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The mystery isn't why Tetris was valuable though. It's why it was only mentioned on a sticker instead of being part of the original packaging

Funny how much risk management is hidden in something as mundane as a sticker

Sure, but then you're buying an e-bike. The interesting part of this thing, at least to me, is that it doesn't permanently turn your bike into one

I can see one audience: someone with a bike they already like who only occasionally needs assistance and wants the whole thing removable

The strange part is that they already have wireless communication in the system, so adding a simple handlebar remote doesn't seem like a huge engineering leap

$2k makes sense only if the bike underneath it is valuable enough that you specifically want to keep riding that bike

Wet-weather performance in particular seems like the thing I'd want to see independently tested

I kind of like this. Not because it's necessarily the best way to electrify a bike, but because it's removable enough that your bike can still just be... a bike

And I think the missing piece is what prevents this new workflow from eventually turning back into the same productivity ouroboros

I'm not sure "keep AI out of hobbies" quite works either. With young kids, reducing the activation energy can be the difference between doing a project and never doing it at all.

There are tasks where AI genuinely removes tedious work and then there are tasks where the tedious or uncomfortable part is actually the thinking you needed to do

This sounds like one of those cases where the opposition may be right about the project and still wrong about the mechanism

If the city thinks data centers are incompatible with certain areas, it should encode that through zoning, permitting, utility pricing, noise limits, etc.

A data center can be a much quieter neighbor than a warehouse or shopping center. The catch is that most of its impact is pushed into less visible systems

Maybe, but "this would probably have been fine five years ago" is not a very reassuring standard. The physical impact matters more than whether the racks are running email servers or training models.

The real issue seems to be that local zoning and utility planning never caught up with the scale of modern data centers. If a project can consume huge amounts of power, generate constant noise, affect a neighboring zoo, those costs should be addressed before the land is sold and hundreds of millions are committed.

Elegance may not remain exclusively human forever but usefulness probably requires more than correctness

Yes, especially when the counterexample is formally verified. It converts years of speculative effort into a definite answer almost immediately

I think the asymmetry depends on the representation

This is probably part of why machines are doing so well at counterexamples. They have no aesthetic commitment to the conjecture and no embarrassment about producing something ugly

Most of the cost is keeping crews, vehicles and equipment available for the call that may or may not come

Thin operating margins don't really settle the greed question when the ownership structure is complicated

This is exactly the part that makes "you can always refuse" feel a bit theoretical

I think your department is probably closer to what people imagine ambulance billing looks like

Yet "the payment model is broken" and "some prices are absurd" can both be true

Kids don't just get sick, they seem to turn the whole house into a slow-motion relay race of viruses

I guess it depends a lot on what they count as sick. I definitely don't spend 3 weeks a year in bed, but if you add up all the random sore throats, congestion, coughs that linger for a week and "not really sick but clearly fighting something" days, it may be less crazy than it sounds

It's strange how much we've normalized everyone being sick for weeks every year, even though the total cost is enormous

This is the kind of thing people miss when they say "it's just a cold". I really hope this work goes somewhere.

The tricky part is that the benefit is invisible. If it works, nothing happens: people just get sick less often. That is a hard thing to sell to building owners and employers unless the evidence and standards are really solid