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iPhone 5s was the best design ergonomically. Perfect size to reach across the screen with one thumb, no camera bulge, fingerprint sensor, nice materials, and 33% lighter than the latest iPhone 17 Air.

There's been big drama about this technology recently. Back in 1999, a man named Steve Gass invented a system that sensed flesh and allowed the blade to stop and retract before it could cut into hands and fingers. This wasn't some gimmick. It actually worked. 40,000 people in

I recently bought a piece of plastic from Elon Musk which I pointed to the sky and it gave me internet by connecting to 9000 satellites that he put in space himself with reusable rockets after NASA pursued that concept for 60 years and failed. I bet he’s not that unintelligent.

Imagine commuting 45 minutes each way just to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day.

The pinnacle of engineering in one photo

How it started / How it's going

Is anyone still convinced Twitter needed 8,000 employees to keep the lights on?

Still enough time if you employ the 80/20 rule

Nine women can make a baby in one month

Sometimes I buy a garden hose made in Germany, or some silly item like that, and it's like it was made by an advanced alien species.

Took my 7yr old to his annual pediatric dentist appt last month (near Seattle) and the dentist found 4 cavities in his baby teeth, all needing filling and one needed a cap. The dentist said this had to be done with general anesthesia. Cost $2,750. We found it bizarre to have to put a 7yr old under general anesthesia, outside of a hospital, in a small clinic above a Starbucks, with full intubation and put on a ventilator, just to fill 4 cavities in baby teeth that would fall off on their own anyway. The dentist insisted the intervention was necessary because these teeth won't fall off in 5 years, and one of the cavities was almost guaranteed to become problematic. And that general anesthesia was required because of the length of the intervention. We had a bad feeling about all of this, and declined the procedure after considering the risks of general anesthesia outside of a hospital. The dentist gave my wife a lecture about how this is totally safe and they do it all the time, and that we should take some time to think about it, but we should come again after the summer to talk with them again and reconsider our decision. The dentist insisted this was the only way to proceed and that it would be very imprudent to postpone it. The entire rant made the whole thing feel even more shady to me. It felt like a Hertz rep trying to sell me car insurance at the airport. We're now in Malta, and took the kid to a local dentist for a second opinion. We thought we'd ask the dentist if we could do the fillings one by one, over multiple sessions, in order to avoid any sedation. And guess what? This dentist took a look at the kid's teeth, and couldn't find anything! Zero cavities. Perfectly healthy teeth. Not even a cleaning was required. We paid €15 and were sent home. Now, the Maltese dentist didn't do an x-ray. They said it would be an over-intervention to order an x-ray with no visible signs of decay. The Seattle dentist does an x-ray every year, and found the cavities from the latest x-ray. They never sent us the x-rays though. Is there a chance the Seattle dentist was right, or is this a classic case of violating the Hippocratic Oath for personal gain? The insistence on general anesthesia just didn't sit well with me, and smelled of malpractice in an attempt to do this procedure quickly and more conveniently (plus charge a lot more). What's your interpretation?

A quarter of Goldman Sachs employees are Vice Presidents

Amazon: We want everyone back to the office! My office when I worked at Amazon:

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This is how meaningful Meta’s numbers are:

Why would my Mac be holding to 621GB of system data? That's the size of 6 wikipedias.

I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. First, do no harm.

Took my 7yr old to his annual pediatric dentist appt last month (near Seattle) and the dentist found 4 cavities in his baby teeth, all needing filling and one needed a cap. The dentist said this had to be done with general anesthesia. Cost $2,750. We found it bizarre to have to put a 7yr old under general anesthesia, outside of a hospital, in a small clinic above a Starbucks, with full intubation and put on a ventilator, just to fill 4 cavities in baby teeth that would fall off on their own anyway. The dentist insisted the intervention was necessary because these teeth won't fall off in 5 years, and one of the cavities was almost guaranteed to become problematic. And that general anesthesia was required because of the length of the intervention. We had a bad feeling about all of this, and declined the procedure after considering the risks of general anesthesia outside of a hospital. The dentist gave my wife a lecture about how this is totally safe and they do it all the time, and that we should take some time to think about it, but we should come again after the summer to talk with them again and reconsider our decision. The dentist insisted this was the only way to proceed and that it would be very imprudent to postpone it. The entire rant made the whole thing feel even more shady to me. It felt like a Hertz rep trying to sell me car insurance at the airport. We're now in Malta, and took the kid to a local dentist for a second opinion. We thought we'd ask the dentist if we could do the fillings one by one, over multiple sessions, in order to avoid any sedation. And guess what? This dentist took a look at the kid's teeth, and couldn't find anything! Zero cavities. Perfectly healthy teeth. Not even a cleaning was required. We paid €15 and were sent home. Now, the Maltese dentist didn't do an x-ray. They said it would be an over-intervention to order an x-ray with no visible signs of decay. The Seattle dentist does an x-ray every year, and found the cavities from the latest x-ray. They never sent us the x-rays though. Is there a chance the Seattle dentist was right, or is this a classic case of violating the Hippocratic Oath for personal gain? The insistence on general anesthesia just didn't sit well with me, and smelled of malpractice in an attempt to do this procedure quickly and more conveniently (plus charge a lot more). What's your interpretation?

Can someone explain to me what's the rationale of having no speed limit on German highways? How is this not massively endangering others? Not even F1 allows cars to have a 100mph difference. The 107% rule prevents cars that are 7% slower from competing, for safety reasons.

$9K is really not that much considering 2-3 days of private hospital room and board, and all the medical staff assigned to you with zero notice.

Is anyone still convinced Twitter needed 8,000 employees to keep the lights on?

Imagine commuting 45 minutes each way just to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day.

I recently bought a piece of plastic from Elon Musk which I pointed to the sky and it gave me internet by connecting to 9000 satellites that he put in space himself with reusable rockets after NASA pursued that concept for 60 years and failed. I bet he’s not that unintelligent.

iPhone 5s was the best design ergonomically. Perfect size to reach across the screen with one thumb, no camera bulge, fingerprint sensor, nice materials, and 33% lighter than the latest iPhone 17 Air.

UnitedHealthcare has a profit margin of 3.63% and makes $32,500 per employee. If they are so greedy why does their business make so little money?

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You only become an adult once you have kids. Until then, you're just a grown up child.

Consumers are demanding so many features in modern cars that it would be almost impossible to have a physical button for everything. Car maker Ineos tried this with their 2024 Grenadier and ended up like a 747 cockpit. Good luck finding the button you want while driving.

The is embarrassing for America

Believe it or not, house affordability hasn't changed much in the last 40 years. What got inflated was people's desire for bigger and more luxurious homes. The median new house today is almost 1000 sqft bigger than 40 years ago. Price per sqft, inflation adjusted:

I do blood tests every 4-6 months and get results in PDFs like this. What's the easiest way for me to aggregate all this data in one place to see changes over time, etc? Is there a tool that does this?

Sometimes I buy a garden hose made in Germany, or some silly item like that, and it's like it was made by an advanced alien species. Why is Germany quality so good?