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To me, "Tip for AI skeptics" reads as shorthand for "Tip for those of you who classify as AI skeptics".

That is why the meta commentary about identity politics made complete sense to me. It's simply observing that this discussion (like so many others) tends to go this way, and suggests a better alternative - without a straw man.

Agreed. It feels like the FAA and related government agencies have a rule set based on now-outdated assumptions about the difficulty and cost of space launches. Even just a couple of decades ago, it was never thought that this number of satellites could practically be launched. Similar to many other problems of tech moving too fast for regulations.

I learned about this from the audiobook version of The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Maybe that is what you're thinking of?

This is a regionalism in parts of the US, which I’ve seen described as Pittsburgh and its surroundings.

I come across it often and struggle with cognitive dissonance every time - I know of the regionalism but it feels so strongly like a glaring grammatical error.

I see/hear the specific phrase “needs fixed” most often.

This isn’t true - the cap on SALT tax deduction hasn’t changed since it was put in place in 2017.

Some members of congress, apparently from both major parties, are proposing legislation to raise the cap from $10,000 to $100,000 or otherwise raise or remove the cap. But these proposals are not certain to go anywhere.

Excellent, clear answer. Thank you.

China is a nuclear power and neither the US nor China is interested in MAD. Any attacks on Japanese territory would probably lead to a hot war with the US, but almost certainly not nuclear annihilation.

China overtaking the US seems a lot more likely based on sheer numbers. China’s population is over 4x larger than that of the US. So China “just” needs to reach a GDP per capita of 25% to have a larger economy than the US. This metric has been growing rapidly in the past decade or two and from a rough search, seems to currently stand around 17-18% of the US’s figure.

Of course GDP isn’t the only factor in world power status, but it sure is a big one.

Compared to the US, China also has a far larger labor force, a greater ability to manufacture things, and greater government control over its population.

Access to natural resources is similar for many things, less for some (like oil and gas) but greater for others (like rare earth minerals).

Mostly off-topic, but I love the scale used for score bars on this site. Each category has a scale from 0 to {highest score of all devices of this class}.

So every category where the current phone is the best has a 100% full bar. Where it’s not, you can immediately visualize if it’s 70% as good as the best device or 99% as good - even if the high score for that category is, say, 136.

A lot of stricter review sites will say something like (made up example) “no phone gets above a 4/10 score for zoom; only a DSLR/mirrorless exceeds that.”

Which is totally valid! But I want to know how the device I’m reading about scores within its category. Those smaller bars make it look like this gadget has one major weakness despite its other high scores, when the reality might be that it actually has the best - or close to the best - zoom ability out of all devices in this class.

This kind of communication seems like an interesting problem for Starlink (or other satellite internet constellations) to solve. What if the satellites had extra antennas pointed outwards and relayed the data back to the ground at high bandwidth?

Seems like it would avoid a lot of the issues like atmospheric interference, frequency congestion, and careful placement of receiver infrastructure.

Same! Their “agony” sorting (basically sorted flights by a combination of # of stops, total hours, and price) was a breakthrough at the time. It seems to be factored into most flight searches today, even though it’s not labeled as such.

ITA powered the backend flight search functionality for virtually every OTA, even if the ITA Matrix website wasn’t popular among end users.

> It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left, whereas shell only requires it on the right

Interesting - it makes it look like Bash uses $ to “read” from the variable, while in PHP/Perl $ only indicates that the rest of the symbol _is_ a variable.

From the original article:

> Fugger charged residents one Rheinischer gulden a year, the equivalent of one month's salary at the time.