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by danans 1y ago
> Americana is probably barely a century old, and is just another branch on that trunk. It's arguably a branch with connections back to at least two trees, African being one and European being the other.
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by danans 1y ago
Americana/Roots music is a vehicle for people across the world to express themselves in a shared musical language of common people . For many cultures of the world, the most prominent musical genres are either highly parochial or high
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by danans 1y ago
> Oftentimes, that's not true for lunch. Packing leftovers or a sandwich is a thing. It's not convenient, or perhaps as tasty. Might be healthier though.
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by danans 1y ago
> people have always been able to eat at home yet they didn't. Sure they did, but they just ate out more frequently before. > Inflation his everybody, not just them or their competitors. The primary mechanism is their customers&#
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by danans 1y ago
> You gotta eat somewhere. You can eat at home. This seems more like a sign of the loss of purchasing power among the working poor.
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by danans 1y ago
> Spending from your 401k is different than liquidating it Define "liquidating". Do you mean moving all investments in the 401k to cash and equivalents? That seems sensible if you don't want any more market-risk exposure g
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by danans 1y ago
Did they need the money for life expenses?
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by danans 1y ago
> But history ... You see, you lost a good chunk of voters there. Many are just voting for their candidate to hurt other people whom they don't like.
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by danans 1y ago
Companies started shifting plans as soon as the election result was decided in November. Many started stockpiling Chinese imports then. Additionally many have paused Capex due to the economic uncertainty: https://www.bloomberg.
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by danans 1y ago
Anything low cost that requires a significant amount of manual labor to assemble. So clothes, toys, accessories, etc.
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by danans 1y ago
This Verge Decoder podcast interview with Flexport's CEO is a good take on the situation: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/64...
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by danans 1y ago
Singapore and Denmark are far more similar to each other than either is to California. Not only are they far smaller, but both countries socially invest heavily in their citizens' quality of life, and by American standards both are e
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by danans 1y ago
> How do you know that these layoffs are the result of AI, rather than AI being a convenient place to lay the blame? Both of those can be true, because companies are placing bets that AI will replace a lot of human work (by layoffs and r
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by danans 1y ago
> Why are the politicians in California different than the ones in Denmark? > And are those reasons related to it being a sub-national entity, which seems to have been the argument being made above. I'm sure it plays a role, but
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by danans 1y ago
> It is also an income center. California _makes_ money from spending on roads because of job creation (=tax revenue), taxes on vehicle sales, taxes on fuel, tolls, freight fees, and more: https://www.calbike.org/there-is
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by danans 1y ago
> It has some of the top universities in the world. Why shouldn’t it have a higher caliber of public official than say Denmark? Many officials in the current administration who are wreaking havoc on the US economy went to the top unive
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by danans 1y ago
> Why don't the poor just buy smaller cars? They do buy smaller cars. But they still spend a much greater percent of their income on gas. Worse, most of the auto industry has upsized their entire vehicle fleet. It's not as e
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by danans 1y ago
> That we don't have good measurements to reconcile that contradiction We do have many measurements to reconcile that. We know how much particulate air pollution from fossil fuel combustion increases health care expenditures. We kn
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by danans 1y ago
That would just be a demand shift. The bigger risk is whether people who might have otherwise bought a new car keep their current car because of recession and stagflation fears.
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by danans 1y ago
We manage to phase out ACA subsidies at 400% of the federal poverty level, so I don't see why we couldn't use a similar mechanism for an energy tax credit.
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by danans 2y ago
> Larry Page would be pumped. His annual salary is $1. The tax would be on consumption, the credit would be based on income, so Larry still pays when he buys gas (if not for his cars, then for his planes). > I would be interested in r
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by danans 2y ago
You can do that in any car today. Nor is there a lack of devices available for physically attaching a regular tablet to your dashboard. The question is whether a car maker should be encouraging or enabling a generic touch screen tablet to b
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by danans 2y ago
Yeah, you could be right. At the very least, F is pretty overloaded in this context.
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by danans 2y ago
> 1. Poorer people tend to drive older vehicles, so if you solely encourage higher fuel economies by taxing carbon emissions, then the tax is (at least short-term) regressive. You give it back to poor as a income-phased out refundable ta
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by danans 2y ago
Could be good for a non-programming, domain specific LLM though. Good old-fashioned stop word detection and sentiment scoring could probably go a long way for those. That doesn't really help with the general purpose LLMs, but that seem
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by danans 2y ago
> Infotainment systems tend to get outdated, and are also a common point of failure that can be expensive to fix Android Auto and CarPlay solve that problem for navigation/communication/entertainment. The automakers aren'
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by danans 2y ago
A passenger can do that today with just a tablet in their lap. Why attach it to the dashboard?
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by danans 2y ago
It's not clear what they mean by "dedicated tablet". If it's an integrated add-on provided by the company that just does Android-Auto/CarPlay, then that seems OK. If it's just a holster for a tablet, not so
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by danans 2y ago
> By reformulating prompts to look like one of a few types of policy files, such as XML, INI, or JSON, an LLM can be tricked into subverting alignments or instructions. It seems like a short term solution to this might be to filter out a
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by danans 2y ago
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