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by arcticbull 1y ago
A lot of Americans don't even realize that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing -- even in 2017 it was 1/3. I believe the skew is even worse today. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/upshot/
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by arcticbull 1y ago
For what it's worth they cost a lot less than highways to maintain. Something like the 101 in the Bay Area costs about $40,000 per lane-mile per year, or about $240,000. Trains are closer to $50-100,000 per mile per year. If there&#x27
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by arcticbull 1y ago
People tend to equate this to the railroad boom when saying that infrastructure spending will yield durable returns into the future no matter what. When the railroad bubble popped we had railroads. Metal and sticks, and probably more import
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by arcticbull 1y ago
I can’t help but feel their push to go public is driven by their having milked the private markets dry.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Their revenue in the entire first half per the article was $4.3B, even if we assume it was backloaded in Q2 that’s a -500% profit margin. I’m very excited to review their S-1. Like, for every dollar you give them they spend $5 to deliver th
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by arcticbull 1y ago
300 counts per minute is significantly less than you’d get from a banana. Wish they’d use uSv though.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
I’m sure there some strong data behind that quote, maybe some randomized controlled trials?
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by arcticbull 1y ago
No, what I said was the COVID years . People became dramatically more prone to conspiracy theories and significantly more polarized in the 2020-2025 period. A lot more happened to people than just exposure to COVID, which was of course par
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by arcticbull 1y ago
My comment was not about COVID.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
COVID years really messed some people up.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Kaiser is continuing to cover it for everyone.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Can you imagine how much traffic there would be if NYC didn't have the MTA? The principle of induced demand tells us that as long as there are roads they will have roughly constant traffic because people are willing to spend some rough
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Buddy the tube seldom fails for that reason either. Plus some self-driving sauce would reduce their hours to 0. Certain lines in London like the DLR are already driverless (Grade of Automation 3). Most of the other lines are GoA2.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
The contrary findings section on Wikipedia starts quoting a 2002 article. Could you point to which part exactly you find more compelling? Education and contraceptives as the article I linked are separately correlated and powerful, as is rel
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Try a bicycle or a stroll instead of embracing the WALL-E. If you feel that way about transit you may not have tried a good transit option like Hong Kong MTR with 90 second headways and travel from and to substantially everywhere you want t
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Cars of any sort, self-driving or otherwise, do not solve traffic any more than Uber does because you need to have enough of them to get everyone to and from work at basically the same time. Trains are the only way to address traffic. Train
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by arcticbull 1y ago
It holds. It holds practically everywhere on Earth. Income is one of the strongest inverse correlations to fertility. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
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by arcticbull 1y ago
> If you consider starting a family with no hope of ever getting out of renting, as landlords constantly raise monthlies, you might reconsider children. Generally the less money you make the more kids you have. It's really a questio
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by arcticbull 1y ago
> In a world that you have both developed and developing countries, the stable equilibrium seems to be world suffering. I think that's the wrong read. All sorts of animal population follow a sigmoidal growth pattern where there&#x27
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by arcticbull 1y ago
It was a prepaid plan that was the same price whether I got the phone or not. I guess you could say everyone who didn’t get the phone was subsidizing those who did, but there’s no way to opt for lower pricing if you BYOD. So no, in this cas
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by arcticbull 1y ago
What makes a good foldable better than say a $700 RAZR?
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by arcticbull 1y ago
I have a folding android and it’s very meh. Wouldn’t get one again. It was also free with a prepaid phone plan so I doubt cost is really the factor.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
For the mic cut-off? My understanding is that it outputs an electrical signal that's routed to the audio codec that literally prevents the audio from getting to system memory in the same way a physical switch would. It autonomously, at
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by arcticbull 1y ago
If the point is to hide the recording that's not a great way. Especially when many corporate IT solutions monitor USB device connections.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
As far as I know the mic is still shut off when the machine is set to clamshell mode. That's the point. You cannot use the mic when the lid is closed. It's a hardware cut-off, you cannot configure it in software. Hence my comment
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Yes, it could be done with a Hall effect sensor or something like they used to. The cool thing about this approach is they actually use a different angle to turn the screen off as you close the lid than they do for turning it on when you op
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by arcticbull 1y ago
First of all, wut. Second, that's irrelevant because stable coins rely on fiat backing (ostensibly) so you're stacking a new problem on top of what you perceive to be a different problem. If you believed that to be a problem then
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by arcticbull 1y ago
If you were to come up with one, I suspect you'd have a solid bug bounty waiting for you.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
It doesn't need to be encrypted if it's one-time programmable. The calibration data is likely written into efuses which are physically burned and cannot be reset.
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by arcticbull 1y ago
It does actually perform a security function. The lid angle sensor is used to know when the device is open or closed, and when closed, it physically disconnects the microphone. If you were to be able to recalibrate it at any time, you would

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