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by graeme 2y ago
No, those are typical margins for grocery. The point is there’s nothing unusual about loblaw’s margins
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by graeme 2y ago
This has become a bizarre populist issue in Canada. Loblaw’s net profit margin is 3.74%. That’s higher than pre pandemic but it just isn’t the cause of inflation or the high cost of living. Grocery is a highly competitive market.
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by graeme 2y ago
A cellular Apple Watch seems like a decent possibility. Has anyone tried this? Has phone, messages, weather, location sharing, ability to google basic stuff. But very, very hard to use compulsively. You can even add things such as instagram
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by graeme 2y ago
Found this off the shelf solution, worked well: https://analyticscanvas.com/google-analytics-ua-backup-servi...
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Ask HN: Preserving Universal Analytics Data
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by graeme 2y ago
The article mentions Arrhenius
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by graeme 2y ago
If you combine engineer mindset, business acumen, relentless drive and do so over decades, you can get outsized results. It's a thing to admire, *even if you dislike the products*. Much the same as you can be awed by Ray Kroc's ex
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by graeme 3y ago
Unfortunately N95s don’t stop VOCs in the slightest, as VOCs aren’t particulates. The best option is to turn on the bathroom fan and open a window, or use activated carbon.
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by graeme 3y ago
The trick is to live somewhere where walking makes sense, and also add small opportunities to walk during the day. For example, if parking, park a bit further from where you're going. Or if you have calls to make, call people/busi
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by graeme 3y ago
I don’t know the numbers unfortunately. Climeworks is at the state of the art for carbon removal The more likely scenario is we try to geoengineer and that buys time and we eventually get the energy to actually remove the carbon over a long
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by graeme 3y ago
That’s correct, except consider the alternative, not doing it. Then we either: * Let the temperature rise so fast that plants and animals will struggle to adapt. Within this century, or * Do some sort of geoengineering that limits the amoun
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by graeme 3y ago
You’re correct, but: 1. Just stopping burning carbon isn’t enough. We need to take the existing excess carbon from the atmosphere. 2. It would be rational to move on an emergency basis to renewables + nuclear and burn less carbon in order t
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by graeme 3y ago
I wouldn’t worry you’re missing much. The whole reason podcasts are popular is that many people can listen to them and do something else. If you can’t it means your brain is doing something else. For me a podcast completely arrests my tho
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by graeme 3y ago
>post-concussion syndrome Isn't that akin to "long covid"? No one mistakes post-concussion syndrome for a concussion, and no one mistakes long covid for an acute infection. We do have a formal name for long covid: PASC (Po
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by graeme 3y ago
You’re imagining every firm gets 2% savings every year. That isn’t how it works. Most firms have rising real wages: real wages rose during the 2% inflation period. But sometimes a firm needs to lower costs. Having a small bit of inflation l
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by graeme 3y ago
Samsung has a similar ecosystem if one wants to buy it. Plenty of people have macs and android phones, or windows computers and iphones. Certainly other companies can't be in Apple's walled garden, but in antitrust exclude means e
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by graeme 3y ago
You haven't understood the issue. If a firm needs to lower costs, the alternatives to mild inflation are: * Negotiating actual salary cuts, or * Job losses Ideally in a market, prices adjust up and down freely. Obviously this is not a
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by graeme 3y ago
It isn’t true of monopolists. That’s the whole point of pricing power. You can raise prices higher than they’d be otherwise. There are lots of inexpensive phones on the market
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by graeme 3y ago
That’s a choice though. Pricing power means *no one* sells phones under $400 because the monopolist has the ability to raise overall market prices.
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by graeme 3y ago
>that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. Apple doesn't have this power though. If they raised prices they'd lose sales. And they haven't been able to exclude competitors, there is a robust eco
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by graeme 3y ago
That might make a case for replacing the name but not eliminating it. Eliminating it would be akin to removing the name "stomach cancer" because other cells can also become cancerous. You need a name for things. And long flu mig
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by graeme 3y ago
They're using the word botnet as an analogy. You have to read the whole sentence "installing a botnet in our population ".
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by graeme 3y ago
Do you think those inexpensive homes are empty? Or that you could build to brooklyn density in those areas to build no problems. Your proposal merely shuffles the problem around, it doesn't increase housing supply.
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by graeme 3y ago
This completely ignores propaganda concerns. Having a prominent media platform under the control of a hostile government is a serious threat. If Nazi Germany or the USSR had gotten control of a large media conglomerate you'd expect a r
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by graeme 3y ago
That's a defect. I had 1-2 new filters do that but most haven't. The fishy smell is what you get when the filtering system starts to break down. Apparently not harmful but means it is time to switch. From comments elsewhere it see
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by graeme 3y ago
Here you go! https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/water-filters-review/wat... And the article describing what's in the report re: microplastics: https://www.consumerlab.com/news/consumerla
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by graeme 3y ago
Hmm, looking into it further: * Zero water does claim they remove microplastics larger than 10 microns * Consumer Labs claims they actually increase microplastics * From Amazon comments the discrepancy may be due to particle size. The manuf
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Wow. In this same thread I recommended Zero Water, which isn’t reverse osmosis. Does that type of filter avoid the issue?
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by graeme 3y ago
If you’re like me you may have have read these and wondered what you can do to reduce the amount you ingest. The simplest fix I can suggest is a zero water filter. They have a model with a glass body. The filter is rated to remove microplas
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by graeme 3y ago
This analysis only works if you assume the supply is fixed. If you increase the returns to building ownership then people will build more buildings. Which lowers prices. Capping supply by decreasing the returns leads to less supply, other t

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