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by gniv 7y ago
Most TJ teas come in paper bags. It's still wasteful because of the outer plastic wrapper, but at least you're not ingesting these plastic microbeads.
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by gniv 7y ago
> > so they need to charge a lot... why? - I honestly don't know. > Does anybody else know the answer to this? They don't _need_ to. But they do charge a lot because they can -- they know that doctors can afford to pay it
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by gniv 7y ago
Interesting quote from the (long) transcript: "The USGS tracks, I believe, 72 different materials. I think all, but six-ish of them are now on a downward trend. The biggest exception is actually plastics, but there’s something interest
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by gniv 7y ago
Imgur removes exif: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201746817-Post-Priv...
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by gniv 7y ago
Beautiful photos, but why is the Exif scrubbed? I would have liked to see details.
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by gniv 7y ago
> On a side note, I don't like when people make up words like 'indistractable', but that's personal taste. It's likely that the success of this book will rely entirely on this word. After all, Cal Newport wrote r
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by gniv 7y ago
In Europe, Switzerland is most similar to the Bay area: high salaries, high cost of living and low taxes.
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by gniv 7y ago
That's a good point. But it's still the case that there are superstar locations that everybody wants to go to. Pulpit Rock, Sagrada Familia, just to name a couple of newly-popular ones. I think for these the solution is to encoura
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by gniv 7y ago
> One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California Were avocados cheaper in CA? It might be the Alchian-Allen Effect: https://medium.com/@byrn
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by gniv 7y ago
There is another dynamic at play, not mentioned in the article: the smaller cities are actively trying to become better places to live. Here's a nice writeup: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-land-is-your-land
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by gniv 7y ago
Here's a video explaining it, from the same company: https://youtu.be/3VKFJ2_cQmM?t=147
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by gniv 7y ago
The keyword there is "help". They use derivatives to handle the daily fund flows. They should be a tiny percentage of the whole fund value.
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by gniv 7y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply! I suspected the US culture+regs as well. The Swiss banks being too large for the country is something I didn't realize. I guess it's a similar problem as Iceland had.
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by gniv 7y ago
I read the article but there is no insight into why. Are the US banks better run? Is the regulatory environment post-crisis better in the US? Something else?
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by gniv 7y ago
That's funny. I take NJTransit to work, and a lot of delays are blamed on giving way to Amtrak trains, because they have priority.
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by gniv 7y ago
That's an interesting anecdote. Growing up in communist Romania, the only English I learned early on was at school. I had a great teacher in high school (he would not utter a single word of Romanian), and then took elective classes in
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by gniv 7y ago
> It sounds like you are stereotyping Peloton purchasers into one group, then assuming that the majority of them can't afford nice things. I did not mean to do that. In fact I was on the brink of deleting my comment, to avoid this e
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by gniv 7y ago
That's exactly why bubbles form and lead to economic cycles: people get too confident and overextend themselves. In this particular cycle, more companies seem to be using this profitable business model: charge huge margins for your pro
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by gniv 7y ago
A newer and better article on EVs in China: https://fortune.com/longform/electric-car-auto-industry-chin... An interesting tidbit from this article: "One direct result of the meltdown was the Obama administration’
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by gniv 7y ago
> By the way, any late career change suggestions for a software engineer who's got some money saved up and is sick of tech? Because, fuck. My current ideas (for myself) so far: 1. Move to another office. Same job, but different envi
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by gniv 7y ago
I think that’s an unfair reading of the blog post. They seem to suggest that advertisers can do targeting client side, using cookies, and without sending the cookies out. There are issues with this of course (enforcement, bandwidth), but it
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by gniv 7y ago
You forgot my favorite: senior people leaving for greener/less stressful pastures.
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by gniv 7y ago
> Revisions of over 100,000 are not that uncommon. (500,000 is pretty rare though!) Those are monthly numbers. The 500k should probably be anchored to the last revision, I guess a year ago. (Also, I saw somewhere that this 500k represent
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by gniv 7y ago
Thanks for linking to that article. I'd like to quote from the same paragraph that you quoted, about the outdoor workers: “The risk factor for melanoma appears to be intermittent sunshine and sunburn, especially when you’re young,” Sun
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by gniv 7y ago
> At the end of the day skin cancer is a relatively rare, easily treatable disease Please don't say that. Most skin cancers are indeed treatable (basal cell and squamous cell). But melanoma is not, unless caught early. Yes, there ar
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by gniv 7y ago
It kind of is answered, at the end: "Doctors don’t need UV photography for diagnostic purposes. “We are trained to pick up on subtle changes,” said Dr. Rachel Nazarian, a dermatologist with offices in Murray Hill. The pictures, she sai
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by gniv 7y ago
It is simply not produced. Methane is CH4. The carbon goes into CO2 instead (which is bad, but not as bad for the environment as methane).
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by gniv 7y ago
(Replying to myself) I found this graphic: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/12/4001/3971/U.S.%... linked from this article: https://wkzo.com/news/articles/2019&#x2
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by gniv 7y ago
> Because US auctions can't fail - primary dealers need to act as a back stop - you've had firms like JPM and BofA taking on huge amounts of treasuries. This has really clogged the o/n repo market and is beginning to disto
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by gniv 7y ago
I believe citing small pieces from a large text is covered by fair use.

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