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by Retric 10mo ago
Job losses aren’t directly tied to productivity, in the short term it’s all about expectations. Many companies are laying people off and then trying to get staff back when it doesn’t work. How much of this is hype and how much is sustaine
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by Retric 10mo ago
These days you’re getting 4GB at that price point and you’re losing memory to the OS thus user space memory is even more constrained.
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by Retric 10mo ago
That experiment had an 85% price premium said the item was identical and some people still added it to their cart. Saying people wouldn’t pay any premium is very different than saying they won’t pay an 85% premium.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Government adjacent is only indirectly relevant as monopoly power is what matters. Google etc. happily pulls the same kind of crap.
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by Retric 10mo ago
That and they are taxing the poor and under educated who are least likely to complain. Making things explicit such as stamping a “45% Tax” on lottery tickets really changes people’s perception. The Trump administration almost flipped out wh
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by Retric 10mo ago
Money is fungible, every penny going from the lottery to X is a penny not taken from the general fund. Thus specific funds for X is only meaningful as a minimum funding amount.
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by Retric 10mo ago
That only impacts US sales the 9% drop is global even as total EV sales continue to increase.
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by Retric 10mo ago
It’s a nuanced topic. If you actually can’t use proper form that’s already failure of one of the muscles you’re trying to train. However many people resort to improper form well before that point. Further the risk isn’t just injury, using
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by Retric 10mo ago
> Harsher chemicals, more mining, more processing, lesser life of a car and battery, less mature tech so more wastage, etc. Extracting, manufacturing, and transporting gas more than offsets those differences. Oil refineries are nasty no
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by Retric 10mo ago
> Meaning you fill gas once every few weeks in 5 mins. Home charging supplies more energy with less cost and effort. It’s physically impossible for ICE cars to win here as I will park at home and stay at home for a while, I don’t need t
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by Retric 10mo ago
For almost everyone with home charging, EV’s are a substantial win even without subsidies. There’s so many little wins like being able to turn the car on to warm up in a garage without filling it with exhaust. That’s a long way from every
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by Retric 10mo ago
Tariffs are quite different than a sales tax because they can select winners and losers in a market. Cane sugar vs sugar beets etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet However, they don’t have to be high enough to
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by Retric 10mo ago
You don’t need to subsidize domestic companies to adjust for currency exchange rate manipulation. The government could for example impose a tariff that covers half the difference thus maintaining an unfair advantage for Chinese companies.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Let’s be realistic, everyone goes through periods when they just don’t want to work out. So optimal in terms of personal preference is defiantly worth considering alongside optimal in terms of results, but optimal in terms of returns on eff
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by Retric 10mo ago
2 reps in reserve is fine and far less painful, but you need to go to actual failure often enough to know where failure is on each set. I’m nerdy enough to suggest rolling a 20 sided die for each set, and on a 1 take it to failure it’s not
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by Retric 10mo ago
People do however both keep pets and eat animals that eat insects, which is what the company was aiming for.
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by Retric 10mo ago
When a question assumes as part of its premise that something is a good idea, it is no longer a meaningful question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by Retric 10mo ago
That’s like asking what happens if gravity reverses, the answer is irrelevant because the situation is not going to happen.
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by Retric 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Sweden Not quite failure in Sweden. Something about how the car is not quite bad enough to break the lease. Thus explaining the joke in such excruciating detail as to k
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by Retric 10mo ago
Sorry Model X, a friend calls their’s an E as in the letter grade. I sometimes forget that’s not the real name, which gets confusing.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Past performance is meaningless here. They lost the massive US subsidy making EV’s appealing and are getting outcomes in China. Model E and Cybertruck have anemic and shrinking sales numbers etc.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Automation depends on first getting paid to do something.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Hooker is probably harder to automate. They both need social finesse and CEO’s don’t need a body.
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by Retric 10mo ago
Tall driver in a SUV looking down on an open topped convertible isn’t a false positive. But sure, cops occasionally pull people over in HOV lanes for false positives and then let them go. However, when you’re looking at 100’s of cars doing
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by Retric 10mo ago
So they get more money, founders are unlikely to start a new company after existing like this.
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by Retric 10mo ago
It makes a difference in some locations such as I-580 5am-8pm: https://www.bayareafastrak.org/en/help/using-your-fastrak-fl...
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by Retric 10mo ago
The FasTrak system shows the occupancy setting, it’s obvious when people are displaying the wrong setting.
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by Retric 10mo ago
An offer is legally binding in that when someone acts based on that offer you can be liable for damages. This does not force you to honor the original offer though.
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by Retric 10mo ago
> current price and value is fairly close I’m talking orders of magnitude here. Supply and demand curves generally have a slope. As in the demand for goods by industry increases as the price decreases. A significantly larger portion of
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by Retric 10mo ago
Gold is used by industry at current prices due to its physical properties, so its current price and value are fairly close. This still allows for significant price swings because there vast quantities of gold sitting around in vaults, but u

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