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by bumby 1y ago
You’re right of course, but even this comparison gives an incomplete picture. An example is that many other countries can institute drug price caps because the US does not. It’s not unlike how NATO countries can historically pay less into d
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by bumby 1y ago
> professional therapy is expensive…For professional health care, there is a waitlist There’s an old saying in healthcare that you can choose between quality, cost, and access, but you can only choose two. (Peter Attia also adds “choice
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by bumby 1y ago
Crashing your car is an error. Crashing your car while lecturing someone else about safe driving is irony. In this case it seemed like you were making a point about the strict legal sense of a word, but misusing a different legal term to do
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by bumby 1y ago
> What if it was the last remaining copy? Or even the only copy ever in existence of an original manuscript? I think these still remove the copyright of the author. As it stands, I have the right to write the best novel about the human
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by bumby 1y ago
I think the next harder level in AGI testing would be “convince my kids to weed the garden and fold the laundry” :-)
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by bumby 1y ago
> If you save it from the bin you should be able to do whatever you want with it either way, scan it how you see fit. Don’t we already have laws covering this? For example, sometimes excess books can be thrown in the bin. Often, they ha
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by bumby 1y ago
I think you make a good point, but there is some irony in pointing out the distinction between colloquial and legal use of the term “stealing” while also misusing the term “piracy” to describe legal matters. It would be more clear if you st
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by bumby 1y ago
Yes, the VP needs to lead by example.
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by bumby 1y ago
> How do you ensure everyone does their homework? To your point, I think this tone has to be set by the senior person or else it won't take. It has to be ingrained culturally. Correct me if I'm off, but it seems like you'
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by bumby 1y ago
It’s becoming a tired discussion, but this has already been covered. For someone willing/capable of dropping $30k-$50k in cash, $10/mo. is certainly a small effect size. Under certain cases, hybrid TCO will be lower. For example,
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by bumby 1y ago
I’ve admired meeting stewards who will adjourn the meeting if people aren’t prepared and reconvene it later. If that person has authority and is well respected, it only has to happen once or twice, but obviously it can’t be applied everywhe
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by bumby 1y ago
> “nobody was considering me for the management track” I don’t know if this holds any more than saying “the only people who get into management are those that couldn’t hack it in the technical side”. There are many people who get recrui
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by bumby 1y ago
> Meetings are first and foremost about relationship management. You might be hitting on a specific personality type, rather than a goal of meetings. In his book “Never Split the Difference”, Chris Voss relates three kinds of people dif
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by bumby 1y ago
I might disagree on this. For a meeting that covers any moderately complex situation to be productive, the attendees need to understand the context. That sounds like what Bezos was after. Doing “homework” beforehand ensures that people aren
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by bumby 1y ago
I don’t think that’s an unreasonable take, but it does move us away from the generalization that hybrid TCO is lower. It’s like instead saying “Hybrid TCO will be lower if you pay in cash and live in a high fuel cost area.” That’s a more nu
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by bumby 1y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but TCO factors in the upfront cost, including financing assumptions. I can’t think of a good reason why you’d want to disregard upfront cost when calculating TCO; it’s probably the #1 determining fac
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by bumby 1y ago
Good point. After adjusting for trim level, the gas is still cheaper but not as dramatically. If I had to guess, you may be getting numbers from a high fuel cost locale. In the end, I don’t think the conclusion that it’s largely a wash is u
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by bumby 1y ago
I was being polite to the other poster so I can address the more germane claim in their reply without getting derailed by explaining why the less important point was irrelevant. The fact is the series “term of art” in the reliability domain
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by bumby 1y ago
That’s fair. But looking at the numbers for my locale, the effect size is extremely small: about 0.6% cheaper. So, to piggyback on the points made earlier, if we have high variance and small effect size, we probably shouldn’t be making any
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by bumby 1y ago
We may be seeing differences in locality, but the first one I checked (Escape) did not support your claim. The gas variant was cheaper than both the hybrid (8% lower) and the plug-in hybrid (24% lower) in TCO. I think this just speaks to my
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by bumby 1y ago
> you're lumping all hybrid drivetrains in together and assuming they're all equally reliable and equally have the same TCO math I’m not though, you’re just making that assumption. For example, as “comparable manufacturers” if
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by bumby 1y ago
I agree there’s a difference. The OP I originally responded to made the claim “Hybrids have a lower TCO even though they have a higher initial purchase price.” That’s a general claim, and I was seeking information that can support it. I’ve
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by bumby 1y ago
The hyper car argument is really just a digression and it cuts both ways (which I think was the posters point). If you want to compare hyper car prices, you need to compare hyper gas-only to hyper hybrid. But that’s not really germane to th
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by bumby 1y ago
If your point is you can’t talk specifics about price of ownership, you’ve wasted both of our time during this entire discussion. That’s what it’s about. A better answer would have just been like the commenter below, who said the informatio
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by bumby 1y ago
> it also applies to regulations that don't involve risk. Which are those? Because so far, this conversation has been about TPMS and ABS regulation. I’m beginning to think the discussion is more about dogmatic feelings about regul
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by bumby 1y ago
I’ll try to put it more succinctly: “I don’t need regulated sensors installed because I have a regulated sensor installed” is a circular argument. Now much of what you bring up is tangential. But one thing I think we think differently about
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by bumby 1y ago
Not to be too nit picky, but I think you’re conflating median and average. The median age is probably lower because the age distribution skews older due to vintage cars and such. But you are right about cars lasting much longer today. At th
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by bumby 1y ago
You seem to imply that the legal and safety are independent. I am saying they are linked. Ie there wouldn’t be a legal reason if it weren’t for the safety reason. So pointing to the safety is why it’s a circular argument. It’s like disagre
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by bumby 1y ago
To play devils advocate, “disposable” doesn’t necessarily mean “unreliable”. It just means that it’s harder to fix once it does break.
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by bumby 1y ago
I posted that they are installed for legal reasons. The other commenter posted that less sensors are required because they piggyback on another system. That other system is also legally required. That is a circular rationale because it’s st

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