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by hcurtiss 3y ago
But why is that? Wouldn’t the right answer be to identify and root out any systematic racism benefitting whites rather than implement explicitly race-based (one might even say “racist”) counter-measures?
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Taibbi, Shellenberger, Greenwald — these are not people with “shit reputations.” These are serious and credible journalists with views outside the mainstream. You may not like them, but I strongly dispute their reputations merit serial di
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
>All signs point to misinformation. What does that even mean? That you don't trust these people? Isn't that, definitionally, ad hominem?
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
56 cents/kWh? Wow, that's shockingly high. Where is this? For context, in the Wllamette Valley in Oregon we're presently paying 15.7 cents fully loaded. Absent regulatory charges, it's only about 13.4 cents. People
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I'm there too. I'm blown away by all the "housing first" advocates here, as though that hasn't been the message for the last fifteen years and many, many billions of dollars. IT. DOESN'T. WORK. Yes, if in a
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
> Nobody's arguing for a zero-tolerance policy Well, what level do you find acceptable? It seems even very, very low exposures to toxic products are objectionable. > it seems that people knew about those, yet chose to hide these
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
This page has a helpful graphic showing the reference dose for several chemicals, including caffiene: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/04/18/caffeine-40-ti...
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Knowing something is "toxic" is not the same as knowing we should not use it, or that it's particularly dangerous. Tylenol is very toxic to ingest. So is gasoline. Yet we use both every day. Caffeine is pretty toxic as we
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I don't think that's it. I think it's more a consequence of democracy versus autocracy. An autocracy could make these trade-offs without political consequence. Of course, autocracies come with other profound challenges. M
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Word is too, at least for lawyers. A whole generation of lawyers has spent 20 years learning the intricacies of cross-references, page/section numbering, styles and formatting. While some of that is possible in Google Docs, it's
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Combined with the investments in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan, this is "bet the company" levels of investment. I pray for Ford's sake they picked the right horse (vis-à-vis, e.g., hydrogen or ammonia).
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
This is so interesting to me. Totally anecdotal (and not totally related to the paper), but my father and my uncles on both sides all have the same story -- low carb works great -- ONCE. After a big weight loss in their early forties, eve
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
I loved Estes rockets as a kid. I grew up poor in a rural area in the late eighties/early nineties, and kids could show up with rockets in strangers' fields. You usually knew if you needed permission, and it was always freely g
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Yes, with humans working hoes. I do not call that progress.
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
I used to be a permitting attorney. My wife is presently a prominent permitting attorney who works on linear transmission corridor projects at a large firm. Unless we change the permitting process, and several federal environmental laws in
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Yeah, this looks awesome. Particularly in the age of COVID. https://youtu.be/o9Xg7ui5mLA Not to be too snarky, but there are very legitimate critiques of public transit.
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
As an aside, it is stunning to watch ChatGPT already incorporated into casual online discourse. That technology is truly earth shattering. It will change what it is to be human.
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And it’s slow two star garbage.
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But for the external calendar integration, which I think is expected behavior, really none of this has happened to me. It flakes out here and there, but so did Slack at my last employer. Guess I’m just lucky.
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
That’s super alarming. Where do I read more about your story and how you became exiled from the financial system?
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Anectdotal, but the same is happening in the mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon. We've recently seen houses listed and sell next day for over asking. How those prices line up to historic averages, I can't say, but after a maybe 5 mon
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
One hot take -- If the fed loses appetite or ability to continue increasing interest rates, I think those carrying large amounts of debt on hard assets are going to look like geniuses in the face of runaway inflation.
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Yet, even with so little pricing power, lumber witnessed extraordinary price increases. Why would we expect anything different in other product categories? If anything, most products witnessed less price inflation than lumber. My point
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Somehow the demand-siders always work their way around to quotas.
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Well, even in a highly competitive industry like lumber, with many manufacturers competing daily for the sale of identical products, we saw significant price increases. This due almost entirely to a dramatic increase in demand relative to
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
Yes, that much is likely true. Yet, I maintain that the market dynamics we saw in lumber very likely played out in other sectors. There's been so much discussion of price gouging, when at least in my industry, I know for a fact the p
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
>In fact the manufacturer might sell through the distributor that pays the least, if they have high enough sales/coverage (think Walmart) and the total profit is acceptable. There's where you lose the thread. They sell to Walm
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
That article is comically wrong. There's over 4 billion board feet coming on line in the US South [1], and there have been several more recent announcements. There are fewer new mills anticipated in the PNW (though still some major a
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by hcurtiss 4y ago
But certainly the manufacturers can. And the grocers compete with one another. I honestly don't see the differences you do. Lowe's competes with Home Depot in much the same way Safeway competes with Roth's. And the manufa
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And what price would we choose? Yesterday's price? Last year's price? And if we sold out immediately, what then? Would we just have a race every morning for buyers to secure the prior day's production? Why wouldn't

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