".

Around the same time, I found a wallet while riding my bicycle on a crowded road, under a bridge. What made it more interesting is that it belonged to someone I had ghosted as a teen, after leaving a job site and never getting paid. Amazing way to mend it, both of us were very happy about the outcome.

I've had similar experiences traveling in Europe. Hospitality must be some sort of human instinct. Thanks for sharing your story and bringing up memories!

Heard the same thing from an oncologist in Europe. Unfortunately the attitude here is still one of sarcasm. "Of course they're making great progress, but do patients agree to take part in the studies?" According to this oncologist, studies that would take 5 years in the West are done in 18 months in China, even in small regional hospitals.

VoiceInk took a little time compiling but it's been working flawlessly for the three people that use it now for dictating consultation notes.

I broke two Deore and one SP PL-1. My cheap Nexus one seems to hold better but drags a lot. There’s a market for a hub that has serviceable bearings, especially with brake disks where it’s the only part of the wheel that’s supposed to experience wear. I’d love to be able to pop two new bearings in place and ride 10k more.

After 15 years of dynamo hub, I’m about to switch to a power bank connected to usb light. Dynamo hubs are quite fragile and not easily maintained. Cheap front hubs are found everywhere and they less drag. I have a few Deore hubs that I found on the street on abandoned bicycles.

And their size puts them in a different class. If a foreign entity has effective powers that make it similar in some ways to a foreign state, it makes sense to treat it as such.

That's the idea behind doing the thing at the brand level, not the product level.

A simple indicator for quality should be the return rate by brand. You need two things: a law that offers a long enough warranty, and a public registry of returns where customers can check that their return is listed.

My pet peeve about urinals has to do with the way the separating walls are usually installed. It's systematically too low, as if their goal was to prevent splashing between each station instead of their role of visual privacy.

I used to live in a small rural city, in a shared house where the door was never locked. On market day, there would be this woman coming in to do her weekly laundry. I was never given the key to that house.

Your conclusion doesn't make sense. The logical conclusion of your first sentence is that we'll keep accelerating towards the wall.

This isn’t awesome, it doesn’t work at scale and it only lets idiots ignore what should be done: leave fossil fuels in the ground, and only then do what we can with the energy that’s still available. Aviation is mostly incompatible with a sane global environmental policy.

The knowledge that was available to the public.