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I'm not convinced nuclear is safe enough. Say new nuclear it is 2x safer than previous designs on average, and we spin up 4x more nuclear plants, well you can see where this goes.

Plus, such a concentrated power source is going to invite a terrorist attack by something like drones, which can't be effectively defended against. An attack that looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_at....

Clover is great for lawn health as it fixes (adds) nitrogen to the soil.

Before the widespread use of herbicides having some clover in the lawn was viewed as a good thing because of this. Lawn seeds even included a bit of clover.

When herbicides came out that killed clover as a side effect then we saw people saying (marketing) that clover is bad.

Humans have being wearing clothes for about 170,000 years, indoors and outdoors, long enough for a evolutionary response. Along with fire, clothing is one of our great inventions and allows humans to live in colder climates than we could otherwise. We have, along with other creatures like lice, been evolving since we started wearing clothes.

But why do people get more sick in the winter, when they are forced into close proximity with other people, making illness easier to spread, rather than the summer, when people are outdoors more, and can do things like walk to work in the warm summer sun rather than take the bus in the cold winter rain and snow? Stated differently, we naturally do more social distancing in the summer.

The flaw with the golden rule is that what is hateful varies by person, and what people like also varies.

A better rule is to treat people like they want to be treated. But this rule also has issues with people wanting something that isn't healthy for them.

This type of thinking, and the inability to see it even when pointed out, is why we have BLM.

But the type of organization that is a corporation didn't exist when the constitution was written. Much like nuclear arms (and chemical, and biological) didn't exist when the constitution was written so we don't consider them covered by the second amendment.

If you look at this from a socioeconomic standpoint, the poor are more obese and exercise less than the better off. Being poor is hard, so the wealth gap of the US looks to be partial cause of this, but the whole cause and effect is hard to determine here.

The issue with health care is it is a superior good. This means if someones incomes increases by 10%, people spend 12-13% more on health care.

Canada has more regulated health care than the US, and yet the health care has better outcomes and is delivered at a lower price. It isn't perfect, but having seen both systems, the Canadian one is overall better.

One of the reasons, although not the only one, for higher education prices is less subsidies for education at the state level.

I agree that city zoning, and the lack of quick public transit, explains much of the increased price of housing. But some of this increase in cost is due to increased population, and the amount of land in and close to cities being fixed. Higher density would help, but higher density housing to also more expensive to create than lower density housing. A lack of regulation also leads to outcomes like houses in Houston being build on flood plains.

There is a role for government and regulation, and a role for free enterprise, but to understand the balance one need to look a other countries it see if they have a better balance and what works well.

Canada is similar to the US in terms of food consumption, and yet Canada has much better health care outcomes and lower health care expenditures. I'm not saying food isn't a factor, I'm just wondering how big a factor it is compared to universal access to health care.

Amazon has a few superpowers. One is writing, but the other is so many metrics. I worked at AWS and saw how the weekly metrics meeting was ran, with execs questioning why some metric, out of 10s of thousands, was behaving in a certain way. A good product manager had a good reason, an acceptable one found a reason quickly after the meeting. Without an understanding of the business writing is worthless, and one of the ways Amazon creates this understanding is comprehensive metrics gathering.

It is the combination of business understanding and writing that is Amazon's superpower.

Not for a reliable solution. For example, assume you have a master and a replica database for reliability, what happens if the master, where the cron runs, fails? Do you remember to set up the cron up on the replica? From my experience, having worked on backup software, over 10% of servers that need to be backed up are not.

System reliability is hard, and the cloud makes that easier.