elil17

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by elil17 2mo ago
I think that this person does not know what the Jevons Paradox is. The Jevons Paradox is that increasing the efficiency with which a resource is used may increase the total amount of that resource that is used. Consuming more because costs
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by elil17 2mo ago
Regardless of how impressive each are on their own, it just doesn't tell you anything about their comparative capabilities.
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by elil17 2mo ago
> How so? Without looking at the specific changes made, it is impossible to know whether this represents a real capability improvement. For example, maybe the 20% gain was due to a very obvious/easy to catch inefficiency while the 1
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by elil17 2mo ago
The costs are pretty evenly split between: 1) Maintaining track 2) Buying/leasing/maintaining trains 3) Staff The single best thing you can do to drive down train cost is to put more people on each train. Based on these sources:
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by elil17 2mo ago
Ideally making polluting activities more expensive would go hand in hand with reducing inequality - so people could still afford needs like going to a funeral. A great example of this is Canada's Carbon Fee & Dividend system.
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by elil17 2mo ago
This seems like a potentially important website but with the paywall and design issues it is hard to assess the quality.
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by elil17 2mo ago
The issue is that we are enabling people to travel long distances too cheaply.
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by elil17 2mo ago
I would love to understand what the inputs actually are. Very neat visualization.
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by elil17 3mo ago
A) Probably my favorite. Despite not loving the overall style, the portraits actually show emotion. Von Suttner's portrait in particular conveys a lot to me. B) Not a fan. Individual elements are well done but it doesn't feel cohe
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by elil17 3mo ago
I view roadies as prototypically moderate/liberal - I don't know anyone who owns a Tesla and bikes
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by elil17 3mo ago
It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle (That's pretty normal for a car company - many car brands have a lif
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by elil17 3mo ago
My thought is that many different stakeholders have reasons to focus on CSAM: - Prosecutors want to go after it because it is much easier to prove than CSA. - Authoritarians want to go after it because it gives them a chance to get things l
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by elil17 3mo ago
This settlement doesn't stop that from happening in the future
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by elil17 3mo ago
My 6 year old Airpods Pro are barely chugging along at this point. I'm only getting a couple hours per charge.
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by elil17 3mo ago
I think that perhaps you would have gotten more out of finishing it - given that you would have found out that it is more of a short story than an "article."
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by elil17 3mo ago
I feel like perhaps you did not read the whole piece
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by elil17 3mo ago
Well, you can actually do both. This costs no money to cities and can be rolled out without any political barriers. It will have a small effect. Public and active transit costs money and requires political buy-in. It will have a large effec
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by elil17 3mo ago
My favorite finance podcast (actually, just favorite podcast) does a variety of episodes related to this, including deep dives on the academic literature. Some highlights: - "Do Expected Stock Returns Wear a CAPE": https:/&#
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by elil17 3mo ago
> Just yesterday I saw an article on Instagram that they are putting smoked meats and sausages and similar products in the came cancerogenic category as smoking. My understanding is that this is a statement of how confident we are in the
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by elil17 3mo ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXu8Ju_fdY
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by elil17 3mo ago
Perhaps people were lying to you in order to make you want that new president...
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by elil17 3mo ago
I don't think this makes sense for two reasons: - The ways the Fed pursues price stability and the FTC produces antitrust may have a similar effect, but they have a completely different set of skills required by the employees and they
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by elil17 3mo ago
They found one that got hit by a car
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by elil17 3mo ago
It seems that the US may be in a process of signing itself up for many of the drawbacks of Chinese-style state capitalism (regulatory conflicts of interest, opportunities for politicians to rent-seek) with stakes small enough that the taxpa
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by elil17 3mo ago
I would love to see real examples of what reduced quality means in practice. Are you able to recover a document from the vector in a human readable format? If so, what sort of changes come up? I could imagine a scenario where differences te
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by elil17 3mo ago
The difference is between the possibility someone might look and the guarantee that they are looking.
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by elil17 3mo ago
According to VRT it was involved: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/09/20/antwerps-parket-onde...
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by elil17 3mo ago
The particular circumcision was also performed in an unsanitary manner (metzitzah b'peh), hence why a whistleblower brought it to the attention of authorities and it was prosecuted. This is not accepted practice in the US either. No on
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by elil17 3mo ago
Well, he didn't just say it was anti-semitic. He called for the judges to rule in a specific way. It was very much framed as being about Belgian sovereignty by much of the Belgian media. One of the mohels was from the US, it was viewed
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by elil17 3mo ago
Well I would say that in this context legitimate means are they accepted by European society as "real journalists." The fact that the European government funds them does indicate that they aren't viewed by society as random c

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