I hadn’t thought about this before, but it’s a big problem we need to work on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346342
I like the EU’s idea of pushing disposal costs to the point of purchase. Or perhaps allowing more people to migrate to the US to help do low wage jobs like sorting recycling.
The Economist | KAL’s cartoon https://www.economist.com/node/21761053?frsc=dg%7Ce
The SEC rightfully gave hard pushback on Elon Musk for tweeting market moving news incorrectly.
However, the SEC needs to realize that Elon Musk is a modern day Edison or Newton or Einstein and we need to give him and his businesses maximum possible leeway to achieve their goals. Taking humans to space, improving batteries, building electric cars, and building cheap tunnels are enormously important to humanity’s future.
Richard Feynman, who became intimately familiar with the US medical system while his wife died of tuberculosis, found the American medical system to be a mutilation of the scientific method.
The American medical system is more built to protect the profits of doctors and hospitals than it is to help patients.
You can read Richard Feynman’s love letter to his dead wife here https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arline-letter/
Ideas are worthless, execution is everything. This is why patents should be completely eliminated. This would rocket launch technology worldwide.
The patent system is enormously beneficial to me and and especially to other wealthy tech entrepreneurs. It is used to block out competition artificially. My business has a lot of patentable innovations that I could use to shut down competitors and raise prices to extract more profits.… read more “Ideas VS Execution”
Our healthcare system is set up for the enrichment of doctors at the expense of patients. Here is a great article showing this yet again. When you go get a fast food hamburger for $1.49, you will only extremely rarely receive a poorly made burger or have a billing mistake or get food poisoning. So why are you virtually guaranteed to not get what you pay for and get overbilled anytime you visit a hospital?… read more “US Healthcare Corruption”
I stopped drinking for 500 days and then about three months ago started drinking occasionally again. I don’t think this is a wise decision. I can tell alcohol still is a problem for me. I started to crave it again slightly. I feel like there is a gut bacteria that processes / demands alcohol. I thought I read something about that.… read more “Drinking Is Dangerous”
Fox News top 15 stories today are all about an idiot named Jussie Smollett who apparently faked a hate crime attack on himself. I agree that Mr. Smollett should get jail time if this is a hoax, but it is deeply concerning that this series of stories is being used to bury a truly important national news story on a Republican governor who admitted to election fraud.… read more “Fox News Distraction”