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by jungturk 5y ago
Without coming off as too obtuse, is your argument that the best return we can expect is from investing in basic needs? Or that for any investment to be moral we must have satisfied more primal basic needs? What if it were the case that inv
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by jungturk 5y ago
This is true, but moot in my area. The local pharmacies that administer the vaccines are not validating your eligibility. Those I know who are interested in the 3rd round, and beyond 6 months from their 2nd, have received it.
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by jungturk 5y ago
Yes, the US populace has elected to fund a public health organization which has advised on public health measures since its inception (which is not recent or coincident with Covid-19). You are not forced to take any vaccine, though many (pu
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by jungturk 5y ago
As is mentioned elsewhere, this standard mandates a connector and does not require the charger to be open to all vehicles. Tesla certainly may be anticipating further actions in the future to require that, but there are no requirements to
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by jungturk 5y ago
The reply below says yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005597
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by jungturk 5y ago
In the case you mention, you've made a tradeoff to defer developing an in-house solution for supporting a potential future pattern of production traffic, and that can be a huge accelerator. Further, once you're experiencing the ty
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by jungturk 5y ago
I think the record's fairly clear that things are (generally) trending up over the last couple hundred years on such diverse topics such as: 1) Access to education 2) Labor norms 3) Lifespan and infant mortality 4) Social justice 5) De
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by jungturk 5y ago
> I doubt it would be an easy sell to suggest sharing the fruits of everyone's labour regardless of the amount of work each person has put into producing those fruits. I agree, but I expect that's due to scarcity (which forces
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by jungturk 5y ago
I can understand that takeaway, but I think he's pointing out something more interesting: There are side effects of the way that we conduct society today that can become huge problems when mixed with social media. Solutions span the ra
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by jungturk 5y ago
I can appreciate how daunting the challenge seems to get from what we see around us to the ideal we have in mind, but if its any consolation - this is the kindest the planet has ever been (which admittedly might not be saying much). More pe
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by jungturk 5y ago
Agreed - but I think that would be an example of a contract under duress - the workers have no choice and the company can exploit them. With iPhones I think we have a choice, and while it isn't ideal, we can vote with our wallets and s
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by jungturk 5y ago
> There are a few neighborhoods that are completely free of HOAs that but those houses are not as nice and neighborhoods not as nice. I think the HOA tries to argue that this isn't coincidence - its the HOA's policies and gover
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by jungturk 5y ago
Great analogy. Is that ok? It would seem that people entered the contract together without duress? Are there other neighborhoods? Run by other HOAs with better terms? Isn't it a market contest at that point to see which one buyers w
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by jungturk 5y ago
What if the TV manufacturer could set a $0 retail price on the television and then charge the user on-device subscription fees to recoup a profit? Would Walmart be interested in that? Seems like their retail cut would be sliced to $0 in th
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by jungturk 5y ago
Aren't lifetimes closer to 10+ years due to better battery management (managed operating temperature and charge/discharge)? Tesla suggest such with its megapack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack
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by jungturk 5y ago
While not to that extent - I play Hearthstone (poorly) via the app store but have enough disposable income to buy packs to get the good cards when they're released so that I can play the game and enjoy it. Now this only adds up to doze
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by jungturk 5y ago
Homeowners, coops, collectives, local government, or NGOs?
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by jungturk 5y ago
A high tax on the capital gains at sale could also work well here. I'm also curious whether decoupling housing from investing could be useful in stabilizing prices.
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by jungturk 5y ago
> don't think it's important for people to do so Is that because you don't believe in the negative externalities or because you think they're worth the convenience?
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by jungturk 5y ago
*for only $100k to $160k https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22618661/mercedes-benz-eq...
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by jungturk 5y ago
From the video, it looks like the team is trying to minimize the set of untested conditions through simulation and clips from the fleet. I agree with you that those techniques won't eliminate errors, but I don't think that's
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by jungturk 5y ago
To the extent that these changes actually improve the non-functional quality attributes of the system, those gains can be converted into business or customer utility. Improved maintainability => lower innovation costs, and those savings
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by jungturk 5y ago
That would be excellent. While they're at it, I'd like the opposite as well - most of my day-to-day driving is 20-30 miles and it'd be nice to not lug around a 200 mile battery for those trips.
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by jungturk 5y ago
I think by "unusual" the parent post meant "atypical". I'm a parent with weekend trips and the EV's fine, but if I were in a remote location with concerns about charging availability I'd definitely feel mo
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by jungturk 5y ago
Think of the matrix as a precomputed lookup table. Given the arguments to the function, locate the cell in the matrix and use its value as the result of the function.
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by jungturk 5y ago
> Delaying a tax is not avoiding a tax. Stepping-up the basis amounts to exactly that, and is unfortunately not mentioned in the article. Too bad the author doesn't have friends in finance to challenge his thinking.
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by jungturk 5y ago
I got so fed up with paywalls that I started paying for the content I wanted to read.
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by jungturk 5y ago
The "how to start" point resonates with my experience. There's a cohort of "idea" people who are efficient at anticipating and clearing obstacles (including those that occur at inception around "how to start&q
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by jungturk 6y ago
I'm not aware of any summary reports on the effectiveness of the OIG, but I've read that its structured to try to minimize the most obvious types of corruption (for instance, by also reporting to Congress and not just to the agenc
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by jungturk 6y ago
Government agencies often have an inspector general's office responsible for reviewing misconduct complaints against the agency itself. https://oig.justice.gov/hotline/submit_complaint

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