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by mapt 2y ago
You can change the name, the brand, of a ghost kitchen startup 'restaurant' overnight if you think it's stale due to bad consumer experiences. So you need to care less about those.
752.
by mapt 2y ago
Thing about training sensor fusion algorithms - more sensors, more better. Often adding a terribly inaccurate sensor whose failures are uncorrelated with the ones you're currently using, because it operates on an unrelated principle,
753.
by mapt 2y ago
"Being pretty racist" is a preference. One also might have a preference, entering the workforce, to pay less than 80% income tax into retirement & pension schemes, to support three grandparents who are retired and one great-gr
754.
by mapt 2y ago
You don't have to match Google's technical prowess if that capability is being superceded by MBAs doing aggressive enshittification.
755.
by mapt 2y ago
Post-2024, with Elon running the government as fiscal/regulatory czar, Twitter policy is evidently stronger than judicial interpretation of Constitutional rights.
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by mapt 2y ago
$32,000 in 1994 is worth $68,000 in 2024 according to official CPI figures. You did alright - this is basically median HOUSEHOLD income at the time, far higher than median "Young single male" income. But CPI figures aren't w
757.
by mapt 2y ago
Do you live somewhere without a winter, by chance?
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by mapt 2y ago
That is the situation right now. It's not necessarily going to be the situation forever. Every demographic crisis involving low birthrates is an immigration melting pot waiting for the population to get desperate enough to change polic
759.
by mapt 2y ago
Polyurethane spray foam is pretty damn fiery in most conditions, even if the right number of carcinogenic flame retardants can limit open flame spread on a surface. It's also got the most toxic, thick sort of smoke of the available op
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by mapt 2y ago
Growing pest-free greens for 365 day availability (daily nutrition) is _incredibly hard_. It requires suburban housing, heated greenhouses, water and pesticide management, succession planting, fertilizer management, daily attention, etc, e
761.
by mapt 2y ago
These particular nominal distinctions are losing meaning as everything but technology continues to inflate. An income of $30k is not survivable where I live (it's less than rent + transportation to work) without subsidy from family wh
762.
by mapt 2y ago
Vitamin C sufficiency is very important to humanity, and freshly picked produce very expensive. Vitamin C seems to be largely unique among nutrients in how fragile it is, being destroyed with any significant storage or cooking. Supplementa
763.
by mapt 2y ago
There is an inordinate amount of our present economy that is, broadly speaking, anticompetitive. The government has been mostly disinterested in pursuing antitrust actions for about half a century now, requiring very explicit evidence of ve
764.
by mapt 2y ago
Yes. The contract you signed that restricts this commercial property in order to protect the seller's monopoly. Which is a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
765.
by mapt 2y ago
"Low prices for end consumers" seems to be around the current $3-$4 per 2x4x8 stud in retail terms, but standing lumber was never worth much even at the peak of the lumber shortage a couple years ago, it was all sawmill-limited.
766.
by mapt 2y ago
Clearly the legal system has broken down (been deliberately broken), and the regulatory system has simultaneously broken down (been deliberately broken), so somebody's going to have to get a little creative relative to the norms that t
767.
by mapt 2y ago
"We/you need to be more careful" is often a phatic expression, a way of ending the conversation while saving face, rather than an actual directive. Because they don't want you to be more careful. They just want you to
768.
by mapt 2y ago
They are profitable regardless in the face of 9/11 and COVID because we will bail them out. What they don't seem to be able to weather is significant changes in the structure of pension obligations, and dramatic fatal crashes. The
769.
by mapt 2y ago
So your premiums aren't being spent on healthcare, they're essentially being invested in a retirement plan?
770.
by mapt 2y ago
In market economics and evolution alike, when we posit that an organism/industry became more effective through some kind of change, we also require an explanation for "And why hadn't it already done this? What was stopping i
771.
by mapt 2y ago
Kaiser's "platinum-level" (90% average coverage, no deductibles) plan for a young nonsmoking adult runs about $450/mo in my state marketplace, and most of that is further subsidized for someone who isn't making mi
772.
by mapt 2y ago
This is not so much a gradual change, as a recurring theme in coinage through history, with the stability and grasp of a regime/kingdom/empire being related to how much seigniorage (profit) it can currently extract from the econom
773.
by mapt 2y ago
> "This is such a gratifying experience, in fact, that I have actually kept a list of characters that I have observed Chinese people forget how to write. (A sick, obsessive activity, I know.) I have seen highly literate Chinese peop
774.
by mapt 2y ago
In science, you often find what you look for. "Are Jews more predisposed to financial fraud than non-Jews?" Do you want the answer to that question? How confident are you that you want it? What do you think are the odds that lau
775.
by mapt 2y ago
Every problem is personal for the person facing it. When one looks at attempts to cure AIDs, and offers a contextual response of "This is a personal problem" or "This is a matter of personal responsibility", the only me
776.
by mapt 2y ago
Photogrammetry is great with textured, consistently lit, opaque objects. Blank white plaster, less so. You really want some kind of microtexture to grab on to for it to be anywhere close to a structured light scanner. That may mean you wa
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by mapt 2y ago
It's been a few years, and my memory isn't perfect, but... Life support for a manned Mars missions runs maybe ten tons per person on the low end. That's mostly in shelf-stable packaged food; I used 6 tons in my estimate. Me
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by mapt 2y ago
Responding to efforts to cure a social ill by calling it a personal responsibility problem is, in context, implying that we should not be exerting those efforts, that this is not our problem, this is their problem, that humans should just b
779.
by mapt 2y ago
When you say "it's a modern cultural problem", do you mean, as most people appear to mean, "This is not a social problem worth solving, these people deserve it for their moral failings, and their death is a useful exampl
780.
by mapt 2y ago
Immunology & autoimmune attack is still a wild country where discoveries are being made regularly and only a handful of people have even a rough grasp of the terrain.

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