Dictators are always afraid of their population.

And for good reasons.

Difference between gross profit and net profit.

Medical debt is a real problem in China, the difference is it can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

MIddle managers have been getting fired. Look it up.

I used to support alternative voting systems, but now I'm indifferent. (for example) Australia has been doing ranked choice for a century and still basically has a two party system.

I'd like to see evidence that ranked choice is actually better in practice before believing it will change anything.

I double checked, the one I visited that was really great was the one in Santa Teresa. You can check the website for wait times before going. Santa Clara was a nightmare, though.

Commodore was always a superior engineering company with substandard business executives. At times, extremely dumb executives.

It's not hard to understand why. Musk supports the people who are actually building things, instead of the middle managers. Steve Jobs was the same.

Here's a good graph. Starlink is fine, they do a good job planning EOL to make sure they don't contribute to the problem.

The sad thing is there are now far more resources for learning than ever before. I used to have to go to the library and look through microfilm.

Now we have Wikipedia, which is better than any encyclopedia. If you want to know how to reroof a house, there are hundreds of videos available about that.

A more important problem is that often the teachers don't find the material interesting.

If the teacher actually enjoys the book 1984, they can teach their students to enjoy it. That kind of teacher is a good teacher.

Your boos mean nothing!!

Stanford grads aren't idiots, though. They have at least a minimal level of intelligence.

You're talking about what AI might be in the future, not what it is now.

It is extremely important to make that distinction.

More than one study suggests we're past the tipping point for Kessler syndrome: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Nah I just typed the wrong word and meant Starlink.

In some LEO altitudes, objects can take 50,000 years on average to clear out due to orbital decay. At the Earthlink altitude it takes 10-20 years on average for an object to de-orbit.

Because the number of objects increase dramatically every time there is an explosion/collision, we have likely already hit Kesler syndrome. That is, even if we don't launch anything else, the amount of space junk will just keep increasing. (You would know that if you'd bothered to read the Wikipedia article).

Scientists used to think that space junk would clear because of the atmosphere, but that hasn't been thought true for thirty years or more. There is probably no way to avoid Kessler syndrome now.