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I think the wave of tariffs is showing that fundamentally cars are becoming low margin businesses with the rise of electric cars, which is good for consumers and bad for producers.
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2y ago
If I recall its gets more hostile after leaving the heliopsphere
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2y ago
I think the more interesting thing is its suddenly become so much cheaper to put things in orbit, we could simply put a larger satellite with a larger nuclear battery out there.
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2y ago
Many people do not want to eat how they do, the just cannot help themselves
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2y ago
Obesity is the main cause of myriad health problems. It is both treating a symptom, and fixing a problem. On average, somekne imwho is obese will love a much healthier life that is years longer than it would be without the drug. If that isn
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2y ago
42.8% of US adults are obese. Not overweight, obese. They will die years earlier form this, suffer many health problems, etc. Until Ozempic, the US obesity rate has literally never declined since it started rising. Thus people clearly are n
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2y ago
I dont really think an ancedote is a good argument. We have studies showing many people eat less on ozempic and loose substantial amounts of weight, and its main effect is not even the weight loss but reducing heart problems and fixing bloo
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2y ago
If a drug has zero side effects, than it is obviously healthy. Ozempic has side effects, so we cna do a cost benefit analysis to argue that the various benefits of not being obese outweigh its problems. We clearly see many people are unable
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2y ago
Or maybe its because the majority of the population will loose years of life from being overweight or obese
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2y ago
But this drug is basically mind controlling people to live healthier. Its not countering an unhealthy lifestyle, it improving their current lifestyle
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2y ago
This medicine literally aids people to become healthy. They will gain years of life from the lost weight. Their lifestyle changes to be healthier by eating less, which many are unable to do without help because the human body has millions o
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2y ago
I think you’ve made a good point here, its not like they force you to have vscode. I feel like it wont be super popular here thoguh
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2y ago
Rumors say it was explicitly blocked on an alleged github push
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2y ago
Or the less insane answer is that there are some people who are antisemetic under the cover of being anti war and there are other people who call those who are anti war antisemetic
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2y ago
This is a government regulation in the EU
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2y ago
burning methane turns it into much less damaging CO2. They probably get it from Natural Gas that the US produces.
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2y ago
I mean its easy to say this, but asking people to live worse lives is basically impossible.
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2y ago
Cigarettes directly damage lung tissue, thats why the cause so much lung cancer, so probably its just when the lung cancer spreads everywhere
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2y ago
There were at least hundreds of thousands if not millions who had easier starts them Jeff Besos.
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2y ago
Probably more that it's easier to figure out wealth from public stocks compared to private businesses and real estate.
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2y ago
Iron dome is only used against small rockets, and was never intended to hit ballistic or cruise missiles. Thus it's not a failure since they aren't used for that kind of defense. There are separate anti ballistic systems that were
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2y ago
Haha, I think I can maybe tell on like one or two of those
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2y ago
Which is like 0.1% of us co2 emissions
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2y ago
It should be clear that OpenAi wants to be as important as the other tech giants (MAGMA? I don't know the new acronym), not just a large tech company
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2y ago
For many people the fact that discord is not easily discoverable is a benefit, just like in many other messaging services
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2y ago
Is there no liability for the author? There are billions of dollars wasted in drug trials and research that can be tied to this fraud. Surely they can face some legal issues due to this?
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2y ago
I guess I'm a pessimist then.
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2y ago
> Having the maximum number of books possible is not really something I would consider a success metric. Or do you think the endless stream of AI-generated books happening right now is a good thing? Also, publishers and copyright are not
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I'm saying that even though books would exist without copyright and publishers, it allows for several times more books to exist by providing an incentive. Authors could give their books for free if they really felt that it was importan
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2y ago
I think the chance of financial success can incentivize the author to make a better work. Let the authors who are willing to write for free release their work for free.
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