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by daedrdev 1y ago
Japan has very high rice tariffs to protect its domestic rice production. It is not peoples choice, it is not available at a cheaper price.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Premium Tamanishiki (a type of premium sushi rice) is grown in the US and Japan, the US just produces a lot of types of rice. Japonica is a category of rice that includes Calrose for example which is grown primarily in California and is def
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by daedrdev 1y ago
California does make good rice. Japan is just hyper protectionist with extremely high import taxes on rice. They don't get imported because of this tax. The US produces both lower quality and high quality rice, as you might expect of a
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by daedrdev 1y ago
If you charge money successfully it signals you are legit enough to get others to pay.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
I highly doubt patent numbers are very correlated with anything we care about. For example, its harder to get software patents, so what this might say is that mid sized metros have worse tech industries. O would expect relative economic or
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by daedrdev 1y ago
you can do that by choosing a different airline
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Airlines are actually very low margin business. Thus, all these pricing tactics merely offset the drastically cheaper tickets. It makes sense, their margins are so low that they have to nickel and dime everything to make a small profit in g
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Is this not also a wildfire bridge? I know freeways are usually important wildfire breaks but I guess its easier to know thus is here ahead of a fire
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Taking GLP-1 makes me question how much hunger is really me versus my hormones controlling me.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Clearly nature avoids this problem. So theoretically by replicating natural selection or something else in AI models, which arguably we already do, the theoretical entropy trap clearly can be avoided, we aren't even potentially decreas
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by daedrdev 1y ago
employers pay for the massively increased medical costs directly though? Its not hard to see that when medical costs increase by 6-10% they would hesitate to increase wages
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by daedrdev 1y ago
When the grid has to much money for 10 seconds, the cost of finding an having a productive asset that is ready to accept such a short burst of energy means that paying people to throw it away can easily be cheaper, leaving you with net posi
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by daedrdev 1y ago
The beginning of the universe is a start state we have theories about, that we can apply our system of physic to calculate once. A computer that calculates an economy might violate the halting problem because it would need to know when it i
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by daedrdev 1y ago
I think a point they are trying to make is that the border of a black hole is only to us outside observers, if you yourself fell into one you wouldn't notice anything specific when you crossed the boundary. The popular example of hawki
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by daedrdev 1y ago
The Bullshit Jobs jobs theory has been widely discredited by researchers, but you probably won't believe them. Consider that most business is B2B so it makes sense that the casual observer would not know what it's for. Additionall
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by daedrdev 1y ago
I'm happy you feel that way
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Predicting inflation rates may be harder than discovering the birth of the universe actually, because it would require perfect knowledge of the present and by the time you compute it it's out of date.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Nothing is bad about dying, its a part of life, but his insistence on giving up despite a major medical option remaining feels illogical even though they may have good reason to not want it.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Well said, I think you put up a reasonable answer. And at some level their situation will not change, they still will have heart problems while waiting and may go through all that to not even get a transplant
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by daedrdev 1y ago
> Another slim possibility is a heart transplant. I am not interested. I’ve explained my reasons more fully to people who are close to me, but they basically boil down to the fact that an organ transplant requires a full commitment to th
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by daedrdev 1y ago
what?
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In the long run, all government debt is going to be future taxes. There are many programs that the government spends on that are efficient and produce more growth than the taxes collected would have, and there are many that don't and p
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by daedrdev 1y ago
There are a number of homeless students at UC berkley
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Dont forget float planes can land to a pretty massive number of docks
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Trash goes to local landfills. Recycling is what does this. Hence why you should consider if its better to trash plastic, its probably thermodynamically efficient anyway
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by daedrdev 1y ago
This is not what happens though? At one point china accepted recycling waste, but not anymore, and trash has always been to landfills. The US has well run and regulated landfills with few problems.
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by daedrdev 1y ago
They seem at best perforative in their efforts as the original comment points out. Surely there is a middle ground where one can concede a company is poorly run and unprofitable, and that those two things often tie together
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by daedrdev 1y ago
Of course nicotine addiction is one problem and putting ash in your lungs is another
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I mean some of these are just easily problematic and wrong, so its better to take their good ideas and not the rest. Like these are just 2 cases of a number of examples 1993 chemistry doesn't believe AIDS is caused by HIV, doesn't
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They may certainly have a point, but many Nobel Prize winners do have a track record of going off the deep end which is something to keep in mind when an article tries to justify their points using Noble Prizes edit: I'm just trying to

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