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by avalys 11mo ago
Readers Digest was just a general interest collection of articles, wasn’t it? I don’t remember it being particularly made-up. I mainly read it for the jokes, as I recall.
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by avalys 11mo ago
If it a commercial product marketed as "homeopathic" or various nonsense loopholes that the government has been bullied into leaving open, then sure. But an actual medical product for sale to consumers that makes claims like &quot
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by avalys 11mo ago
1. The Boeing 737-Max crashes had nothing to do with maintenance, which is what the original poster was concerned about. 2. Arguably, these crashes were due to the FAA's failure to apply existing regulations, not a lack of adequate reg
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by avalys 11mo ago
Is this a commercial product that has been approved by a regulator to make these claims? Amazing. Newsworthy. Is this a press release from a university research group, as it appears to be (the site is down)? Then it's nearly meaningles
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by avalys 11mo ago
> IMHO, this is a perfect example why the government needs to regulate prices in safety-critical industries. The "race to the bottom" must be prevented - sorry, flying NYC-SFO for 70$, that's not sustainable. This is nonse
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by avalys 11mo ago
Because aviation is already incredibly, ridiculously safe compared to essentially every other activity humanity undertakes, and adding additional cost, complexity and expense to the system would produce zero discernible benefit relative to
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by avalys 11mo ago
Of course it was not unpreventable, though it might turn out that preventing it would have been unreasonably expensive. But, the FAA inspectors are not responsible for making sure planes are safe to fly. They are responsible for making sure
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by avalys 11mo ago
Every multi-engine airliner is designed to be able to take off safely even if an engine fails at a critical moment. What might have happened in this case is that the mechanism of failure of one engine caused damaged or interfered with the o
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by avalys 11mo ago
Zero. This almost certainly has nothing to do with the shutdown.
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by avalys 1y ago
“Almond milk” is not milk. You know what else is less carbon-intensive than milk? Candy corn. But that is also _not milk_, and so equally irrelevant!
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by avalys 1y ago
Is this water even “used” in the same sense that water is used for bathing or agriculture? Where does the water go? If they simply take in cold water and release hot water, that water is still available for other uses. Or do data centers us
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by avalys 1y ago
Maybe it’s confusing because it’s misnamed?
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by avalys 1y ago
Okay, the official IRS policy is that you don't have to file taxes if you don't owe anything. What happens if you do not file your taxes, but the IRS believes you owe them money?
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by avalys 1y ago
This is exactly how it works in the US, too. The reason this topic continually comes up is that people in the US are stupid and bad at math, and the IRS is very heavy-handed and issues penalties for minor tax errors, so people are afraid to
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by avalys 1y ago
Yes, and this includes the US! When people say they are “paying their taxes”, really what they’re doing is checking whether the automatic tax deduction out of each paycheck was properly calculated over the whole year, and whether any specia
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by avalys 1y ago
Yes, and what do you think it is like in the US? It works exactly the same way.
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by avalys 1y ago
All the same criticisms are true about hiring humans. You don’t really know what they’re thinking, you don’t really know what their values and morals are, you can’t trust that they’ll never make a mistake, etc.
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by avalys 1y ago
What are you talking about?
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by avalys 1y ago
It’s neurotic to think that it matters or harms you.
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by avalys 1y ago
No, not objectively good at all. If you're a neurotic obsessive who wants to pretend that all kinds of dastardly forces are trying to spy on you and your data, then yes, you want more security checks and more permission prompts. For li
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by avalys 1y ago
The iPhone - and macOS too - used to be a paragon of simplicity. Today the setup experience on a brand-new iPhone or Mac is abysmal. Entering the same username and password multiple times - then sometimes a different username and password -
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by avalys 1y ago
Same as usual here in Colorado.
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by avalys 1y ago
I’ve been carrying an iPhone since the first one - so, almost 20 years? Have never used a case. I’ve dropped them plenty of times. Only once did I do major damage, and that was to the all-glass rear panel of a 4S. I’ve never broken a screen
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by avalys 1y ago
Can someone comment on what is newsworthy about this?
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by avalys 1y ago
+1 The byline is “The Economist”, and the lack of links is the house style, like a printed newspaper. A relic from the times when the name and reputation of the institution alone was enough to earn your trust. Personally I still find them a
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by avalys 1y ago
Someone get RFK Jr. over there.
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by avalys 1y ago
Have you actually checked any of these numbers? What do you imagine is the profit margin of a health insurance company? According to this report by the national association of state regulators, the profit margin of the health insurance indu
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by avalys 1y ago
If it’s not up to health insurers to limit healthcare spending, then which organizational role in the healthcare system do you think is appropriate to place this responsibility with?
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by avalys 1y ago
It’s simple, RFKj is a well-intentioned idiot.
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by avalys 1y ago
I’d love to buy a 20 kWh battery for under $1k. Can you give me a link to what you’re thinking of?

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