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Don't forget about healthcare. Few people would prefer the comforts of the past if it comes with infant mortality rate of the past.

Relevant comic: https://www.butajape.com/comic/sci-fi-predictions/

Make sure you read the description too.

Only if they have patented -

The unabridged audiobook is just under 24 hours. 16 hours seems short, but not terribly so.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Moby-Dick-Audiobook/B071NYW4Q1

Now thinking about it, children—especially newborns and toddlers—go through clothes fast. They must be skewing the distribution.

I imagine they are counting everything, e.g. counting each sock as a separate item of clothing. Otherwise, there is no way the AVERAGE is 68 items per year.

In an ideal world, biology salaries would be on par with tech salaries, so more intelligent ambitious young people will pursue education and careers in biology.

Why not COBOL of Wheelchair?

https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair

> Even on a personal level, say a car lets me do a trip in 30 minutes instead of 2 hours walking. I don't relax for an hour and a half.

And that's why building highways does not reduce average commute time—people just move further from the downtown where they work. If you build a new highway that cuts commute time in half, on the population level, the sprawl increases until average population is twice as far and their commute remains the same.

You could get CERB/CRB for a maximum of 54 weeks, so just over a year. Those who started collecting CERB right at the beginning of the pandemic would have run out of it more than nine months ago. And that's before the programs ended in October.

How much do sandwiches cost in Australia, where minimum wage is approximately 15 USD? I don't think they cost 15 AUD, let alone 15 USD.

Now that TorStar is on its deathbed, without CBC, Canadian English-language media will be comprised of solely Postmedia. That's not a future I am looking forward to, but one that is quite likely the next time CPC gets elected.

No party wins popular vote anymore (as in more than 50%). With FPTP, we are stuck with less-than ideal seats-to-votes correlation.

These days their websites are much more prominent than their print editions, and it's what people read online and link to on Facebook and social media. They are not stuck in the past. The Globe and Mail is widely regarded as Canada's newspaper of record, and even they endorse Conservatives.

I cannot speak about the alleged wokeness, as I don't consume enough CBC content to make an informed judgment. What I can say is that CBC is the only major Canadian media company that is not capital C Conservative, at least among English-language media. Toronto Star used to fit this description too, but they got sold to what I think is a private equity firm who has been selling off their assets, so I don't expect them to be around much longer. Toronto Star is/soon-to-be was leftist. CBC is supposed to be neutral. All other major media companies are Conservative. See party endorsements for federal elections for example. Note that all non-Conservative endorsements come from the late TorStar corporation.

https://readpassage.com/election-endorsements/

So maybe the issue is not that CBC is too Liberal, but that every other publication is Conservative, so even a neutral publication will look far left by comparison.

Again, I don't consume enough CBC content to comment how their leanings are. I just know a bit about Canadian media atmosphere in general.

> it's quite unlikely this code will be in use in 78 years

Famous last words.

The thing about battery is that you can take the energy out of it. It stores energy. That's the entire point of a battery. How on earth can you do that with Bitcoin? If you can't, Bitcoin isn't a battery, it's a black hole.

Loggy McLogface

Like the other Google project, Bloaty McBloatface.

https://github.com/google/bloaty

I think you missed this excellent article that was posted to HN a few days ago. You are describing a gradient, not a spectrum. Autism spectrum means something different.

https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682917

My carrier in Canada has one-time use eSIM tokens that you can only buy in-store and only from select stores and it costs four times as much as an actual SIM card (20$ for an eSIM token QR code vs $5 for SIM card). If you need to use the eSIM on another phone, you need to buy another 20$ QR code.

> Is there evidence that these snake oil people: 1. Exist as a significant force?

Dietary supplements, homeopathic "medicine", chiropractic, essential oils, Goop and similar new age stuff ... Snake oil business is thriving and expanding if anything.

We won't have long-term data until a long time had passed, but so far, it doesn't seem inactivated virus vaccines fare any better than mRNA ones.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02796-w

It's something I have seen a lot of people say here on HN, but I don't know if it's true. If having the whole virus was more effective than just the spike protein, wouldn't Sinopharm and Sinovac—which are inactivated virus vaccines—be more effective than Pfizer and Moderna? We still don't know their efficacy against Omicron, but they were less effective than mRNA vaccines against all previous variants.

I don't know if they have already dropped or not (and if they are public yet or not), but all meal kit and food delivery companies fall into the same category: they just had the best market of the century and it's going to be downhill for them from now on.

> I would feel extremely comfortable banning those head coverings from all universities, if not all public venues...From our point of view, allowing religion to exist is treating it with tolerance.

If saying "either stop adhering to your religion or you cannot go to university/exist in public" is tolerance, what is intolerance? Is everything short of prison, internment camps, torture, and execution tolerance in your point of view?

Also, if a government tells religious people "we are going to make your life very difficult, but you should really be thankful to us that we are not outright destroying you", they should not be surprised when they don't end up being thankful and instead vote for the other guy. That's one of the reasons Erdogan is now in power.

> Islam was acceptable (as Turkey was attempting to be a "free" republic), but not compulsory.

Until Erdogan overturned it, there was a ban on women wearing hijab (the head covering , that the vast majority of Muslims consider a basic tenet of their religion) in universities in Turkey. I leave the judgment to you, but personally I wouldn't consider asking millions of people to choose between adhering to their religion and getting a higher education to be treating their religion as "acceptable, just not compulsary".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11880622

Not the OP. I believe that's the case in the US, but here in Canada, there generally aren't any laws against it. There was a bill in Ontario in 2018 that banned reprisals against workers who discussed their pay, but it died when the governing Liberal party lost the election and the Conservative party did not follow through. As far as I know, the practice is not banned in Alberta either.

What does that have to do with Finland?

I am sure reusable machines exist. What I am not sure (really not sure, it may or may not be feasible) is if they can be made at consumer-level price point and with consumer limitations (e.g. no requirement for maintenance or calibration for the lifetime of the device). I imagine the professional devices cost thousands of dollars and undergo regular maintenance.

> Because $25 of electronics to read a $1 paper strip makes perfect sense in today's world I guess

This makes sense, because you can calibrate the sensor in the factory and not worry about "is that a faint line I am seeing? Do faint lines count?" situation anymore. Converting continuous data to a simple yes/no output has value.

> As does not making the strip a replaceable consumable part.

This may or may not make sense based on the requirements for maintaining calibration. I am not sure about this.

Not great, not terrible.