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I'm a fan of Stumpy Nubs but I disagree with his economic analysis here. Saw Stop has effectively had a monopoly on this type of saw, so of course they've been pricing it high. When Bosh came out with their own version it only made sense to price it at a comparable level to their only competitor. For them to massively undercut Saw Stop would leave money on the table.

There will be some cost in re-engineering the cheap saws to handle a sensor and brake. But those costs will be amortized over time and the materials themselves will be incredibly cheap. We're talking about a capacitive sensor and a chunk of sacrificial metal.

There will also probably be some cost saving innovation around the tech. Since Saw Stop is a premium brand coasting on patent-enforced monopoly they haven't had to invest in R&D the way Dewalt, Bosh, and Makita will.

Do you think the government should regulate workplace safety?

> But shouldn't I be the one to weigh the value of a risk to only myself against the value of my fingers?

What about employees? They don't get to decide.

There are already safer alternatives.

Can you elaborate on that or drop a link that explains more?

> In 2023, COVID is a bad cold/flu.

Bad flus are deadly.

> With the flu, we know that people are no longer contagious once symptoms are gone

Famously, Covid is different in that it can be spread asymptomatically.

A plane could crash and a car could crash. One method of travel is still safer than the other.

It actually chuckled when they mentioned “labeling misinformation” or “manipulating search results”. Those are forms of speech! They are doing the thing they’re complaining about.

Either this is being done in bad faith by peddlers of BS, or it’s just intellectually lazy. Judging from the list of signatories, probably some of both.

Obviously it didn't pan out, but you could think of Convoy as an aggregator of small carriers. A big shipper doesn't want to deal with 1,000 small carriers but they can deal with Convoy, and Convoy deals with the small carriers.

Convoy could interface with large companies as though they had a large fleet of drivers and trucks. That "fleet" wouldn't require paying for benefits to employees, maintenance or fuel on the truck, and could scale up or down based on demand.

I would have guessed that the network effects of getting this kind of marketplace going would be the hard part. It makes me think that a big mistake in leadership was made.

The courts will continue to have substantial leeway and the bill makes no mention of medical care:

“Democratic California lawmakers have approved a bill that would instruct courts to consider, among many other factors, whether a parent affirms a child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.”

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wireStory/fact-focus-cri...

Can you spell out what’s insane about AB 957? Because that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I feel like you’re valuing hypothetical kids who would get tricked by nefarious school counselors over real kids who are abused by their parents and kicked out onto the streets for being queer.

I’d argue that JS can’t compete but typescript can. Anders Hejlsberg is a freaking genius.

I think you're falling into a trap of romanticizing the past. One way to avoid that is to look at data, most of which shows crime dropping and productivity increasing over the past few decades.

Additionally, we have access to large amounts of news and information now. If there were an incompetent police chief in a random town forty years ago few would hear about it. Now there are whole industries built around pushing outrage and it can get livestreamed to your brain 24/7 if you let it.

As someone who had their appendix removed yesterday, I’m grateful that cheating nature can actually be done safely and effectively.

“Kids are doing something differently from how we used to do it” is always a red flag for me.

The fact that traditional high school debate produced leaders such as Nixon, Pelosi, and Larry Summers is not the ringing endorsement of the process that the author seems to think.

I think this a compelling argument: “minimum wage is an irrelevant debate in a country where basic necessities such as housing, healthcare, and education are increasingly out of reach. Structural reforms are needed, not minor adjustments to regulations that often go ignored.”

If people don’t think that’s compelling, I’d love to hear that argument! But the author’s complaint is framed as “kids today are doing it wrong” and it doesn’t really counter the points the kids are making.

I watch a lot of Sam Pilgrim with my son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDpqLylqeM

Him and I like to bike together. In general, given a sport they're into, there's probably an entertaining goofball doing interesting things with it on youtube.

People (rightly) talk about how great it is at playing steam games. One thing that’s often overlooked is that it is excellent at emulation too.

I’ve played with emulators in the past but they’re always a little laggy, or the controls aren’t quite right, or there is some other nagging issue. EmuDeck isn’t perfect but it handles a lot of the hassle and is the only setup where I have 100% completed the old mario and zelda games of my childhood. https://www.emudeck.com/

All of google or just google search?

I've been mostly happy with DDG but still use google maps.

I feel like reddit could serve better ads than Facebook if they tried. Sure Facebook knows what college I went to and who my uncle is. Reddit knows my hobbies and interests.

The fact that I subscribe to r/woodworking, r/diy, etc, is really useful for targeting but I never see relevant ads.

I’ve literally given Reddit a big list of my interests and the asked to be served content, and the ads are almost completely unrelated.

* Hotel - Kenny's Log Inn

A little off topic, but you should check out bikeindex.org

I understand that the terms are mostly unambiguous, but I always wonder how these get defined in edge cases. For example ferries, at least where I live, alternate the direction of travel as they go back and forth. There isn't a fixed "bow" or "stern" from which to define port and starboard.

How can I prove to you that I have a headache? At a certain point you just have to listen to patients and trust them.

It’s really weird to get super skeptical of people’s claims only for a specific disease or a specific type of person.

He also doesn't acknowledge that regulations exist for a reason. Sure, there are some onerous or silly regulations. But TVs are cheap/unregulated and medical devices or aviation equipment are expensive/regulated for very good reasons.

Just to clarify, because the nuance is getting lost, they are not suggesting it was lab made. A naturally occurring virus can be studied and then accidentally leaked from a lab.

But yes, there's no indication that the US is trying to cover anything up. And China is secretive about all sorts of things, they're an authoritarian government.

It’s also been an incredibly risky ride. Mt Gox collapsed in 2014 so owning a bunch of btc 10 years ago is no guarantee you’d be doing well today.

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter is a pretty reliable metric, since police get called and they actually have to show up when there's a dead body.

Seattle ranks 77th when you sort by that column!

"Tough on crime" policies don't actually lead to less crime. If they did, the US would be among the safest countries on the planet.

Seattle, which is "soft on crime", is a relatively safe city with lower rates of violent crime per capita than Phoenix, Des Moines, Denver, Corpus Christi, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

But getting back to my original question, I seriously doubt "tough on crime" policies in Redmond were implemented to help the homeless. More likely, they were implemented to keep poor people away.

My theory is that most people complaining about homelessness in cities like Seattle don't actually care about the homeless people. What they care about is that they have to see homelessness. So long as homelessness isn't visible then it's not a problem and whether that's done through charity or relocation or incarceration is irrelevant.

But I hope I'm wrong! I'd like to believe people aren't that cruel, so if Redmond has a solution that is compassionate and helpful I would genuinely love to know what they're doing.

I asked what they’re doing to help homeless people on the Eastside.

If you think crime and punishment are related somehow then please be more explicit as to how that helps because I don’t follow.