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by mchusma 5y ago
1 main point to this: true "insurance" could reasonably cover edge cases, including frankly some insurance covered by the state. The US "insurance" market is not really that, it's a price negotiator/health care
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by mchusma 5y ago
Just to be clear, the American health care system is in no way "capitalist". It just has some of the trappings of capitalism. (There are so many examples of this, including for this case that Medicare/Medicaid are government
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by mchusma 5y ago
I hope it's radically different in 2500, but not the way this author does. We should be able to have 50-100B people, with billions in space, post scarcity, fusion based economy by then.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I'm skeptical of this author's claim: that inflation will make housing more affordable. The core problem of housing is limited supply, mainly driven by zoning, parking requirements, and NIMBY actions. Inflation by printing money i
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't think tenure is the main cause of this, but I don't believe that the university system is in very good shape. It appears quite broken (massively increased costs and decreasing evidence of efficacy). About 40+ years ago it
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by mchusma 5y ago
They have to abide by them, which is what I can't understand here. I'm in California and the laws are strict, it's easy to sue, and the companies involved (e.g. Disney) are giant. So I just can't see them getting away wi
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by mchusma 5y ago
Id answer this in 2 ways: First. Let's say we have a trillion people in space stations/multiple planets. Fusion is a energy source that can plausibly power them. Second. fission works close to other sources, but is so hampered by
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by mchusma 5y ago
Honestly I'm a founder not investor, but one of the reasons that prices are so high is because of terms. Would I invest in a public company that may be overvalued (say Tesla) if I could get preferred shares, liquidation preferences, pr
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by mchusma 5y ago
The commenters here miss the big and obvious reason for this: the unemployment benefits just ended. There was an enormous supply demand imbalance, because we literally paid people $15/hr but only if they did not work. It takes a while
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by mchusma 5y ago
Frequent migraine sufferer, so very interested in content. Horrible article, but I did search for articles on CGRP treatments and may give them a try.
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by mchusma 5y ago
It feels like they should be able to finish Starship for under $10B, then should be able to print extreme amounts of money.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't think anyone is objecting to Apple being allowed to offer a solution. Most simply want there to be other options available to customers.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think the gap is not as far as the author purports. I've followed fusion research as a layperson for years, and clearly understand the point of these designs is to prove the most meaningful piece of the process of generating energy,
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by mchusma 5y ago
The opposite in fact. All costs should decline over time.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Googles process here is fundamentally broken, and so easily improved. I have had issues with them before and there should be: - a portal to see your status (it's often impossible to know if they even got your comment) - all comments an
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by mchusma 5y ago
Somewhat related: this idea of adding a "digital waiting line" on top of a normal one is horrible, the author mentions this in ATT. Disneyland has done this with food, and it's really really irritating. Here is an example of
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think taxation is better than a ban I almost all cases. There are almost always exceptions to rules needed for edge cases, just make them expensive.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Here here. People at the FDA should be resigning over them banning the COVID vaccine for kids under 12, for example. But we don't see behavior like that. It's just a sign that the FDA is so horribly broken, it probably can't
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think this article is more clickbaity than it should be. From a physics perspective, of course you should be able to grow meat, because we do it now with a bunch of other unnecessary things like thoughts, nerves, behaviors, etc. There is
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think if your point is "the system is broken today", basically everyone agrees with you. If your point is "it is not possible to have transparent pricing", that seems also insane. IMO we should pass a law that says if
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by mchusma 5y ago
I really think pot should be legal...but I find the smell of smoked pot so rancid I wish their would be a big push to move away from that form of consumption. Want to get high? Go ahead, just don't light a stink bomb off as you do
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by mchusma 5y ago
I just came back to this thread to say how poorly the author's conjecture held up. Within 1 week, this was totally debunked. Safety data was released, looks great as expected, and it turns out the delay was in fact the FDA.
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by mchusma 5y ago
The article discusses many advantages to quieter planes. Including stealth, plane longevity, and health of the crew around the planes. It would be a big deal to the military to "instantly" have things be 1/2 as loud.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I would say Musk 100% agrees with the need to lower costs here, and they are aggressively trying to get there. However, much better than low cost cars would be robo-taxis, as the utilization rate on cars for people is low that this dramatic
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by mchusma 5y ago
To second that, if your image is over 1MB in 2021, you are probably doing it wrong (unless selling high resolution images).
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Very cool. I'd like to better understand the difference between this and other line of sight transmission stuff. I assume bandwidth and latency, but not sure the orders of magnitude.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Getting laws passed via "budget reconciliation" should be stopped, it is a slippery slope. Both parties are so busy with short term thinking they are willing to erode a lot of checks and balances. (This is also how we have expande
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Those aren't facts, they are a fired employees opinion.
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This is the most absurd premise I have ever heard: "Given the urgency of the situation, we cannot rationally conclude that these committed professionals are dragging their feet unnecessarily, while lives hang in the balance; to think o
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by mchusma 5y ago
"cancellation" has been more of a left wing attack in universities. Maybe if the right wing starts doing it too, everyone will realize they need to stop.

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