mchanson

This is an amazing top comment. Like maybe almost anything. So many better options. For one if I were the subject of this harassment I would prefer the cops to never come.

You are naive about cops, at least in the US, and what they will or will not do and what consequence they may or may not face.

Weight, price, drivetrain all are terrible as others have said you would be much better off spending much less on a simple al bike.

Yeah. And creating those resources cost less and less with less human labor every year.

Part of the deal with progress should be that we all start working less. If not is the progress all that attractive?

Improved health so we can all work more is kinda stupid.

It's not equally distributed. In Boston, MA area kids have as much autonomy as their parents wish to give them AFAIK. It's not uncommon to see 10 year olds in my town nearby they are doing all sorts of biz around town on their own.

This is just doomerism and painting with a planet wide brush. IMHO it's not so simple.

There has been much laudable and scientific progress in the past 50 years. Higgs Boston discovery and mRNA vaccines being two that come to mind.

And examples of progress that science helped start and then international and national institutions brought to the masses: Smallpox eradication, HIV treatment, lower childhood mortality, etc.

Crowdstrike certainly comes out looking terrible. The fact that Delta might have also made mistakes is weak sauce.

I think you just don't come off very convincing.

Probably not.

Blue cross has $450 / mo negotiated rate. Medicare can do better than that and government has started doing negotiations for drugs.

There are a lot of things China does which limits US reach within their country that the US, as a more free society, would not be a good fit for the US.

This seems to me to be one of things we probably should not have done.

It’s kinda funny that the Waymo car is so impatient. I’m pretty sure in this situation I would have just waited until the group ride cleared out to ahead of me and then continued. I would not want to crowd or find my way around them. If I wanted to get past such a big group ride I would probably reroute onto another block since they would keep catching me at stop lights.

The debugger is called Chris Hansen.

Dude all the numbers are normalized to after tax and inflation.