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That's not a quantitative assessment, that's a qualitative assessment, and that's what the other commenter is objecting to. If you quantify the risk associated with one activity as 100, and you quantify the risk of another ac
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Yeah, I stopped reading at the assertion that other car companies have caught up to Tesla. Lots of people have not internalized what's going on at Tesla. They still seem to be stuck on the idea that when the large, experienced auto man
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This is one of the primary reasons I've bought into the eVTOL revolution. I'm also skeptical about these filling city skies, due to safety, noise pollution, etc. But the market for emergency and special purpose vehicles alone is e
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> Undo the laws that prevent retailers from driving over the border themselves It's cheaper elsewhere because those countries have set maximum prices. For instance, in Canada, the Patented Medicines Review Board sets maximum prices
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> holding my staked Ethereum hostage with no ability to withdraw. I mean, it's been pretty explicitly warned that you can't withdraw until the Eth2 merge. This is not a Coinbase issue, this is a staking issue.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/proc/$(pidof nginx)/fd/0
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Sorry for the late reply, but you might be interested in this report from the California Lithium-ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group [1]. I'll quote a brief section: > In general, batteries will be retired from use in an EV whe
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An important point to be made is that as electric vehicles take off, we'll soon start to find ourselves with an avalanche of worn batteries that no longer adequately support EVs, but work just fine as grid storage. There are 280 millio
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It's much the same with chronic alcohol usage, and a very similar pathway. Both alcohol and benzodiazepines bind to GABA receptors, and through several difference mechanisms (desensitization, downregulation through gene expression, deg
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It's extremely easy to move to the US from Canada with a simple letter from your employer, thanks to NAFTA/USMCA. This is a temporary work visa, but puts you on the path to Express Entry. With all that said, Canada has a points-ba
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When we're discussing total net worth, a couple million dollars is decidedly middle class. In the US, there are 13.6 million households with a net worth over $1 million when excluding their primary residence, out of a total of 126 mill
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To be clear, his net worth is a couple million dollars today.
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The median net worth of the Baby Boomer generation in America is $1.2 million.
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This is how every discussion on Errol Musk's wealth goes. Someone makes an implication that they were fabulously wealthy, using abstract measures like emerald mines, or small planes as a substitute for a concrete measure of wealth. Som
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When people start using abstract measures to describe something easily quantifiable, it's usually because they're dissembling. We have a pretty good idea what Errol's net worth is, and it's a couple million bucks. The em
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As described, the attacker quietly retrieved OAuth tokens from a single Heroku database, and then very loudly scraped GitHub. I'm not saying it would have been impossible to detect the first action, but it's substantially easier t
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What educational materials are you referring to? In Florida, the responsibility for choosing educational materials, negotiating with publishers, etc, was at the school district level. Schools need to adhere to the Common Core subject areas,
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You're making a hypothetical argument that is only tangentially-related to the actual bill as-passed. The bill that was passed is deliberately vague. Beyond that, it empowers private citizens to sue teachers in their personal capacitie
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> None of the usual 90 days Visas allow you to perform working activities. They don't allow you to perform work within the jurisdiction. But no one cares if you're working remotely, and I'm not aware of any tourism visas t
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No one reports nominal GDP changes. BEA reports real GDP changes using the GDP implicit price deflator.
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting. What was the mechanism by which talk of higher rates reduced GDP? Consumer and business spending both increased. Personal consumption expenditures increased at 2.7%, and business investment inc
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I'm not sure I understand this. Corporate PR departments are not the White House Press Office. They don't stand up in the briefing room and take questions from the press, or hold a press gaggle. The entire point of these departmen
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> Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department Kind of a weird example. Musk shutdown Tesla's PR department because Musk believes Tesla can get better organic press. It's unrelated, but if anything, getting
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That's not a bubble. The film and television business has always been huge, and consumers pay to watch it. It's not even clear there's been any increase in real terms. There might be a shift to streaming, but the industry siz
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I think e-bikes decrease this issue compared to standard bikes. While I never rode on sidewalks when using a standard bike, I'm much more confident in traffic on an e-bike. It's just much easier to deal with stop-and-go traffic on
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Because people want to move where jobs are available. There is a decades-long trend of urbanization throughout the world, as economies continue their transitions towards services. Canada has a deep labor shortage in its urban areas, with pl
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Demand for housing is not artificial merely because it doesn't come from a citizen. Separately, Canada's population growth rate is the lowest it's been in over a hundred years, and it isn't close. The lower trend continu
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Unless I am missing something, iPhone doesn't have filtering quite like this. iPhone can filter "Unknown Senders." This is a fairly annoying feature almost as bad as the spam messages themselves. Google is applying spam filte
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> but obviously if you increase budgets its due to higher costs That isn't remotely obvious and in this case is very obviously not true. This is a chronically underfunded program that Democrats have been lobbying to increase for yea
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On the other hand, Business Insider has a giant paywall that doesn't let you view anything at all, and Slashdot links to Business Insider.

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