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by danans 2y ago
Ozempic is around $100/month in most western European countries, including the country of it's maker, Novo Nordisk. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been recently calling out this company for charging an order of magnitude more in the US,
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by danans 2y ago
> to become proven the AV needs to drive somewhere for a while. There's a straightforward solution to this that doesn't compromise public safety: Employ paid training drivers who monitor the AV while it is collecting training
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by danans 2y ago
Your 1 accident per 500k miles stat is an average across urban and rural areas. But accident rates in urban areas are likely significantly higher than in non-urban areas, due to higher vehicle density/congestion, despite the fact tha
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by danans 2y ago
Is driving really 100% cheaper? Owning a car has pretty high fixed costs. Also, it's different when you crash a car yourself vs a robot doing it. If you are driving, there is clearer accountability than a robot, so the bar must be
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by danans 2y ago
Most states and communities aren't ok with unproven AVs on their streets causing accidents and injuries, even if they are superficially politically aligned with the AV manufacturer's CEO. That's a good thing, we shouldn'
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by danans 2y ago
> were hoping to capture and capitalize on the baby boomers aging out of being able to easily drive themselves. They tried to speed up technological advancements in order to meet that window of a large more-affluent cohort of potential c
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by danans 2y ago
> the range of conditions for autonomous operation is better than Level 1. It better be, because Level 1 is satisfied with just cruise control with automatic braking.
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by danans 2y ago
> This is nowhere close to being true. The latest numbers I could find for 2022 are 17,060 miles per disengagement[1] for Waymo Tesla doesn't reveal it's miles/disengagement stats, but according to crowdsourced data it&#x2
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by danans 2y ago
Most health insurance (and the lowest cost insurance) in the US is tied to a person's employer, a system that shifts the balance of power substantially to large corporate employers over workers and small companies. Furthermore, absent
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by danans 2y ago
Unless I missed it, the paper didn't indicate what the battery chemistry breakdown of the data set was. If it is heavily weighted for Sonnen (German home backup battery manufacturer) batteries, then those have always used Lithium Iro
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by danans 2y ago
> Note that this is the Dickies that makes workwear [1], not the similar sounding but spelled differently Dickey's BBQ [2] or The Dickies band [3][4] who are one of the longest tenured punk rock bands having started in 1977 and are
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by danans 2y ago
Despite the fact that they manufacture work-wear, I'd hazard to guess that most of the "innovation" - like with any other apparel type - is in taste-making and branding rather than any improvement in work-wear materials or fu
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by danans 2y ago
> And you'd have to be blind to not notice a minimum wage job is no longer sufficient to afford rent in most major metro areas. Either blind, or detached enough that you think that it's a good thing, as long as the value of you
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by danans 2y ago
If $200 a month is the price, most of the West will be left behind also. If that happens we will have much bigger problems of a revolution sort on our hands.
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by danans 2y ago
> Removing the driver from a taxi doesn’t bring down costs that much The average pay for a gig driver $18/hr. So for your typical 15-minute ride, that adds $4.50 to it. Let's say that 15 minute ride is 10 miles. Average. Uber
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by danans 2y ago
> I’ve seen teslas full self driving drive me ... > In what way is it non working at this point? It's killing people: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/24273418/nhtsa-tesla-ful...
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by danans 2y ago
> I assume that concrete code will always be faster and the best way to have deterministic results, but I really have to idea how to conceptualize what the future looks like now. It will likely be a mix of both concrete code and live AI
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by danans 2y ago
While I agree that houses should be better insulated (I built and live in a high performance home that uses a fraction of the energy of a typical home), the reality of Texas large and generally poorly constructed housing stock means it&#x2
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by danans 2y ago
My guess is that it means that the material can be reused by capturing/releasing/sequestering multiple times, and that number reflects how much C02 it can capture given how many cycles can be completed in one year.
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by danans 2y ago
It's not the solar inverters themselves that are usually internet connected, but rather the controller box (some kind of embedded system) that is internet connected to allow monitoring and control. Perhaps this manufacturer decided to
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by danans 2y ago
If you are developing a web app, you are probably using it without knowing it by using the browser's runtime environment, which itself interfaces with the OS's task scheduling system, probably setting it's own UI tasks to hig
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by danans 2y ago
FTFY > The Parliamentary Bill may very well not pass, in which case the Corporation may be in something of a pickled herring .
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by danans 2y ago
Buying cars - especially new cars - is as much if not more of an exercise in identity rather than an exercise in practicality or value. That was true before the Cybertruck and it will be true after it. You could just as well ask why anyo
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by danans 2y ago
Agreed, but interpreting the results of tests without considering the effect that policies like redlining have on such results furthers the lie that the the variation in test results between groups represents innate differences in abiliti
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by danans 2y ago
> It's doubling as a proxy measure for the socioeconomic disadvantage the students have experienced up to that point. A socioeconomic disadvantage which in the case of California - and almost certainly elsewhere - is caused in signi
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by danans 2y ago
> I still don't quite understand the pricing during emergencies or shortages, though. Unpredictable supply shortages (almost always from emergency shutoffs at fossil plants) happen on the grid all the time. To deal with this, gri
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by danans 2y ago
> Probably any change in country takes some time to adjust to traffic. Coming from the Netherlands, I got quite confused when driving in San Francisco, To be fair, driving in SF is a challenge even for many people coming from other parts
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by danans 2y ago
What kind of monster ants have legs are as thick as human fingers wherever you are? God help you if so.
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by danans 2y ago
> Almost as if the sedentary lifestyle were inherently undesirable to people living at the time. To the extent that nomadic hunters had a choice about whether to become sedentary (vs being enslaved by the larger sedentary populations), t
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by danans 2y ago
Fwiw, sedentary in the archaeological context doesn't mean "couch potato". It just means a society stays at a fixed location (vs constantly migrating). Sedentary hunter gatherer societies exist where the environment can supp

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