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by maxerickson 1mo ago
How are they determining the relevant government bodies?
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Well yes, the idea is to charge a tax. Charging fees for things that are scarce certainly isn't perfect, but it's often better then simply leaving everyone to suffer.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
I'll bet you a dollar that it is Austin. I guess there are made up reasons not to use public transport there too.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Why do you assume it would be onerous? New York City apparently charges individuals in private cars up to $13.50? And then imagine if there was offsetting spending.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
I feel like I am not good at anticipating election results, but anyway, the people arguing that the midterms will be a referendum on the economy make sense to me. Expensive gas and groceries are pretty unpopular. I guess some chunk of peopl
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
If you maintain the pairing with the statement about the concentration in the honey varying, it's somewhat harder to argue that it is overblown. The concentration varies considerably due to bees harvesting pollen from different flowers
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
I mean, the FBI guys that drove to the school probably read it.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
The "So what, babies shit their diapers all the time" argument.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Lots of people want lots of things. Can they within the light cone of their existence? That's pretty deep. I guess I think that they will work hard for more and thus expect economic growth. Especially with decreasing energy costs. If
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Economic growth (“growing the pie” vs zero sum thinking) was a function of population growth. Global population growth is rapidly ending, with 71% of global population living in countries below replacement rate. As the world ages and the p
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Sanborn was an insurance adjacent company that made detailed paper maps of many towns in the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This project is scanning those maps and adding the information that modern mapping software needs to show the
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
Yeah that's misunderstanding my point. The compliance software might, for example, only play an old format from USB. Probably at low resolution.
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
What drove you to have an authorized representative in every country? Or is it a single entity charging for services on a per country basis?
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
It's pretty likely that manufacturers would charge handsomely for these requirements. At least at first. You'd probably also get things like TVs with very basic software at import, with much better software available for people wi
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by maxerickson 1mo ago
BMW launched their unified iDrive controls in 2001 (to much controversy).
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
How do you solve it when they beat you for having a phone that doesn't look like they want? Like whatever arbitrary thing they decide it should look like that day.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
This is something like "how come there isn't more demand for unlicensed psychologists".
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of those. Thermal efficiency is in the 30s, so roughly 2x the electrical output
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
That's isn't what I am arguing. I'm arguing that a very large holder of bonds can potentially set the market price. If they move the market for the older bonds, they will move the market for new issues.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
China doesn't hold all that much debt, so this doesn't apply But anyway, a large debt holder can bind up the borrower by announcing they think the debt they hold is worthless. The impact would depend on how much debt it was, with
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
It's a bit of a stretch to describe These claims were investigated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, which found no connection between the vaccine and the autoimmune complaints. as "written off as a health panic&qu
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
Yes, it's treatable with antibiotics and people that are treated get less sick. As stated in the article, prophylactic treatment with Doxycycline is the standard of care. Testing the tick is an alternative to that rather than something
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
I guess if there were resources that were much more available to these agile tall people that might happen.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
How big is big? The practical limit for bipeds is probably ability to survive a fall to the ground. It's not super common, but enough people die simply from falling from standing.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
So what is your point? They are wrong.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
It's borders that aren't supposed to be there, not people.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
Fructose mixed with glucose, not sucrose (the same typo is in several comments here). Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose linked together. When corn starch is processed, the produced syrup is nearly 100% glucose. Because fructose ta
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
The immunoglobulin is administered proportional to body weight, ideally with most of it injected near the site of the bite. So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.
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by maxerickson 2mo ago
Given the political will, that problem is straightforward to address with the permitting.

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