jerlam

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by jerlam 5mo ago
Implied is that you work in a company that is growing, that will promote you. If you work for a company in stasis or worse, shrinking, then being replaceable means little.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Yup, I recently bought a car and you get temporary numbers that are associated with the dealer (who knows who you are and what car you have) until your actual plate with real numbers and registration comes from the DMV.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Having laws that only some people follow, and others do not without penalty, bothers everyone's natural sense of fairness and eventually rots the whole concept of following laws.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
> Because young people go through a lot of sadness too when they are all alone in the world. They aren't alone in the world. They are building and living their own lives with their own friends and eventually creating their own famil
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by jerlam 5mo ago
The government would, except that they tend to vote in much greater numbers than other groups, so keeping them happy is important to stay in power.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
> there will be a great deal of compasionate hand wringing about palitability, texture, etc Hand wringing? Giving your army palatable and tasty food is important, when soldiers don't eat it, they perform worse at fighting. That&#x27
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Reddit locked down their API three years ago, purportedly to monetize their content for AI. This also killed all the free third party apps. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/reddit-may-block-sea...
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by jerlam 5mo ago
If you're xAI, just build your own power plants: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-mus...
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Everything on this page suggests it's not for education. Emphasis on AI and connecting to your phone. How many Iceland trips do students make?
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by jerlam 5mo ago
A lot of people are still on ancient plans like $80/5GB since they don't know they can change providers and still keep their number. Or they're old and avoid changing any aspect of their lives. The mobile companies are fine w
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by jerlam 5mo ago
The high gas prices also push people towards EVs. Those new EV owners are very unlikely to return to gas-powered vehicles, even if the cost of gas goes back down. Gas demand isn't quite as elastic as we've been assuming for decade
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Great illustration of the K-shaped economy.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
There are reasons why this outbreak is slightly more newsworthy than others. It happened to rich Westerners, not a bunch of poor people from Africa. It happened on an international flight and a cruise ship. There is a lot of exposure. There
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by jerlam 5mo ago
In the previous 2022 gas price spike, some stations could not dispense more than $100 worth of gas since that would previously indicate something wrong with the station.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
I would argue that corner stores were also driven out of business by suburbanization. If no one is within walking distance to a corner store, then it's not going to survive. Fewer people are going to drive to a corner store that costs
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by jerlam 5mo ago
> Where I live pretty much all new houses are being built with granite counter tops and hardwood floors. Whether that's a good thing is a whole other topic ... When land and labor (and fees leveraged by the city, state, etc.) are ex
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by jerlam 5mo ago
That's for Q4 2025. The $7.5k EV subsidy ended in Q3 2025. Everyone considering buying an EV, bought one right before Q4 2025. The percentage for Q3 2025 is 29.1%: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/record
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by jerlam 5mo ago
If I'm reading the article correctly, he's cancelling a proposed federal ban. So status quo remains, tanning beds are not federally banned but continue to be banned in 19 states for minors.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
This was in the UK, and the fact that it's happening with purchase incentives in place speaks to EVs holding their value even better.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
I think it would be more interesting to talk about why all these upper-middle-class people are seemingly willing to overpay for things, instead of people eating McDonalds on social media. There are a multitude of old brands that have hopped
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by jerlam 5mo ago
There's two definitions of "premium" and the author seems to have chosen the less commonly used definition. 1. Higher quality 2. Higher price Products claim to be higher quality so that they can ask for a higher price. McDona
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by jerlam 5mo ago
If the additional area is used for new hobbies, hosting guests, or something fulfilling and interesting, then sure it can help keep the mind active. But people don't usually retire so they have more time for vacuuming or dusting. Many
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Tesla has also offered their FSD to other companies, with no takers: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-fsd-licensin... However, Tesla hasn't achieved anywhere near the autonomy of Waymo, so that may be th
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Trucking seems like an industry where exaggerating the range will lead to contracts being cancelled and companies being sued. I'm assuming that a Tesla Semi can't just stop off at the nearest Supercharger.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
Pretty sure the next generation of Waymos, the Zeekr vans, have auto-closing doors.
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My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up(theverge.com)
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by jerlam 5mo ago
The entire United States banned beer in the 1920s, and then un-banned it in the 30s, using a process that is unthinkable today.
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by jerlam 5mo ago
I don't know the exact situation described above, but water rights are often linked to property rights, and those are regularly treated as sacred. It doesn't matter if the owners are foreigners and the law is outdated. And those w
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by jerlam 6mo ago
I was going to point out that the cheeseburger today is different than it was in 1948, but many sites suggest they are exactly the same: https://www.quora.com/How-big-was-McDonalds-original-hamburg... It's that our ide
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by jerlam 6mo ago
There were a lot more people outside during lockdown. There were running and cycling booms.

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