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by mhb 3mo ago
Also: Last fall, for example, nearly 12 percent of first-year U.C.S.D. undergraduates were not qualified to take pre-calculus, a low-level class, up from only 0.5 percent in 2020. “The key problem is that many of the students coming in
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by mhb 3mo ago
I don't really understand this. How much better are things for killing a specific plant than whatever you would use to kill a superset of the plants that might be there? Or treating with a few different plant species killers. And would
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by mhb 3mo ago
The Darkest Clothing in the World: https://youtu.be/N9VaJKIO1JA?si=UI36apNYUe5mlxWd
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by mhb 3mo ago
What's confusing you? Do you want Kim Jong Un to have a say in decisions affecting the US or how money is spent?
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by mhb 3mo ago
The UN is a terrible organization for that. It is a corrupt, morally bankrupt institution. Giving it any more power or legitimacy is not a net positive.
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by mhb 3mo ago
Sounds similar to the aspiration of randomly picking an out-of-the way restaurant in hopes that you are going to discover a great little hole-in-the-wall. Needless to say, I suspect any lack of regret in either case might be attributable to
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by mhb 3mo ago
I've dreamed of a dishwasher for people who prioritize clean dishes quickly and quietly over the incremental savings from using asymptotically less water or energy. See also low flush toilets and clothes washing machines.
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Atomic Force Microscope video, steel etching, bacteria – Applied Science(youtube.com)
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Atomic Force Microscope [video](youtube.com)
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by mhb 4mo ago
Why did they use CT before MRI?
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by mhb 4mo ago
You're the one who started talking about specific examples and I agree that that's irrelevant since different companies decide how to allocate the money they save by reducing labor costs. Which is actually a refutation of your gen
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by mhb 4mo ago
> So pointing out business models that don’t raise prices while not customer service, to counter the claim of “hiring more people will raise the prices for us”, is a problem how? It's a problem because the business models are provid
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by mhb 4mo ago
Yes. If you create a straw man, you're very convincing. The real world isn't a static snapshot though. If people are unhappy enough with existing businesses, they will find alternatives or new businesses will see opportunities. Or
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by mhb 4mo ago
So what constrains the prices in supermarkets?
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by mhb 4mo ago
>In-n-out, Costco, Walmart Congratulations. You've identified different business models. > I still remember when all the fast food chains raised their prices together If this is true, what force are you imagining constrains all t
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by mhb 4mo ago
It seems like you are itching to offer your version of what should happen, so let's hear it.
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by mhb 4mo ago
Yeah sure. That's the logic that elects Mamdani. Maybe you're confused because instead of going down, prices increased less than they otherwise would have. Economics happens on the margins where the reality is that store A reduces
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by mhb 4mo ago
Or the place could go to the extraordinary expense of putting multiple cards on the table with the codes.
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by mhb 4mo ago
Uh, the queues at the post office have never exactly been fast.
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by mhb 4mo ago
> It’s a form of free labor that somehow society is okay with. It's very popular to say this in some places, but wouldn't you expect that the money that businesses are saving when they do this is passed along to the customer in
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by mhb 4mo ago
> the savings are absorbed by the company, not passed on to the consumer How do you come to this conclusion without a deep dive into a supermarket's finances?
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Give the Baby Peanut Butter(thefp.com)
4 points by mhb 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mhb 4mo ago
Wait till you hear about an insane game called (US) football!
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by mhb 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533872
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by mhb 4mo ago
> Do you just follow me around with the same tired argument? Indeed not. You're the one who made the comment on something I submitted.
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by mhb 4mo ago
How does the cognitive dissonance of having the luxury to express that opinion while being protected by the most powerful military in the world not rip you apart?
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by mhb 4mo ago
I'm looking forward to the DARPA Challenge to create a service where you can sign up to be emailed about new challenges. This one started October, 2025. More details at https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges&#x2
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by mhb 4mo ago
Rules exclude that approach.
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Lift Challenge(darpa.mil)
42 points by mhb 4mo ago|48 comments
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by mhb 4mo ago
Isn't the way we decide what justifies intervention by comparing observational data, action and outcomes? Currently our observations are limited by many things including the cost and side effects. More frequent or better observations w

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