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Cloud providers are going to have multiple redundant backups spread across multiple datacenters. A NAS box with the same level of backups will involve much more work. Theres alao dealing with secure external network access. Theres tons of reasons a selfhost is not the best solution.

I'd imagine they would be using binoculars with sun filters during the day, allowing them to see venus despite the sun's glare.

They more likely to be plunged into an accidental nuclear war. We're more likely to be plunged into ww2 part 2: electric boogaloo.

If they have hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign money.... they had hundreds of millions to give back to the people.

I mean, sure. Not every single calorie you consumed gets absorbed and expelled. Fiber has tons of calories, but our bodies cant digest it so its simply expelled. Its very naunce argument. Thats why i selectively said "enegry dense food" sugars and fats are easily broken down and absorbed. I was not intending you to interpret it as meaning if you eat a gram of uranium, that your body would suddenly gain 18 million calories.

Its both. Calorie in. Calorie out. Any calories not used will be stored for later. Keep consuming more than used, than more and more gets stored. The problem with modern diets is food is very enegry dense and a lot of people dont live active lives. Our bodies have not adapted to such lifestyles. Its adapted to survive until the next hunt not the next doordash delivery.

I mean, if dogs get their own specie classification from their ancestor. Sure why not horses.

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Horses are native to the americas. They evolved there and spreaded to asia but went extinct in america around the end of the ice age.

Implying the line would stop at the town and not carry on to the next. Also, how much is being spent on building and maintaining freeways?

You'd be suprised how many people commute more than an hour by car. The prospect of having affordable housing with more job opportunities will certainly bring in more people.