chiefofstuffs

Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Optimizing your saas/vendor/flights/hotel spend frees up money for domains!

Depends on the restrictions. Not being allowed to cast a shadow on the neighbor’s zucchini garden or having to pay off permit expediters has no impact on building quality, mandating wood vs cardboard does.

It's relatively common for similar behavior on the margin; people avoid sending their kids to the super competitive high schools for a combination of competitiveness/mental health/standing-out-to-colleges reasons

I'm in a similar situation. Partially have self-serving hope, but agreed that the game is starting to shift. The goal is now to buy enough time with the current drug you can move to the next version. So if you get 3 years from the drug and new ones come out every 2, you might get to die of something else.

Also aggregated death rates will always lag if treatments are improving.

it is what it is

It's been taken down of course, but I will deeply miss their Warm Cookie Radar. It wasn't technically sophisticated or anything but brought me and my colleagues a lot of joy