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by dv_dt 6mo ago
The US passed up multiple opportunities to fund its own more foundational solar industry
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
They are just humans, but if they wield more power, more responsibility should be expected of them. Not just for the business they represent, but also for the society they have an outsized influence upon.
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
The way I see it is that enabling individualism, perhaps through strongly collective rules is very different than individualistically segmenting all sorts of experiences and protections. The latter of which, as you have noted, may not resul
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
| We have immigration laws now that are necessary because of the welfare programs They may have had an effect of causing a political discussion, but fiscally, immigration policy has little impact on welfare programs.
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Beyond the other better insulation comments, pairing electric with heat pumps that are SEER 10+ goes a long way to improve heating efficiency. Old resistive heaters are 1:1 on energy to heat, while newer heat pumps operate to much lower te
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
My analog fan control comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but turning a knob on a potentiometer to adjust fan speed has some personal appeal - no digging around for a sw utility, no poking interfaces to see if the motherboard mfr bios expose
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
One could go farther and complain that it's a waste of a microcontroller at all to control a fan when an analog circuit for fan speed vs temperature would work fine.
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Practical freedoms are often more constrained by economics making political freedoms moot and less valued by the masses. Eroding practical freedoms has other negative lasting effects on maintaining all forms of freedom
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Monoculture is definitely a risk, one exacerbated by megacorps and overly corporatized industry - but if you look at the history of ag departments they have introduced multiple variants and variations across crops and animals time and time
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
If humans didn't manage risks to livestock on an industry scale they would be at risk. It requires a constant investment from both commercial industry and government. Activities like the dept of agriculture and university ag depts have
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
CPU, memory, storage, time tradeoffs rediscovered by AI model developers. There is something new here, add GPU to the trade space.
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Consider ecosia for search. It's not perfect but is decent for most general searches
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Ive been happy with US mobile - you can actually switch between their VZ backed network or their ATT backed network.
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
The richest people I know talk to a range of people like personal assistants, but really the PA is valued for getting things done reliably and in the real world with any needed resources. Even calling in experts as needed - of course they m
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Advertising is only a subset of marketing. From that doc, look at operating costs: SGA was ~$11B and R&D ~$12B - basically 50/50. Pfizer is very international, so is pretty difficult to break out US operating costs and what market
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
The health insurance industry drives highly increased administrative costs - costs which the insurance companies are happy to foist off onto non insurance channels?
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
It "may be other than health care" but most (all?) other modern nations on multiple continents in multiple cultures spend less percent GDP on healthcare with longer life expectancy than the US
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Every time Ive looked into it marketing is more than half of the costs of US pharma companies - and I would suspect even more as don't know if there has much work to unmask even more of that spending via channels that can occur in ways
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
The Mad Max stuff is occurring at scale more due to unchecked governments, and governments that don't work for society than it is from insufficient surveillance
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
The body content is still here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361235
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Hmm the Reg article seems to have missed the reporting on Meta being behind many of the US lobbying groups - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-gl...
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
Except that foundations are massive tax shelters - maybe he did some good along the way, but the also blocked IP release of covid vaccine technologies
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
It would be interesting to see a similar lobbying breakdown for the EU and UK. I bet it's still Meta with other right wing actors. The left rarely has the money for this kind of lobbying scale
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
IMHO, if QE solves the trouble, the Fed or treasury should be taking a bigger bite of ownership from the bailed out companies in exchange specifically to disincentivize taking risks with a bailout backstop.
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
I would guess the opposite, that anti-woke statements from management is a big red flag correlating with poor company performance
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
What are the lasting characteristics of real markets in the world with hundred or a thousand year history? Are there lessons in utility for online marketplaces to build brighter features for buyers and sellers so they can win out vs online
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by dv_dt 7mo ago
These reports apply a seasonal adjustment for the reported numbers. This is the fairly standard economics approach, but if you're interested in the raw - they are usually buried deeper into the report. The BLS or other government stat
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
I think orgs would get better traction with PMs taking on product complaint or bug issues and using AI to diagnose detailed root cause.
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
I don't think its a close knit conspiracy either but its more like billionaire monkey see billionaire monkey do

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