HumanReadable's comments

mm, good point!

at that point, why not just have someone from overseas control the robot?

have you considered not buying apple products?

I would have thought this, if not for Microsoft's turnaround.

you really can't see any benefits to the technology they are creating?

I am generally not very fond of unions, but prevent wage theft is a very important function Unions have historically done very well. If there ever was an argument for unions, better contract enforcement would be it.

Think of all the poor unsuspecting stars! Have we not drained enough heat from our own already? When will plants learn to stop appropriating energy that isn't theirs to take?

actually, 'Touchy Subjects' would be a decent name for a site like this.

lead paint is the other big culprit.

For those looking to hasten the end of lead poisoning, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (https://leadelimination.org/) does great work.

Of course the Falcon can be compared to the SLS. Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

The figures are easy to compare as well. Just include these factors in your comparison! Even if we don't know exactly what those factors are, we can make a ballpark estimate the total difference and add that as a percentage to spaceX's final figure.

The idea that things can't be compared because they are different is nonsense. When things are different is the only time comparisons are meaningful to make!

It's a well executed website, but there is no good reason for it to exist. You shouldn't be on a quest to find high yield dividend stocks in the first place.

Whether a stock pays dividends really shouldn't factor in to your decision as to whether to buy it. Any dividend a company pays out makes the company worth that much less. Whatever you stand to gain from the dividend, you stand to lose in the value of the stock you own.

When buying a stock the only thing that matters are its fundamentals. Ie. is the company's assets and future earning potential worth more than the current price of the stock to you? Unless you have information that the market doesn't, this is not a question whose answer you will reliably get right.

Why not? In abstract the argument is:

"I want this product to be better"

The reason we don't want companies to gain market power (the feared result of mega-conglomeration) is because it allows companies to charge more for the same or a worse product.

If this person believes that Blizzard being acquired by microsoft will result in a better product, then they expect the net benefits to outweigh the negatives of Microsoft's increased market power over the video games market.

Acquisitions that produce a consumer-surplus should be most welcome!

Very sad about this decision. Blizzard has shown itself to be entirely incompetent, and seeing how well Microsoft managed the Minecraft IP I was looking forward to seeing what they could have done with the excellent blizzard IP.

Used to have huge three screen set up, arch linux, all sorts of complicated nonsense.

These days I have a 14 inch macbook, which I put on top of a few books and control with a keyboard + magic trackpad. Can't say it's made me any more or less productive.

The biggest improvement i've made was acquiring a desk treadmill, hasn't affected my productivity but now I'm getting 10-20k steps a day without really thinking much about it.

I sincerely think that if you lived your father's at life your age for a few months, you would come to the conclusion that your life is better.

I hate that there's no easy way to run the experiment, but when I talk to my parents about their life at my age, I'm often astounded at how much wealthier my life feels at $27k a year (though I am fortunate to rent a room for free, so my living standard is effectively ~10k higher than it would be for others at the same wage as me).

For what it's worth I'm from Denmark, so maybe its totally different in the US.

It depends on the context, but the standard smiley face has effectively been replaced with the following two:

https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face/

https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/

because it's incredibly interesting

Huge development for the legitimacy of prediction markets. As a regular user of manifold, I'm really looking forward to the day this becomes available in Europe.

Prediction markets have incredible potential and I really hope that we one day will look back on this launch as we look back on the launch of the New York stock exchange.

That said the whole predictit thing strikes me as really shady. I hope it was a necessary evil to gain the authorization of this market and not just a move to secure a monopoly position.

While I was pretty sympathetic to the EU law, I am very strongly against this for India.

The reason many of the lowest end phones don't have USB-C is because switching to usb-c would make the phones more expensive to produce. Forcing producers to switch will drive up the cost of low-margin smartphones, hurting many Indians for whom affording any smartphone is an issue.

It is simply insane to make a regulation that drives up the price of the cheapest phones, such that the richest people of India get a slight convenience.