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I keep getting told by friends not to use AI because it is destroying the environment. I've argued about it, but maybe I'm wrong?

I'm sure there are good insights within HN. How should we think about this issue?

Do you have good data, charts, or intelligent articles that would help one understand Scandinavian socialism, particularly as it relates to the US?

First: this is not an invitation to an "I think" flame war. People on both sides are very passionate, and HN is the wrong venue for such discussions.

But HN may well be a good venue to find out how to easily learn about the subject. That's what I'm after.

Background: Scandinavia is often touted as a near utopia of social welfare services that the US should emulate. But that seems simplistic to me.

I'd love to learn what works in scandinavia. What doesn't work. Why might it work in scandinavia and why might it work or not work in the US. Life is tradeoffs, and I'd love to learn what those tradeoffs might be.

I'm looking for intelligent articles that get to the heart of it. Or good charts or data.

Any insights anyone?

Last night we had a scare. Our house filled with smoke and we couldn't find the source. Eventually we tracked it down to a pair of headphones: https://ibb.co/N1L9zB2

Question: Do HNers protect against this? How? Buy only expensive gadgets? Buy only expensive cables? I don't know what caused this or how to reasonably prevent it. But if we hadn't been home, or awake, our house might have gone up in flames.

(My fire alarms also failed, which is a whole other troubling issue.)

Dear NYT,

I am referring to your article “What Explains Mass Shootings in the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html).” In it you lead with a very compelling graphic that shows number of mass shooters vs. the number of guns. The United States is in the upper right corner, with everyone else clustered near the lower left. It’s not even close, and the implications are clear.

And utterly misleading.

Of course the right way to look at it is chart 2, which scales the metrics by population. The U.S. is still the outlier, but the image is not as dramatic. The truth can be messy like that.

Why would you do that? Surely you know how misleading the primary chart is. It must be because it tells a story you want to tell more clearly.

But wait - even that’s not it. The real reason is Facebook. I keep seeing friends post a link to your article and your dramatic, misleading image is what shows up. Lovely clickbait, I’m sure.

This is very disappointing. I’m a liberal. I’m for gun control. But I don’t want a liberal, less bad version of Fox. I want something that really tries to be the truth. A media outlet I can count on. If you will mislead so transparently, what’s going on in all those other articles where it is harder to know the truth?

Disappointed,

Ross Rosen Seattle, WA