lifeonlars

11 ms·

61.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
There are much higher rates available for brokered deposits via Raisin or Zinspilot. These are also with banks. They're just less well-known banks and not typically in the countries which have the most and richest savers.
62.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
> the demand for tourism to natural parks is way too large to allow unfettered access by the public I'm not sure this is true. The United States has a huge amount of wilderness and federal land. The problem is that most people wan
63.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Does this apply to all public goods, or are there limits to this principle? For example, is it paternalistic to supply clean water via a municipal utility? Do you think that the commonwealth should give poor people enough money to buy clean
64.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
They keep the whole fee.
65.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Who do you think gets them if they don't go to the parks service?
66.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Is that just the problem that ChatGPT is solving? That we have most of the answers to everyone's questions on the web but that ads and SEO have made it impossible to access? If so it seems like 1. that problem is of our own making and
67.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Since the choice is not between these new types of farming and pre-industrial-revolution agriculture, that comparison doesn't matter much.. And even pre-industrial agriculture had specific elements which had a yield of less than 1 by t
68.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Surely there's an argument to be made that they are among the best cheaters of all time?
69.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Obviously every human activity is somehow related to 'the distribution of goods'. Are these healthcare advancements closely related to either private enterprise or modern globalized logistics? Clearly not, as in many cases they to
70.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
Iinm the article has two numbers: global software developer numbers growing by 500,000 per year. And 500,000 job openings in the United States in one given year.
71.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
This is a really questionable statistic. Your link cites a blog from a jobs site. They don't provide any citation for the 500,000 number. Both sources refer to it as the "number of job openings" that year (2017). Obviously th
72.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
What is the content of the claim that farmers want to make money "to invest in the future"? Surely in many cases neither farmers producing cash crops nor the countries they are based in are able to 'invest in the future'
73.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
A ratio of fuel calories to food calories isn't that useful a metric unless you have similar numbers for all the conventional methods of producing food at scale. It's not like 1 is a goal: we can't eat fossil fuels (or solar
74.
by lifeonlars 3y ago
> The absolute cheapest (in fuel) way to move goods, responsible for essentially every advance in living in the last century. This is a very distorted view of technological and human progress. A huge factor in improvements in global stan