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by Retric 11mo ago
People watching their tablet on a couch in from of a 55+” TV with a surround sound speaker system says on some level it’s a better experience. I’ve seen plenty of people do this to say it’s common behavior. > No one buys a TV and then a
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by Retric 11mo ago
I rarely use weed killer on poison ivy to avoid coming into physical contact. Lawnmowers work fine for flat yards, but for steps down a steep embankment you really need a weed eater and weed eater + poison ivy is a major hassle.
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by Retric 11mo ago
> This is silly. Tell that to every streaming on their tablets sitting on their stomachs. People even watch movies on their phones but they aren’t holding them 15’ away. Also you don’t need to sit 3’ from a 37” TV.
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by Retric 11mo ago
A 55” Rear-projection television was way less than a 60” plasma TV back then. Like you I went a little upmarket but from what I recall budget 1080i options were well under a grand. What matters is the premium over a normal TV and how long i
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by Retric 11mo ago
Screen size makes little difference for an individual they can just sit closer, viewing angels are the problem for a family where 55” doesn’t cut it. 4k also makes little difference here, most people really don’t care as seen by how many pe
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by Retric 11mo ago
High end ICE cars have long been treated as disposable items. 3 year lease and then resell for 1/2 of its initial price so suddenly it’s cheaper than new midrange models for good reasons. Lower end cars on the other hand can be worth
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by Retric 11mo ago
55” TV’s have been out for decades they really aren’t a replacement especially when put in a normal living space. The issue IMO is so few movies are worth any extra effort to see. Steam a new marvel movie and you can pause half way through
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by Retric 11mo ago
Wealthy societies can change their practices rather than seeking maximum short term efficiency that’s ultimately the solution not any one set of practices. Regenerative agriculture doesn’t produces nearly as much food from the same resource
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by Retric 11mo ago
You’re missing a critical step in your analysis, birth rates. The exit for Malthusian traps is to temporarily have enough abundance to reduce the birth rate dramatically not simply to steadily increase food production. Being unsustainable
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by Retric 11mo ago
In Section 230 platforms only maintain protection as a neutral party, anything getting promoted by them puts them at risk. “letters to the editor” are a very old form of user generated content, but the act of selecting a letter and placing
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by Retric 11mo ago
> great reach What exactly provided great reach here? Is it the creator or something else. > The same advertisement nevertheless remains available on other websites which have reproduced it. This presumably involved the actions of 3rd
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by Retric 11mo ago
Anonymous authors have very little reach without external promotion or a long lasting reputation. If someone builds up a reputation anonymously then that reputation itself is something that can be destroyed when a platform destroys their ac
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by Retric 11mo ago
My suspicion is it’s mostly a result of the slowing pace of computing growth. When computers go obsolete in 2 years nobody wants them on their balance sheets, when they last 6 sales go down and you get more years of profit from owning them
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by Retric 11mo ago
Sure, and advertising has zero effect on you. Manipulation works in subtle ways. Shifting the Overton window isn’t about individual events, this isn’t the work of days but decades. People largely abandoned unions in the US for example, bu
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by Retric 11mo ago
It’s the indirect time that’s most at issue here, a friend of mine is happy to take a significant pay cut and work at the VA to avoid the hassle. It’s a government institution and he still feels way more productive and less stressed. In pr
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by Retric 11mo ago
If by shareholder value you include insurance companies etc not just the institutions themselves, it’s well over half. Doctor time talking to an insurance company either directly or through paperwork is not actually providing any care durin
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by Retric 11mo ago
Only if you’re optimizing for easily measured metrics alone. The value of a companies brand is not just some arbitrary number on a balance sheet it does influence the easily measured metrics like the number of customers you have across mult
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by Retric 11mo ago
Road damage is exponential with weight, so heavy vehicles are still heavily subsidized in France even if the total revenue is correct. There was an interesting court case where only giving tolls to 18 wheeler was problematic but the equival
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by Retric 11mo ago
A little help for millions likely ends up mattering for some of them. It’s a head start in that it removes a single minor issue, shows the value of compound interest in a more tangible way, or possibly gets them to retirement weeks/mon
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by Retric 11mo ago
I don’t think the average city is a useful comparison when more people live in larger cities which tend to have better mass transit options. People live car free in a wide range of cities, it’s more convenient for more people in NYC thus th
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by Retric 11mo ago
Most people live on a few islands of density in a sea of nearly empty land in the US.
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by Retric 11mo ago
Some parts of voice assistants used AI techniques other parts didn’t. Calling the whole thing AI is like calling Office 365 AI, it’s too vague to be useful. The most reliable parts are using dictation to interact with the preprogrammed bi
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by Retric 11mo ago
AI is meaningless term when you extend it to cover everything, may as well just call it software. So yea the software’s EULA changed for the worse, that’s the underlying issue.
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by Retric 11mo ago
Very good unsubsidized health insurance wasn’t anywhere close to 2k/month inflation adjusted the last time I used COBRA to continue my employer’s insurance after getting laid off. The underlying issue is inflation adjusted healthca
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by Retric 11mo ago
> laundry list of That’s a meaningless statement, look for an actual percentage here. Healthcare costs have been spiraling for decades in the US, the ACA didn’t impact the long term trends to a noticeable degree. Actual healthcare refor
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by Retric 11mo ago
Google already broke the basic functionality they wanted, dropping android now beats constantly looking for subpart workarounds. Microsoft pulled the this crap with Windows, you once they stop caring about their you’ve already lost it’s tim
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by Retric 11mo ago
It’s not useful if you generally fly most places you travel to. An of course if you’re going months-years without using a car then renting becomes relatively more convenient.
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by Retric 11mo ago
A household not having a car is a much higher benchmark than being able to live a car free lifestyle. It’s common for people to own a car and not use it for weeks, months, or in some cases years at a time.
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by Retric 11mo ago
Over half of New York City households are car-free. That jumps to 3/4 in Manhattan. Millions of American households don’t have a car, but you rarely hear about it as a viable option.
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by Retric 11mo ago
> Are you disagreeing with my overall estimate that the energy produced by the elephant's foot's radioactivity at 100 meters distance is one billion times lower than the energy we receive from the sun Yes, the elephants foot is

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