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It doesn't have to always work that way. There's examples of groups of people that optimize for things besides profit. Like the Amish, for example. Not saying that this needs to apply in any specific example. I'm just trying
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I think the idea would be to have a gieger counter in the vehicle near the pellet that can detect the pellet radiation, and sound an alarm in the vehicle if the pellet radiation is no longer detected, so the driver knows immediately that th
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by mikem170 4y ago
In most states in the U.S. you can order many tests for yourself, paying cash, no insurance involved. The TSH test you mentioned can be purchased for $49 [0] at the first place I found. Places doing this will coordinate the test appointment
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> So, assuming 4miles per kWh that Prius was expected to hit over 6kWh per day. That might not look like much vs a 100kWh battery pack but it’s 9,000 miles per year when the majority of Americans are only driving 13,000 or less. I checke
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Ah, a miscommunication then. I read the original poster as referring to the myocardetis issues that do exist for younger people, issues that I was already familiar with, backed up by numbers from the American Heart Association. Your reading
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> That's a very different statistic: under 40s, and only in men, and only for one vaccine, after a second dose. The original post you replied to said: > i'm still not convinced the vaccines were a net positive - especially f
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Somebody elsewhere posted this reference: > But the risk of myocarditis associated with the vaccine was lower than the risk associated with COVID-19 infection before or after vaccination – with one exception. Men under 40 who received a
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> I think it would be prudent for some group of people to write a set of unit tests asking various questions to these AI models so we can detect when strategic changes are being made to their behavior. That's a great idea. Various A
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It's disappointing that the house republicans don't have a better legislative agenda to spend their political capital on. So far they seem to be prioritizing bills that won't make it into law (like this bill, and the irs rela
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I would like to see recommendation algorithms brought into this discussion. On the one hand there's moderation to censor, or remove, offensive, dangerous, or disruptive content. I feel that section 230 does a fair job addressing this.
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> 2. Is it fair in a society with more free basics to require more responsibility from the public? I was curious what you were thinking with your second question above, in the context of free public transit. I wondered if the need for re
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In the first half of the 1990's BSD was sued by Unix Systems Labs, who had bought the rights to AT&T Unix, claiming copyright infringement [0]. It took a couple of years for everything to be dismissed and settled. "Ultimately,
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by mikem170 4y ago
But the parent said people worked more. Maybe they didn't want bigger houses, maybe they wanted time with their families, friends, and hobbies. Are more things really adding to our quality of life, or is that just consumerism talking?
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Existing homeowners would prefer to profit from a vibrant dynamic and growing community, they just need to screw over all the newcomers bringing that growth, those people who need new housing, by not allowing new housing, which drives up th
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One of McCarthy's proposals that is not mentioned in most news articles: > buried in the text was another provision that could be highly consequential for the new Congress being sworn in on Tuesday: language that would effectively g
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I don't think that the parent understood where I was coming from when he called my position a what-about strawman. I'm sure that was in good part because I didn't do a good job of communicating what I was thinking. I attempte
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I wish the market did a better job of ensuring that car owners pay all the related infrastructure costs for their vehicles, as opposed to some things that are paid for by other taxpayers. Gas might cost more without subsidies. Car ownership
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> An ebike isn't a serious replacement for cars used by families in most of the world. "Most of the world" is a big place. Are there more cars or mopeds in the world? I assume that the typical family in Asia has either a s
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I read the original post as questioning an assumption (the article assumes ev cars) and proposing a different assumption (ev bikes). The parent you replied to questioned the new assumption (most people won't feel that they can get by w
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Slightly different angle than the parent post: What about the state and federal subsidies for road infrastructure? A locality that wants to go a different (less car dependent) direction would be leaving that infrastructure money unspent, wh
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It could be the case where buffer management on routers along the way makes a difference, transient congestion conditions, buffer sizes, fq vs fifo vs something more complicated, etc. Things work a lot faster if all of your small packets ma
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Schwab has hardware security tokens for the asking. I have one. Similar to the six digit rsa tokens I used at work (but without the rsa token bug from some years ago). It is my understanding they also support software tokens. I'm a hap
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> The state has the self declared monopoly on the INITIATION of violence. Meaning the state has declared that is has the authority to attack you in any circumstance with or with out needing to justify their actions under the umbrella of
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Thanks for your lengthy reply! I assume we had different initial reactions to these articles, and are coming at this from different directions, but don't necessarily disagree on everything. The fact that these guards were operating in
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I agree that wage-theft specifically is a tangent here. But I do believe there is more to talk about, this isn't something to dismiss so easily. Why are we allowing the victims of shoplifting to hire armed guards with not enough traini
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I guess the comparison was made, and caught my attention, because we are allowing business owners to hire undertrained armed private security guards to roam the public streets and sometimes harass law abiding citizens, to the point that loc
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I don't flat out argue with anything you are saying. It would be difficult to do a better job of catching wage theft. But if we're not going to put more effort into catching those criminals, why are we ok with putting more effort
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> But how do you report wage theft in a way that the average police force can act on? I follow what you are saying, and admit there's not an obvious easy answer. I'd also say that private security guards who roam the public str
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Maybe the same as when someone writes a bad check? It's my understanding that people get arrested for that, it's not left just to lawyers and civil contract courts (which not everyone can afford). Maybe also make wage theft easier
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I wish the focus would have been on improving the situation with internal affairs, where the police are investigating themselves if an officer does something illegal. This doesn't seem right - the rest of our government is built on che

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