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by legitster 2mo ago
It's worth pointing out that Milton Friedman's words are regularly taken out of context. His full quote: > "In each of these cases, the corporate executive would be spending someone else's money for a general social i
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by legitster 2mo ago
It's harder for casual shopper to know where their food comes from. But having worked in food production facilities that couldn't be further from the truth. You'd be surprised how meticulously tracked every part of the, sup
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by legitster 2mo ago
This analysis is a bit shallow. Massive GSPs grew as a solution to deal with the massive problems that come with greens sourcing. If an individual farm has an outbreak they can (usually) source it, eliminate it from the supply chain, and
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by legitster 2mo ago
If I would give a bit of pushback, it's really, really hard to understand the value assessments if you've never done the work yourself. Part of the reason someone DIYs isn't that you're just trading time for money, it&#x
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by legitster 2mo ago
As I write this from my backyard office shed that my dad and I built together. All told we put about $3k in. If you want to do it much cheaper: - A Tuff shed is a bit overkill. For a small shed (anything under 8') you should really be
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by legitster 2mo ago
When all is said and done, data centers are going to be complimentary to green energy. They can spin up and down to buffer non-linear power nodes. They also represent investment in economic growth that doesn't come from resource extrac
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by legitster 2mo ago
> This study used oil from material the researchers describe as discarded and non-edible, including the large seeds and leftover flesh, so the fuel draws on parts of the crop that would otherwise go to waste. This statement seems disinge
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by legitster 2mo ago
It's worth pointing out the CrossClimate2 tires are all-seasons and exempt from the requirement. The 4/5 is specific to Consumer Reports all-season category - actual efficiency is going to be noticeably lower than the high efficie
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by legitster 2mo ago
This is 100% how legislation gets written when none of reps have experience and the only calls they take are from lobbyists. It's easy to imagine the manufacturer reps are playing games with the lawmakers. "Oh no, this is going to
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by legitster 2mo ago
There are basically three major trade-off when it comes to tire compounds: rolling resistance, traction, and tire wear. You can pick 2 of the 3. When you shop for tires, manufacturers will try to make this eminently clear in the marketing
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by legitster 2mo ago
If you work 40 hours in two days, everything except 16 hours that week is overtime.
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by legitster 2mo ago
Do things you can enjoy with them. Raise your kids in a way that you would enjoy their company. If you don't enjoy spending time with them, other people won't either. Too many people are on a quest to either a) raise the most succ
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by legitster 2mo ago
> AI gets more powerful than humanity (which is clearly a when not an if, even if there's a lot of uncertainty and differences in opinion about the time horizon here) People say this all the time, but so far nothing has convinced me
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by legitster 2mo ago
We run a little library in front of our house. It's amazing how many people dump boxes of old books off in front of it hoping that they will find their way back into someone's collection. The sad truth is the vast, vast majority o
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by legitster 2mo ago
Running a partial plate is common. Especially in a hit and run where a witness might only get a few digits. Cops regularly made the exact same kind of mistake even when using their own eyeballs.
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by legitster 2mo ago
I know we're all sharpening pitchforks for Flock - but the national license plate database has been leading to mistakes like this for decades . Some states also compound the problem by issuing a license plate number multiple times .
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by legitster 3mo ago
I think about this a lot when using our corporate SSO tool. When I hit the button to log into Slack, there are like, 3 popups in succession - the last one ultimately asking for my fingerprint. Then when I give it, there is a flurry of web p
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by legitster 3mo ago
To put it more specifically the third-party doctrine needs reforms. There are lots of things that are public information. Anyone can request public records like land titles, marriage certificates, bankruptcy filings, etc. Even ostensibly
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by legitster 3mo ago
The product we're talking about here is CLEAR. And one of the deep ironies is that CLEAR is already highly deployed at the state level, among other things, to verify voter identity and prevent voter fraud! DHS and ICE also ostensibly
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by legitster 3mo ago
Ames True Temper. Nearly every brand of wheelbarrow you see at hardware stores is just a white-labelled Ames product. (With the exception of Gorilla Cart and a few niche players).
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by legitster 3mo ago
I think E-Books are a bad test subject. Theoretically they are a durable good, but realistically the demand for a single public domain eBook is not a large market and easily satisficed. If you look at real world examples like wheelbarrows (
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by legitster 3mo ago
Twain is a good choice, but he also works against the mythology of America. His whole thing was popping bubbles and making grounded stories that work against the backdrop of Americana. Tracy Chapman is a pretty trolly answer, but I suspect
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by legitster 3mo ago
The most technically correct answer is Walt Whitman. Longfellow got dismissed by several people here for being too sentimental - but I would argue that sentimentality and saccharine character is distinctly part of America's mythos. W
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by legitster 3mo ago
> “If we use art that looks nearly complete, then people would think that that’s going to be the final art. It has to look like shit. It’s important that it looks like shit.” This is actually really good productivity advice. Intentiona
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by legitster 3mo ago
There's a reason Japan could be burdened with the largest modern nuclear disaster and then choose to double down on nuclear capacity. It's an island nation with no domestic energy reserves - completely dependent on energy markets.
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by legitster 3mo ago
This is probably somewhat true, but also I suspect there might be an order of magnitude difference from extracting trace lithium from inert rock vs collecting it as a salt from amongst a medley of very refined metals. Case in point - lead a
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by legitster 3mo ago
The thing missing here is that nearly all of the games that use these nodes + stones are a variant on Nine Men's Morris (or Twelve Men's Morris, or etc). Discovering the ruleset for a particular variant is kind of like discovering
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by legitster 3mo ago
The truth is that bombing campaigns alone have never been an effective way to end a conflict. All they do is strengthen resolve. Even the most extreme case of the nuclear bombs in Japan - had Russia not also invaded from the North with 1.
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by legitster 3mo ago
This is one of the reasons weapons and technology development overall explodes during wartime. Desperation is the cure for risk aversion. It's also a reason to be skeptical of a military spending a bunch of money developing technology
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by legitster 3mo ago
Fox News doesn't seem to understand the difference between News and an Editorial. Also, if you want to take sides in a story, take it with the side that can admit making a mistake.

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