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by mediaman 4y ago
Plastic is showing similar trends. $0.45 prior to Covid, peaked at $1.35/lb, and is now back down to 0.75-0.80/lb. This drives a lot of consumer inflation because of packaging. International freight, also. Ningbo-LA ran from $3,50
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There is an explosive heating of air that’s like a bomb going off.
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And implementing replayability often comes at a cost: it is much more difficult to create an interesting and compelling story, for example, or witty dialogue, if it must also have the sorts of variation to allow for novel experiences upon r
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New ship designs are starting to use wind energy to reduce the amount of fuel consumption. It doesn't look like traditional sails, but large spinning rotors that interact with the wind to propel the ship forward. It's called the M
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This is a good point - and a mistake I often see is to "pivot" from industry to industry, never really getting one's teeth into the details of any particular industry. This inevitably leads to failures because you get two val
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Many newer roofs are white. For example, EPDM roofs are all near-white.
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Just index it all to the same starting value, which will have the same effect. I don't think this works for the drawdown chart but works for the total return chart. Usually in economic and financial reporting you show multiple return s
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by mediaman 4y ago
Why is Rails in decline? I see a lot of people say they're developing instead with rust, or python, or javascript. But Rust has little to do with what Ruby/Rails is used for, and Python is mostly used in other fields also (it&#x27
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I did - I believed all the '8 gig is fine' stuff at the beginning, and didn't like how much Apple charged for RAM. But for my work anyway it often starts having stuttering and slowness issues if I have too many things open. O
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Visit Rhineland, and you'll see the impact globalization has had on Germany. They are not immune to it. For example, Siemens has shut down a number of industrial plants over the years, shifting production to both Eastern Europe and Chi
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That's an interesting approach. When I did my first startup, I landed my first seven figure deal because I'd done the research to know someone needed my product. But they were too busy to respond. I regularly followed up over six
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This sounds like objecting to something much better than the awful practice today because it’s not theoretical perfection.
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Why not just do statistically valid polling? The problem is that politicians run this weird highly skewed sampling method of "community input" and then think they've got the pulse of the community, where in fact they've
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Poll data suggests that the plurality of the population do not support third-trimester abortions, but neither do they support a prohibition on first-trimester. The reality is that what we consider a "life" is graduated, and the fe
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Can I drop this into an existing Rails app? I use Jumpstart but would like a nicer admin experience.
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Sure, but there's no intrinsic reason for crypto to have a given value. Assets that generate value (cash flow) will fluctuate in value per the moods of Mr. Market, but over their long run will hew to the present value of their future e
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by mediaman 4y ago
A broad statement such as this inevitably gets it wrong. I use micropython for developing embedded applications for industrial sensors. It is much faster to develop and I am fine using microcontrollers with enough memory that I do not need
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Yes, you're right, I meant as a percent of the FOB price of the product. So 100% of the FOB price would be 50% of the landed cost. 100% of landed cost doesn't make sense and was the wrong term.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Drops in containerized freight, and the following drops in China-US freight prices, will start putting pressure on a lot of manufacturing onshoring initiatives started during the pandemic. For many classes of bulk goods, freight was becomin
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If we're talking about 'reasonable' conservatives, the typical answer is that booking people who commit a crime, and then using the threat of prison time to force them into rehab will ultimately be much better for them and th
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It doesn't vary enough to make a big impact. Regular gas in Alabama is only about 8-9% cheaper than the national average. So it almost cuts an hour off.
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I was a little skeptical of this because of the impact of state-level minimum wage laws that are higher than the federal, so I pulled up the data on how many people are paid the US federal minimum wage. Turns out that 1.1 million people hav
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I just wanted to say that I love your phrasing of working on something that "you hate a little less". In general I believe the idea of "work on what you love" to be awful advice; I have found that I get deep satisfaction
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I may have been unclear. He wouldn't have to buy Twitter if the government prevented it, but he would be required to pay $1b. Outside of those circumstances, he is contractually forced to buy Twitter. The government issue and the money
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That is indeed the big question. The court case would go on for a long time, and in the meantime they'd be in this weird limbo and the business would suffer. What we're really seeing here is: can a very rich person completely flou
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The $1b is not a simple breakup fee. He can't just say, "I've changed my mind, here's $1b, the deal is off." It's not a $1b option to walk away. The merger contract provides the option to pay $1b to walk away u
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Sometimes the ground service people are allowed to move the planes on the ground for repositioning, when no passengers on on board. It's not uncommon for them to at least know how to turn the systems on and move it. And if you know tha
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That data is great - thank you for posting. It looks like rail-car miles have held somewhat steady, down a little bit, except for 2020, which I assume was COVID related. I am being a bit facetious with the fiction comment. However, I do bel
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I did find a GAO study that said that trains increased in length by 25% since 2008. But the number of derailments dropped by more than 25% during that time, so the probability of a given car being involved in a derailed train still decrease
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The government data I am able to find does not seem to support the idea that there is a massive (or any) increase in derailments. And this letter never provides any data supporting the premise either. According to the Bureau of Transportati

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