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So go full Harrison Bergeron?

It seems like it would be way cheaper and more energy efficient to have something long and thin, like a snake or a centipede (with wheels or tracks) that can just roll up and down between crop rows. And, if you're claiming it an autonomous vehicle then something on the ground seems easier to deal with. Certainly it's easier legally.

The feature that stands out the most to me is that the black "boom or bust" line that shows prosperity/recession is effectively never at 100. It crosses the line (going up or down) a bunch of times, but is almost never on the line. I have to wonder if more balance with this would result in better outcomes, or worse.

Also, and this is just an eyeball analysis from the pdf, the booms seem roughly balanced with the busts until the great depression. The prosperity of WWI seems to have set up the cycle of bust for the great depression.

I agree with Cory on his points about enshittification, but I think it should just be called bait-and-switch.

I really like the T. Herman Zweibel signature at the bottom. He was by far my favorite recurring character.

Not the Onion, but a list of H. T. Zweibel articles: https://muckrack.com/t-herman-zweibel/articles

For those who haven't encountered quaternions or their history, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quaternions.

Yeah, it seems like a fairly small thing until you're in rain, and the wipers are going crazy over a few drops of rain, or are too slow during a heavy downpour. You're constantly interacting with this awkward setup to change the rate the wipers work at, and it's fairly easy to accidentally change the radio station or volume.

I drove a Subaru Solterra for a while, and I really enjoyed it, and it felt like a traditional car, not like a crappy tablet with a (pretty good) car bolted to it.

Except the Solterra's range was kind of short and charging was more painful than a Tessa. Tesla really has charging down, and that's a big deal if you cannot charge at home or work. Teslas charging is both faster and generally works at more stations. The Solterra seemed to have more trouble syncing up, and the plug wasn't as common, so you had to plan ahead more.

If the US goes for an invasion, I think we'd be way better off invading Baja California. Spice must flow! That is, we must keep up with demand from the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel [0]?

[0] https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

The windshield wipers are anannoyingly bad design.

If you want to alter the wiper's setting and if you don't press the little wheel-button just right or a few seconds too late then you change the radio volume or station, depending on exactly how you hit the button.

In the presentation it talked about college, even a short amount, can give better outcomes.

But the presentation was more of an overview of the issue, and I don't think it's fair to argue that, because it doesn't go deeply into every data point, that it's not valid. It more about bring awareness to the issues, and grounds for further research.

I don't think that "fault", which I take as implying blame, had anything to do with the presentation. I interpreted it as very neutral in that respect. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it?

I do think it touches on how everyone is exposed to adverse outcomes, whatever category they are in. And I agree that it's a collective responsibility, although the presentation does a poor job of arguing the "collective responsibility" point.

I could be wrong, but I believe that anyone, even without a license, can use them to listen to ham bands at anytime. You can not use them to transmit, unless there is some sort of emergency.

Autobytel used to be a great option to go directly to a fleet sales guy. I'd check them out, although you should definitely do your own research on this. used to work for them a long time ago.

I'd think that Uber would just hire the wheelchair accessible taxis directly from the taxi company. Maybe the taxi company charged 3x or more for the ride, but it's still cheaper for Uber.

I think unit pricing is already law in California, or at least lots of products have a price per unit. It's in smaller text on the price tag on the shelf, not on the items themselves.

I don't know about the 'always' thing... In the US, the Republicans have been solidly anti-immagramt for a while now. I think a few other countries have had a conservative anti-immagrant platform as well.

I think it's a fairly foolish and self-defeating position in the long term, but I'm not the one making those decisions.

I went to a latin jazz show this weekend, and Arturo Sandoval played the flower song, from Carmen. He improvised a few blue notes into the melody, it was subtle, and the effect was masterful.

I wishef that they could release to music to YouTube or something, because I'd love to understand the changes that were made to the music.

If they could release it as a limited-time piece, or limited play price, thena lot more people could listen to it.

I know, I know, it's just not that simple, piracy, enshitification, and all that. But it would be really cool to hear it like that again, and a temporary release from the venue would let a lot of other people experience it, and also maybe side step some copyright issues.

Thanks, that was a good read, very much in the best tradition of YC.

Just a suggestion, it's easy to capture command or program output with xsel, just by piping into it, for e.g.: 'ls | grep -i "whatever" | xsel -b'.

It is common for me and I have aliases set up for 'ls=ls -lah', g=grep -i' and 'x=xsel -b', so the actual commandline looks like 'ls | g "whatever" | x'. Then I can paste or redirect the result into something else.

There are probably better command line clipboard managers, but I just happened to settle on xsel, and it seems to work pretty well. That, and using alt and number keys to switch between tabs gets me pretty far with my terminal emulator.

Is this Orange County, California? Or Orange County, Florida? Or some other Orange County?

I'm from Orange County, California, and it's hardly a center of the MLM universe.

Honestly, if it's the center of anything like that, it's drug and alcohol rehabs.

Here is a YouTube version of a Scott Alexander post that gives me hope, and is well worth watching

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbwp4PbWYzw

No, not at all. But it was a while ago, safety laws weren't enforced as heavily, and we were young and felt indestructible.

I was in a volunteer fire Dept for a while, and the fire chief was an older, ex-marine. His number one rule - "if you loose your cool, you've lost everything".

That, and always park the fire engine so you can get out if things go bad.

Now that I think about it, an easy test could've comparing the skin of people who do/don't regularly swim in chlorinated pools. I'd think that the chlorine would pretty much nuke any surface microbiome. So the comparison would be fairly straightforward. Hardly definite, with all the possible confounding factors and all, but certainly an easy way to test for plausibility.

I agree. Plus, there also simple things like plain cirulation. Skin is fed by blood, and all the various juices that sluce up from below. It seems to my very uneducated understanding that this would have a far greater impact overall.

It's certainly not common, but I had a friend in highschool that took out the front passenger seat of his VW bug, to make it easier to get surfboards into the car. He normally just had a folding chair for passengers.

I'm driving a Subaru Solterra right now, and it has the same kind of knob. I find it awkward as well. But I suspect that safety is the reason for using a rotary knob. I think a simple forward/reverse lever is too easy to accidentally hit. It's far harder to accidentally twist the knob while driving.

Of course, a forward/reverse lever could be done with a button to push to unlock it, just like automatic transmissions had for decades. That would be ideal for me.

I think that you're saying that writing code is the same as writing prose. My experience is that, if I write both in the same way, I will fail at both. People just don't read prose to bask in it's technical correctness. Programming, at least the kind people get paid for, has strict technical requirements. They may get met in a creative manner, but they must be met. The primary output needs to be workable, runnable code. Programmers get paid to solve problems. But so do, e.g., surgeons. It doesn't mean that surgery is the same as programming, even if some people are called "code surgeons".

I don't experience writing code as similar to writing prose. Code has a lot of technical constraints, and prose is much more about emotion.

I'm not saying they have nothing in common. Code and prose are both written in languages, and prose has certain technical requirements like good grammar, etc... There are very creative prose stories that play with the rules of language. But the primary focus of prose is it's effect on people and that has a different requirements than a program which has to run, run correctly, be understandable, and be maintained.