> it was totally impossible to do with computer simulation and hasn't been studied to death in aerospace

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

Koryo Miura, the man known for the Miura fold, is kind of a legend in astrophysics and this fold has indeed been studied to death in aerospace since the 60s. So yeah it was pretty hard sarcasm.

If you had to guess, which would you say it is?

Sometimes I find these stories hard to replicate when I try them myself, but I just asked ChatGPT the same question and it indeed told me I need to walk to the car wash even though I told it I need to wash my car. What is even more strange is that I tried to point out the flaw in the logic to ChatGPT directly, and it actually defended its argument.

Don't they still employ armies of people to fix things like this?

How are those two things the same?!

They're both a single long-lived identifier that identifies a single person and their habits?

You should look at a comparison of American violent crime to other major western nations.

I think I would say the same, that you should actually look at that.

Compared to other major western countries, the US has a serious problem with violent crime in particular.

If you remove like 250sq mi of land from that stat you can cut the violent crime stat by 90%.

There are some neighborhoods with more murders in a month than some whole states see in a couple years.

Can't you do that for any epsilon? (i.e. for every e > 0 there exists a area of the United States such that 90% of the crime is in an area < e)

You can make it zero too if going by this argument. Count up the individual points at which crimes were committed. The area adds up to zero since the number of crimes is finite.

Not popular.

We know exactly where the majority of crime is in the US, you are correct, down to the neighborhood.

Now… let’s say you were to call the national guard in to safeguard those areas, how do you think that would go over by those cities governors and reaction media? I guess the answer depends on the year.

This comment really confirms the "everyone is twelve years old now" theory.

"If there's crime, let's send in the army!" Of course you'd suggest that, you're twelve.

I don’t remember suggesting that. But, go on with your strawman, you are doing great.

"Now… let’s say you were to call the national guard in to safeguard those areas"

Ah yes. Good point.

Someone uses a scenario as reductio ad absurdum, you can yell “THEYRE ONLY 12” and claim it was an endorsed suggestion.

I mean it, you’re doing great. Keep digging.

And science already told you the best improvement ever, in the world history with regards to violent crime, came from unleaded gasoline.

So, are you using your brain and demanding other systemic changes like free mental-health care and housing? or are you just being a tool and wanting more police violence?

And quality of life crimes. In my country, I can get a package left on my property and it is not stolen.

Additional diagnostics can also be very expensive. Articles like this don’t seem to understand the overall costs to a health system with decisions like these. And that cost eventually does go down into the pockets of patients one way or another.

I think the point of the conversation is that if we take the predatory capitalism out of the way, using MRIs could potentially be a net benefit overall for everyone.

I'd argue that malpractice risk has at least as much negative influence on a physicians judgment.

It's perceived as much less (medico-legally) risky to "do something" (or more often "refer the patient to someone else to do something") than not do something.

OECD data (most recent available, around 2020–2022): MRI units per 100K population: United States ~3.6, Canada ~1.0, United Kingdom ~0.7

I would argue that getting "predatory capitalism" out of the way has sharply curtailed MRI availability where that's been tried. Maybe we should loosen the leash on capitalism a bit to get better care...

What is the connection to Rita Hayworth?

What does Rita Hayworth have to do with Shawshank redemption, so much so that it would be in the title?

You obviously don’t understand the role of sports in American culture. Or how the major television networks operate.

Sports events sure, opening ceremony? They are just going to get highlights on YouTube mostly.

This is making a remarkable assumption about a vast population. I know everybody in my family watched the opening ceremony on TV. Are you just making guesses?

According to the weekend ratings, 21.4 million Americans watched the opening ceremony on NBC directly.

Dude just about all Americans watch the Olympics on normal network TV, in this case NBC. What are you talking about?

Over the air? I was surprised to find out stations still broadcast over the air.

Just because it’s network television doesn’t mean it’s over the air. Cable television also carries the networks.

Who under 40 or 50 has cable anymore?

Under 40, about 25%. Overall, about half of Americans still have cable television, we’re talking hundreds of millions of people.